MEDIA
RELEASE
JUST
PUBLISHED!
‘PA
JOE’S PLACE’
Award-winning author Clancy Tucker
Winner of three awards in the
Australian National Literary Awards:
2006, 2007, 2011.
“The main character,
Boo, will steal your heart. But you’ll be glad she did. If she doesn’t, you
don’t have a heart worth stealing. I know. I met Boo.”
Clancy Tucker
Location: Thailand
Based on a true story
Main character: Boo
Nawigamune
Genre: Young adult fiction, but suitable for ages 8 - 80!
Genre: Young adult fiction, but suitable for ages 8 - 80!
Blurb:
Boo
is a seven-year-old Thai girl whose father is dying. She must leave home and
travel 1700 kilometres to live in an orphanage, ‘Pa Joe’s Place’, run by a
foreigner (farang). With a bag of clothes, some food and a mysterious envelope
addressed to ‘Pa Joe’, she endures an adventurous train trip to Songkhla. On
the way, she meets influential people who know Pa Joe, and a wise monk who gives
her a lucky amulet.
Boo settles into ‘Pa
Joe’s Place’, makes friends and inspires Pa; an American Jesuit priest who has
cared for Thai orphans for 50 years. She and her friends establish a successful
jam-making business to make money for Pa, and Boo meets Jack Ryan, an Australian
farmer she admires. Shattered by the death of her father, she runs from Pa
Joe’s Place but is soon found by Pa and the Chief of Police. Boo has survived
four life-threatening situations since she left home: a train crash, snakebite,
tsunami and a fire. Suddenly she takes ill and is rushed to hospital. Will her
lucky amulet help her to survive?
e-Book: $2.99
PAPERBACK: $25.00 AUD,
plus postage and handling.
316 pages, signed with a
matching bookmark.
CONTACT: CLANCY TUCKER
PUBLISHING
T: 03-57742043
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