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'Fourteen-year-old Christabel McManus is bored and lonely. Since the death of her mother, her father has thrown himself into his work, and she has only her governess and the cook for company. When a servant's eight-year-old son is kidnapped, Christabel impetuously decided to rescue him—by dressing as a boy and heading into the squalid and crime-ridden streets of The Rocks.
'What begins as a game takes a terrifying turn, as Christabel discovers that the notoriously violent gangs that infest the slums are not the only threat; an outbreak of the deadly bubonic plague is imminent. And when Christabel, too, is kidnapped, the game becomes very dangerous indeed'. (Source: Author's website)
'What begins as a game takes a terrifying turn, as Christabel discovers that the notoriously violent gangs that infest the slums are not the only threat; an outbreak of the deadly bubonic plague is imminent. And when Christabel, too, is kidnapped, the game becomes very dangerous indeed'. (Source: Author's website)
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2005
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— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 30-31)
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2005
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— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 13 no. 3 2005; (p. 45)
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 49 no. 3 2005; (p. 27-28)
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Rocks in My Head
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— Appears in: Limelight , June 2005; (p. 60)
— Review of All Fall Down 2005 single work children's fiction ; High Hopes on Sea 2005 single work children's fiction
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 April 2005; (p. 17)
— Review of Woolly Jumpers 2005 single work children's fiction ; Hooray for Horrible Harriet 2005 single work picture book ; Little Book of Australian Children's Rhymes 2004 anthology poetry ; All Fall Down 2005 single work children's fiction ; Oscar's Half Birthday 2005 single work picture book -
For Kids
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— Appears in: The Age , 30 April 2005; (p. 6)
— Review of All Fall Down 2005 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
2005
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 20 no. 2 2005; (p. 33)
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In Short : Fiction
2005
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 May 2005; (p. 26)
— Review of Beyond Mombasa 2005 single work novel ; Unbroken Blue 2005 single work novel ; All Fall Down 2005 single work children's fiction -
Rocks in My Head
2005
single work
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— Appears in: Limelight , June 2005; (p. 60)
— Review of All Fall Down 2005 single work children's fiction ; High Hopes on Sea 2005 single work children's fiction
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