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When Lockie Leonard wipes out on a huge wave, he is thrown into a friendship with the weird, but extremely intelligent "Metal Head," Geoff "Egg" Eggleston, who joins Lockie in his crusade to clean up the pollution in his coastal Australian town's harbor.Tags
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Another "down under" fun read. I really do like the stories from Australia; this was fun.
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Tim Winton was born in 1960 in Western Australia. He attended a Creative Writing Course at Curtin University in Perth, and it was there that he began his first novel, An Open Swimmer. It was entered for The Australian/Vogel Award in 1981 and won. His other works include Shallows, which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1984; The Riders Winton, which show more won the Miles Franklin Award in 1992; and Island Home: A Landscape Memoir, the winner of the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards, General nonfiction book of the year. The Boy Behind the Curtain, published in 2016, won the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Nonfiction. His books also include The Shepherd's Hut, Breath, and Dirt Music. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster
- Original title
- Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster
- Original publication date
- 1993
- People/Characters
- Lockie Leonard
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Kids, Children's Books, Teen, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 823.3 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1558-1625
- LCC
- PZ7 .W7683 .L — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 21
- ASINs
- 2
