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The Middle of Nowhere

By: Geraldine McCaughrean

Series : Usborne Modern Classics

Age 10+

RRP £7.99

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A gripping tale that builds to an explosive climax from twice Carnegie-winner, Geraldine McCaughrean.

When her mother dies from a snake bite, Comity's life in the Australian outback changes for ever.

With her father lost in his grief, Comity makes friends with Fred, the Aboriginal yard boy. But then the evil Quartz Hogg arrives, who delights in playing cruel games. And when he sets his murderous sights on Fred, it's up to Comity to stop him.

Details

Extent:: 304 pages
Dimensions:: 198 x 130mm
Paperback ISBN:: 9781409570516
Accelerated Reader Book Level:: 6.1
Accelerated Reader Interest Level:: Middle years (MY)
Book Band:: Dark Blue
Key Stage:: KS2, KS3
Publication Date:: August 2018
Work Reference:: 02351

Author

Geraldine McCaughrean is one of today's most successful and highly regarded children's authors. She has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice: first in 1988 with A Pack of Lies and again in 2018 with Where the World Ends. She's won the IBW Book Award 2018, the Whitbread Children's Book Award three times, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award four times, the prestigious U.S. Printz Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband John and the lingering shades of all those characters she has invented in her books.

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Series

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Awards

Winner

Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction 2014

Winner

Lovereading4kids Books of the Year 2014

Shortlisted

Little Rebels Children’s Book Award 2014

Shortlisted

Essex Book Awards 2015

Shortlisted

The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015

Shortlisted

Hillingdon Primary Book of the Year 2015

Longlisted

The UKLA Book Awards 2013

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