Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Paterson, Andrew (Physician), author.

Title Rainfish / Paterson, Andrew.

Publication Info. Melbourne : Text Publishing, [2021]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J-MS PATERSON    Check Shelf
Description 264 pages ; 20 cm
Summary Aaron lives with his mum and older brother in a small town on the edge of a rainforest in tropical Far North Queensland. He's sick of being the little brother, left out of all the interesting stuff the older kids get up to. So when he meets Damon he's keen to impress him. It's all going well, until Damon suggests they break into the church. Aaron's nervous and uncomfortable. But he can't back out now--he's only just beginning to be accepted. When the theft is reported in the local newspaper and the police knock on the door, Aaron finds himself hiding the truth in a tangle of lies. And before long his deep sense of guilt and fear of being found out overwhelm him. And then, when he discovers that the mudcod in the old bath in the backyard--the fish he'd caught in the river in the rainforest--are the rainfish of local legend, he becomes convinced that he is responsible for the terrible rainstorms and floods that devastate the town-- Publisher description.
Subject Social acceptance -- Juvenile fiction.
Theft -- Juvenile fiction.
Rain and rainfall -- Juvenile fiction.
Guilt -- Juvenile fiction.
Queensland -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Novels.
Fiction.
ISBN 9781922330963 (paperback)
1922330965 (paperback)
-->
Add a Review