| ISBN |
9781510107779 (paperback) |
| 9781510107786 (hardback) |
| Name |
Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990- author. |
| Title |
Julia and the shark / Kiran Millwood Hargrave with Tom de Freston. |
| Published |
London : Orion Children's Books, 2021, 2022. |
| ©2021 |
| Description |
191 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2021. |
| Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This is the story about a mother, a daughter, love and the great Greenland shark, with timely themes of the importance of science and the environment. The shark was beneath my bed, growing large as the room, large as the lighthouse, rising from unfathomable depths until it ripped the whole island from its roots. The bed was a boat, the shark a tide, and it pulled me so far out to sea I was only a speck, a spot, a mote, a dying star in an unending sky. Julia has followed her mum and dad to live on a remote island for the summer - her dad, for work; her mother, on a determined mission to find the elusive Greenland shark. But when her mother's obsession threatens to submerge them all, Julia finds herself on an adventure with dark depths and a lighthouse full of hope. |
| Target audience note |
9-12 years old. |
| Reading Program Note |
Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6 |
| Subjects |
Families -- Juvenile fiction |
| Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction |
| Manic-depressive illness -- Juvenile fiction |
| Children of mentally ill mothers -- Juvenile fiction |
| Sharks -- Juvenile fiction |
| Island life -- Juvenile fiction |
| Lighthouses -- Juvenile fiction |
| Summer -- Juvenile fiction |
| Environmental protection -- Juvenile fiction |
| Greenland shark -- Juvenile fiction |
| Children's stories |
| Premier's Reading Challenge 5-6 |
| Genre |
Domestic fiction |
| Action and adventure fiction |
| Other Names |
De Freston, Tom, 1983- illustrator. |
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