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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Homestrung
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A girl struggles with the adjustments she is forced to make after her mother dies. She is confronted with both personal and interpersonal conflicts, but is supported by a friend.
A young woman is sent to the Barossa Valley to live with her grandmother and
great-grandmother. Here she learns how her grandparents left war-torn Holland to
A young woman is sent to the Barossa Valley to live with her grandmother and
great-grandmother. Here she learns how her grandparents left war-torn Holland to
come to Australia.
A young woman is sent to the Barossa Valley to live with her grandmother and
great-grandmother. Here she learns how her grandparents left war-torn Holland to
come to Australia.
She is sent to the Barossa Valley to live with her grandmother and great-grandmother, where she learns how her grandparents left war-torn Holland to come to Australia.

Notes

  • Written with the assistance of a literature grant from the then South Australian Department for the Arts and Cultural Development.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Hyland House , 1998 .
      Extent: 176p.
      ISBN: 186447016X

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Untitled Jane Connolly , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 13 no. 3 1998; (p. 39-40)

— Review of Homestrung Helen McKerral , 1998 single work novel
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 42 no. 3 1998; (p. 40)

— Review of Homestrung Helen McKerral , 1998 single work novel
Untitled Janet Aumann , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 6 no. 2 1998; (p. 43-44)

— Review of Homestrung Helen McKerral , 1998 single work novel
Solving Family Mystery a Dutch Treat Katharine England , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 August 1998; (p. 19)

— Review of Homestrung Helen McKerral , 1998 single work novel
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 42 no. 3 1998; (p. 40)

— Review of Homestrung Helen McKerral , 1998 single work novel
Untitled Jane Connolly , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 13 no. 3 1998; (p. 39-40)

— Review of Homestrung Helen McKerral , 1998 single work novel
Solving Family Mystery a Dutch Treat Katharine England , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 August 1998; (p. 19)

— Review of Homestrung Helen McKerral , 1998 single work novel
Untitled Janet Aumann , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 6 no. 2 1998; (p. 43-44)

— Review of Homestrung Helen McKerral , 1998 single work novel
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