Stranded In Boringsville

Stranded in Boringsville

Review After her parents devorce, twelve-year-old Rain moves with her mother from Melbourne to her grandmother's run-down old house in rural Australia. She struggles with country life, missing her friends, her mother's personality change, and her father's new, young girlfriend. After befriending the boy next door, Daniel, and making some headway in her new life, things are just starting to look up for Rain. But not long, as Daniel is admitted to the hospital with a life-threatening condition. Told partly in poems composed with refrigerator magnets and partly in Daniel's report on the "aliens' next door, this rich quirky, and satisfying story offers plenty of humor and lots of heart."Enjoyable and quirky." (School Library Journal)"Readers will ache for the kids, whose conflicted feelings seem all too real." (Booklist) Following her parents separation, twelve-year-old Rain moves with her mother to the country, where she befriends the unpopular boy who lives next door and also seeks a way to cope with her feelings toward her father and his new girlfriend. About the Author Catherine Bateson has written several novels for children and young adults. Her novels include "Stranded in Boringsville" which "School Library Journal" called an "enjoyable and quirky story." Catherine Bateson lives with her family in Belgrave, Austrailia.