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y separately published work icon The Lost Thing Shaun Tan , Shaun Tan (illustrator), Port Melbourne : Lothian , 2000 Z668356 2000 single work picture book children's (taught in 11 units) 'A boy discovers a bizarre looking creature while out collecting bottle tops at the beach. Realising it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but is met with indifference from everyone else, who barely notice its presence, each unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to their day to day lives. For reasons he does not explain, the boy empathises with the creature, and sets out to find a 'place' for it.'
(Source: The Lost Thing website)
y separately published work icon Thursday's Child Sonya Hartnett , Ringwood New York (City) : Penguin , 2000 Z540722 2000 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units) The creature held a great bundle of something tied up in a rag. For a moment we stared, not recognising him, but who else could it have been, who else but wandering Tin. We saw his naked limbs, his waxy skin, his discoloured hair, his hooking razor-sharp nails. He raised lashy eyes to us and we saw a face on its way to another world. Da murmured, "Jesus." Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside. (Source: Trove)
y separately published work icon Painted Love Letters Catherine Bateson , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2002 Z951460 2002 single work children's fiction children's (taught in 1 units) Dave is dying. Chrissie, Mum, Nan and Badger are going to be left behind. (Source: Trove)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time!$!Mark Haddon!$! London!$!Definitions!$!2004
What My Father Gave Me: Daughters Speak!$!Melanie Little!$! Toronto!$!Annick Press!$!2010
Maus I : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History!$!Art Spiegelman!$! New York!$!Pantheon Books!$!1985

Description

This unit introduces students to a range of literature written for young adults, including verse novels, dystopian fiction and fantasy. Its primary focus is on recent YA literature and the reception such books receive both from their intended audience and from a more general audience. It also explores the historical development of writing for young adults as an independent field.

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Levels: Undergraduate
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