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Published
2006
Publisher
Front Street
Subgenre
Contemporary
Section
Young Adult

By the River

Steven Herrick

In a small Australian river town in the 1960s, a motherless boy grows up and grieves a friend lost in a flood.

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Themes

Grief & lossComing of ageFamily

Mood

Feels reflective, sad.

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