To Die For (Paperback)

Mark Svendsen

ISBN 10: 1742757456 / ISBN 13: 9781742757452

Published by Random House Australia, Milsons Point, 2012

About this Item

Paperback. An epic battle between a boy, a boat and a sharkAn epic battle between a boy, a boat and a sharkWith a crack as though her back was breaking the dory lurched downwards. Christos felt himself twist, then fall inexorably, towards the head of the inquisitive shark.For his birthday, Christos takes his father's mackerel dory on his first solo trip. He plans to fish and then camp overnight on a local island. But things go terribly, terrifyingly wrong when Christos runs the dory aground on a reef, attracting a four-metre tiger shark as company for the most harrowing night of his life - a night during which he decides what he would be willing to die for. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: To Die For (Paperback)
• Publisher: Random House Australia, Milsons Point
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1742757456
• ISBN 13: 9781742757452
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

An epic battle between a boy, a boat, and a shark, with extra material including a fact page on tiger sharks, a black and white diagram of a dory, and a list of suggested reads

For his birthday, Christos takes his father's mackerel dory on his first solo trip. He plans to fish and then camp overnight on a local island. But things go terribly, terrifyingly wrong when Christos runs the dory aground on a reef, attracting a 12-foot tiger shark as company for the most harrowing night of his life—a night during which he decides what he would be willing to die for.

About the Author

Mark Svendsen is a poet and the author of Captain Me, Circus Carnivore, Poison Under Their Lips, as well as many other books for children and young adults.