Hunger Games
After the First Death
The Fault in Our Stars
Nanberry : Black Brother White
Pymble
:
HarperCollins Australia
,
2011
Z1797040
2011
single work
children's fiction
children's
historical fiction
(taught in 3 units)
'Two brothers -- one black, one white -- and a colony at the end of the world.
'It′s 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in. With his white brother, Andrew, he witnesses the struggles of the colonists to keep their precarious grip on a hostile wilderness. And yet he is haunted by the memories of the Cadigal warriors who will one day come to claim him as one of their own.
'This true story follows the brothers as they make their way in the world -- one as a sailor, serving in the Royal Navy, the other a hero of the Battle of Waterloo.
'No less incredible is the enduring love between the gentleman surgeon and the convict girl who was saved from the death penalty and became a great lady in her own right.' (From the publisher's website.)
The Rules of Summer
Shaun Tan
(illustrator),
Sydney
:
Lothian
,
2013
Z1933419
2013
single work
picture book
children's
fantasy
(taught in 1 units)
'Combining humour and surreal fantasy, Shaun Tan pictures a summer in the lives of two boys. Each spread tells of an event and the lesson learned. By turns, these events become darker and more sinister as the boys push their games further and further.' (Publisher's blurb)
