Dingo Creek Challenge (Adventures Down Under #4) - Softcover

Elmer, Robert

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9781556619267: Dingo Creek Challenge (Adventures Down Under #4)

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ISBN 10: 155661926X ISBN 13: 9781556619267

Publisher: Bethany House Pub, 1998

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In late nineteenth-century Australia, as tension mounts between the white settlers and a band of aborigines at Dingo Creek, thirteen-year-old Patrick takes sides when he helps teach the aborigines how to play cricket

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About the Author:

Robert Elmer is a graduate of St. Mary's College and Simpson College in San Francisco. In addition to his two series for middle-grade readers, ADVENTURES DOWN UNDER, and THE YOUNG UNDERGROUND, he has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines. Currently a writer for an advertising agency, Robert and his wife, Ronda, have three children and make their home in Washington State.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-7-Although his father has been cleared of the criminal charges that caused them to come to Australia, the McWaid family can not afford the passage back to Ireland and 13-year-old Patrick feels that he will never call this land home. The boy and his sister are outraged when two Aborigines are unjustly arrested for stealing horses. As tensions mount, the siblings attempt to find the real culprits and hope to bring the community together through a cricket match. Religious thoughts and Biblical references are sprinkled throughout the story, but are slight and do not intrude on the plot. While this fourth book in the series, set in 1868, continues to develop the family's history, it lacks depth and intrigue and will not appeal to many readers.
Jeanette Larson, Texas State Library, Austin
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