1989 Award Prize for Older Readers

The Blue Chameleon

by Katherine Scholes
Michelle Anderson Publishing

A gripping story of an adolescent boy, uprooted from desert life in North Africa to metropolitan Australia. Ben’s search for his missing twin brother then leads him to Antarctica. His bond to his family and to the richness of their cultural tradition provides him with resources to survive overwhelming loneliness, fear and confusion.

Commended

Thunderwith

by Libby Hathorn
Heinemann

A moving story of a teenage girl’s struggle, over time, to fit in with her step-family.

The Clinker

by Roger Vaughan Carr
Houghton Mifflin

This novel details the development of the relationship between a thirteen year old and his great grandparents.