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Publication Details
Year of Publication - 2015
Publisher - Walker Books Australia
About the Author
Sue Lawson writes books for children and young adults. Her love for books began when she was a child on a farm in country Victoria where she spent her time reading, writing, listening to her father and grandfather's stories and avoiding working with the cattle. These days, she's added stationery shops to her football obsession and when not writing, teaches and runs workshops for young people and adults.
In 2012, Pan's Whisper was short-listed for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, was a Notable Book at the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards and won the Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature. You Don't Even Know was short-listed for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards in 2014.
Awards
Short-listed:
- Older Readers, Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Awards, 2016
- Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
- NSW Premier’s History Awards, Young Adults, Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, 2016
There's no hiding from prejudice ...
Robbie knows bad things happen in Walgaree. But it's nothing to do with him. That's just the way the Aborigines have always been treated. In the summer of 1965 racial tensions in the town are at boiling point, and something headed Walgaree's way will blow things apart. It's time for Robbie to take a stand. Nothing will ever be the same.
Based on real events.
Freedom ride. (n.d.). Booktopia. https://www.booktopia.com.au/freedom-ride-sue-lawson/book/9781925126365.html
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