Featured Junior Title: Don't Call me Ishmael!
by Michael Gerard Bauer
Read by Brendan Higgins
There's no easy way to put this, so I’ll say it straight out. It’s time I faced up to the truth. I’m fourteen years old and I have Ishmael Leseur’s Syndrome. There is no cure. And there is no cure for not fitting in. But that won’t stop Ishmael and his intrepid band of misfits from taking on bullies, bugs, babes, the Beatles, debating, and the great white whale in the toughest, the weirdest, the most embarrassingly awful ... and the best year of their lives.
Author Information:
Michael Gerard Bauer was born in Brisbane and lives in the suburb of Ashgrove, the setting of his first novel The Running Man. Since completing an Arts degree and a Diploma of Education at the University of Queensland, he has taught English and Economics at schools in the Brisbane-Ipswich region. In recent years he has taken
regular breaks from teaching to pursue a writing career. The Running Man was 2005 CBCA Book of the Year — Older Readers and was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the SA Festival Awards. It was also the winner of the Courier Mail Readers’ Choice Award. Don’t Call me Ishmael! was shortlisted for the 2007 CBCA Book of the Year — Older Readers and the NSW Premier’s Awards.
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