Burnt Stick CL

by Anthony Hill and Mark Sofilas

Book Overview

When John Jagamarra was five, he was taken away from his mother and home in an Australian aboriginal camp. John was half-white, and the law said he had to be educated in a mission school to learn the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395739748
• ISBN13: 9780395739747
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Very good insite into stolen generation.

The Burnt Stick is about what most of the stolen generation went through when they were taken away. The tribes were desperate to keep their children from the authroities. I think that this leaves the readers with the ever growing knowledge that the Abourignies of Australia have been terribly mis-treated in the past and still are in the present.

Stollen Generation

This story is about a young boy named John. He is Aboriginal but has light coloured skin because his father was white. His mother becomes very worried when their is word of a man coming to take all the white children from the Aboriginal camp, to teach the children the white ways. The mother decides to use a burnt stick to make her sons skin dark. Will this work? This story touched me and i think it will touch you or your childs. the story is wonderfull and so are the illustrations.