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Surrender: Popular Penguins

Author: Sonya Hartnett

As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years that have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small town and distant parents ensure that he is never allowed to forget the horrific mistake he made as a child. He has only two friends – his dog Surrender, and the unruly wild boy Finnigan, with whom he made a boyhood pact. 

When a series of arson attacks grips the town, Gabriel realises how unpredictable and dangerous Finnegan is. Events begin to spiral out of control, and it becomes clear that only the most extreme of measures will rid Gabriel of Finnegan for good.

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Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956

Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen and thirty turns against his family and wants to escape from it. When he is sixty he wants to creep back to the nursery fireside, but it is no longer there.



Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956

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Three children have been sent to live in the countryside, safe from the war in London. When they find two boys hiding in a castle, the past and future come together to make an extraordinary adventure.
Three children have been sent to live in the countryside, safe from the war in London. When they find two boys hiding in a castle, the past and future come together to make an extraordinary adventure.
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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670076130
RRP: $24.95
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Children of the King
By Sonya Hartnett
Three children have been sent to live in the countryside, safe from the war in London. When they find two boys hiding in a castle, the past and future come together to make an extraordinary adventure.
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Of a Boy: Popular Penguins
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The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand and self-combustion. Adrian watches his suburban world, but there is much he cannot understand. He does not, for instance, know why three neighbourhood children might set out to buy ice-cream and never come back home . . .

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RRP: $9.95
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From the combined talents of Sonya Hartnett and Lucia Masciullo comes this tale of friendship and bravery, and the things we are capable of doing for those we treasure most.
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One day a man invented the best toy in the world. 

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ISBN: 9780670073627
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Published: 28/07/2010
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Published:28/06/2010
Format:Paperback, 252 pages
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ISBN-13:9780143204725
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Origin:Australia
Imprint:Penguin
Publisher:Penguin Aus.
Subjects: - Body & health (Children's/YA)(21)
- Death & bereavement (Children's/YA)(31)
- Family issues (Children's/YA)(105)
- For emergent readers (adult)(44)
- General fiction (Children's/YA)(718)
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)(2307)

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Australian Society of Authors 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award - winner

All That I Am by Anna Funder has won the Barbara Jefferis Award.

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Anna beat fellow Miles Franklin contenders Foal's Bread and Cold Light.

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