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  • Published: 3 September 2007
  • ISBN: 9781741662467
  • Imprint: Random House Australia Children's
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $19.99

Castaway

A Brumby Plains Adventure




A shipwreck and a strange discovery send Sam and George on a difficult mission.

Brumby Plains is an isolated place, and the outside world doesn't intrude much here. But when Sam and George discover a refugee child washed up on the shores of their buffalo station, the rest of the world is brought a lot closer. An accident has taken Mac and Sarah far away, and Uncle Mungo has strong views about refugees, so the two brothers hide the child while they work out what to do. Sam discovers that it's a lot harder to stand up for what you believe in than to follow the crowd.

  • Published: 3 September 2007
  • ISBN: 9781741662467
  • Imprint: Random House Australia Children's
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Joanne Van Os

Joanne van Os was born in 1955, and grew up in Melbourne. Her first book, OUTBACK HEART, is a best-selling memoir about life with her first husband, the 'Real Crocodile Dundee' Rod Ansell, mustering wild cattle and buffalo and living a 19th century lifestyle in remote parts of the Northern Territory, and his tragic end in 1999. She followed this book with three children's novels, all set in the far north of Australia and written for the 10 - 14 age group. She lives with her husband Lex Silvester on a yacht in Darwin, NT, and continues to write. Her most recent novel, THE SECRET OF THE LONELY ISLES, was published in February 2011.

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