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Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, is in love. The human torpedo is barely settled into his new school, and already he's got a girl on his mind. And not just any girl: it has to be Vicki Streeton, the smartest, prettiest, richest girl in class. What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frighteningly understanding parent, your brother wets the bed and the teachers take an instant dislike to you and then you fall in love at twelve-and-three-quarter years old?Tags
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Hugely likeable YA novel about moving to a new high school, first love and staying true to yourself. Tim Winton draws on his own experience growing up in a WA country town near the surf.
Lockie Leonard: Human Torpedo delves into the mind of an adolescent boy in the throes of his first relationship, while trying to cope with a new town, a new home and a new school. It is well-written and the characters, while a bit cliche, are still convincing enough to hold our interest. This is a decent example of Australian Young Adult fiction, but it does not persuade me to continue with the series.
in my opinion it wasn't my type of book, the story line was alright but all in all i wouldn't recommend it. The book was about a surfer who fell in love with a girl and the whole book is about that. I think the book could of had a better story line, one with more ation. The book was very descriptive, that was an improvement, but to sumsrise I wouldn't recommend it.
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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, Human Torpedo
- Original title
- Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo
- Original publication date
- 1990
- People/Characters
- Lockie Leonard; Vicki Streeton
- Important places
- Australia
- Epigraph
- Every ripple on the ocean, Every leaf on every tree, Every sand dune in the desert, Every power we never see, There is a deeper wave than this, Swelling in the world, There is a deeper wave than this, Listen to me girl. "Love... (show all) is the Seventh Wave" Sting.
- Dedication
- for Michael, Sharyn and Andrew - dags, all of them.
- First words
- Lockie Leonard fell in in love last term.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They took off, hanging wheelies all the way down the street, through the pong of the harbour, the main street, the coming rain, the whole day.
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Teen, Children's Books, 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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- 205,253
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.19)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 34
