Home and Away

MATURE CONTENT
This story includes mature themes that may not be appropriate for younger audiences. Parents, caregivers, and educators are advised to review the content prior to sharing to assess suitability for their audience.

Everyone wants a place of safety, a place to share with the people you love. A place to relax. A home. There're only two places you can be in life: home or away. Right now, more than a billion people don't have a home -- that's one in seven of the worlds' population. 

This could happen to you. What would happen if a typical Australian family found themselves refugees?

We're a typical Australian family. Barbeques, footy, gardening, school, Holden Commodores . . . Then one day things change.

Home and Away is a powerful, heartbreaking and thought-provoking story written and read by author John Marsden with illustrations by Matt Ottley.

Hear more from author John Marsden in the More Videos section of this page where he discusses his writing and the inspiration behind his school Candlebark.

Credits

• Written by

  John Marsden

• Illustrated by

  Matt Ottley

• Performed by

  John Marsden

• Published By

  Hachette Australia

Suitable for

Duration

00:49

Series

Reading Challenges