Beyond the River Stones: Part 2

By JOY COWLEY

His father kept telling him how lucky he was. "You've always got a job here on the farm. There are thousands like you don't have it so good.

"Brian tied his boots. Maybe after the wheat harvest he'd head for Christchurch and chance his luck with some of those thousands on the dole. At least there were thousands, not just one on his own in the middle of nowhere.

The wind was getting up, hot and dry, made visible with dust and bits of straw. He stood up and looked towards the wheat fields that were rippling like a full tide.

With the wind, and the heat haze shimmering above the surface, the entire crop looked so liquid he could imagine himself diving in and swimming in a sea the colour of pale honey.

Then he blinked away the daydream. Someone was out there. In the nearest wheat paddock. Someone was walking in it, leaving a dark path of trampled stalks.

An angry voice came up inside him, sounding like his father. He thought the words, What the hell do you think you're doing? but he didn't say them.

Publisher: Scholastic

Price: $13.95

Age group: 10-13 years


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