Back Home

Author: Michelle Magorian

Stock information

General Fields

Price : $23.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780141354811
Publisher : Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint : Puffin
Contained items :
Weight (g) : 0.427
Publication date : April 2014
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 34mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 14.99
Availability date : October 2014
Out of print date :
Agency :
Product Type : books

Special Fields

color :
size :
Author : Michelle Magorian
Series :
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Illustrator :
Language :
Dewey classification : 823.92
Reading Level :
Library of Con LOCSH :
Pages : 480
BIC subject :
Illustrations :
Colour :
Session :
Deck :
Store Notes :
Translator :
Signed :

9780141354811

Description

It's 1945. World War II has just ended and twelve-year-old Rusty comes back home to Britain after being evacuated to the US. The greyness and bleakness of life in England is a shock, but even worse is adapting to the strict discipline of her family, including a brother she's never met, after the warmth and openness of her adopted American family. Rusty is sent to an horrific boarding school, before finally running away as her search for happiness becomes more and more desperate.

Author description

Michelle Magorian was born in Portsmouth and on leaving school studied at the Rose Bruford College of speech and Drama and Marcel Marceau's International School of Mime in Paris. Over the years she became interested in children's books and decided to write one herself. The result was Goodnight Mister Tom, which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, an International Reading Association Award and was also made into a superb film starring the late John Thaw. In 2012 Michelle was made a Fellow of Rose Bruford College.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.