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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 The Eye Witness
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The year is 2046 and Leo meets Jack, a boy who has been mysteriously transported from the past. By helping Jack, Leo puts his whole family in terrible danger. The threat comes from two sides: from the leader of a group of dangerous outcasts, and from the authorities who suspect that Leo is in league with the outcasts.

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Children of the Apocalypse Roslyn Weaver , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film : A Critical Study 2011; (p. 108-134)

This chapter explores apocalypse in children's literature with reference to literary attitudes to children, nature and dystopia. Examinations of works by Lee Harding, Victor Kelleher, and John Marsden then focus on how these writers adapt apocalyptic themes for a juvenile audience. Their novels display tyranny, large-scale catastrophe, invasion, and children in danger, and their apocalyptic settings reveal anxieties about isolation, invasion, Indigenous land rights and colonization. (108)
Caroline Macdonald : 'Future to Present' Maureen Nimon , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 165-172)
Untitled 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 7 no. 4 1993; (p. 26)
— Review of The Eye Witness Caroline Macdonald , 1991 single work novel
Untitled Suzanne Mather , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 6 no. 1 1992; (p. 16-17)
— Review of The Eye Witness Caroline Macdonald , 1991 single work novel
Untitled John Murray , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 7 no. 4 1992; (p. 32)
— Review of The Eye Witness Caroline Macdonald , 1991 single work novel
Untitled Judith James , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 36 no. 2 1992; (p. 29)
— Review of The Eye Witness Caroline Macdonald , 1991 single work novel
Untitled John Murray , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 7 no. 4 1992; (p. 32)
— Review of The Eye Witness Caroline Macdonald , 1991 single work novel
Untitled 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 7 no. 4 1993; (p. 26)
— Review of The Eye Witness Caroline Macdonald , 1991 single work novel
Time Travel and Murder in a Tasmania of the Future Frances Kelly , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 30 November 1991; (p. 13)
— Review of The Eye Witness Caroline Macdonald , 1991 single work novel
Forecasts Margaret Dunkle , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , October vol. 71 no. 1020 1991; (p. 26)
— Review of The Eye Witness Caroline Macdonald , 1991 single work novel
Children of the Apocalypse Roslyn Weaver , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film : A Critical Study 2011; (p. 108-134)

This chapter explores apocalypse in children's literature with reference to literary attitudes to children, nature and dystopia. Examinations of works by Lee Harding, Victor Kelleher, and John Marsden then focus on how these writers adapt apocalyptic themes for a juvenile audience. Their novels display tyranny, large-scale catastrophe, invasion, and children in danger, and their apocalyptic settings reveal anxieties about isolation, invasion, Indigenous land rights and colonization. (108)
Caroline Macdonald : 'Future to Present' Maureen Nimon , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 165-172)
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