Description
Temporarily out of stock
Title: Ratwhiskers & Me
Author: MARWOOD LORRAINE
Illustrator: JAMES RIAN NEST (ILL)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/07/2008
Imprint: WALKER BOOKS AUST.(KIDS’)
Price: $16.00
Publishing status: Active
A powerful atmospheric verse novel set in the Victorian goldfields in the 1800s.
Traumatised by a fire in which the narrator’s family perishes, the narrator takes on a new identity on the goldfields. There, Sun Song, a Chinese market gardener is the only one to show any kindness. The narrator flees to the Chinese camp, taking the name Lin. But Ellery, a man with links to Lin’s past, is determined to take over all rights on the goldfields, setting in place a dangerous sequence of events. To survive is a test of friendship and loyalty, and a catalyst the remembering of Lin’s tragic past.
ISBN: 9781921150395