Lenny's book of everything / Karen Foxlee.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2018Copyright date: copyright2018Edition: First editionDescription: 343 pages ; 21 cmContent type: still image | cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760528706 (paperback); 1760528706 (pbk); 9781760529444; 1760529443Subject(s): Premier’s reading challenge (NSW) grades 5-6 | Brothers and sisters -- Fiction | Family life -- Ohio -- Fiction | People with disabilities -- Fiction | Youth fiction | Family life -- Ohio -- Juvenile fiction | Brothers and sisters -- Children's fiction | Premier's Reading Challenge -- Year 5 - Year 6 | Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction | Children's stories | Brothers and sisters | Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Young adult fiction | Families -- Ohio -- Juvenile fiction | People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction | Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction | Families -- Juvenile fiction | Critically ill children | Critically ill children -- Family relationships | Encyclopedias and dictionaries | Imagination in children | Single-parent families | Siblings -- Juvenile fiction | Critically ill children -- Family relationships -- Juvenile fiction | Critically ill children -- Juvenile fiction | Imagination in children -- Juvenile fiction | Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Juvenile fiction | Siblings | Ohio -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Ohio -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction | Ohio -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Young adult fiction | Australian fiction | Australian fiction | Young adult fiction | Australian fiction. | Australian fiction | Young adult fiction | Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9 | Children's stories | Fictional Work | Romans. | Fiction. | Juvenile works. | Fiction. Additional physical formats: Online version: Lenny's book of everythingDDC classification: [Fic] LOC classification: PZ7.F841223 | Len 2019Awards: Shortlisted for 2019 Children's Book of the Year Awards: older readers category.Summary: Lenny, small and sharp, has a younger brother Davey who won't stop growing - and at seven is as tall as a man. Raised by their single mother, who works two jobs and is made almost entirely out of worries, they have food and a roof over their heads, but not much else. The bright spot every week is the arrival of the latest issue of Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopaedia. Through the encyclopaedia, Lenny and Davey experience the wonders of the world - beetles, birds, quasars, quartz - and dream about a life of freedom and adventure, visiting places like Saskatchewan and Yellowknife, and the gleaming lakes of the Northwest Territories. But as her brother's health deteriorates, Lenny comes to accept the inevitable truth; Davey will never make it to Great Bear Lake.
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Maps on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (page339).
Includes bibliographical references (page339)
Lenny, small and sharp, has a younger brother Davey who won't stop growing - and at seven is as tall as a man. Raised by their single mother, who works two jobs and is made almost entirely out of worries, they have food and a roof over their heads, but not much else. The bright spot every week is the arrival of the latest issue of Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopaedia. Through the encyclopaedia, Lenny and Davey experience the wonders of the world - beetles, birds, quasars, quartz - and dream about a life of freedom and adventure, visiting places like Saskatchewan and Yellowknife, and the gleaming lakes of the Northwest Territories. But as her brother's health deteriorates, Lenny comes to accept the inevitable truth; Davey will never make it to Great Bear Lake.
Primary school age.
Shortlisted for 2019 Children's Book of the Year Awards: older readers category.
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