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Author Park, Ruth.

Title Come danger, come darkness / Ruth Park
Published Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton, 1978

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 MELB SPCBC  819 Park Rut/Cde  LIB USE ONLY
 MELB SPCBC  819 Park Rut/Cde  LIB USE ONLY
Description 162 pages : illustrations, maps on endpapers ; 22cm
Summary Norfolk Island is still a penal colony when Otter and Paddy Paul Cannon are sent there to live with their uncle. Otter discovers an old family retainer is a prisoner there and plans to help him escape
Notes Children's stories in English. Australian writers, 1945-. Texts (ANB/PRECIS SIN 000006x)
Audience For children
Notes Children's Book of the Year Award, 1979 commended
Subject Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories, Australian.
Prisoners -- Norfolk Island -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Helping behavior -- Juvenile fiction.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
Penal colonies -- Australia -- Norfolk Island -- Juvenile fiction.
Penal colonies -- Norfolk Island -- Fiction.
Prisoners -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79150421 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79150421 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1788-1851 -- Juvenile fiction
Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79150421 -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 -- 1788-1851 -- Juvenile fiction
Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79150421 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Action and adventure fiction.
Fiction.
LC no. 79300453
ISBN 034022746X