The bittersweet story of a girl and a boy, and a secret that was too real to hide. From the bestselling author of *The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull*. *The boy sat in the branches of the fifth tree on the left, his scuffed boots dangling. Leah turned her eyes up. His face was heavily fr
Being Here
โ Scribed by Jonsberg, Barry
- Book ID
- 107105500
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 309 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781742692463
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โฆ Synopsis
The bittersweet story of a girl and a boy, and a secret that was too real to hide. From the bestselling author of The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull.
_The boy sat in the branches of the fifth tree on the left, his scuffed boots dangling. Leah turned her eyes up. His face was heavily freckled, his eyes large, brown and almond-shaped. His hair stuck out at wild angles. 'Hello,' she said.
_ Sixteen-year-old Carly is interviewing Leah Cartwright for her local history project. But Leah resists, determined instead to tell her own story: that of a lonely child on an isolated farm, a girl whose only escape is into the world of books. And when Adam appears in the orchard Leah discovers a friend. A secret friend.
Leah draws Carly in with the magic of story - to her present, her past, her secrets, and her unique friendship with Adam.
Being Here is a beautifully told story about a girl whose rich imagination rescues her from a grim reality, and an...
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