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Song of the Curlew

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 07:45:41 +0300

Dreams mean nothing unless you have the courage to pursue them.

Luke Miggs wants more than small-town life: the grind of chores on the family farm, playing footy, drinks with friends. Like maybe doing something about his crush on Amanda Hunt, a barmaid at the local pub who's smart, funny, and ambitious. Or playing footy in the big league. At eighteen, it can't be too late, can it?

There's the Curlews, at least, although the team's little more than battlers. If only they could take their footy seriously, like the reigning champions, the Little Reach Scorpions. Under their tyrannical coach, Claude Rankin, the Scorpions have dominated the competition for ten years. It seems nothing will be different this season.

But when Adam Pride emerges from the night and tells the Curlews he wants to play for them, everything begins to change.

Song of the Curlew is a story of friendship, bonds, and coming of age, and how the choices of our past can come...

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Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:05:55 +0300

Age range 12 to 15

I don't get this.

I'm fifteen! And in Year 10!

I don't have anything to worry about.

I should be thinking about the way Samantha keeps looking at me, nursing that crush she's had for me since primary school. Or about Gabriella, who's so cool and seems interested. Or the Boland Fellowship, an award given out for academic excellence that everybody thinks I could win.

Or maybe I should think about my best friend Ash, the way he's sullen about his arguing parents sometimes, or how he bounces from one girlfriend to the next, or Riley, who's becoming a bigger and bigger troublemaker, although we don't know why.

This is high school.

Isn't it?

But when I wake up one night, terrified, it starts a journey of trying to find out what's wrong. I can't go to Mum and Dad. They wouldn't understand. So it's strange doctors, and scurrying around like everything's okay, while everything's coming apart.

I don't get this.

But I'm gonna try work it out.

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