Bring it Back
It’s the last term of primary school and Liam is bored with the same faces, places and lunches – even basketball.
When a new student named Clint arrives, things become much more interesting. Soon, Liam is taking risks and bending the rules and even has a haircut just like Clint. Liam’s mates are acting weird, though. And Mum keeps asking if he’s OK. His teacher even has ‘a word’ with him. Liam wishes they would leave him alone and let him grow up. He’s going to high school next year!
But when Liam finds himself in serious trouble, he realises how far he’s drifted from the things and the people he loves. But just like a game of basketball that’s heading south, can he bring it back?
Deborah Kelly is a multi award winning, internationally published author of picture books, junior fiction and middle grade.
The Thing about Oliver (Wombat Books) was shortlisted in the younger readers category of the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards, shortlisted for Speech Pathology Australia’s Book of the Year and won the Australian Association of Family Therapists book of the year award in the younger readers category. Her picture book Me and You (Penguin Viking) won Speech Pathology Australia’s Book of the Year award (3-5 year olds) in 2017.
Deb visits schools, libraries and festival events (including Newcastle Writers’ Festival and Sydney Writers’ Festival) to share her books with children. Many of her books are included in Premier’s Reading Challenge lists around Australia. She is a Role Model for Books in Homes and reviews children’s books for Reading Time magazine.
