South of darkness / John Marsden.
Material type: TextPublication details: Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2014.Description: 376 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781743531563
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Fiction | Stratford Fiction | Fiction | MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | A00735881 |
Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s. Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious business. When he hears of a paradise on the other side of the world- a place called Botany Bay - he decides to commit a crime and get himself transported to a new life, a better life. To succeed, he must survive the trials of Newgate Prison, the stinking hull of a prison ship and the unknown terrors of a journey across the world. And Botany Bay is far from the paradise Barnaby has imagined. When his past and present suddenly collide, he is soon fleeing for his life - once again. A riveting story of courage, hope and extraordinary adventure.
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