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The Middle of Nowhere by Geraldine McCaughrean
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Usborne Modern Classics Ser.
When her mother dies from a snake bite, Comity's life in the Australian outback changes for ever. Her father retreats into his work trasmitting telegrams, abdoning Comity when she needs him most. Then a new assistant arrives who delights in playing cruel games. Soon Comity struggles to hold things toget ...Show more
The Middle of Nowhere by Geraldine McCaughrean
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When Mary Pinny dies from a snakebite, she leaves her young daughter, Comity, and husband Herbert in the Middle of Nowhere. As Stationmaster of the Kinkindele Repeater Station, Herbert Pinny takes great pride in his job; receiving morse messages and passing them down the Wire to the rest of Australia an ...Show more
Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
Category: Young Adult Fiction
In the summer of 1727, a group of men and boys are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food. No one returns to collect them. Why? Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they have been abandoned to endure storms, starvation and terror. How can they survive, housed in sto ...Show more
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