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'In the middle of the night, Sam is woken by angry voices from the apartment above. He goes to the window to see what’s happening – only to hear a struggle, and see a body fall from the sixth-floor balcony. Pushed, Sam thinks. Sam goes to wake his father, Harry, a crime reporter, but Harry is gone. And when Sam goes downstairs, the body is gone, too. But someone has seen Sam, and knows what he’s witnessed. The next twenty-four hours could be his last.' (Publication Summary)
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- Also dyslexic edition
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Works about this Work
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[Essay Review] The Fall
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 32 no. 2 2017; (p. 10)'I woke to the sound of a voice pleading, high-pitched and urgent. I listened with my whole body. The man's voice was coming from the apartment above. Or was it below? I couldn't be sure. In the six days I'd been staying with my father I hadn't heard much from the other apartments
The microwave in the kitchenette read 2:08 am.'
'The argument accelerates, Sam's interest increases and, one crutches, he painfully makes his way to the window to see a man hanging bu his fingers from the balcony rail of the next apartment over ... and watches while a man in black prises each finger from the rail. Even worse, is the knowledge that the man in black has seen Sam watching him and is aware that Sam has taken a photo of him with his phone.' (Introduction)
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Crime Teen Investigation
Braiden Asciak
(interviewer),
2017
single work
interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , May vol. 96 no. 4 2017; (p. 15)In Tristan Bancks' middle-grade novel The Fall, 12 year old Sam Garner finds himself investigating a crime after witnessing a body falling from his apartment building. Bancks spoke to Braiden Asciack. (Introduction)
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Crime Teen Investigation
Braiden Asciak
(interviewer),
2017
single work
interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , May vol. 96 no. 4 2017; (p. 15)In Tristan Bancks' middle-grade novel The Fall, 12 year old Sam Garner finds himself investigating a crime after witnessing a body falling from his apartment building. Bancks spoke to Braiden Asciack. (Introduction)
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[Essay Review] The Fall
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 32 no. 2 2017; (p. 10)'I woke to the sound of a voice pleading, high-pitched and urgent. I listened with my whole body. The man's voice was coming from the apartment above. Or was it below? I couldn't be sure. In the six days I'd been staying with my father I hadn't heard much from the other apartments
The microwave in the kitchenette read 2:08 am.'
'The argument accelerates, Sam's interest increases and, one crutches, he painfully makes his way to the window to see a man hanging bu his fingers from the balcony rail of the next apartment over ... and watches while a man in black prises each finger from the rail. Even worse, is the knowledge that the man in black has seen Sam watching him and is aware that Sam has taken a photo of him with his phone.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2019 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Older Readers
- 2018 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Children's Literature Award
- 2018 winner KOALA Awards — Fiction for Years 7-9
- 2018 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Eight to 10 Years
- 2018 winner YABBA — Fiction Years 7-9
