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'A courageous novel - honest, compassionate and wry - about what really goes on in a tough high school. Told alternately from the point of view of the most troublesome student (a difficult but astute girl) and the deputy principal (a sympathetic but overworked man), this story explores dangerous boundaries and reveals uncomfortable truths about parents, students and teachers.;
'Watch out for Jamie Joel. She s got a real temper and a mouth like a sewer when she gets going. Jamie imagined the new deputy reading her file, with a photo the size of a Wanted poster and words like disruptive , unco-operative , inappropriate underneath it all that teacher stuff that never said what really happened.
'I reminded Jamie that student behaviour management was my job, and that part of the issue was now her identity crisis in the corridor. From the way she looked at me, I had the distinct feeling that it wasn t possible to be a deputy principal and a human being at the same time.
'Against the background of a busy high school, student and teacher are thrown together in ways that test them both.
'With sympathy, humour and a sharp eye for the truth, Mike Dumbleton writes about the complicated push-and-pull between teenagers, parents and schools.' (Publication summary)
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Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 12 no. 1 2004; (p. 45)
— Review of Watch Out for Jamie Joel 2003 single work novel -
Untitled
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 17 no. 3 2003; (p. 23)
— Review of Watch Out for Jamie Joel 2003 single work novel -
Untitled
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 47 no. 4 2003; (p. 40)
— Review of Watch Out for Jamie Joel 2003 single work novel -
Bookshelf
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 11 October 2003; (p. 12)
— Review of Borderland : A Trilogy 2003 sequence novel ; Stitches in Time 2003 single work novel ; Watch Out for Jamie Joel 2003 single work novel -
Young Adults
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 August 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of Watch Out for Jamie Joel 2003 single work novel
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Young Adults
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 August 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of Watch Out for Jamie Joel 2003 single work novel -
Bookshelf
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 11 October 2003; (p. 12)
— Review of Borderland : A Trilogy 2003 sequence novel ; Stitches in Time 2003 single work novel ; Watch Out for Jamie Joel 2003 single work novel -
Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 12 no. 1 2004; (p. 45)
— Review of Watch Out for Jamie Joel 2003 single work novel -
Untitled
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 47 no. 4 2003; (p. 40)
— Review of Watch Out for Jamie Joel 2003 single work novel -
Untitled
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 17 no. 3 2003; (p. 23)
— Review of Watch Out for Jamie Joel 2003 single work novel