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7 19 y separately published work icon The Running Man Michael Gerard Bauer , ( trans. Bea De Koster )expression Amsterdam : Houtekiet , 2007 Z1146253 2004 single work novel young adult "Tom Leyton, a reclusive Vietnam veteran, has been the subject of gossip and rumour for thirty years. When Joseph Davidson, his young neighbour and a talented artist, is asked to draw a portrait of him, an uneasy relationship begins to unfold, one that will force each of them to confront his darkest secrets. This a story about how we perceive others, the judgements we make about them, how we cope with tragedy, and the nature of miracles." (Source: Author's website)
7 23 y separately published work icon Saving Francesca Melina Marchetta , ( trans. Bea De Koster with title De Redding Van Francesca ) Netherlands : Houtekiet , 2006 Z1019212 2003 single work novel young adult (taught in 6 units) 'Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed' (Source: NLA).
3 11 y separately published work icon Secret Scribbled Notebooks Joanne Horniman , ( trans. Bea De Koster with title Blauw geel rood ) Amsterdam : Houtekiet , 2004 Z1141800 2004 single work novel young adult Kate has three notebooks, red, yellow and blue, in which she records her life. Through reading, writing, living and learning to love, she discovers things about herself that she never expected. (Source: Trove)
7 26 y separately published work icon Of a Boy Sonya Hartnett , ( trans. Bea De Koster with title Een jongen ) Antwerp Amsterdam : Houtekiet , 2003 Z969271 2002 single work novel mystery (taught in 3 units) The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres and self-combustion. Adrian watches his suburban world, but there is much he cannot understand. He does not for instance, know why three neighbourhood children might set out to buy ice-cream and never come back home.
7 25 y separately published work icon Thursday's Child Sonya Hartnett , ( trans. Tom Paulus with title Het Tunnelkind ) Antwerp Amsterdam : Houtekiet , 2002 Z540722 2000 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units) The creature held a great bundle of something tied up in a rag. For a moment we stared, not recognising him, but who else could it have been, who else but wandering Tin. We saw his naked limbs, his waxy skin, his discoloured hair, his hooking razor-sharp nails. He raised lashy eyes to us and we saw a face on its way to another world. Da murmured, "Jesus." Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside. (Source: Trove)
2 34 y separately published work icon Angel's Gate Gary Crew , ( trans. Unknown )expression Antwerp : Houtekiet , 2001 Z559716 1993 single work novel young adult

'When Paddy Flannagan, a gold fossicker, is found bashed to death in the hills behind the township of Jericho, the search begins for his two wild children. But what effect will their dark secret have on those who find them?' (Publication summary)
4 21 y separately published work icon Touching Earth Lightly Margo Lanagan , ( trans. Bea De Koster with title Zweeflessen ) Antwerp : Houtekiet , 2000 Z507795 1996 single work novel young adult

'Janey's background is grim - lock-the-door-at-night-type grim - but nothing weighs her down for long. She's wild, sexy, reckless, funny. Being friends with Janey is a roller-coaster ride - never dull, often risky.

'Chloe is the steady one; she anchors Janey as much as she can. But just how far can friendship go? That question is shockingly, brutally answered when Janey's world catches up with her.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (2001 ed.).
4 9 y separately published work icon The Best Thing Margo Lanagan , ( trans. Bea De Koster with title De Beloning ) Antwerp : Houtekiet , 1998 Z201194 1995 single work novel young adult

'Mel's life is chaotic. At school her ex-friends have ganged up on her, at home her parents have lost touch with her and each other. Pug is the only good thing - loving him, in his untidy room scented and shadowed by frangipani, she finds passionate fulfillment. But his world is so different from hers - can they possibly make it together? And can she let him in on her overwhelming secret? Learning to accept herself and him and the new life growing inside her is painful - but being Mel, she gives it everything she's got.' (Publication summary)
5 13 y separately published work icon Peeling the Onion Wendy Orr , ( trans. Bea De Koster with title Van uien schillen moet je huilen ) Antwerp : Houtekiet , 1998 Z116736 1996 single work novel young adult Athletic, popular, 'normal' Anna is badly injured in a car accident and as she slowly and painfully heals she feels the layers of her familiar self being peeled away.
4 57 y separately published work icon Strange Objects Gary Crew , ( trans. Harriet Laurey with title Vreemde Voorwerpen ) Haarlem : Houtekiet , 1992 Z349485 1990 single work novel young adult mystery (taught in 3 units)

A sixteen-year-old Western Australian boy mysteriously disappears after he discovers valuable relics in the remains of a seventeen-century shipwreck.
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