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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Riding with Thunderbolt : The Diary of Ben Cross
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'I looked over my shoulder and saw a black stallion heading my way. There was a man riding the stallion and he was familiar somehow. As he got closer I could see a small child on the saddle in front of him...

'When Ben Cross runs away from his brutal uncle, he is looking for adventure. But he finds much more than that when he joins the bushranger Thunderbolt and becomes the cockatoo – or lookout – for the bushranger’s gang.

'In between raiding cattle stations, inns, stores and mail coaches Ben befriends Thunderbolt’s wife Mary Ann, helping in her endless hunt for food and hiding places in the wilderness.

'But at the end of a year of running from the law, of dramatic rescue and desperate shootouts, both Ben and Thunderbolt know they must give up the bushranging life.

'If they can...' (Publieher's blurb)

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[Review] Riding with Thunderbolt Jan Finning , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 2 2004; (p. 14)

— Review of Riding with Thunderbolt : The Diary of Ben Cross Allan Baillie , 2004 single work children's fiction
[Review] Riding with Thunderbolt Michelle Prawer , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 12 no. 3 2004; (p. 41)

— Review of Riding with Thunderbolt : The Diary of Ben Cross Allan Baillie , 2004 single work children's fiction
[Review] Riding with Thunderbolt Michael Janssen-Gibson , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 19 no. 3 2004; (p. 32)

— Review of Riding with Thunderbolt : The Diary of Ben Cross Allan Baillie , 2004 single work children's fiction
Ageing Dragon Meets Youthful Hero Moira McAlister , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 July 2004; (p. 4a)

— Review of Dragonkeeper Carole Wilkinson , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Princess Tamsin Annette Kay Wickes , 2004 single work children's fiction ; The King of Large June Colbert , 2004 single work children's fiction ; Riding with Thunderbolt : The Diary of Ben Cross Allan Baillie , 2004 single work children's fiction ; Summer's Story Wendy Graham , 2004 single work novel
Ageing Dragon Meets Youthful Hero Moira McAlister , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 July 2004; (p. 4a)

— Review of Dragonkeeper Carole Wilkinson , 2003 single work children's fiction ; Princess Tamsin Annette Kay Wickes , 2004 single work children's fiction ; The King of Large June Colbert , 2004 single work children's fiction ; Riding with Thunderbolt : The Diary of Ben Cross Allan Baillie , 2004 single work children's fiction ; Summer's Story Wendy Graham , 2004 single work novel
[Review] Riding with Thunderbolt Michael Janssen-Gibson , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 19 no. 3 2004; (p. 32)

— Review of Riding with Thunderbolt : The Diary of Ben Cross Allan Baillie , 2004 single work children's fiction
[Review] Riding with Thunderbolt Michelle Prawer , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 12 no. 3 2004; (p. 41)

— Review of Riding with Thunderbolt : The Diary of Ben Cross Allan Baillie , 2004 single work children's fiction
[Review] Riding with Thunderbolt Jan Finning , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 2 2004; (p. 14)

— Review of Riding with Thunderbolt : The Diary of Ben Cross Allan Baillie , 2004 single work children's fiction
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