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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2013 recipient Creative Industries Career Fund to undertake a structured mentorship, with Ellen Hopkins working in the genre of verse novel.
- 2010 recipient May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship
Awards for Works
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Beyond Belief : Heroes of the Holocaust
Lindfield
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Scholastic Australia
,
2020
18674989
2020
single work
children's fiction
children's
war literature
'Inspired by the true story of Muslims who saved the lives of Jewish children in the Second World War. In 1942, in the Grand Mosque in Paris, 11-year-old Ruben is hiding from the Nazis. Already thousands of Jewish children have disappeared, and Ruben's parents are desperately trying to find his sister. Ruben must learn how to pass himself off as a Muslim, while he waits for the infamous Fox to help him get to Spain to be reunited with his family. One hint of Ruben's true identity and he'll be killed. So will the people trying to save him. But when the mosque is raided and the Fox doesn't come, Ruben is forced to flee. Finding himself in the south of France, he discovers that he must adjust to a new reality, and to the startling revelation of the Fox's true identity.' (Publication summary)
- 2021 finalist Crystal Kite Award — Australian and New Zealand Division
- 2021 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
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