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Burn / Melanie Saward.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F SAWA	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

Catalogue Information
Field name	Details
ISBN	9781922848482 (paperback)
Classification	F SAWA
Personal Name	Saward, Melanie
Title	Burn / Melanie Saward.
Production & Copyright Details	Boon Wurrung Country ; South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2023.
Production & Copyright Details	©2023
Physical Description	296 pages ; 24 cm
Content type	text
Summary Note	When a tragic bushfire puts two kids in hospital, Indigenous teenager Andrew knows the police will come after him first. But Andrew almost wants to be caught, because at least it might make his dad come and rescue him from suburban Brisbane and his neglectful mother. Growing up in small-town Tasmania, Andrew struggled at home, at school, at everything. The only thing that distracted or excited him was starting little fires. Flames boosted his morale and purified his thoughts, and they were the only thing in his life he could control. Until one day things got out of hand, and Andrew was forced to leave everything behind. Now as the police close in and Andrew runs out of people to turn to, he must decide whether he can put his faith in himself to find a way forward. Burn is an affecting, powerful novel about prejudice and growing up on the margins from exciting new Australian voice Melanie Saward.
Subject - Topical Term	Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
	Pyromania -- Fiction
	Prejudices -- Fiction
	Australian fiction
	Australian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authors
Subject - Geographic Name	Brisbane (Qld.) -- Fiction