Ivan Southall: 3 books
To the Wild Sky
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Winner, Australian Children's Book of the Year, 1967
No one had talked about fuel; what was the use of talking, anyway? But they all knew that engines which run on fuel have to run out of fuel sometime, and that the Egret just couldn't keep on going for ever. They seemed to have been sitting...
Hills End
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
First published in 1962, Hills End is regarded as a turning point in Australian children's literature, paving the way for much subsequent Australian adventure fiction.
On a fateful day in Hills End, a timber-milling town in the mountains of Victoria, seven children and their teacher set off...
Ash Road
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
The best selling Ash Road is an action-packed adventure story, so evocative of rural Australia you can taste the Eucalyptus.
It's hot, dry and sweaty on Ash Road, where Graham, Harry and Wallace are getting their first taste of independence, camping, just the three of them. When they accidentally...