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Desert child / Pat Lowe & Jimmy Pike.

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ISBN	9781925768831 paperback
Name	Lowe, Pat, 1941- author.
Title	Desert child / Pat Lowe & Jimmy Pike.
Published	Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2019.
Description	131 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes	First published in 1992.
Notes	Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names, recordings, images, photographs, illustrations and text of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive.
Summary	The first book in the Yinti series of three books. The stories are linked in a sequence that shows Yinti's development from a young bushie to a competent station worker and adult. Yinti is a traditional Walmajarri Aboriginal boy growing up Great Sandy Desert in the remote North West of Australia one of the most marginal environments on earth. This is the story of Yinti's coming of age. He has no contact with white people until the last chapter of the book when he meets his first white man, first horse and first bullock. The stories are based on people and events as told to Pat Lowe by Jimmy Pike.
Target audience note	For ages 9+.
Reading Program Note	Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6.
Subjects	Walmajarri (Australian people) -- Juvenile fiction
	Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile fiction
	Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile fiction
	Children's stories
	Australian fiction
	Great Sandy Desert (W.A.) -- Juvenile fiction
Genre	Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6
Genre	First Nations
Other Names	Pike, Jimmy author.
Series	Yinti 1.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile fiction . Australian fiction . Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Juvenile fiction . Children's stories . First Nations . Great Sandy Desert (W.A.) -- Juvenile fiction . Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6 . Walmajarri (Australian people) -- Juvenile fiction . See Also: Australian literature . Children's stories, Australian . Science fiction, Australian . Short stories, Australian . Children's literature . Fairy tales . Fiction . Storytelling . Authors: Lowe, Pat, 1941- . Pike, Jimmy . Series: Yinti .

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