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y separately published work icon Elemental Island single work   children's fiction   children's   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Elemental Island
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'Astie is different. She wants to study fashion but no one in her class understands why. Then she is diagnosed with Social Syndrome and becomes even more left out and frustrated. But when a stranger appears on the island, Astie's differences are called upon to find out who he is. What she finds will shake the island's very core...'

(Source: publisher's website)

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Autism.
    Type of character Primary and secondary.
    Point of view First person (not the character identified as disabled).

    Note: This work uses disability as a metaphorical note or literary device. It takes place in a futuristic world where all of the population are autistic and only the protagonist is not.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Jessica Kingsley Publishers ,
      2015 .
      image of person or book cover 3509054224730123877.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 224 p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 3 December 2015.

      ISBN: 1849056587, 9781849056588
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