The Middle of Nowhere by Geraldine Mccaughrean
When Mary Pinny dies from a snakebite, she leaves her young daughter, Comity, and husband Herbert in the Middle of Nowhere. As Stationmaster of the Kinkindele Repeater Station, Herbert Pinny takes great pride in his job; receiving morse messages and passing them down the Wire to the rest of Australia and beyond. But Comity dreams of a different life - where her mother is alive and she has her own horse and a new piano - and sends letters to her grandmother and her snooty aunt full of colourful tales of her imaginary life. That is, until the new station assistant, Quartz Hogg, arrives and brings Comity and her father sharply back down to earth.
Geraldine McCaughrean is one of today's most successful and highly regarded children's authors. She has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice: first in 1988 with A Pack of Lies and again in 2018 with Where the World Ends. She's won the IBW Book Award 2018, the Whitbread Children's Book Award three times, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award four times, the prestigious U.S. Printz Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband John and the lingering shades of all those characters she has invented in her books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781409570349 |
| ISBN 10 | 1409570347 |
| Title | The Middle of Nowhere |
| Author | Geraldine Mccaughrean |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Usborne Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction 2014, Winner of Lovereading4kids Books of the Year 2014, Short-listed for Little Rebels Children’s Book Award 2014, Short-listed for Essex Book Awards 2015, Short-listed for The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015, Short-listed for Hillingdon Primary Book of the Year 2015, Long-listed for The UKLA Book Awards 2013 |
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