Title: A Different Land
Author: Paul Jennings
Published: 03/09/19
ISBN: 9781760528720
A story of new beginnings in a new land, and a surprising, heartwarming companion to A Different Boy and A Different Dog.
Christopher is twelve thousand miles from home. The pub has a dirt floor and the owner is as rough as guts. The forest hides snakes, feral pigs and a dark secret.
Mysterious, bold and strange.
Expect the unexpected. And watch your step.
Enter this place and you will be different for ever.
6
Want to request this set? Email the Library
Paul Jennings was born in the UK and emigrated to Australia with his parents as a child. He worked as a teacher, lecturer and speech therapist before becoming a full-time writer at the age of 46.
Jennings has written over 100 stories and has won every Australian children's choice book award. The top-rating TV series Round the Twist was based on a selection of his enormously popular short story collections such as Unseen! In 1995 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to children's literature and he was awarded the prestigious Dromkeen Medal in 2001.