Surrender: Popular Penguins
Popular Penguins
$16.19
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
28 June 2010
Summary
As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years that have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small town and distant parents ensure that he is never allowed to forget the horrific mistake he made as a child.
He has only two friends - his dog Surrender, and the unruly wild boy Finnigan, with whom he made a boyhood pact.
When a series of arson attacks grips the town, Gabriel realises how unpredictable and dangerous Finnegan is. Events begin to spira…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143204725 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143204726 |
| Author: | Sonya Hartnett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2010 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 112mm x 180mm |
| Series: | Popular Penguins |
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Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett’s work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults, and children.
Her accolades include:
- Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (for Of a Boy)
- The Age Book of the Year (for Of a Boy)
- Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (for Thursday’s Child)
- Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers (for Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost’s Child, The Midnight Zoo, and The Children of the King)
- Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Younger Readers (for Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost’s Child, The Midnight Zoo, and The Children of the King)
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (for Surrender)
- Three shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for Of a Boy, Butterfly, and Golden Boys)
- CILIP Carnegie Medal (for The Midnight Zoo)
Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008).
In 2021, she published her fourth picture book, Blue Flower, illustrated by Gabriel Evans, which was shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award.
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