No stars to wish on
By: Zana Fraillon
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781743315149; 9781743366714
Subjects: Children; Juvenile fiction; Institutional care; Poor children; Fiction; Stolen generations (Australia); Orphanages; Aboriginal Australian Children; Social conditions; Children's, Teenage & educational
Description: "Each kid only has one pair of shoes here. Number 49's shoes are a pretty good fit for me and I know they're new because they still have that plastic smell. But the real Number 49 is quite a bit bigger than I am, because his pants keep falling down on me. I wish he would come back, so that I could go home." Jack loves telling jokes, but not many people laugh at them in the orphanage. Will he ever be reunited with his mother and sister, his great-aunts and great-grandmother, back at home? A haunting, fable-like story.
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