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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Jarvis 24
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'So far, Marc E. Jarvis has lost a white football boot, a school tie and a best friend.

'But there's more in store for him when he completes Work Experience at a local car yard - where his world is truly rocked, shocked and shaken.

'Then Marc meets Electra. And nothing will ever be the same again...

'A story of true friends, crazed coaches, shooting stars, and loves lost and found.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Hawthorn, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2009 .
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      Extent: 255p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 30 March 2009.
      ISBN: 9780143010043

Works about this Work

CBCA Awards - Acceptance Speeches : Older Readers David Metzenthen , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 54 no. 4 2010; (p. 2-3)
Book of the Year Older Readers - Winner 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 54 no. 3 2010; (p. 5)

— Review of Jarvis 24 David Metzenthen , 2009 single work novel
Light-Hearted Lot Wins the Day Angie Schiavone , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 August 2010; (p. 37)
G-G Compliments 'audacious" Kid Lit Rosemary Sorensen , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 August 2010; (p. 4)
Australian Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, praises Australian children's literature at the launch of Children's Book Week and the announcement of the 2010 winners of the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards.
Kids' Writers Queue Up for Kudos Katharine England , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 April 2010; (p. 50-51)
Off the Shelf : Young Adult Fiction Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 May 2009; (p. 26)

— Review of Jarvis 24 David Metzenthen , 2009 single work novel
[Review] Jarvis 24 Katharine England , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 May 2009; (p. 26)

— Review of Jarvis 24 David Metzenthen , 2009 single work novel
[Review] Jarvis 24 Mike Shuttleworth , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , May no. 1 2009; (p. 22)

— Review of Jarvis 24 David Metzenthen , 2009 single work novel
[Review] Jarvis 24 Roie Thomas , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 17 no. 2 2009; (p. 32)

— Review of Jarvis 24 David Metzenthen , 2009 single work novel
Thomas develops the view that while 'Marc's story is, on some levels, that of a typical sixteen-year-old Australian male...there are complexities to the narrative that lift it from the stereotype' in this review.
[Review] Jarvis 24 Sally Harding , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 24 no. 2 2009; (p. 44)

— Review of Jarvis 24 David Metzenthen , 2009 single work novel
New Country Mike Shuttleworth , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , July no. 2 2009; (p. 12-13)
Kids' Writers Queue Up for Kudos Katharine England , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 April 2010; (p. 50-51)
G-G Compliments 'audacious" Kid Lit Rosemary Sorensen , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 August 2010; (p. 4)
Australian Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, praises Australian children's literature at the launch of Children's Book Week and the announcement of the 2010 winners of the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards.
Light-Hearted Lot Wins the Day Angie Schiavone , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 August 2010; (p. 37)
CBCA Awards - Acceptance Speeches : Older Readers David Metzenthen , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 54 no. 4 2010; (p. 2-3)
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