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Came Back to Show You I Could Fly

Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1

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by Robin Klein
Audio cassette
Publication Date: 30/08/2004
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Winner of the 1990 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award (Older Readers). "Poignant and funny, tender and tough ...far and away the best thing Klein has ever done ..." - Moira Robinson. It's the summer holidays and 11-year-old loner, Seymour, lodged with a fussy guardian in an inner-city suburb, is bored and unhappy in his confined world. By chance he meets Angie - beautiful, charismatic Angie. He is bewitched, and his world is opened as she takes him on unexpected holiday outings and shopping sprees. Angie, however, is not what she seems. Angie is using drugs ...
ISBN:
9781740300896
9781740300896
Category:
Personal & social issues: drugs & addiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Audio cassette
Publication Date:
30-08-2004
Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
180x115x50mm
Weight:
0.5kg
Robin Klein

Robin Klein was born 28 February 1936 in Kempsey, New South Wales into a family of nine children. Leaving school at age 15, Klein worked several jobs before becoming established as a writer, having her first story published at age 16.

She would go on to write more than 40 books, including Hating Alison Ashley (adapted into a feature film starring Delta Goodrem in 2005), Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left (adapted into a television series for the Seven Network in 1992), and Came Back to Show You I Could Fly (adapted into a film directed by Richard Lowenstein in 1993).

Klein's books are hugely celebrated, having won the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award in both the Younger Readers and the Older Readers categories, as well as a Human Rights Award for Literature in 1989 for Came Back to Show You I Could Fly. Klein is widely considered one of Australia's most prolific and beloved YA authors.

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Unfortunatly i read this book. Klein's themes in the novel are aimed at an young adult auidience yet her writting style is for older children. She used similes FAR too often, and most of them leave you thinking..what is she on about.. her imagery is poor & over the top too. and example of this is "her shirt was faded to the color of water" WHAT IS THE COLOR OF WATER? an unrealistic plot line & poor writting makes this novel boring and over the top. i have also heard an audio version of this and it made me want to spew, the voice reading it was terrible.

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