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Author McKinlay, Megan, author

Title Catch a falling star / Meg McKinlay
Published Newtown, NSW : Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd, 2019
©2019

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 MELB CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Mck/Caf  AVAILABLE
Description 236 pages ; 20 cm
Summary It's 1979 and the sky is falling. Skylab, that is. Somewhere high above Frankie Avery, one of the world's first space stations is tumbling to Earth. And rushing back with it are old memories. Things twelve-year-old Frankie thought she'd forgotten. Things her mum won't talk about, and which her little brother Newt never knew. Only did he? Does he? Because as Skylab circles closer, Newt starts acting strangely. And while the world watches the sky, Frankie keeps her own eyes on Newt. Because if anyone's going to keep him safe, it's her. It always has been. But maybe this is something bigger than splinters and spiders and sleepwalking. Maybe a space station isn't the only thing heading straight for calamity
Analysis Australian
Audience For secondary school age
Notes Shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for the Children's Book of the Year 2020 Award for Younger Readers
Subject Skylab Program -- Juvenile fiction
Skylab Program -- Fiction
SUBJECT Premier's reading challenge 7-8
Subject Grief in children -- Juvenile fiction
Young adult fiction, Australian
Children's stories, Australian
Children's stories
Australian fiction
Astronautics -- Accidents -- Juvenile fiction
Nineteen seventies -- Juvenile fiction
Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction
Space stations -- Juvenile fiction
Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
Single parent families -- Juvenile fiction
Loss (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
Belief and doubt -- Juvenile fiction
Space vehicles -- Atmospheric entry -- Juvenile fiction
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
SUBJECT Western Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
Genre/Form Australian fiction
Australian fiction
Australian fiction
Australian fiction.
Australian fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Australian fiction
Historical fiction
Fantasy fiction
Fantasy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Children's stories
Children's stories, Australian
Children's stories
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
LC no. jb2020241725
ISBN 9781925381207