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Title: Hills End: Text Classics Edition
Author: SOUTHALL IVAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 22/05/2013
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $12.95
Publishing status: Active
On a fateful day in Hills End, a timber-milling town in the mountains of Victoria, seven children and their teacher set off to explore caves in the nearby mountains said to contain ancient Aboriginal rock art. While they are deep inside the mountain caves a storm of tremendous violence all but sweeps the town away and threatens to leave them stranded on the mountain. Tackling flooded creeks and washed out paths and fallen trees, the children make their way back to Hills End injured and exhausted, only to face a new battle to survive in the denuded town.
Review: ‘The author has the power to get inside his characters, and through them express his faith in human nature in the goodness of man…a solid work, strong in action, mood and discipline.’A New York Times ‘A book that has haunted me for years.’ — Ramona Koval By the Book
Author Biography: Ivan Southall was the first Australian author to receive the Carnergie Medal, and was awarded the Australian Children’s Books Council Book of the Year on three occasions. He wrote over 60 books in his lifetime and has been published in 23 different countries. He died in 2008.
Series: Text Classics Edition
ISBN: 9781922147004
Pages: 288