Harry Hodby lives in a sleepy town on the bend of a sluggish river in Australia. Harry spends most of his time swimming in Pearce Swamp, eating watermelon with his brother and dad, escaping schoolyard bullies, being in love with the secretary, and racing through butterflies in Cowpers Paddock. But life in this small river town isn't always easy. Harry's mother died when he was seven, and his friend Linda was swept away in a flood. Harry yearns to leave town even though he knows that people who get away never come back. His father has told him how to get out of town, but there's a mystery that he needs to solve before he can go...
A deeply atmospheric story in verse about the tough and tender sides of growing up in a small country town.

 
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April 2006 : Hardback
Title: By the River
Author(s):: Steven Herrick
ISBN: 1932425721 / 9781932425727 (USA edition)
Publisher: Front Street Press
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2004 : Paperback
Title: By The River
Author(s):: Steven Herrick
ISBN: 1741143578 / 9781741143577 (Australia edition)
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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