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- Lothian Children's Books
Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
A powerful novel for children from bestselling author Libby Hathorn.
How can 12-year-old Alan find happiness in a world that's fallen apart for him?
Where has his mum gone and why?
Living with sour Aunt Jessie at the Boomerang Milkbar is no fun in spite of nearby Coogee Beach. Alan misses his mother and two brothers, and big sister Desley's visits don't help. At his new school there's a bully, and even when he surfs with new friends, Alan is on the look-out for trouble.
Then the juke box and rock'n'roll arrive at the Boomerang, and everything changes.
Celebrating 25 years of Libby Hathorn, acclaimed author of the Australian young adult classic THUNDERWITH.
'Hathorn deftly injects a sense of wonderment into this intense, very real story. Readers cannot help but be swept up on the action and emotion.' - American Publishers Weekly on THUNDERWITH
'A powerful novel about hope and the human spirit's ability to finally win through.' - Courier Mail, Brisbane on THUNDERWITH
Praise for Love Me Tender
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Hathorn deftly injects a sense of wonderment into this intense, very real story. Readers cannot help but be swept up on the action and emotion. - American Publishers Weekly on THUNDERWITH
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A powerful novel about hope and the human spirit's ability to finally win through. - Courier Mail, Brisbane on THUNDERWITH
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Libby Hathorn
Libby Hathorn is an award-winning author and poet of more than eighty books for children, young adults, and adult readers. Her recent picture book No! Never!, written with her daughter Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, won the CBCA Children's Picture Book of the Year Award, Younger Readers, 2021. Translated into several languages and adapted for both stage and screen, her work has won honours in Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Holland. She is the recipient of the ABIA Pixie O'Harris Award, 2022, and the Lady Cutler Award, 2020, for distinguished services to Australian children's literature. In 2014 she won The Alice Award, a national award given to 'a woman who has made a distinguished and long term contribution to Australian literature'. In 2017 she won the Asher Award, a peace prize, for A Soldier, a Dog and a Boy.
Libby is a keen educator who has lectured part-time at Sydney University and is devoted to being an ambassador for poetry anywhere and everywhere. She has been a National Ambassador for Reading and often acts as a judge for various literary prizes, including the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
www.libbyhathorn.com
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