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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 The Blooding
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The greenies came to town today. They reckon they’re going to stop the logging. It’s real weird, but part of me wants them to win. I mean, I want the forest to live. But if the logging stops, my home town will die. Dad will lose his job, and I’ll never get one. What am I going to do? (Yeah — whose side are you on, Col?)

Seventeen-year-old Colum leads a double life. In public he hangs out with the town gang, but in private he escapes to his secret place in the forest. When conservationists come to his area, Col is torn between opposing forces, and soon ends up at the centre of a dramatic confrontation.

This tough novel for mature young adults reveals something of the struggle we all face when life challenges us to discover who we are. (Source: Author's website)

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking Kestrel , 1987 .
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      Extent: 170p.
      Description: port.
      ISBN: 0670820296
    • London,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Viking Kestrel ,       1988 .
      Extent: vii, 173p.p.
      ISBN: 0670810118
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1989 .
      Extent: 171p.
      ISBN: 0140343180 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Eingekreist, Cols Geschichte
Language: German
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Works about this Work

Torn Between Two Worlds Lee Forster , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 17 February 1998; (p. A18)
Nadia Wheatley : 'A Perspective Lent by Time' Maureen Nimon , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 217-226)
Coming to Terms with Conflict Merilyn Howorth , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 26 August 1997; (p. 13)
Colum the Confused Jo-Ann Stubbings , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 June 1996; (p. 7)
— Review of The Blooding Nadia Wheatley , 1987 single work novel
The Stare's Empty Nest : Some Views on Four Writers Sophie Masson , 1993 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 8 no. 4 1993; (p. 20-22)
Untitled Jo Goodman , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 3 no. 3 1988; (p. 33)
— Review of The Blooding Nadia Wheatley , 1987 single work novel
Teenagers : Irish Stew and Light Desserts Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 June, 1988; (p. 11)
— Review of The Blooding Nadia Wheatley , 1987 single work novel ; So Much to Tell You John Marsden , 1987 single work novel
Wide Range of Concerns in These Novels for Teens Eleanor Stodart , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 March 1990; (p. B4)
— Review of The Blooding Nadia Wheatley , 1987 single work novel
Colum the Confused Jo-Ann Stubbings , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 June 1996; (p. 7)
— Review of The Blooding Nadia Wheatley , 1987 single work novel
Untitled Laurie Copping , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 32 no. 4 1988; (p. 53)
— Review of The Blooding Nadia Wheatley , 1987 single work novel
Know the Author : Nadia Wheatley Toss Gascoigne , Jenni Connor , 1988 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 3 no. 4 1988; (p. 16-17)
Eating Bananas Underwater Nadia Wheatley , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 4 no. 3 1989; (p. 5-10)
The Moral Stance in the Books of Paterson and Wheatley Veronica Brady , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 4 no. 4 1989; (p. 5-9) Dr. Veronica Brady talks about the moral and ethical stance of American author Katherine Paterson and Australian author Nadia Wheatly as seen in their works.
The Stare's Empty Nest : Some Views on Four Writers Sophie Masson , 1993 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 8 no. 4 1993; (p. 20-22)
Torn Between Two Worlds Lee Forster , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 17 February 1998; (p. A18)
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