Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

Late on a hot summer night at the tail-end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin,
a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent
knock on the window of his sleepout. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an
outcast in the mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and
solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie.
So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie steals into the night by his
side, terrified but desperate to impress. Jasper takes him through town
to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness
to Jasper's horrible discovery.

Carrying the secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is harried by a 
suspicious town tightening in fear. In the simmering summer where
everything changes, he locks horns with his tempestuous mother, falls
nervously in love, and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend,
Jeffrey Lu. And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been
shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and
why white lies creep like a curse; why the truth of things is so hard to
know, and even harder to hold in his heart.

Genres: Young Adult - Australia - Mystery - Historical Fiction - Coming of Age - Contemporary - Australian Author
Condition: Very good
Published: First published 2009. This edition published 2010 by Allen & Unwin.
Pages: 397
ISBN: 9781742372624
Weight: 380g