Knowing Joey
Field by Pauline
Luke (Brolga Publishing, April 2014)
Moving is never easy, and Matt and Stephie soon learn that life in
Moody Bay is something else again. Matt
is befriended by outsider Joey Field, who is believed to have “the gift” of
seeing things, and Stephie’s new best friend is the sister of the school bully.
Is there any truth in the tales of sunken treasure? And who is
behind the spate of increasingly violent robberies and break-ins?
Told by both Matt and Stephie, Knowing Joey Field is a
story of mystery and intrigue, of friendship and acceptance that is sure to
appeal to the older reader.
Knowing
Joey Field is distributed through Pan MacMillan and available in books
stores or mail-order through Pan Macmillan site. (RRP $16.99)
Why I wrote Knowing Joey Field
When writing for
adolescents, or “the older reader”,
you have the opportunity to
raise important issues for young people to think
about at a time when they are beginning to develop their own ideas and
attitudes. The challenge is to present
different viewpoints not in a didactic manner but through a read they will enjoy. In Knowing Joey Field the main
issues are accepting the
difference of others, bullying and
employing our intellect, intuition and skills of
observation to the world around us.
By using alternate
narrators, brother and sister Matt and
Stephie, not only do I hope to appeal to
both the male and female reader, but present a wider range of issues within the
story.
Importantly, at the end of the book there
is a list of organisations where young people who may be the victim of
bullying or facing other problems
can turn to for help.
Pauline Luke
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