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Mike and his mother have moved from Melbourne to live at Boundary Park, in Sydney's west. Mike soon wishes they'd never left. At school he becomes the victim of the bully Shane. Then Mike meets Riny, a neighbour with a secret success story in her past, and together they plan an exciting way to overcome Mike's doubts. Mike is the first title in the Boundary Park trilogy continuing with Lisdalia and Maddie.

Author Biography

Brian Caswell spent his very early years in the mountains of Wales moving to England for seven years before emigrating with his family to Australia at the age of twelve. He remembers his mother writing and reading stories to the family, and of being immersed in books from an early age. He thinks he is the only kid to have a letter sent home to his parents asking them to stop him reading. Equally central to his life as reading is his love of music. Beginning at the age of ten he had a successful career as a singer and writer of songs - one of his songs made the top 40. In the late 70's he moved out of the music industry. Brian started teaching in 1976. Of his years as a teacher he says-'I loved teaching; for twelve or fourteen years I loved it. But when I stopped loving it, I stopped loving it totally.' Teaching English was, in a roundabout way, what got Brian into writing. Around the mid-eighties he found that many of the books set for classroom study were no longer making any impression on students. So he thought he would write one himself. He admits his first book wasn't at all good - but it was good enought for Barbara Ker Wilson, the editor for young adult fiction at the University of Queensland Press to spend time with him pointing out what worked and what didn't. As an author on the shortlist in 1989, Brian found himself invited to schools to talk to kids about hi
Release date NZ
July 5th, 1993
Author
Collection
Audiences
  • Children / Juvenile
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Country of Publication
Australia
Imprint
University of Queensland Press
Pages
96
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Dimensions
132x199x6
ISBN-13
9780702225277
Product ID
1635103

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