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Came Back to Show You I Could Fly
Text Classics
By: Robin Klein
Paperback | 27 February 2017 | Edition Number 1
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Seymour is bored and lonely, and running from a gang of kids when he opens a back-lane gate. And there is Angie. She is older than Seymour, confident, cool and alluring, and she treats him with the affection of an older sister. Seymour is captivated - through Angie he is awakened to the fun and adventure in life. But Angie has a dark side - a secret that threatens to destroy her. And as Seymour begins to understand that all is not well he knows he has to help her.
Came Back to Show You I Could Fly is a heartwarming account of an unlikely friendship that shows a very human side of drug addiction.
Came Back to Show You I Could Fly won a Human Rights Award for Literature in 1989. It also won the 1990 Australian Children's Book of the Year Award, Older Readers, and was shortlisted for the 1990 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the 1990 NSW Premier's Literary Award, as well as named a White Raven book at the 1990 Bologna Children's Book Fair. Say A Little Prayer, the film version, was released in 1993.
About the Author
Robin Klein was born 28 February 1936 in Kempsey, New South Wales into a family of nine children. Leaving school at age 15, Klein worked several jobs before becoming established as a writer, having her first story published at age 16. She would go on to write more than 40 books, including Hating Alison Ashley (adapted into a feature film starring Delta Goodrem in 2005), Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left (adapted into a television series for the Seven Network in 1992), and Came Back to Show You I Could Fly (adapted into a film directed by Richard Lowenstein in 1993).
Klein's books are hugely celebrated, having won the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award in both the Younger Readers and the Older Readers categories, as well as a Human Rights Award for Literature in 1989 for Came Back to Show You I Could Fly . Klein is widely considered one of Australia's most prolific and beloved YA authors.
Industry Reviews
`This coming-of-age story of finding yourself, helping others and the power of friendship is timeless.' * ReadPlus *
Angie remains one of the best female characters I've ever encountered in YA, because Klein wrote her with so many cracks and complexities. She's imperfect, but the compassion you feel for her is the most invaluable take-away from the book.' -- Danielle Binks
`The novel was groundbreaking when it was first published in 1989, and it remains fresh and urgent...Perhaps Klein's greatest achievement is showing Angie through different characters' eyes and perspectives. With her flamboyant dresses and tattoo of a flying horse on her shoulder, she is a beautiful goddess to Seymour, but her family disproves of her revealing clothes and tawdry earrings. Even though we perceive her flightiness and the recklessness of her choices, we align ourselves with Seymour's optimistic, but unrealistic, view.' * Australian *
`It is more than 25 years since Robin Klein's poignant story of the friendship between lonely, timid 13-year-old Seymour and affectionate, effervescent, but seriously troubled Angie, 20, won awards but the novel has, remarkably, retained all its freshness and it no less relevant in this era of ice addiction than it was in 1989.' * Daily Telegraph *
ISBN: 9781925498318
ISBN-10: 192549831X
Series: Text Classics
Published: 27th February 2017
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Audience: Children
For Ages: 10 - 13 years old
For Grades: 5 - 8
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: AU
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 2.3 x 12.9 x 19.6
Weight (kg): 0.24
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