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Craig Silvey

Honeybee

4.40 avg rating — 39,061 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions

Jasper Jones

4.09 avg rating — 41,290 ratings — published 2009 — 63 editions

Runt

4.47 avg rating — 3,372 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions

Rhubarb

3.48 avg rating — 1,463 ratings — published 2004 — 20 editions

The Amber Amulet
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3.78 avg rating — 694 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions

Jasper Jones
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4.09 avg rating — 213 ratings — 2 editions

The Underdogs of Upson Downs

4.26 avg rating — 159 ratings — 3 editions

The World According to Warren
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4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2007

Liam und das Amulett
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Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping
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Craig Silvey is a musician and novelist from Dwellingup, Australia, who currently lives in Freemantle. In 2004, he published his first novel, entitled Rhubarb, at only nineteen years old. Silvey’s debut book put him in the literary spotlight when he won the 2005 Sydney Herald Young Author of the Year Award. Three years later, he wrote a children’s book, The World According to Warren, with illustrations by Sonia Martinez. He did not author another full-length book until the release of Jasper Jones in 2009. Jasper Jones was selected by the American Library Association for its "Best Fiction for Young Adults" list in 2012.

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Jasper Jones tells the story of Charlie Bucktin, a thirteen-year-old boy living in Western Australia during the Vietnam War. He befriends the town outcast, Jasper, but soon finds himself in a dire situation that tests his morality. Charlie helps...

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Craig Silvey grew up on an orchard in Dwellingup, a small town in timber and fruit-growing lands in in south-west Western Australia.

Silvery wrote his first novel, Rhubarb, when he was nineteen: it was published in 2004. The novel was the inaugural book for the 'One Book' series of events at the 2005 Perth International Arts Festival.

Silvey's next novel, Jasper Jones, was published in 2009. The novel was wildly successful: it won the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards fiction prize, and two Indie Awards (Book of the Year and Fiction), and was shortlisted and longlisted for a range of other national and international prizes, including the Miles Franklin Award, the Dylan Thomas prize, and the Dublin Literary Award. It was adapted by Kate Mulvany into a play (which was shortlisted for two Helpmann Awards, three Green Room Awards, two Sydney Theatre Awards, and the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Playwrighting), and then by Shaun Grant into a film (which won an AWGIE Award an