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Published: 22nd December 2008
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Published: 31st August 2009
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Blueback
By (Author) Tim Winton
Penguin Random House Australia
Puffin
22nd December 2008
Australia
Children
Fiction
A823.3
Paperback
176
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 14mm
163g
Abel Jackson loves to dive. He's a natural in the water. He can't remember a time when he couldn't use a mask and snorkel to glide down into the clear deep. Life is tough out at Longboat Bay. Every day the boy helps his mother earn their living from the sea and the land. It's hard work but Abel has the bush and the sky and the bay to himself. Until the day he meets Blueback, the fish that changes his life. Blueback is a story about people learning from nature. About a boy and his life-long friend.
Tim Winton has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows,Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia. Find out more on Facebook