Cast Out by Malcolm Wood | PB Children / Juvenile pick fresh carrots at Katherine

pick fresh carrots at Katherine Reed’s farm

Utilising vivid artwork

by award-winning biographer Alison Alexander

Tiger time | Crispin Andrews

Cast Out by Malcolm Wood | PB Children / Juvenile pick fresh carrots at KatherineA graphic, confronting story of poverty, loneliness, racism, rapacity and violence in Van Diemens Land. In Nottingham, England in 1810, John Marsden is jobless and desperate to find ways to feed his family. For stealing two sheep he is imprisoned and transported to Van Diemens Land. Although missing his family badly, Marsden works steadily, knowing that freedom and opportunity beckon. There will be no redemption for his former shipmates who have