Tall Story

Author: Candy Gourlay

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  • : $20.00 NZD
  • : 9781849920391
  • : Random House Children's Books
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  • : January 2011
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : April 2011
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Barcode 9781849920391
9781849920391

Description

Be careful what you wish for ...Andi is short. And she has lots of wishes. She wishes she could play on the school basketball team, she wishes for her own bedroom, but most of all she wishes that her long lost half brother, Bernardo, could come and live in London, where he belongs. Then Andi's biggest wish comes true and she's minutes away from becoming someone's little sister. As she waits anxiously for Bernardo to arrive from the Philippines, she hopes he'll turn out to be tall and just as mad as she is about basketball. When he finally arrives, he's tall all right. But he's not just tall ...he's a GIANT. In a novel packed with humour and quirkiness, Gourlay explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very different cultures.

Promotion info

A warm, funny and moving novel that will have you in fits of laughter one minute and in tears the next.

Awards

Shortlisted for Blue Peter Children's Book Awards: Favourite Stories 2011.

Author description

Candy Gourlay was born in Manila during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos; after working as a journalist for some years, she moved to the UK in her twenties. Candy is now a full-time writer across a range of medium; short stories, blogs, websites, journalistic features and radio programmes. TALL STORY is Candy's first full-length published novel.