Two Ways Strong: Jaz's Story

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Jaz is fourteen and lives on Palm Island. When her mother tells her that she will be going to boarding school after the summer holidays, she is upset and confused. Part of her wants to go and part of her doesn't. But before she knows it, she's getting off the plane in Toowoomba and being welcomed to her new school. It's all so different: there's no beach, there're uniforms and rules, and there're hundreds of other kids, most of them white, and she can't seem to make herself understood when she talks to them. How will she cope

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Two Ways Strong: Jaz's Story is written by 14 Indigenous students from Concordia Lutheran College: The Deadly Mob from Concordia. The students are all from communities in Queensland-from as far as Dauan Island in the Torres Strait to Hopevale, Mareeba, Lockhart River, Wujal Wujal and Palm Island on the north-east coast to Cherbourg in the central south west. The book was produced by the students during a writing workshop with Claire Scobie, the author of the travel memoir Last Seen in Lhasa and the novel, The Pagoda Tree, and Kristine Ellis, a writer and poet who has links to the Wakka Wakka people and also to Kiriri (Hammond Island) in the Torres Strait.