Lisdalia

Brian Caswell

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9780702257971
• Edition: 0

It's bad enough being the smartest kid in the school, but when you're a girl, and when your father still thinks it's a man's world, and when you never learned to back down from an argument, it's even worse. Lisdalia has all these problems . and more. Of course, it helps if you have a couple of really good friends, like Mike and Tanja, and a teacher who cares, but in the end, when things get serious, it's who you are inside that counts. Who ever said it was easy being a kid? LISDALIA is the second volume in Brian Caswell's critically acclaimed Boundary Park Trilogy which began with Mike and concludes with Maddie. Lisdalia won the 1995 Multicultural Children's Literature Award and was Highly Commended in the 1995 Human Rights Award for Children's Literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Author bio
• Also by Brian Caswell
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter 1 – Things Italian …
• Chapter 2 – Spitting into the wind
• Chapter 3 – Poem
• Chapter 4 – Pride and principles
• Chapter 5 – Strike
• Chapter 6 – Tanja’s story
• Chapter 7 – Competition
• Chapter 8 – Just fate
• Chapter 9 – Tanja’s story
• Chapter 10 – Bitter medicine
• Chapter 11 – Some kind of disease
• Chapter 12 – Wonderland
• Chapter 13 – Simple …
• Chapter 14 – The buddy system
• Chapter 15 – Understanding
• Chapter 16 – Tanja’s Story
• Chapter 17 – Sharing
• Chapter 18 – Appearances
• Chapter 19 – The words behind the words
• Chapter 20 – Whispers
• Chapter 21 – Into the light
• Chapter 22 – Tanja’s story
• Imprint Page