Steal Away

Disher, Garry

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

In 1932, during Australia's deep economic depression, young Paul meets Eric the Red--a wandering swagman--who teaches Paul how to play the bamboo flute and brings music back into Paul's life.

The Bamboo Flute

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Two young girls, next-door neighbors, find themselves hopelessly mismatched with their own pets and completely compatible with each other's cats, but their parents will not allow them to switch animals.

Switch Cat

Ticknor & Fields

Like "Snow Falling on Cedars," a beautifully written and deeply moving love story set against the racial tensions of a small Australian pearl-diving town on the eve of World War II. In 1946, in the northern Australian fishing town of Broome, Hartley Penrose remembers. He thinks of his parents -- his silent English mother and bluff Australian father. He thinks of the storm that tore open his leg, and his sister Alice, whose exuberance and strength brought him out of despair. He thinks of the racism and hatred that roiled Broome in the days before World War II, the unwarranted suspicions of the native Japanese that pulled the town apart. Most of all, he thinks of Mitsy Sennosuke, the warm and beautiful girl next door, the girl he loved, the one he betrayed. Five years earlier, everything came together for the most wrenching and unforgettable year of Hart's life. And now Mitsy is returning...

Divine Wind

Arthur A. Levine Books

The Divine Wind

Like "Snow Falling on Cedars," a beautifully written and deeply moving love story set against the racial tensions of a small Australian pearl-diving town on the eve of World War II.On the eve of WWII, suspicion runs rampant in Hartley Penrose's small town. Even though they've done nothing wrong, the town is turning against its native Japanese residents - including Mitsy Sennosuke, the girl Hart loves despite himself. The result is a wrenching, unforgettable story of romance, betrayal, and the turmoils that rock both the world and the heart.

Scholastic Paperbacks

On the eve of World War II, Hart, an Australian boy and Mitsy, a Japanese-Australian girl, fall in love but are driven apart.

Teen & Young Adult

Demco Media

This is a moving and powerful novel set in the wheat and wool country of mid-north South Australia. At once the story of a region, a town and people, it is also the story of Anna Tolley - "leggy, willful and auburn-haired, always answering back" - who lives through momentous changes and earns the envy, love and hatred of those around her.

The Sunken Road

Contemporary

Isis Audio Books

The Fallout

Louis Braille Audio

The Dragon Man

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