By The River

A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother’s death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.

Related: Australia, Oceania, Poetry, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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