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.J.C Burke was born in Sydney in 1965, the fourth of five sisters. With writers for parents, she grew up in a world of noise, drama and books, but she decided to become a nurse after her mother lost a long battle with cancer. Since Burke started writing in 1999, she has published a number of acclaimed books for teenagers and young adults, including Children's Book Council Notable Books WHITE LIES and THE RED CARDIGAN, Aurealis Awards finalist NINE LETTERS LONG, THE STORY OF TOM BRENNAN, FAKING SWEET, STARFISH SISTERS and OCEAN PEARL. THE STORY OF TOM BRENNAN won the 2006 CBC Book of the Year - Older Readers and the 2006 Australian Family Therapists Award for Children's Literature. It is currentl...more


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The Story Of Tom Brennan
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The red cardigan
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2004
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Faking Sweet
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Nine letters long
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Starfish Sisters
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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Pig Boy
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2011
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Ocean Pearl
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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White Lies
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2002
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"There's a space in me. It's a dead space. I know that, because I can't feel anything. But that's what hurts, the nothingness. It's agony."J.C. Burke
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"The silhouettes of houses slipped past before I could catch them and remember the people we were leaving behind. In a couple of hours they would wake and find us gone, far away, so as not to remind them of their pain and what our family now meant to this town.
My name is Tom Brennan and this is my story."
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“The silhouettes of houses slipped past before I could catch them and remember the people we were leaving behind. In a couple of hours they would wake and find us gone, far away, so as not to remind them of their pain and what our family now meant to this town.
My name is Tom Brennan and this is my story.”
J.C. Burke, The Story Of Tom Brennan

“There's a space in me. It's a dead space. I know that, because I can't feel anything. But that's what hurts, the nothingness. It's agony.”
J.C. Burke, Pig Boy

“You ask me, you think dead forgotten. But they no forgooten because teh dead like to follow. They stay close.”
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“The silhouettes of houses slipped past before I could catch them and remember the people we were leaving behind. In a couple of hours they would wake and find us gone, far away, so as not to remind them of their pain and what our family now meant to this town.
My name is Tom Brennan and this is my story.”
J.C. Burke, The Story Of Tom Brennan

“There's a space in me. It's a dead space. I know that, because I can't feel anything. But that's what hurts, the nothingness. It's agony.”
J.C. Burke, Pig Boy

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