Description
A heart-warming story about a young Indigenous girl and a disgraced TV host who form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate a group of orphaned joeys in a remote outback community.
When Chris, a disgraced TV personality, finds himself stranded in an outback town, he teams up with 12-year-old Indigenous girl Charlie. The pair form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys in the remote outback community.
Based on a true story and the hit Australian film featuring Ryan Corr, Lily Whiteley, Deborah Mailman and Brooke Satchwell, KANGAROO is a heart-warming story about friendship, grief and finding your place in the world.
Review
Coinciding with the release of an Australian movie this is a novelisation of Kangaroo that is sure to be a hit with Australian middle-grade readers.
Set in outback Northern Territory where 12-year-old Indigenous girl, Charlie, has just returned after the death of her father in Broome. Charlie is horrified when a kangaroo is hit and killed by TV personality Chris, who was just passing through town.
Charlie convinces him that he is responsible for looking after the surviving joey, or bad luck will befall him. Luckily for Charlie, Chris’s car was damaged, and he is stuck in the town for a week anyway. The two become an unlikely team, helping a growing number of injured joeys, and Charlie starts to feel like she belongs in this place. But can she convince Chris to also stay and continue their great work?
This is a heartwarming story about animal protection, outback life, Country, grief and finding your place and destiny in the world, that is a terrific storyfor middle grade readers aged from 10 to 14 years.
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