Castaway: A Brumby Plains Adventure
By (Author) Joanne Van Os
Random House Australia
Random House Australia
3rd September 2007
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
A823
Paperback
208
Width 129mm, Height 199mm, Spine 14mm
194g
Brumby Plains is an isolated place, and the outside world doesn't intrude much here. But when Sam and George discover a refugee child washed up on the shores of their buffalo station, the rest of the world is brought a lot closer. An accident has taken Mac and Sarah far away, and Uncle Mungo has strong views about refugees, so the two brothers hide the child while they work out what to do. Sam discovers that it's a lot harder to stand up for what you believe in than to follow the crowd.
Born and bred in Melbourne, Joanne Van Os moved to the Territory when she was 20 and has never looked back. She has two adult sons, Callum and Sean. A keen photographer and illustrator, Joanne lives in Darwin with her husband and daughter.