PAPER PLANES - Middle Grade Fiction - Ligature Press
*2015 Children's Book Council Notable Book* *Shortlisted for the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Children's Literature*
*Selected for the 2016 South Australian and Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge*
PAPERBACK - Untapped Australian Literary Heritage Project - BOOKTOPIA
ISBN: 9781761280641
EBOOK: 9781922730954
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK - Scholastic (Out of Print)
ISBN: 978 1 74299 069 9 (paperback)
Subjects: Children and war - Juvenile fiction; Civil war - Juvenile fiction; Sarajevo - History - Siege, 1992-1996 Juvenile fiction
Bombs are raining down around Niko and his family. They are running out of food and everywhere there is danger and uncertainty. The only things Niko has to hold on to are his family and his best friend, Nedim. And the only escape is through a long dark tunnel. Can Niko find the courage to face his worst fear?
Based on the incredible true story of South Australian veterinarian, Jarko Dobes, a Bosnian refugee who fled to Australia during the Siege of Sarajevo.
*2015 Children's Book Council Notable Book* *Shortlisted for the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Children's Literature*
*Selected for the 2016 South Australian and Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge*
PAPERBACK - Untapped Australian Literary Heritage Project - BOOKTOPIA
ISBN: 9781761280641
EBOOK: 9781922730954
ORIGINAL PAPERBACK - Scholastic (Out of Print)
ISBN: 978 1 74299 069 9 (paperback)
Subjects: Children and war - Juvenile fiction; Civil war - Juvenile fiction; Sarajevo - History - Siege, 1992-1996 Juvenile fiction
Bombs are raining down around Niko and his family. They are running out of food and everywhere there is danger and uncertainty. The only things Niko has to hold on to are his family and his best friend, Nedim. And the only escape is through a long dark tunnel. Can Niko find the courage to face his worst fear?
Based on the incredible true story of South Australian veterinarian, Jarko Dobes, a Bosnian refugee who fled to Australia during the Siege of Sarajevo.