The fire in the stone
By: Colin Thiele.
Publisher: Penguin Books; Puffin
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Miners -- Fiction.; Australia -- Fiction.
Description: When his precious cache of opals is stolen, 14-year-old Ernie, who lives with his alcoholic father in the harsh and lawless opal fields of inland Australia, sets out with a friend determined to find the thief.
Notes: "A Puffin book."