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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Dale
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'Stuff happens sometimes. Everyday stuff. At school, at home, with sport, with mates.

'For Dale it happened during a school play.

'Dale is a story about an odd but likeable redhead who decides to take revenge on Dan, the coolest kid in school. Dale intends to embarrass Dan during the finale of their school play, but as the big moment approaches Dale has second thoughts. But is he too late to stop the plan he's put in place? ' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2016 .
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      Extent: 120p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 01/05/2016
      ISBN: 9781760141585
      Series: y separately published work icon Stuff Happens Melbourne : Penguin Books , 2014 7438060 2014 series - publisher children's fiction children's
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon A Lot of Stuff Happens Susannah McFarlane (editor), Melbourne : Puffin , 2019 14889546 2019 collected work children's fiction

    'When stuff happens to Ned, Dale, Sean and Ethan at Monvale Primary, it’s just the everyday stuff. You know, friendships, ghost stories, the school play, disappearing hamburgers, new teachers, singing monkeys and lions, the first day at school school flags made of underwear, living up to older brothers and sisters, warring dinosaurs. Stuff that happens all the time when you’re in year five.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Melbourne : Puffin , 2019

Works about this Work

Dale (Stuff Happens) : Review Jane O'connell , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time , July 2016;

— Review of Dale Adrian Beck , 2016 single work children's fiction
'Dale is the latest book in the popular Stuff Happens series, and continues the theme of tackling everyday childhood challenges with subtle advice and humour. ...'
Dale (Stuff Happens) : Review Jane O'connell , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time , July 2016;

— Review of Dale Adrian Beck , 2016 single work children's fiction
'Dale is the latest book in the popular Stuff Happens series, and continues the theme of tackling everyday childhood challenges with subtle advice and humour. ...'
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