Cast Out by Malcolm Wood | PB Children / Juvenile It depicts an array of

It depicts an array of Tasmanian native flora and fauna

is crewed aboard a Bass Strait sealing ship

pick fresh carrots at Katherine Reed’s farm

Entrants in the

Cast Out by Malcolm Wood | PB Children / Juvenile It depicts an array ofA graphic, confronting story of poverty, loneliness, racism, rapacity and violence in Van Diemens Land. In Nottingham, England in 1810, John Marsden is jobless and desperate to find ways to feed his family. For stealing two sheep he is imprisoned and transported to Van Diemens Land. Although missing his family badly, Marsden works steadily, knowing that freedom and opportunity beckon. There will be no redemption for his former shipmates who have