Tyro
By: David McRobbie.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ringwood, Vic., Australia; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Apprentices -- Fiction.; Bullying -- Fiction.; Waterfronts -- Fiction.; Docks -- Fiction.; Scotland -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1953 in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Andrew is eager to begin his apprenticeship as a ship's engineer at the Dalrossan Dockyard but soon realizes that his new workplace is full of unwritten rules and dangerous undercurrents and that he cannot tell his friends from his enemies.
Notes: The Children's Book Council of Australia Short-Listed Book
Young adults.