The Burrumbi Kids | Leonie Norrington
Honour book in the Children’s Book Council Younger Readers catagory and shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s award.
Dale and Tomias are best mates. They live at Long Hole community. The kids struggle with school, the trials of growing up, and parental expectations. Life itself is full of danger - from wild bushfires, crocodile-infested rivers and the thick bubbling ooze of the blood pit. As a back drop to the children’s stories there is the land itself - a magnificent landscape of fire and floodplain, unbearable heat and towering storms.
The Barrumbi Kids is a funny unforgettable novel that brilliantly captures the paradoxes of life in the rural Australia with honesty and humour.