Nona & me

Atkins, Clare

Notes
Summary: Rosie and Nona are sisters. Yapas. They are also best friends. It doesn't matter that Rosie is white and Nona is Aboriginal: their family connections tie them together for life. Born just five days apart in a remote corner of the Northern Territory, the girls are inseparable, until Nona moves away at the age of nine. By the time she returns, they're in Year 10 and things have changed. Rosie has lost interest in the community, preferring to hang out in the nearby mining town, where she goes to school with the glamorous Selena, and Selena's gorgeous older brother Nick. When a political announcement highlights divisions between the Aboriginal community and the mining town, Rosie is put in a difficult position: will she be forced to choose between her first love and her oldest friend?
Additional Notes
Cultural Identity
Relationships
Civil Rights
Inequality
Prejudice
Cultural conflict
Courage
Racism
Librarian's Miscellania
Reading age: YEAR 11
Clare Atkins
Location edition Bar Code due date
Library senior fiction GCS03954