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Talk under water

Summary: A page-turning and inspirational story which celebrates and embraces difference, courage and friendship. Will and Summer meet online and strike up a friendship based on coincidence. Summer lives in Will's old hometown, Kettering, a small Tasmanian coastal community. Summer isn't telling the whole truth about herself, but figures it doesn't matter if they never see each other in person, right? When Will returns to Kettering, the two finally meet and Summer can no longer hide her secret – she is deaf. Can Summer and Will find a way to be friends in person even though they speak a completel.

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  • ISBN: 9780702255519
  • ISBN: 0702255513
  • ISBN: 9780702255526
  • ISBN: 0702255521
  • ISBN: 9780702255533
  • ISBN: 070225553X
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (331 p.)
  • Publisher: St Lucia, Qld. University of Queensland Press, 2015.

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Formatted Contents Note: Cover; Author biography; Title page; Imprint page; Dedication; Epigraph; 1 Will; 2 Will; 3 Will; 4 Will; 5 Will; 6 Will; 7 Summer; 8 Will; 9 Summer; 10 Will; 11 Will; 12 Summer; 13 Will; 14 Summer; 15 Will; 16 Summer; 17 Will; 18 Summer; 19 Will; 20 Summer; 21 Will; 22 Summer; 23 Will; 24 Summer; 25 Will; 26 Summer; 27 Will; 28 Summer; 29 Will; 30 Summer; 31 Will; 32 Summer; 33 Will; 34 Will; 35 Summer; 36 Will; 37 Summer; 38 Will; 39 Summer; 40 Will; 41 Will; 42 Summer; 43 Will; 44 Summer; 45 Will; 46 Summer; 47 Will; 48 Summer; 49 Will; 50 Summer; 51 Will; 52 Summer; 53 Will; 54 Will
Target Audience Note:
For young adults.
Subject: Deaf youth Fiction
Love stories
Deaf youth
Love stories
Genre: Fiction.
Electronic books.

Kathryn Lomer grew up on a farm in northwest Tasmania. She left school at 15 and began the first of many and varied jobs in Tasmania and then overseas. She eventually went to university as a mature-age student and became a teacher of English as a Second Language, which she taught for many years in Australia and Japan. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Journalism, Media and Communications. Talk Under Water is Kathryn’s third young adult novel. Her first, The Spare Room, was a Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Book for Older Readers and her second, What Now, Tilda B?, won the Margaret Scott Prize. Both books were shortlisted for the Children’s Peace Literature Award. Kathryn has also published across the genres of adult fiction, short stories and poetry.


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