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Sebastian Ritscher |
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FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON
A breathtaking verse novel set against the backdrop of 1969, when humans first landed on the moon and the Vietnam War was raging.
It's 1969 and life is changing fast. Sharnie Burley is starting high school and finding it tough to make new friends.As the world waits to see if humans will land on the moon, the Vietnam War rages overseas.While her little cousin, Lewis, makes pretend moon boots, young men are being called up to fight, sometimes without having any choice in the matter. Sometimes without ever coming home.
Dad thinks serving your country in a war is honourable, but when Sharnie's older sister, Cas, meets a returned soldier and starts getting involved in anti-war protests, a rift in their family begins to show. Sharnie would usually turn to her grandma for support, but lately Gran's been forgetting things.
Can she find her own way in this brave new world?
Footprints on the Moon dextrously raises important and timely themes for its intended audience: friendship, family, death, grief, support, war, protesting, and conscription.
Lorraine Marwood was born and raised in rural Victoria and lives with her husband on a dairy farm. She has six children and twelve grandchildren, and she loves to craft, sew, garden, walk her dog Monti and bake for family gatherings. She has been a headmistress of a rural school and has studied literacy.
Lorraine's previous book Leave Taking was the joint winner of the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature and was shortlisted for the 2019 CBCA Book of the Year,Younger Readers.
Dad thinks serving your country in a war is honourable, but when Sharnie's older sister, Cas, meets a returned soldier and starts getting involved in anti-war protests, a rift in their family begins to show. Sharnie would usually turn to her grandma for support, but lately Gran's been forgetting things.
Can she find her own way in this brave new world?
Footprints on the Moon dextrously raises important and timely themes for its intended audience: friendship, family, death, grief, support, war, protesting, and conscription.
Lorraine Marwood was born and raised in rural Victoria and lives with her husband on a dairy farm. She has six children and twelve grandchildren, and she loves to craft, sew, garden, walk her dog Monti and bake for family gatherings. She has been a headmistress of a rural school and has studied literacy.
Lorraine's previous book Leave Taking was the joint winner of the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature and was shortlisted for the 2019 CBCA Book of the Year,Younger Readers.
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Published 2021-02-01 by UQP University of Queensland Press - St Lucia (AUS) |