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'As soon as I finish school I’ll have the car packed. I’ll thunder past the dull cardboard boxes that Banarang calls shops, I’ll skim over the Bridge Street potholes without feeling a bump and I’ll fly up the freeway, bound for the city and civilisation.
Bones Carter is done with Banarang and his backwater existence. There’s not much to do but hang out with his friends, make bad rap music and count down the days until the end of school and the beginning of his new life in the city.
Then Naya comes to town. Brilliant, black and beautiful, she wants to change the world. She thinks Bones is a well of untapped potential. Bones thinks she’s delusional—but she makes him feel more hopeful than he has in a long time.
Bonesland is a wild ride through the small-town agonies of adolescence, packed with sex, drugs, love and hip-hop.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Karys McEwen: Why You Should Meet Your Heroes
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , March vol. 98 no. 1 2019; (p. 6)'In her first column for 2019, high school library manager Karys McEwen argues that young people have much to gain from interacting with authors in person—but authors need to be supported.'
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Karys McEwen: Why You Should Meet Your Heroes
2019
single work
column
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , March vol. 98 no. 1 2019; (p. 6)'In her first column for 2019, high school library manager Karys McEwen argues that young people have much to gain from interacting with authors in person—but authors need to be supported.'
Awards
- 2019 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Young Adult Book
- 2017 shortlisted Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing