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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Barefoot Kids
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'An action packed, character filled adventure story set in Broome WA. Barefoot Kids revolves around the Jirroo cousins - Janey, Jimmy, Tich, Buddy and Dancer - who play in a band together. Their special place, Eagle Beach, is under threat from developers . The kids start a campaign to save the beach, which leads to adventure, danger and excitement. Mixed in is the story of a missing treasure - millions of dollars worth of diamonds which mysteriously disappeared, along with the children's great-grandfather, in 1942. Join the Jirroo kids on a their quest to save Eagle Beach, and get lost along the way on a modern-day treasure hunt.' Source: Libraries Australia. (Sighted 17/11/2009).

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    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2007 .
      Extent: 390p.
      Description: illus.,geneal. table, 1 map
      ISBN: 1920731539, 9781920731533
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Works about this Work

Untitled Alison Lawrence , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 21 no. 2 2007; (p. 25)
— Review of Barefoot Kids Steve Hawke , 2007 single work children's fiction
Untitled Michael O'Donoghue , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time: The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 51 no. 2 2007; (p. 38)
— Review of Barefoot Kids Steve Hawke , 2007 single work children's fiction
Barefoot and Brainy in Broome Lorien Kaye , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 February 2007; (p. 26)
— Review of Barefoot Kids Steve Hawke , 2007 single work children's fiction
Barefoot and Brainy in Broome Lorien Kaye , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 February 2007; (p. 26)
— Review of Barefoot Kids Steve Hawke , 2007 single work children's fiction
Untitled Michael O'Donoghue , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time: The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 51 no. 2 2007; (p. 38)
— Review of Barefoot Kids Steve Hawke , 2007 single work children's fiction
Untitled Alison Lawrence , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 21 no. 2 2007; (p. 25)
— Review of Barefoot Kids Steve Hawke , 2007 single work children's fiction
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Last amended 17 Nov 2009 10:13:57
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  • Broome, Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
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