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y separately published work icon Swerve single work   novel   young adult  
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Swerve
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Units Teaching this Work

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Swerve Phillip Gwynne , Camberwell : Penguin , 2009 Z1625437 2009 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units)

'One of the country's finest young cellists, 16 year-old Hugh Twycross has a very bright future. A future that has been mapped out by his parents, his teachers, by everybody, it seems, except Hugh Twycross.

'Hugh has a secret, though: he loves cars and he loves car racing. When his newly discovered grandfather, Poppy, asks him to go on a road trip to Uluru in his 1970 Holden HT Monaro, Hugh decides, for once in his life, to do the unexpected.

'As they embark on a journey into the vast and fierce landscape of the Australian interior, Hugh discovers that Poppy has a secret that will unravel both their lives and take them in a direction they never expected.'

 		Young Adult Fiction Macquarie University 2014 (Session 2)
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