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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Scatterheart
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'It's 1814 and Hannah Cheshire leads a privileged life in London, with fine clothes, servants and a handsome tutor. Then one day her father disappears and she is left to fend for herself. Unprepared for the real world, she ends up penniless and is sentenced to transportation to the colonies for a crime she didn't commit.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fitzroy, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Dog Books , 2007 .
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      Extent: 356p.
      ISBN: 9781921167850
    • Great Britain,: Catnip Publishing , 2009 .
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      Extent: 384p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 10 February 2009.
      ISBN: 9781846470776, 1846470773
    • Fitzroy, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Dog Books , 2010 .
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      Extent: 384p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
      ISBN: 9781742031293 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Scatterheart - Verbannt in die Ferne
Language: German
    • Munich,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       cbj ,       2011 .
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      Extent: 448p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 10 January 2011.
      ISBN: 9783570280171, 3570280179
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Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Re-Visiting Historical Fiction for Young Readers : The Past through Modern Eyes Kim Wilson , New York (City) : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group , 2011 Z1886683 2011 single work criticism 'This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.

Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written for children — most notably how the notion of positive progress into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.' (Publisher's blurb)
Untitled Dee McLaren , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 21 no. 3 2007; (p. 66)
— Review of Scatterheart Lili Wilkinson , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Scatterheart Meredith Capp , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 51 no. 4 2007; (p. 38)
— Review of Scatterheart Lili Wilkinson , 2007 single work novel
[Untitled] Petra Starke , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 15 no. 4 2007; (p. 36)
— Review of Scatterheart Lili Wilkinson , 2007 single work novel
[Untitled] Lynne Babbage , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 22 no. 4 2007; (p. 45)
— Review of Scatterheart Lili Wilkinson , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Scatterheart Joy Lawn , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 87 no. 1 2007; (p. 58)
— Review of Scatterheart Lili Wilkinson , 2007 single work novel
Books Children's Jane Barry , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 - 19 August 2007; (p. 26)
— Review of Scatterheart Lili Wilkinson , 2007 single work novel
Teen Angst a Delight for the Senses Angie Schiavone , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 September 2007; (p. 32)
— Review of That's Why I Wrote This Song Susanne Gervay , 2007 single work novel ; Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight Nick Earls , Rebecca Sparrow , 2007 single work novel ; Scatterheart Lili Wilkinson , 2007 single work novel
Bleak Reality Gives Way to Happier Times Ronni Phillips , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 September 2007; (p. 20)
— Review of Scatterheart Lili Wilkinson , 2007 single work novel
Convict Tale Makes Bow to Beattie Dianne Dempsey , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 September 2007; (p. 25)
— Review of Scatterheart Lili Wilkinson , 2007 single work novel
y separately published work icon Re-Visiting Historical Fiction for Young Readers : The Past through Modern Eyes Kim Wilson , New York (City) : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group , 2011 Z1886683 2011 single work criticism 'This study is concerned with how readers are positioned to interpret the past in historical fiction for children and young adults. Looking at literature published within the last thirty to forty years, Wilson identifies and explores a prevalent trend for re-visioning and rewriting the past according to modern social and political ideological assumptions. Fiction within this genre, while concerned with the past at the level of content, is additionally concerned with present views of that historical past because of the future to which it is moving. Specific areas of discussion include the identification of a new sub-genre: Living history fiction, stories of Joan of Arc, historical fiction featuring agentic females, the very popular Scholastic Press historical journal series, fictions of war, and historical fiction featuring multicultural discourses.

Wilson observes specific traits in historical fiction written for children — most notably how the notion of positive progress into the future is nuanced differently in this literature in which the concept of progress from the past is inextricably linked to the protagonist's potential for agency and the realization of subjectivity. The genre consistently manifests a concern with identity construction that in turn informs and influences how a metanarrative of positive progress is played out. This book engages in a discussion of the functionality of the past within the genre and offers an interpretative frame for the sifting out of the present from the past in historical fiction for young readers.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Awards

2010 winner Ena Noël Award
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Last amended 20 Jun 2017 15:21:56
Subjects:
  • 1800-1899
Settings:
  • London,
    c
    England,
    c
    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Blue Mountains, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1814
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