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020 _a9781741695519 (pbk)
020 _a1741695511 (pbk)
035 _a(OCoLC)402448860
035 _a(AuCNLKIN)000045301399
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn402448860
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082 0 4 _aA823.4
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100 _aTucker, Alan,
_q(Alan R.),
_d1952-
_935176
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBattlefield /
_cAlan Tucker.
260 _aGosford, N.S.W. :
_bScholastic Press,
_c2010.
300 _a186 pages;
_c20 cm.
520 _aBarry Blacker is obsessed with being a soldier. He is desperate to join the army like his older brother Jack, who is in a Japanese POW camp. He practises drills on the family farm in Cowra, and spies on the Japanese prisoners in the camp nearby. When some of the prisoners escape, Barry's attempt to be a hero has devastating consequences. Based on a true story
521 _aFor primary school age.
648 _a1939 - 1945.
_922209
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xPrisoners and prisons
_vJuvenile fiction.
_935177
650 0 _aConcentration camp escapes
_vJuvenile fiction.
_935178
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_zJapan
_vJuvenile fiction.
_935179
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_vJuvenile fiction.
_934923
651 0 _935181
_aNew South Wales (Cowra)
_vJuvenile fiction.
651 0 _913060
_aJapan
_vJuvenile fiction.
655 _aHistorical fiction.
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_cJFIC
999 _c20602
_d20602