A Different Boy
By (Author) Paul Jennings
A&U Children's
A&U Children
29th August 2018
Australia
Children
Fiction
823.914
Long-listed for CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019 (UK)
Paperback
112
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
104g
Longlisted for the 2019 Carnegie Medal
'If you've got a bad deal,' his father used to say, 'get out of it and move on.'
When he finds himself in a cruel orphanage Anton does just that, and hides on an ocean liner. Fear and desperation are his only companions. And this time there is no escape.
Or is there
Two other passengers have secrets of their own. When nothing is what it seems, can they help each other Or will they sink into a sea of troubles
You'll never know. Until the last page.
Another top story from Australia's master of the trick ending.
Paul Jennings has written over one hundred stories and has won every Australian children's choice book award. Since the publication of Unreal! in 1985, readers all around the world have loved his books. The top-rating TV series Round the Twist and Driven Crazy were based on a selection of his enormously popular short-story collections such as Unseen! In 1995 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to children's literature and he was awarded the prestigious Dromkeen Medal in 2001.