Checkers is a young adult novel by Australian author John Marsden. It was published in 1996 and 1998 by Houghton Mifflin and in 2000 by Laurel Leaf. It is Marsden's twelfth book.
The main plot of Checkers is told in flash back, first-person narration which takes the form of a diary. The author of this diary is a nameless teenage girl, who is a voluntary patient in a Psychiatric Ward. Before she admitted herself into hospital, she lived with a gri...
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Checkers is a young adult novel by Australian author John Marsden. It was published in 1996 and 1998 by Houghton Mifflin and in 2000 by Laurel Leaf. It is Marsden's twelfth book.
The main plot of Checkers is told in flash back, first-person narration which takes the form of a diary. The author of this diary is a nameless teenage girl, who is a voluntary patient in a Psychiatric Ward. Before she admitted herself into hospital, she lived with a grimly dysfunctional and uncommunicative family of four, whose father was a co-owner of a company named Rider Group which received a multi-million dollar business contract. As part of the celebration, the girl's father bought her a pet dog, which she named Checkers, for its odd fur pattern. Soon, however, her father's company began being attacked by the press, who accused him and his business partner of gross corruption, allegedly involving the Premier of the State. The Premier continually denied having ever met the girl's father, but these...
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