Greylands

Author: Isobelle Carmody

Stock information

General Fields

Price : $18.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781921665677
Publisher : Ford Street Publishing Pty, Limited
Imprint : Ford Street Publishing Pty, Limited
Contained items :
Weight (g) : 0.193
Publication date : August 2012
Dimensions : 195mm X 130mm
Produced in : Australia
RRP : 18.95
Availability date : October 2012
Out of print date :
Agency :
Product Type : books

Special Fields

color :
size :
Author : Isobelle Carmody
Series :
Bind : Paperback
Edition :
Illustrator :
Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.00
Reading Level :
Library of Con LOCSH :
Pages : 235
BIC subject :
Illustrations :
Colour :
Session :
Deck :
Store Notes :
Translator :
Signed :

9781921665677

Description

One wakeful night in the aftermath of his mother's death, Jack enters a land devoid of colour or scent. Here he meets the tragic laughing beast and Alice, a strange girl with a secret. Will Jack escape before the terrifying wolves find him? Or is he destined to be trapped in the Greylands forever? Only the cats know...

Author description

Isobelle began work on the highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles when she was just fourteen years old. She continued to work on these while completing a Bachelor of Arts, and a cadetship in journalism. The first two books in the Obernewtyn series were short listed for the CBC Children's Book of the Year in the Older Readers category; Scatterlings won Talking book of the Year. The Gathering was a joint winner of the 1993 CBC Book of the Year Award and the 1994 Children's Literature Peace Prize.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.