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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 MVP : Most Valuable Potential
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Ex-basketball professional, Sean Watson, is appointed to coach students from non-English speaking backgrounds at a new school. The Milpera school encourages students to develop language skills in order to be able to attend mainstream schools. Sean establishes dialogue with the students around the plight of refugees in Australia, love and loss, puberty, language and cultural differences, and leads the team to compete in the Pepsi Cup Challenge for basketball.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has strong multicultural themes, and contains Chinese, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern and Taiwanese characters with respective cultural references. There are additional references to Iran, Iraq and Indonesia, and experiences of immigrants and refugees.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Maleny, Maleny area, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, South East Queensland, Queensland,: Ninderry Press , 2003 .
      Extent: 251p.
      Note/s:
      • Portrait of Darren Groth.
      ISBN: 0975116827
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Works about this Work

Untitled Jean Yates , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Books from Our Backyard : Must-Read Books from Queensland 2006; (p. 93)
— Review of MVP : Most Valuable Potential Darren Groth , 2003 single work novel
Untitled Sally Murphy , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 49 no. 3 2005; (p. 42)
— Review of MVP : Most Valuable Potential Darren Groth , 2003 single work novel
Counts Himself Lucky Patrick Watson , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 September 2004; (p. 20)
— Review of MVP : Most Valuable Potential Darren Groth , 2003 single work novel
Counts Himself Lucky Patrick Watson , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 September 2004; (p. 20)
— Review of MVP : Most Valuable Potential Darren Groth , 2003 single work novel
Untitled Sally Murphy , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 49 no. 3 2005; (p. 42)
— Review of MVP : Most Valuable Potential Darren Groth , 2003 single work novel
Untitled Jean Yates , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Books from Our Backyard : Must-Read Books from Queensland 2006; (p. 93)
— Review of MVP : Most Valuable Potential Darren Groth , 2003 single work novel
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