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Author: Richard Yaxley
Publisher: Scholastic
Genres: Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781760276140

This Is My Song

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Synopsis

In the 1940s, musician Rafael Ullmann is sent to a Nazi concentration camp. In the 1970s, Annie Ullmann lives a lonely life on a Canadian prairie. Three decades later, in Australia, Joe Hawker is uncertain about himself and his future—until he discovers a song, written by his grandfather many years ago. This is my Song crosses three continents and time-line, and charts the need for each of us to find our own music—and sing that music with conviction and grace to those whom we most love.

About the author

Richard Yaxley

Richard Yaxley has written novels for adults and young adults, plays, poetry, school musicals and many books for the classroom. His verse novel Drink the Air won the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction. He lives and teaches in Brisbane, Australia.