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Between Us

Between Us

by Clare Atkins
Audio disc
Publication Date: 01/10/2021

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Is it possible for two very different teenagers to fall in love despite high barbed-wire fences and a political wilderness between them?

Anahita is passionate, curious and determined. She is also an Iranian asylum seeker who is only allowed out of detention to attend school. On weekdays and during school hours, she can be a 'regular Australian girl'.

Jono needs the distraction of an infatuation. In the past year his mum has walked out, he's been dumped and his sister has moved away. Lost and depressed, Jono feels as if he's been left behind with his Vietnamese single father, Kenny.

Kenny is struggling to work out the rules in his new job, he recently started work as a guard at the Wickham Point Detention Centre. He tells Anahita to look out for Jono at school, but quickly comes to regret this, spiraling into suspicion and mistrust. Who is this girl, really? What is her story? Is she a genuine refugee or a queue jumper? As Jono and Anahita grow closer, Kenny starts snooping behind the scenes ...
ISBN:
9781867573548
9781867573548
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Audio disc
Publication Date:
01-10-2021
Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Clare Atkins

Clare Atkins is an author, scriptwriter, script editor and producer. She wrote her first novel, Nona & Me, while living in the remote Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in the Northern Territory. It went on to win the Book of the Year in the NT Literary Awards, and was shortlisted for the CBCA Awards and highly commended for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Her second novel, Between Us, won the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers.

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