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Cabin 34 single work   novel   young adult  
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Cabin 34
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    y separately published work icon Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1998 Z397129 1998 selected work novel young adult

    'Teens! Everything's black or white. No greys. Everyone believes they are invincible -- or useless. Who hasn't thought, 'that won't happen to me'? Well it happens to Debbie, Rocket, Kylie, and Steven -- a stolen car, a high-speed chase, a crash. There lives are put on hold ...except Stephen. He has no life.This novel doesn't flinch from portraying the reality and harshness of juvenile detention centers; the hope and despair, the fairness and inequity. It also addresses many fundamental issues: the nature of offense, peer pressure, death, loyalty and friendship, self-image, hopelessness and suicide. A compelling read with a shocking climax.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1998

Works about this Work

Slice of Life Fiction Pam Macintyre , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 203 1998; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , 1998 selected work novel ; In the Chainman's House Anna Donald , 1998 single work novel ; Cabin 34 Elspeth Cook , 1998 single work novel
Slice of Life Fiction Pam Macintyre , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 203 1998; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , 1998 selected work novel ; In the Chainman's House Anna Donald , 1998 single work novel ; Cabin 34 Elspeth Cook , 1998 single work novel
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