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Everybody Jam by Ali Lewis (view source)
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Danny lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback. His brother Jonny died in an horrific accident last year and the subject is absolutely taboo. Nobody even mentions his name. But Danny keeps Jonny's room just as it was when he died, and he touches his picture every day.
Oh, and ''Everybody Jam''? It's apricot jam because everybody likes it - nothing to do with Scatman John, just in case you were wondering!
My thanks to the good people at Andersen for sending the book.
If ''Everybody Jam'' makes them want to read more books set in Australia, we recommend [[Now by Morris Gleitzman]] - , the concluding part of this lovely and moving trilogy about a holocaust survivor years and years on from WWIIthe Holocaust, where Zelda struggles to live up to the namesake who died at the hands of the Nazis, and [[Fighting Ruben Wolfe by Markus Zusak]], a writty novella about tough lives in tough neighbourhoods at tough economic times.
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