Download or read book Lisdalia written by Brian Caswell and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's bad enough being the smartest kid in the school, but when you're a girl, and when your father still thinks it's a man's world, and when you never learned to back down from an argument, it's even worse. Lisdalia has all these problems . and more. Of course, it helps if you have a couple of really good friends, like Mike and Tanja, and a teacher who cares, but in the end, when things get serious, it's who you are inside that counts. Who ever said it was easy being a kid? LISDALIA is the second volume in Brian Caswell's critically acclaimed Boundary Park Trilogy which began with Mike and concludes with Maddie. Lisdalia won the 1995 Multicultural Children's Literature Award and was Highly Commended in the 1995 Human Rights Award for Children's Literature.
Download or read book Maddie written by Brian Caswell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maddie lived in Vietnam, she was called Mai Linh. Her older brother, Mitchell, was known as Minh. They were given their new names when they came to Australia and went to Boundary Park school. Maddie is popular at school, but Minh, haunted by dark memories, doesn't make friends easily. When Minh falls into real trouble, it's up to Maddie, Mike, Lisdalia, Tanja and Nanh to help him solve his present problems and overcome past fears. A companion story to Mike and Lisdalia.
Download or read book Mike written by Brian Caswell and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike and his mother have moved from Melbourne to live at Boundary Park, in Sydney's west. Mike soon wishes they'd never left. At school he becomes the victim of the bully Shane. Then Mike meets Riny, a neighbour with a secret success story in her past, and together they plan an exciting way to overcome Mike's doubts. Mike is the first title in the Boundary Park trilogy continuing with Lisdalia and Maddie. "A most unusual and gripping story, with a great centre character and atmosphere ... touching without being sentimental." Reading Time
Download or read book Merryll of the Stones written by Brian Caswell and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This splendid story of time travel and magic begins in Sydney, with Megan Ellison, sole survivor of a car accident. She awakens from this disaster haunted by strange dreams as if from some distant past. These frightening dreams and fragmented memories continue, even when Megan goes to stay with relatives in a Welsh village. Then she meets Em, a brilliant and rebellious boy. As their friendship grows, they discover Megan's supernatural gift - and her duty to right an ancient wrong. Together, Megan and Em step through the ruins of a stone circle... and so begins a fabulous adventure that spans two millennia.
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Scot Peacock and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors®. Authors in this volume include: Patricia Choa Jacob Epstein Julie Kavanagh Sharon Thesen
Download or read book Literacy written by Gordon Winch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an introduction to the principal literacy theories, while maintaining a focus on the practical application of literacy skills to everyday teaching, this book is divided into three parts: Reading; Writing; and Children's Literature.
Download or read book Australian National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bush City Cyberspace written by John Foster and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at academic, professional and general readers, Bush, city, cyberspace provides a snapshot of the state of Australian children's and adolescent literature in the early twenty-first century, and an insight into its history. In doing so, it promotes a sense of where Australian literature for young people may be going and captures a literary and critical mood with which readers in Australia and beyond will identify. The title of the work is intended to capture the fact that the field has changed dramatically in the century and a half that 'Australian children's literature' has existed, from the bush myths and heroism that inform the past and the present, through the recognition that the vast majority of authors and readers live in cities, to the third wave of 'cyberliterature' that incorporates multimedia, hypertext, weblinks and e-books - none of which lessens the enduring enthusiasm of practitioners and readers for books. Bush, city, cyberspace is not meant to be an encyclopedic volume. Rather, well-known, recent and/or award-winning works have been emphasised, with the addition of others where these help to illuminate particular points. The book is similar in coverage and approach to Australian Children's Literature: An Exploration of Genre and Theme, written by the same three authors and published by the Centre for Information Studies in 1995. In the intervening period, much has changed in the field, notable examples including the blurring of the dividing line between 'quality' and 'popular' literature; the blending of genres; the rise of a truly indigenous literature; the demise, to a significant extent, of 'Outbackery' in fiction; the acceptance of multiculturalism as the norm; and the advent of the literature of cyberspace, with new methods, and the sheer speed, of communication between writer and reader. All these trends, and others, are reflected in this work.
Download or read book Loop written by Brian Caswell and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From interdimensional time travel to the choices that define our lives here and now; from the inability to let go to the inevitability of change; from the many faces of alien contact to the healing power of a single human touch, Brian Caswell bridges genres and generations, shifting through tragedy to joy, humour to pathos - from the everday to the exceptional. Loop displays the undeniable talent of one of Australia's most accomplished and admired writers for both young people and adults. It will tease the emotions and challenge the intellect - drawing us again and again into the 'loop' of one man's unique vision.
