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Thursday's Child
Thursday's Child (Sonya Hartnett) Cover.jpg
Front cover of first edition
Author Sonya Hartnett
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Realist young-adult novel
Publisher Penguin Books
Publication date
31 August 2000
Media type Print (paperback)
Pages 223 pp (first edition)
ISBN 978-0-14-029732-4
OCLC 248050261
LC Class PZ7.H267387 Th 2000

Thursday's Child is young adult novel by the Australian writer Sonya Hartnett, published in 2000 by Penguin Books. Set during the 1930s Great Depression in Australia, it features a young woman Harper Flute and her family, who live in poverty. It won the annual Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel.

Following its publication by Walker Books in the U.K., Hartnett won the 2002 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.

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