The Middle of Nowhere
Aug 2018 · Usborne Publishing Ltd
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When her mother dies from a snake bite, Comity's life in the Australian outback changes for ever.
With her father lost in his grief, Comity makes friends with Fred, the Aboriginal yard boy. But then the evil Quartz Hogg arrives, who delights in playing cruel games. And when he sets his murderous sights on Fred, it's up to Comity to stop him.
A gripping tale that builds to an explosive climax from much-loved storyteller, Geraldine McCaughrean.
With her father lost in his grief, Comity makes friends with Fred, the Aboriginal yard boy. But then the evil Quartz Hogg arrives, who delights in playing cruel games. And when he sets his murderous sights on Fred, it's up to Comity to stop him.
A gripping tale that builds to an explosive climax from much-loved storyteller, Geraldine McCaughrean.
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4.7
3 reviews
Katie Lawson
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June 29, 2015
It's set in Australia and I don't know much about Australia let alone life in the outback and the Aboriginals. Really enticing and a big page turner
Fin Upham
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December 13, 2015
Love it
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About the author
Geraldine McCaughrean is one of today's most successful and highly regarded children's authors. She has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice: first in 1988 with A Pack of Lies and again in 2018 with Where the World Ends. She's won the IBW Book Award 2018, the Whitbread Children's Book Award three times, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award four times, the prestigious U.S. Printz Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband John and the lingering shades of all those characters she has invented in her books.
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