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Elaine Forrestal

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JUNE 2007

Someone Like Me

Elaine's novel, Someone Like Me, has been chosen by AATE/ALEA as one of five focus books for the National Day of Reading project that they are jointly running in September 2007.

Go to the AATE (Calendar of Events/ National Reading Day 5/9/2007) and ALEA websites for more information.

BOOK REVIEWS

Someone Like Me

'You're a snooper. Snoopers are trouble. Where I come from they don't survive.'

Tas's uneventful life is changed for ever when Enya and her family move into the farm next door. They have come to Australia to escape the violence of their home in Northern Ireland, but when the past catches up with them, Tas is caught in the middle.

ISBN 0-14-038092-2

Someone like me

The surprise ending ... left me wanting to re-read the book to see how I had missed the clues.

Pat Tighe The West Australian

The gun lobby has made us all recognise some disturbing changes in Australian society and young readers will want to discuss this novel in that context with their parents and teachers. Mark Macleod Australian Good Taste

......an amazing story with an enchanting ending.

Belinda Traynor, Sunshine Coast Daily

A Teacher's Review of "Someone Like Me "

I have just finished reading “Someone Like Me” to my Year 5 boys class at Eglinton Public School. It is the fifth time I have read this book to a class and still enjoy it so much. The boys loved it and as usual were encouraged to reread for themselves and see all the little hints about Tas that are there once they know of his blindness.

Jenny Smyth ( a “long time teacher of upper primary kids”)

14^th February 2007

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