Borrowed light
By: Anna Fienberg.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 1999
Place of publication: St. Leonards, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Self-perception -- Fiction; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction; Pregnancy -- Fiction; Abortion -- Fiction; Family problems -- Fiction; Grief -- Fiction; Astronomy -- Fiction; Australia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In Australia, sixteen-year-old Callisto, a budding astronomer who is named after one of Jupiter's moons, discovers she is pregnant and, while trying to make some difficult decisions, uncovers a powerful family secret.
Notes: Children's Book Council of Australia, short-listed book, 2000.