The Keeper
Author(s): Rosanne Hawke
SECONDHAND BOOKS | Junior Fiction
Twelve-year-old Joel Billings wants a father more than anything. He hasn? had it easy ?the school bully picks on him and his parents abandoned him long ago. He lives with his over-protective gran, who won? even let him enter a fishing competition. Joel reckons having a dad would solve all his problems, so he advertises for one in the newspaper. When a tattooed, long-haired biker named Dev Eagle answers the ad, Joel? world is turned upside down. But Dev is not the only new stranger in town ?someone from Joel? past is back to haunt him. This gripping book is the first in a trilogy for middle-reader boys, which continues with Sailmaker and Killer Ute.
2013. Reprint. A fine, unmarked copy.
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'Hawke displays an unerring touch with the thoughts and emotions of a troubled youngster. A robust bracy style that doesn't falter or languish. A fine unsentimental story.' - Magpies
Rosanne Hawke's books include The Keeper, Soraya, The Storyteller, Mustara, Taj and the Great Camel Trek (winner of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Children's Literature Award) and The Messenger Bird.
General Fields
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- : University of Queensland Press
- : University of Queensland Press
- : 0.146
- : 20 March 2013
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : 01 January 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : 144
- : FIC
- : en
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Rosanne Hawke