The burnt stick
By: by Anthony Hill ; illustrated by Mark Sofilas.
Contributors: Sofilas, Mark, ill.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Boys, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile fiction; Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction; Mothers and sons -- Fiction; Missions -- Australia -- Fiction; Australia -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Growing up in a missionary home run by white men, John Jagamarra, who is part aborigine and part white, misses the mother from whom he's been separated and the culture of his own people.
Notes: "First published in Australia by Penguin Books"--verso t.p.