Brown Bird
$15.99
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2024
Summary
Eleven-year-old Rebecca tries to make herself invisible so people won’t call her weird. Resigned to spending the holidays by herself in a new neighbourhood while her mum works long hours at the supermarket, she meets Chester, who has come to stay for the summer. He is loud and fun and full of ideas. But will Rebecca be able to cope with being taken so far from her quiet comfort zone?
Rebecca is about to find out that she can be braver than she ever thought possible …
A gentle,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776958030 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776958039 |
| Author: | Jane Arthur |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 135mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Jane Arthur
Jane Arthur is a writer, poet, editor, reviewer, and bookseller in Aotearoa’s publishing world. She is a founding editor of children’s literature website The Sapling. Her debut poetry collection, Craven (VUP), won the 2020 Jessie Mackay Prize (MitoQ Best First Book of Poetry) at the Ockham NZ Book Awards, and her second collection, Calamities (THWUP) was published in 2023. In 2020, she was awarded an Emerging Writers Residency from the Michael King Writers Centre, and she used that dedicated time to write Brown Bird, her first novel for children. With Catherine Robertson, Jane owns and manages the award-winning Good Books bookstore in Wellington.
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