Jasper Jones

Late one summer night at the end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious, book-loving thirteen-year-old, is woken by someone rapping at the window of the room where he sleeps. It is Jasper Jones, the mixed-race outcast whom everyone in the mining town of Corrigan blames for any theft or trouble, and he needs help. Charlie follows him to a hidden clearing in the bush and sees what Jasper has found there. Carrying the secret, he has to face a frightened and suspicious town, his stormy mother, his first love for Eliza, and the racism aimed at his quick-tongued best friend Jeffrey Lu, a Vietnamese-Australian boy who lives for cricket.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Coming of age, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, 1965

First published

2009

Author's age

27 when first published

ISBN

9781741757743 (Allen & Unwin, Australia)

9780099537540 (Windmill Books, United Kingdom)

9780375866661 (Alfred A. Knopf, United States)

9780375866272 (Random House Children's Books, United States)

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