Download or read book Asturias written by Brian Caswell and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Music never stopped a war or put an end to greed or the hunger for power. But it was never supposed to. It has no reason, just as life has no reason. It just is. And what it is is the best that we can hope to be."Music is the talent - and the curse - that spans three generations to link Alex Rivera with the secrets of his family's past. Plucked from obsurity and thrown together with four other musical "prodigies", Alex rides the power of his music to fame and fortune as the lead-guitarist for Asturias, the latest creation of the music industry machine. But will the forces of commercialism and the stresses of fame destroy them, just as a bloody civil war tore apart another group of young idealists six decades earlier? How could anything go wrong? Everything's on track. You're on top of the world. Which is great. As long as you don't look down ...
Download or read book Double Exposure written by Brian Caswell and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Eveson is a genius; streetwise, artistic and sensitive, and rebelling against the domineering abuses of his father. Unlike his twin brother, Cain, who seems average in every way – at least to the outward observer. But gifts and talents run much deeper than two dimensions. Brian Caswell’s extraordinary new novel will draw you into a web of mysteries, and of horrors from the past buried by lies in the present.
Download or read book The Dreams of the Chosen written by Brian Caswell and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 2013 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telepathy, technology, and 80 years of unbroken peace: for the younger generation, life on Deucalion is utopian but maybe just a little bit too predictable. But now, a thousand years after the settlement of the planetOCoand centuries after all contact was lost with EarthOCoan expedition, using a new and untried technology, is setting out into the unknown to discover what happened all those years ago on the mother planet. What they find there will threaten their very survival and raise questions about what it means to be human and civilized. "The Dreams of the Chosen" is the final chapter in the multiaward-winning Deucalion Sequence, which started with "Deucalion" and was followed by its acclaimed sequel, "The View from Ararat.""
Download or read book Only the Heart written by Brian Caswell and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the chaos and the fear of post-war Saigon, and the terror of pirates on the open ocean, to the triumph and tragedy of a new life. Only The Heart is the story of Toan and Linh and a family that endures the nightmare in search of the dream. When logic says the dream is beyond your reach only heart knows the truth …
Download or read book Deucalion written by Brian Caswell and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across light years of space millions of settlers have come to the planet Deucalion to escape their past and build their future. Deucalion is a source of great wealth, and offers a chance of a new beginning. But what does this mean for the Elokoi, who lived there first, or for the children of lcarus, who made the journey for a different reason? And why are people dying mysteriously?Brian Caswell effortlessly takes you on an excursion into future-history, merging fact with fantasy that will leave you wanting to read the whole series.
Download or read book A Cage of Butterflies written by Brian Caswell and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We're like a new toy ... or a new energy source, and they're just playing with us, experimenting. Working out what we can do. What they can do with us." Mikki and the others live at "the farm", an advanced learning facility, a think-tank for a bunch of young people with very high IQs. But what is really going on at the farm? And what about the five much younger children known as the Babies, frail as butterflies? Brian Caswell's new novel explores the power of love . and presents readers with an intriguing jigsaw puzzle of suspense. SHORTLISTED CBC Children's Book of the Year Awards (1993)
Download or read book View from Ararat written by Brian Caswell and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after the Revolution, the planet Deucalion enjoys a model society and life is good. But everything is about to change. Death arrives one day on the C-ship, Pandora, and suddenly no one is safe. Overnight, the old rules no longer apply. When every decision is a matter of life and death, when every friend is a potential threat, and when people can trust no one but themselves, how deep does civilization really run? In the sequel to the award-winning Deucalion, Brian Caswell ventures a century further into his vision of humanity's future. View from Ararat is the second novel in the Deucalion Sequence trilogy.
Download or read book Books in the Life of a Child written by Maurice Saxby and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books in the Life of a Child explores the value of books and reading in the stimulation of children's imagination and their fundamental importance in the development of language and true literacy. It examines not only the vast range of children's books available but also how to introduce young people to the joys of reading in the home, the school and in the community. The book has been written as a resource for all adults, especially teachers, student teachers, librarians and parents, and those who care about the value of literature for children. It is a comprehensive and critical guide, with chapters on the history of children's literature and an analysis of its many forms and genres, from poetry, fairytale, myth, legend and fantasy, through realistic and historical fiction, to humour, pulp fiction and information books.
