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When Jack is fourteen, his family moves from Sydney to the Blue Mountains to try to improve the health of Jack's nine-year-old sister, Anna. Jack attends boarding school in the city, but returns to the family home on holidays. While Jack and Anna have always been close, Jack finds himself growing very jealous when Anna becomes close friends with Harry, an Aboriginal man who is employed by the children's father as a 'manservant.' One holidays, Jack and his friend Willy amuse themselves by causing a lot of strife for Harry, and Jack's jealousy seems certain to come to a head. Soon after, Jack and Willy get lost in the bush. Will they ever make it home?
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Users are warned that this work contains terminology that reflects attitudes or language used at the time of publication that are considered inappropriate today.
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In A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900, Alice Mills states: 'The start of a genuinely Australian children's literature (as opposed to a colonial subset of British children's literature) may be dated to 1877, when the first book for children by a writer born in Australia was published, Robert Richardson's Black Harry; or Lost in the Bush' (417).
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