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Kelsey and the Quest of the Porcelain Doll
Kelsey and the Quest of the Porcelain Doll

Kelsey and the Quest of the Porcelain Doll

JUVENILE FICTION

160 Pages, 5 x 7.75

Formats: PDF, Mobipocket, EPUB

PDF, $8.99 (US $8.99) (CA $10.99)

Publication Date: June 2014

ISBN 9780702254468

Rights: WOR

University Of Queensland Press (Jun 2014)
University of Queensland Press

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Overview

A captivating story of adversity, adventure and love from award-winning author Rosanne Hawke.‘Nanna, can you tell me a story just as if I were with you?’Kelsey is in Pakistan and wants to go home. Mum and Dad are busy helping flood victims and she misses her friends. But most of all, Kelsey misses Nanna Rose.Luckily, Kelsey can talk to Nanna on Skype. To help Kelsey feel better, they create a story about a porcelain doll called Amy Jo who wants to find someone to love her. As Kelsey and Nanna imagine Amy Jo’s quest, Kelsey starts to realise Pakistan isn’t that bad after all.But how will the porcelain doll’s story end? Will Amy Jo find the person she’s destined for or be on a quest forever?

Author Biography

Rosanne Hawke is an award-winning South Australian author. She lived in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates as an aid worker for ten years. Her books include The Messenger Bird; Soraya, the Storyteller; Mustara; and Taj and the Great Camel Trek, which won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and was shortlisted for the 2012 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She is a Carclew, Asialink, Varuna and May Gibbs Fellow, and a Bard of Cornwall. She teaches Creative Writing at Tabor Adelaide, and writes in an old Cornish farmhouse with underground rooms near Kapunda.