Bernard Gallate Bernard Gallate i(A59844 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon The Origin of Me Bernard Gallate , North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2020 17538075 2020 single work novel young adult

'Lincoln Locke's fifteen-year-old life is turned upside down when he's thrust into bachelor-pad living with his dad, after his parents' marriage breaks up, and into an exclusive new school. Crestfield Academy offers him a new set of peers - the cr me de la cr me of gifted individuals, who also happen to be financially loaded - and a place on the swim relay team with a bunch of thugs in Speedos. Homunculus, the little voice inside Lincoln's head, doesn't make life any easier; nor does Lincoln's growing awareness of a genetic anomaly that threatens to humiliate him at every turn.

'On a search for answers to the big LIFE questions, he turns to the hallowed school library, where he spies Edwin Stroud's nineteenth-century memoir, My One Redeeming Affliction. The book weaves itself into Lincoln's life in ways more fascinating and alarming than he could have imagined.

'When he meets Bert McGill, the local junkyard hermit, Lincoln finds among the detritus of Bert's life tantalising glimpses of the enigmatic Stroud, star of Melinkoff's Astonishing Assembly of Freaks. He begins to piece together a time past, of dubious relationships and, it turns out, of redeeming afflictions.

'Audacious, funny and wonderfully inventive, The Origin of Me is a story of friendships, of young love, of imagination, and of celebrating differences, past and present.'  (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Monkey Come Home Bernard Gallate , Sydney : ABC Kids Fiction , 2007 Z1365699 2007 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Get Ranger! Bernard Gallate , Sydney : Hodder Headline Australia , 2004 Z1177663 2004 single work children's fiction children's

'Ranger is your typical sort of kid - he gets teased by the older boys on the school bus. One day, after accidentally stepping on dog poo, he gets banished. 'Get off, Stinky!' the boys yell. As Ranger steps off the bus and begins pondering revenge, a magpie smacks into the back of his head, knocking him to his knees. Not only that, but the magpie also bites his ear, making it bleed. Now Ranger's really upset. It doesn't help when his grandma knits him a canary yellow beanie with two bright orange earflaps, two big boggle eyes and a red pom-pom on top. 'In the interest of your future safety,' Nana Merle writes on the gift card. Yeah, right. There's only one hint of hope for Ranger: the upcoming Family Classic - the local boating race and his only chance for revenge. But will bad luck continue to follow Ranger? Will he even make it to the end of the race alive? Stay tuned to find out!' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon The Gruesome Truth Bernard Gallate , Sydney : Hodder Children's Books , 2003 Z1051496 2003 single work children's fiction children's

'One day in class, Leo gets carried away telling a story about a giant hailstone that came in through the ceiling. When the class demand to see the offending hailstone, Leo realises that he is going to have to create one. With his sister's fishbowl as a mould, he and his friend Albert get to work.' (Publication summary)

1 Untitled Bernard Gallate , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 16 no. 1 2001; (p. 30)

— Review of There's Nobody Meaner Than Cousin Georgina Bernard Gallate , 2001 single work picture book
1 2 y separately published work icon There's Nobody Meaner Than Cousin Georgina Bernard Gallate , Bernard Gallate (illustrator), Sydney : Hodder Headline Australia , 2001 Z896440 2001 single work picture book children's When Harry's cousin, Georgina, comes to stay for the week Harry steels himself for disaster, for Georgina's reputation as a trouble-maker is well known. -- NLA catalogue record.
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