The White Girl

1. The medical condition that causes Odette to become seriously ill.
3. A major theme represented by the strong bond between Odette and Sissy.
7. The owner of the junkyard and a friend of Odette and Sissy.
8. Odette’s main reason for fleeing Deane is to keep Sissy ______.
12. The controlling police officer who comes to Deane.
13. The immigrant character who worked with camels.
14. The narrator’s point of view in the novel.
15. Sissy’s profession when she grows up.
18. The city to which Odette and Sissy secretly flee.
19. Aaron and George’s abusive father.
23. The power Sergeant Lowe repeatedly tries to exercise over others.
24. A major theme shown by Odette’s determination to survive and protect Sissy.
25. The novel’s central character and Sissy’s grandmother.
26. The retiring police officer whom Lowe replaces.
28. The violent man who harasses Sissy.
30. A genre that combines an invented story with a real historical period.
33. The historical policy of forcing Aboriginal people to abandon their culture.
34. The basic quality and self-respect Odette maintains despite oppression.
35. Jack Haines’s supportive wife.
36. The place where Odette’s husband and father died in an accident.
38. Cecily Brown’s commonly used nickname.
39. The certificate that gives some Aboriginal people limited freedom from government control.

2. Odette’s childhood friend, whom Sissy visits in the epilogue.
4. The object in the garden that reminds Sissy of Odette at the novel’s end.
5. The rural town where Odette and Sissy live.
6. The unfair treatment of people because of their race.
9. The gift Sissy receives for her thirteenth birthday.
10. The organisation that controls many aspects of Aboriginal people’s lives.
11. The kind doctor who diagnoses Odette’s tumour.
14. The author of The White Girl.
16. The Australian state in which Deane is located.
17. The document Odette is denied before leaving Deane.
20. The objects Sissy returns to Deane to scatter after Odette’s death.
21. The emotion that allows Odette and Jack to imagine a better future.
22. Aaron’s younger brother.
27. The Aboriginal man who helps Odette and Sissy in the city.
29. Odette’s daughter and Sissy’s mother.
31. The place where Odette’s Aboriginal relatives are buried.
32. The woman who was removed from her family and raised in an institution.
37. The decade in which most of the novel is set.