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By the river

A memorable YA novel about the tough and tender sides of growing up in a small country town. Fourteen-year-old Harry has a knack for wriggling out of trouble, but escaping the constraints and memories that keep him trapped is not so easy, until it's a matter of life or death.

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  • "A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother's death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • "A memorable YA novel about the tough and tender sides of growing up in a small country town. Fourteen-year-old Harry has a knack for wriggling out of trouble, but escaping the constraints and memories that keep him trapped is not so easy, until it's a matter of life or death."@en
  • "A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother's death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love."@en
  • "A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother's death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love."
  • "Life for Harry means swimming in Pearce Swamp, eating chunks of watermelon with his brother and his dad, survivinig schoolyard battles, and racing through butterflies in Cowpers Paddock. In his town there's Linda, who brings him the sweetest-ever orange cake, and Johnny, whose lightning fists draw blood in a blur, and there's a mystery that Harry needs to solve before he can find a way out..."@en
  • "It is 1960s Australia and Harry lives with his dad and younger brother in a small town next to a river. Harry enjoys his share of the usual schoolboy fun and pranks, but there is also a tragedy underlying his life and that of the whole town. Suggested level: secondary."@en
  • "Een jongen groeit op in een dorp in Australië in de jaren vijftig en zestig. Hij weet dat hij maar een ding wil: het dorp verlaten zodra hij kan."

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  • "Young adult works"
  • "Young adult works"@en
  • "Novels in verse"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Young adult fiction"
  • "Young adult fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "By the River"
  • "Aan de rivier"
  • "By the river"
  • "By the river"@en

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