Detention / Tristan Bancks.
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TextPublisher: [Melbourne, Victoria] : Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 231 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143791799Subject(s): Refugee -- Juvenile fiction | Australian fiction | Refugees -- Juvenile fiction | Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction | Detention of persons -- Juvenile fiction | Young adult fiction | AustralianGenre/Form: Young adult fiction | Young adult fiction | Contemporary -- Young Adult fiction -- Print DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Sima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the tall fence designed to keep them in. The wires are cut one by one. When they make their escape, a guard raises the alarm. Shouting, smoke bombs, people tackled to the ground. In the chaos Sima loses her parents. Dad told her to run, so she does, hiding in a school and triggering a lockdown. A boy, Dan, finds her hiding in the toilet block. What should he do? Help her? Dob her in? She's breaking the law, but is it right to lock kids up? And if he helps, should Sima trust him? Or run? THIS MOMENT, THESE DECISIONS, WILL CHANGE THE COURSE OF THEIR LIVES.
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"Author of two wolves and the fall" --Front cover.
Sima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the tall fence designed to keep them in. The wires are cut one by one. When they make their escape, a guard raises the alarm. Shouting, smoke bombs, people tackled to the ground. In the chaos Sima loses her parents. Dad told her to run, so she does, hiding in a school and triggering a lockdown. A boy, Dan, finds her hiding in the toilet block. What should he do? Help her? Dob her in? She's breaking the law, but is it right to lock kids up? And if he helps, should Sima trust him? Or run? THIS MOMENT, THESE DECISIONS, WILL CHANGE THE COURSE OF THEIR LIVES.
Young adult.
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