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1 1 y separately published work icon Robbie's Mob Jo Rice , Surrey : World's Work The Windmill Press , 1971 Z936012 1971 single work children's fiction children's

'Robbie's Mob is set in Australia where the author spent some years as a child. The "Mob" is the eight children of the Robbins family, scrapping, plotting and dodging household chores but united and loyal in defending anyone of themselves who is threatened by adult discipline or ill luck.

'When Pippa, who has been away in hospital for several months as a result of an accident, returns home, the effects on the Mob are mixed. There is anger that she is still deaf, jealousy that she should have special attention, but most of all determination that if anyone can help her the Mob can. Could it have been the Mob's scheme for a special surprise effect at the Christmas Carol Service in the bush which helped Pippa?' (Inside dust jacket)
2 y separately published work icon World's End was Home Nan Chauncy , London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press , 1952 Z830915 1952 single work children's fiction children's When her father is killed, Dallie is caught up in a struggle for her custody between her working class grandmother who takes her to live on her subsistence farm in Tasmania and her uncaring aunt who wants Dallie only for the money she will inherit.
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