Becoming Aurora / Elizabeth Kasmer.
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TextPublisher: St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 212 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780702254208Subject(s): Young adults -- Australia -- Attitudes -- Juvenile fiction | Interracial friendship -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction | Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction | Youth and violence -- Australia -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Young adult fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Awards: "Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards, Emerging Writer Category"--Back cover. | 2015 Winner, Queensland Liteerary Awards.Summary: Sixteen-year-old Rory is at a crossroads in her life. While her gang plans its next move in a racially motivated turf war, Rory is sentenced to spend her summer at an aged care facility. She's proud of taking the rap for a crime her gang committed and reading to a feisty old boxing champion isn't going to change that. But what happens when Rory's path intersects with migrant boxer Essam's and she becomes the victim, not the perpetrator? Can she find the courage to face her past and become the girl her dad called Aurora?
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Young Adult | YA JF KAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111069798252 |
For young adults.
"Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards, Emerging Writer Category"--Back cover.
2015 Winner, Queensland Liteerary Awards.
Sixteen-year-old Rory is at a crossroads in her life. While her gang plans its next move in a racially motivated turf war, Rory is sentenced to spend her summer at an aged care facility. She's proud of taking the rap for a crime her gang committed and reading to a feisty old boxing champion isn't going to change that. But what happens when Rory's path intersects with migrant boxer Essam's and she becomes the victim, not the perpetrator? Can she find the courage to face her past and become the girl her dad called Aurora?
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