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100			_aRobertson, Deborah _c(Teacher), _eauthor. _954631
245	1	0	_aBefore George / _cDeborah Robertson.
260			_aWellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. _bHuia Publishers. _c2023
300			_a410 pages ; _c21 cm
500			_aNovel for young adults.
520			_a"When Marnya immigrates to New Zealand from South Africa in 1953 with her mother and sister, her mother cuts off Marnya's hair and changes her name to George to hide her identity as a girl. Hours later, their Christmas Eve train plummets into the Whangaehu River and George loses not only her family and name, but also the answers as to why her mother deceived her father and fled their homeland. Now a ward of the state, George finds herself enrolled in a rural school where survival depends on fitting in with a group of boys who think she's strange. Disconnected from everything that once defined who she was, George must reconstruct her identity and come to understand her mother's decisions"--Publisher's website.
650		0	_aTeenagers _vJuvenile fiction. _94882
650		0	_aFamilies _vJuvenile fiction. _95343
650		0	_aFamily secrets _vJuvenile fiction. _945590
650		0	_aIdentity (Philosophical concept) _vJuvenile fiction. _91678
650		0	_aCountry life _vFiction. _zNew Zealand _97753
650		0	_aRural schools _vJuvenile fiction. _zNew Zealand _934736
650		0	_aRailroad accidents _zNew Zealand. _vJuvenile fiction. _915244
651		0	_aNew Zealand. _xHistory _y20th century _vJuvenile fiction. _921526
655		0	_aYoung adult fiction. _943616
655		4	_aYoung adult fiction, New Zealand. _5Nz _91634
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _943610
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