Krakatoa Lighthouse

Allan Baillie

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Puffin
02 March 2009

Children's & Educational; General fiction (Children's&YA)

Suddenly there was a trench across the beach, about ten metres away from the fishermen, where before there had been nothing but flat sand. The fishermen moved quickly away as the trench heaved grey ash across the sand. They sprinted when it hurled black rocks at them.

Kerta didn't want to go to Krakatoa.

He knows that a dark spirit, Orang Aljeh, is there and he is terrified he might wake it. But Kerta is there on the volcano, and the Ghost of Krakatoa has woken up.

A powerful story of survival and loss based on the real-life events of the Krakatoa eruption in 1883.

Winner of the 2010 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award Patricia Wrightson Prize

'This book is a marvel of precision and economy, stuffed to the gunnels with ideas, and brimming over with a dark energy...a masterclass in how to write...

Krakatoa Lighthouse is that rare find- an exciting, moving story that keeps opening the doors to larger questions. Baillie puts the reader right there in the moment with stunningly accurate detail...yet we never feel the dead hand of history overwhelming us.' From the 2010 NSW Premier's Literary Award Judges' Report

By: Allan Baillie
Imprint: Puffin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 236g
ISBN: 9780143303596
ISBN 10: 0143303597
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 02 March 2009
Recommended Age: From 9 to 12 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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From the reviews: <p> This is a very rich volume and the writing and organization are well suited to make it easy for readers to readily gain an overview of each of the topics. A high standard has been set for the next volume in the series, also edited by Zannoni, which will be subtitled a ~Diversity of Prokaryotic Respiratory Systems'. (Robert Gennis, Professor of Biochemistry and of Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA in Photosynthesis Research 83, 2005)

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