Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers edited by Sonia Dechan, Heather Millar and Eva Sallis

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library with no external stickers. Stamps and stickers on inside pages. Wear to book corners and edges. Some foxing spots on foredges. Body text and binding are still very good.

Full title: Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers Aed 11-20 Years edited by Sonia Dechan, Heather Millar and Eva Sallis

An anthology of essays, interviews and short stories written by children and young adults aged 11-20 years. These writers relate or imaginatively recreate the story of someone who came to Australia as a refugee.

This is a unique book in Australia. The stories are the finest of hundreds collected through an unprecedented nationwide schools competition, devised by writer Eva Sallis and run by Australians Against Racism Inc.

The essays and stories represent many different countries. Some focus on survival, some on horrors, some on the experiences and alienation of a new world. Some are stories of refugees still living in Australian detention centres. Across the collection, there emerges the recurrent theme of friendship: friendships lost, broken, remembered and found, now in Australia. (back cover)