Scot Gardner

Scot Gardner
Scot Gardner
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Notable works	Burning Eddy; The Dead I Know
Notable awards	WA Premiers Award, CBC Award for Young Adults
Spouse	Robyn Grant
Children	Jen, Belle, Bryce
Website
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Scot Gardner is an Australian writer known for his young adult novels.^[1] He has worked as a counselor and youth worker before becoming a full-time novelist.

Career

"I'm not exactly sure how I ended up a writer. I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was at school, but I did work experience as a vet and it was nothing like I'd imagined." - Scot Gardner

Bibliography

One Dead Seagull (2001)
White Ute Dreaming (2002)
Burning Eddy (2003)^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
The Legend of Kevin the Plumber (2004)
Kite Dude (2004)
Gravity (2006)
The Other Madonna (2007)
The Lonely Lady (2023)
Jacobs Last Walk (2022)
Fall from the Slippery Cliff (2021)
The Anti-Biotics Didn't Work (2020)
Jequis Ain't No Sucker (2001)
One Wheel Drive (2007)
The Lost King (2008)
The Detachable Boy (2008)
Bookmark Days (2009)
The Detachable Boy: With One Loose Foot (2010)^[6]
Happy as Larry (2010)
The Dead I Know (2011)
The Way We Roll (2016)
Sparrow (2017)
Changing Gears (2018)
Off the Map (2020)

Critical studies and reviews of Gardner's work

Mansfield, Stephen (September 2011). "Living without remembering". Australian Book Review (334): 66–67. Review of The Dead I Know.

References

^ "Saturdays with Hilary Harper". ABC. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
^ Potter, Troy (May 2007). "(Re)constructing Masculinity: Representations of Men and Masculinity in Australian Young Adult Literature". Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature. 17 (1): 28–35. doi:10.21153/pecl2007vol17no1art1203. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
^ Steward, Joy (February 2004). "Burning Eddy (review)". Reading Time: The Journal of the Children's Book Council. 48 (1): 21–22.
^ England, Katharine (17 May 2003). "Burning Eddy (review)". The Advertiser.
^ Julian, Janet (January 2006). "Burning Eddy.(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)". Kliatt. 40 (1): 40. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
^ "Review: The Detachable Boy WITH ONE LOOSE FOOT". School Library Journal. Retrieved 12 September 2013.

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[1] "Saturdays with Hilary Harper". ABC. Retrieved 12 September 2013.

[2] Potter, Troy (May 2007). "(Re)constructing Masculinity: Representations of Men and Masculinity in Australian Young Adult Literature". Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature. 17 (1): 28–35. doi:10.21153/pecl2007vol17no1art1203. Retrieved 12 September 2013.

[3] Steward, Joy (February 2004). "Burning Eddy (review)". Reading Time: The Journal of the Children's Book Council. 48 (1): 21–22.

[4] England, Katharine (17 May 2003). "Burning Eddy (review)". The Advertiser.

[5] Julian, Janet (January 2006). "Burning Eddy.(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)". Kliatt. 40 (1): 40. Retrieved 12 September 2013.

[6] "Review: The Detachable Boy WITH ONE LOOSE FOOT". School Library Journal. Retrieved 12 September 2013.

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v t e Children's Book of the Year Award for Older Readers
1946–1949	The Story of Karrawingi the Emu by Leslie Rees (1946) Shackleton's Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks by Frank Hurley (1948)
1950–1959	Whalers of the Midnight Sun by Alan Villiers (1950) Verity of Sydney Town by Ruth C. Williams (1951) The Australia Book by Eve Pownall (1952) Aircraft of Today and Tomorrow by James H. Martin & W. D. Martin (1953) Good Luck to the Rider by Joan Phipson (1953) Australian Legendary Tales by K. Langloh Parker (1954) The First Walkabout by Norman B. Tindale and Harold Arthur Lindsay (1955) The Crooked Snake by Patricia Wrightson (1956) The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales edited by Enid Moodie Heddle (1957) Tiger in the Bush by Nan Chauncy (1958) Devil's Hill by Nan Chauncy (1959) Sea Menace by John Gunn (1959)
1960–1969	All the Proud Tribesmen by Kylie Tennant (1960) Tangara by Nan Chauncy (1961) The Racketty Street Gang by L. H. Evers (1962) Rafferty Rides a Winner by Joan Woodberry (1962) The Family Conspiracy by Joan Phipson (1963) The Green Laurel by Eleanor Spence (1964) Pastures of the Blue Crane by H. F. Brinsmead (1965) Ash Road by Ivan Southall (1966) The Min-Min by Mavis Thorpe Clark (1967) To the Wild Sky by Ivan Southall (1968) When Jays Fly to Barbmo by Margaret Balderson (1969)
1970–1979	Uhu by Annette Macarthur-Onslow (1970) Bread and Honey by Ivan Southall (1971) Longtime Passing by H. F. Brinsmead (1972) Family at the Lookout by Noreen Shelley (1973) The Nargun and the Stars by Patricia Wrightson (1974) Fly West by Ivan Southall (1976) The October Child by Eleanor Spence (1977) The Ice Is Coming by Patricia Wrightson (1978) The Plum-Rain Scroll by Ruth Manley (1979)
1980–1989	Displaced Person by Lee Harding (1980) Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park (1981) The Valley Between by Colin Thiele (1982) Master of the Grove by Victor Kelleher (1983) A Little Fear by Patricia Wrightson (1984) The True Story of Lilli Stubeck by James Aldridge (1985) The Green Wind by Thurley Fowler (1986) All We Know by Simon French (1987) So Much to Tell You by John Marsden (1988) Beyond the Labyrinth by Gillian Rubinstein (1989)
1990–1999	Came Back to Show You I Could Fly by Robin Klein (1990) Strange Objects by Gary Crew (1991) The House Guest by Eleanor Nilsson (1992) Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (1993) The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody (1994) Angel's Gate by Gary Crew (1995) Foxspell by Gillian Rubinstein (1995) Pagan's Vows by Catherine Jinks (1996) A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove by James Moloney (1997) Eye to Eye by Catherine Jinks (1998) Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne (1999)
2000–2009	48 Shades of Brown by Nick Earls (2000) Wolf on the Fold by Judith Clarke (2001) Forest by Sonya Hartnett (2002) The Messenger by Markus Zusak (2003) Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta (2004) The Running Man by Michael Gerard Bauer (2005) The Story of Tom Brennan by J. C. Burke (2006) Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan (2007) The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett (2008) Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan (2009)
2010–2019	Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen (2010) The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett (2011) The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner (2012) Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (2013) Wildlife by Fiona Wood (2014) The Protected by Claire Zorn (2015) Cloudwish by Fiona Wood (2016) One Would Think The Deep by Claire Zorn (2017) Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell (2018) Between Us by Clare Atkins (2019)
2020–present	This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield (2020) The End of the World Is Bigger than Love by Davina Bell (2021) Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim (2022) Neverlanders by Tom Taylor (2023) Grace Notes by Karen Comer (2024) I'm Not Really Here by Gary Lonesborough (2025)
Picture Book (1955–present) Early Childhood (2001–present) Younger Readers (1982–present) Eve Pownall Award for Information Books (1988–present)

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