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Vaughan's grandmother lives in an isolated coastal town, and when he is sent to spend the holidays with her, he longs to join the local gang of boys, but to do so depends on him surviving a terrifying swimming ritual.
Notes
Shortlisted in 1998 for the Christian Schools Book Award (CSBA). The award for a primary winner and a secondary winner originated at Kingsway Christian College in Western Australia. The years the award was active are unknown.
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yNew World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature : Utopian TransformationsClare Bradford,
Kerry Mallan,
John Stephens,
Robyn McCallum,
Houndmills:Palgrave Macmillan,2008Z15594772008selected work criticism 'New World Orders shows how texts for children and young people have responded to the cultural, economic, and political movements of the last 15 years. With a focus on international children's texts produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors discuss how utopian and dystopian tropes are pressed into service to project possible futures to child readers. The book considers what these texts have to say about globalisation, neocolonialism, environmental issues, pressures on families and communities, and the idea of the posthuman.' - Back cover.
yNew World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature : Utopian TransformationsClare Bradford,
Kerry Mallan,
John Stephens,
Robyn McCallum,
Houndmills:Palgrave Macmillan,2008Z15594772008selected work criticism 'New World Orders shows how texts for children and young people have responded to the cultural, economic, and political movements of the last 15 years. With a focus on international children's texts produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors discuss how utopian and dystopian tropes are pressed into service to project possible futures to child readers. The book considers what these texts have to say about globalisation, neocolonialism, environmental issues, pressures on families and communities, and the idea of the posthuman.' - Back cover.