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'Taking their anti-social edge one step further, seventeen-year-old Gem and her friends Mira and Lo have decided to go Underground. Their activities will be "extreme", "anti-establishment", "avant-garde" and "debauched".
While Gem makes an underground film and Mira sets about pursuing "boys-without-barcodes" no one knows what it is that Lo – the most subversive of the three – has planned. But in the back of her mind, Gem's worried. She feels the balance of the trio's friendship is always weighted against her. And as the weeks draw closer to Christmas, appearances start to deceive and relationships flounder. For all the promise of the group, Underground seems a dark place to be.
It will take great films, bad poetry and a pantheon of inspirational guides – from Andy Warhol to Germaine Greer – to help Gem work out the true meaning of friendship, where family fits in, and that the best parts of life aren't always underground.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
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2008
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— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 2 2008; (p. 43-44)
— Review of Notes from the Teenage Underground 2006 single work novel -
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2007
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— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 21 no. 2 2007; (p. 28)
— Review of Notes from the Teenage Underground 2006 single work novel -
Too Grim for Teenagers?
2007
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— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 42 no. 2 2007; (p. 90-92)
— Review of Woolvs in the Sitee 2005 single work picture book ; Bye, Beautiful 2006 single work novel ; Living Next to Lulah 2006 single work children's fiction ; Losing It 2006 single work novel ; Mama's Trippin' 2006 single work novel ; Aliki Says 2006 single work novel ; Notes from the Teenage Underground 2006 single work novel -
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2007
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— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 15 no. 1 2007; (p. 29)
— Review of Notes from the Teenage Underground 2006 single work novel -
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2007
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 51 no. 1 2007; (p. 32)
— Review of Notes from the Teenage Underground 2006 single work novel
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Passionate Worlds
2006
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 285 2006; (p. 58-60)
— Review of Monica Bloom 2006 single work novel ; Ten Things I Hate about Me 2006 single work novel ; The Birthmark 2006 single work novel ; Will 2006 single work novel ; The Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong 2006 single work children's fiction ; The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie 2006 single work novel ; On the Jellicoe Road 2006 single work novel ; Red Spikes 2006 selected work short story ; One Whole and Perfect Day 2006 single work novel ; Notes from the Teenage Underground 2006 single work novel -
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2006
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— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , October no. 2 2006; (p. 17)
— Review of Notes from the Teenage Underground 2006 single work novel -
Books Kids
2006
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 - 19 November 2006; (p. 26)
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The Trouble with Hyphens
2006
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 December 2006; (p. 35)
— Review of Ten Things I Hate about Me 2006 single work novel ; The Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong 2006 single work children's fiction ; Notes from the Teenage Underground 2006 single work novel ; Rose By Any Other Name 2006 single work novel -
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2006
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 21 no. 5 2006; (p. 41-42)
— Review of Notes from the Teenage Underground 2006 single work novel
