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Balyet

Patricia Wrightson (1989)

SubgenreChildren's Fantasy
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingPG
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age10+
Goodreads3.65

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Protagonist archetypes

Coming-of-Age Protagonist

Synopsis

Despite the precautions of the old aborigine woman she calls Granny, fourteen-year-old Jo falls under the spell of a secret thing in the Australian hills, a girl endlessly alive and crying for the death that will not take her.

Tags

Horror ElementsAustralian FantasyIndigenous MythologySupernatural Fiction