Hot Nights, Cool Dragons

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Have you ever wanted to be lost Sassy Piero had no idea she did until, one smouldering summer night, she and her older brother, Bobby, heard the sound of jazz. They snuck down the fire escape, into the backstreets of the night and found a band of not-quite-right people, the Firebreakers, descendants of dragons, singing, calling, to all storms. They were a doorway. A promise of music and passion, neon lights, warped time and swirling moods. They were a journey. But to pursue them, Sassy would have to face death and more. She would have to leave her brother and father behind. And what of Bobby He's a Real Boy. No way was he going to do anything other than lose himself in rock 'n' roll.

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Zurbo has a real gift for poetic language that depicts the inner city landscape in all its grittiness realism is combined with the most evocative writing about music, particularly cool jazz, and a dose of magic realism 'Jo Goodman MagpiesVol 19, Issue 4, September 2004a surrealistic and brooding tale about music and the power it holds over us an ambitious novel which is well worth taking the time to read.' ViewpointSpring 2004Zurbo's language is spare and poetic an exciting adventure into a surreal other world.'Naureen Mann, Queechy High School, TAS

Author Bio

Matt Zurbo is the author of two young adult novels, Idiot Pride, shortlisted for the CBC Book of the Year Awards in 1998, and Flyboy and the Invisible (2001), and two picture books, Blow Kid, Blow illustrated by Jeff Raglus and I Got a Rocket illustrated by Dean Gorrisen, all published by Penguin Books Australia. He works in the forests of the Otway Ranges and has been a comedian and radio presenter.