Other Brother
By
Simon French
Kieran
wants to be part of the in-group at school. He wants to be on the football
team. He wants to fit in.
But
then his cousin Bon turns up. Bon doesn’t know anything about fitting in – he
looks different, he wears the wrong clothes and he says weird things. Kieran
just wants to ignore Bon, but soon he is forced to make a choice. Which is more
important: being popular or doing the right thing?
Combines
topical issues of bullying, acceptance and friendships into a sensitive story.This is a special book.
Simon
French grew up in Sydney’s
west, and had his first novel published while he was still at high school. He
is a primary school teacher in the Hawkesbury region of New
South Wales and has written several novels and picture books,
published in Australia
and overseas. His work is praised by critics and has won several awards,
including the 1987 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award
for All We Know. Change the Locks was an Honour Book in 1992. His most recent
novel, Where in the World, won the 2003 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for
Children’s Literature, was short-listed for the 2003 CBCA Book of the Year for
Younger Readers, and long-listed for the 2003 Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize.
Publication
date: April 2012
AUS$
Price: $18.95
NZ$
Price: $21.99
Age 9+
Simon
French grew up in 
1 comment:
Just finished reading this wonderful, sensitive story to a class of 31 (mainly 9 year old boys). The discussions generated were outstanding and encompassed; peer group pressure and acceptance, empathy, family dynamics and, most significantly, the cruelty of bullying and the necessity for decent children to take a stand and be accountable.
Keiren felt different..................because he did what was right and made a difference.
Line up of children from other classes that want to borrow my copy.
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