Market Blues

Market Blues

by KirstyMurray (Author)

Synopsis

Things unravel so fast. One day Sam is a kid with a straightforward life, next moment he's sucked into a time warp and flung back a hundred years. Meeting Flea, Gertie and the gang is just the start of a crazy adventure with Sam on the run from police, sleeping outside the morgue, laying bets on horse races, fighting thieves and larrikins. An accident in a shooting gallery confronts Sam with the hardest decision he's ever had to make. Can he change the past - and his own future?Market Blues is a fast-moving drama about city kids then and now, about change, choice and responsibility.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 242
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 02 Jan 2001

ISBN 10: 1865082848
ISBN 13: 9781865082844
Book Overview: Shortlisted 2001 Aurealis Awards Children's Long Fiction

Author Bio
Kirsty Murray is the author of several non-fiction children's books and one novel. She has worked as a forest ranger, archivist, artist and teacher, and now is a full-time writer. Her previous novel, set in a bush circus, was Zarconi's Magic Flying Fish (1999).