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- Lothian Children's Books
Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
This strange and gripping mystery won the 1994 Children's Book Council of the Year Award for Older Readers and the National Children's Book Award.
The night the first wild child was captured, I was woken from my sleep by the sound of car doors slamming. I opened my eyes; lights were flashing across the ceiling of my bedroom. I sat up at once, and there, holding the lace curtain of my window, was my sister Julia.
"They've caught one," I whispered. "Haven't they?"
She took her hand from the curtain and turned away. "They get us all, sooner or later," she said. Then she vanished into the darkness of the hall.
But who could live with wild children and not be affected? And what changes might their dark secrets bring about in the lives of others?
This award-winning novel was described as 'a superb representation of contemporary Australian writing' by the SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (USA).
Praise for Angel's Gate
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The mounting tension will keep readers glued to their seats. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (USA)
Gary Crew
GARY CREW is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. He has won the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year four times and his readers have come to expect shadowy, surprising, incredible stories that must be read, and read again.
STEVEN WOOLMAN (1969-2004) completed a degree in Design and Illustration at the University of South Australia in 1990 and was always fascinated by bizarre fantasy. For the illustrations in The Watertower, his fifth published book, he used a combination of acrylic paint and chalk and pencil on black paper.
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