Countdown to Yesterday

Name: Countdown to Yesterday
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781761340598
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By Shirley Marr

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From the incredible mind of multi-award-winning Australian children's author Shirley Marr comes a beautiful story for young readers about memories, family, friendship, The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book, David Bowie, and time travel! James wishes he could go back in time. Back to when... Read More

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Countdown to Yesterday

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Countdown to Yesterday

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From the incredible mind of multi-award-winning Australian children's author Shirley Marr comes a beautiful story for young readers about memories, family, friendship, The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book, David Bowie, and time travel!

James wishes he could go back in time. Back to when his mum and dad were together, when he had one home, and when his family laughed, climbed hills, and went to the movies.

After meeting the enigmatic Yan, a girl who looks at the world differently, James discovers time travel might not be impossible after all.

But if James can live forever in one of his six favourite memories, which one will he choose?

One part time travel, two parts cake and a whole lot of nostalgia... it's impossible not to love this book. — REECE CARTER, author of A Girl Called Corpse

This smart, lively, retro-cool book about looking back, falling forward, and changing your own story will leave you smiling. — FIONA HARDY, CBCA Notable author of How to Make a Movie in 12 Days

In a place where retro Australian Woman's Weekly birthday cakes, old Commodore computers, chaotic rideshare vehicles of the future, and spacemen all collide, Countdown to Yesterday is a contemporary novel touched with philosophical and science fiction ideas for young readers.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761340598

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 January 2024

Country: Australia

Imprint: Puffin

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 288

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Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Penguin Books Shirley Marr Young Adult

About the Author

Shirley Marr is a first-generation Chinese Australian living in Perth and an author of young adult and children's fiction, including YA novels Fury and Preloved, and children's novels Little Jiang, A Glasshouse of Stars, All Four Quarters of the Moon and Countdown to Yesterday. She describes herself as having a Western mind and an Eastern heart. She likes to write in the space in the middle where they both collide, basing her stories on her own personal experiences of migration and growing up in Australia, along with the folk and fairy tales from her mother. Arriving in mainland Australia from Christmas Island as a seven-year-old in the 1980s and experiencing the good, the bad and the wonder that comes with culture shock, Shirley has been in love with reading and writing from that early age. Shirley is a universe full of stars and stories and hopes to share the many other novels that she has inside her.

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