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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 The Girl with No Name
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A white boy becomes lost in the bush after he sets off alone to camp at Goanna Gorge in the Kimberleys. He is determined to find the Aboriginal rock paintings he knows are hidden there. He becomes lost and is helped by an Aboriginal girl.

Notes

  • Feeling the Heat is a loose sequel to this novel.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Puffin ,       1994 .
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      Extent: 112p.
      ISBN: 0140369538 (pbk.)
Alternative title: La Bambina Senza Nome
Language: Italian
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Related Works

y separately published work icon Feeling the Heat Pat Lowe , Camberwell : Penguin , 2002 Z964434 2002 single work novel young adult 'Matthew follows his heart back to the remote town in the Kimberley where he spent the happiest years of his childhood. He needs to find work, and he is also looking for his past, for Frances, the girl who once meant so much to him. But things have changed more than he'd ever imagined, and then a shocking event shakes Matthew's confidence and threatens all his plans and dreams.' - back cover
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Works about this Work

Aboriginal Australians in Asia : Travel Experiences of Three Men from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia Pat Lowe , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Change - Conflict and Convergence : Austral-Asian Scenarios 2010; (p. 29-34)
Making Sense of 'Their' Sense of Place : Australian Children's Literature Landscape on Indigenous Land Brooke Collins-Gearing , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Children's Literature , vol. 33 no. 2 2007; (p. 27-37)

Collins-Gearing examines how representations of Indigenality, Indigenous people and life in Australian children's literature have been constructed by non-indigenous authors to accommodate a white sense of place and community, often to the exclusion of indigenous child readers.
Untitled Mandy Cheetham , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 9 no. 5 1994; (p. 30)
— Review of The Girl with No Name Pat Lowe , 1994 single work novel
Untitled Barbara Dobson , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 38 no. 4 1994; (p. 31-32)
— Review of The Girl with No Name Pat Lowe , 1994 single work novel
Untitled Liam Davison , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 2 no. 4 1994; (p. 42-43)
— Review of The Girl with No Name Pat Lowe , 1994 single work novel
Untitled Barbara Dobson , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 38 no. 4 1994; (p. 31-32)
— Review of The Girl with No Name Pat Lowe , 1994 single work novel
Untitled Mandy Cheetham , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 9 no. 5 1994; (p. 30)
— Review of The Girl with No Name Pat Lowe , 1994 single work novel
Insights to Share Katharine England , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 20 August 1994; (p. 10,12)
— Review of First Light Gary Crew , 1993 single work picture book ; The Girl with No Name Pat Lowe , 1994 single work novel ; Gracey James Moloney , 1994 single work novel ; Inventing Anthony West Gary Crew , 1994 single work novel ; The White Guinea-Pig Ursula Dubosarsky , 1994 single work novel
From the Word Go : Books for Younger Readers Stephen Matthews , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 165 1994; (p. 66-67)
— Review of Spider Mansion Caroline Macdonald , 1994 single work novel ; The Night Tolkien Died Nadia Wheatley , 1995 selected work short story ; Jake Lee-Anne Levy , 1994 single work novel ; This Summer Last Lee-Anne Levy , 1994 single work non-fiction ; The Girl with No Name Pat Lowe , 1994 single work novel
Untitled Liam Davison , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 2 no. 4 1994; (p. 42-43)
— Review of The Girl with No Name Pat Lowe , 1994 single work novel
Aboriginal Australians in Asia : Travel Experiences of Three Men from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia Pat Lowe , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Change - Conflict and Convergence : Austral-Asian Scenarios 2010; (p. 29-34)
Making Sense of 'Their' Sense of Place : Australian Children's Literature Landscape on Indigenous Land Brooke Collins-Gearing , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Children's Literature , vol. 33 no. 2 2007; (p. 27-37)

Collins-Gearing examines how representations of Indigenality, Indigenous people and life in Australian children's literature have been constructed by non-indigenous authors to accommodate a white sense of place and community, often to the exclusion of indigenous child readers.
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