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Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults (CMN246)
School of Communication - University of the Sunshine Coast
Semester 1 / 2010

Texts

y separately published work icon White Crane Sandy Fussell , Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2008 Z1473027 2008 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction (taught in 1 units) 'Niya Moto is the only one-legged Samurai kid in Japan, famous for falling flat on his face in the dirt. None of the samurai schools will teach crippled Niya, until an offer arrives from the legendary samurai warrior Ki-Yaga, sensei of the Cockroach Ryu. Together with the other Cockroaches, Niya must defeat the fierce Dragons Ryu at the Samurai Trainee Games.' (From the publisher's website.)
y separately published work icon Taronga Victor Kelleher , Ringwood : Viking Kestrel , 1986 Z864196 1986 single work novel science fiction young adult (taught in 1 units) 'A bleak but compelling look at the future beyond the nuclear holocaust. Ben comes upon Taronga Zoo, which seems unaffected by the general chaos. But is it?' Source: publisher's website.
y separately published work icon The Truth About Emma Gary Crew , Sydney : Hachette Livre Australia , 2007 Z1426630 2007 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units)
y separately published work icon Unreal! : Eight Surprising Stories Paul Jennings , Ringwood : Penguin , 1985 Z668486 1985 selected work children's fiction children's humour (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: Absolut unheimlich! 2006; A ghost that haunts the outside dunny, a mix of manure that makes hair fall out, two musical ghosts who try to save a lighthouse - these are spooky stories with a surprise ending every time. (Source: Trove)
Illustrated Mum!$!Wilson, Jacqueline!$! !$!!$!
Graveyard Book!$!Gaiman!$! !$!!$!
Catcher in the Rye!$!Salinger!$! !$!!$!
y separately published work icon Sleeping Dogs Sonya Hartnett , Ringwood : Viking , 1995 Z238800 1995 single work novel young adult (taught in 8 units) The misanthropic, sadistic father of five children, ages 12 to 25, Griffin Willow runs a trailer park on his dilapidated farm in rural Australia. Isolated from all outside influences, even the neighboring small town, the Willow family has created its own oppressive, sheltered, and decaying world. Despite abuse from their father and a silent, withdrawn mother, all five children live at home and help run the trailer park. Twenty-three-year-old Michelle and her younger brother Jordan have found solace in an incestuous relationship, which they carefully conceal from their parents. When Bow Fox, an itinerant artist, comes to stay at the park, their 15-year-old brother, Oliver, accidently reveals their secret. So begins an agonizing, irreversible progression of violence and betrayal. (Source: Trove)
y separately published work icon The Book Thief Markus Zusak , Sydney : Picador , 2005 Z1214315 2005 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 8 units)

'It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many near encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.'

[Source: Libraries Australia. Sighted 30/10/08]

Degrees

Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Communication

Description

This course introduces you to a range of written texts created for children and young adults. Drawing upon a diverse range of genres such as fantasy, realist, and history, a fuller understanding of the possibilities of writing for young people is investigated. The intention is to enable you to recognise the potential of what constitutes children's and young adult literature through the study of childhood from multiple perspecives as demonstrated in a variety of both fiction and non-fiction texts.

Other Details

Offered in: 2009
Levels: Undergraduate
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