Last Chance Charlie
Paul Jennings
On the edge of a desert, Last Chance is lonely, but it’s where Charlie belongs with his Gramps – until a bully tries to push them out. A classic Aussie bush tale of standing up and finding new friends, from master storyteller Paul Jennings.
Charlie lives with Gramps in a tiny cottage in Last Chance, on the edge of the Little Desert. It’s just the two of them since the death of Charlie’s mother.
Bethany is Charlie’s only friend. She lives at the servo with her dad, but her dad can’t pay the bank.
Ralph lives at his mum’s health resort, but his bullying father wants to buy out the servo and the cottage before the new road goes through town.
When one of the kids drives the school bus into the dam, it sets off a chain of events that threatens everything.
A poignant and funny tale of outback characters, resilience and the power of friendship, from a legend of Australian children’s fiction – over 10 million books sold worldwide.
- Release
- Feb-2027
- ISBN
- 9781761183201
- RRP (AUD)
- $19.99
- Pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Category
- Middle Grade Fiction
Paul Jennings
Paul Jennings has written more than one hundred stories and sold over ten million books. Since the publication of Unreal! in 1985, readers all around the world have loved his stories. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to children’s literature in 1995, was awarded the prestigious Dromkeen Medal in 2001 and was made a Fellow of Monash University in 2010. In 2019 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Allen & Unwin
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