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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Follow the Blue
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'Life isn't neat and tidy. It's like a whole lot of balls of brightly colored wool thrown in a basket, with stray beginnings and endings and possibilities everywhere. Let's follow the blue.

'Fifteen-year-old Bec has always been the good girl. Growing up with an eccentric celebrity chef mother and a father who suffers from depression, Bec is used to taking care of her two younger siblings and being labeled "the sensible one." But when Bec's parents decide to take a six-week tour of the U.S., she decides that she is sick of being responsible and is ready for some adventures of her own. She meets a new friend named Jaz, dyes her hair, wins money, throws her first party, and then there's the boy thing...

'In this intoxicating novel by award-winning author and poet Brigid Lowry, Bec realizes that maybe she isn't so ordinary after all—and that sometimes it doesn't hurt to, as her mother would say, "lighten up and enjoy the ride."'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2001 .
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      Extent: 205p.
      ISBN: 186508400X

Works about this Work

Untitled Margot Nelmes , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 45 no. 3 2001; (p. 44-45)

— Review of Follow the Blue Brigid Lowry , 2001 single work novel
Untitled Lyn Sidebottom , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 2 2001; (p. 51-52)

— Review of Follow the Blue Brigid Lowry , 2001 single work novel
Follow the Blue by Brigid Lowry Anna Ree Cutler , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 9 no. 3 2001; (p. 26)
Untitled Anne Briggs , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 16 no. 3 2001; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Follow the Blue Brigid Lowry , 2001 single work novel
A Consomme of Delights Robyn Sheahan-Bright , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 232 2001; (p. 62-63)

— Review of Our Lady of Apollo Bay Janine Burke , 2001 single work novel ; Follow the Blue Brigid Lowry , 2001 single work novel ; The Crowded Beach Laurene Kelly , 2001 single work novel ; Butterflies Susanne Gervay , 2001 single work novel ; Hunters and Warriors Justin D'Ath , 2001 single work novel
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 45 no. 3 2001; (p. 44-45)

— Review of Follow the Blue Brigid Lowry , 2001 single work novel
Teen Fiction Katharine England , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 June 2001; (p. 21)

— Review of Riding the Blues Jeri Kroll , 2001 single work novel ; Mahalia Joanne Horniman , 2001 single work novel ; Follow the Blue Brigid Lowry , 2001 single work novel
Adventure Replaced by Adult Anxieties Stephen Matthews , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 September 2001; (p. 16)

— Review of Leaving No Footprints Elaine Forrestal , 2001 single work children's fiction ; Follow the Blue Brigid Lowry , 2001 single work novel ; If Only Sarah Walker , 2001 single work novel ; Asking for Trouble Mary K. Pershall , 2001 single work novel
A Consomme of Delights Robyn Sheahan-Bright , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 232 2001; (p. 62-63)

— Review of Our Lady of Apollo Bay Janine Burke , 2001 single work novel ; Follow the Blue Brigid Lowry , 2001 single work novel ; The Crowded Beach Laurene Kelly , 2001 single work novel ; Butterflies Susanne Gervay , 2001 single work novel ; Hunters and Warriors Justin D'Ath , 2001 single work novel
Untitled Anne Briggs , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 16 no. 3 2001; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Follow the Blue Brigid Lowry , 2001 single work novel
Follow the Blue by Brigid Lowry Anna Ree Cutler , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 9 no. 3 2001; (p. 26)
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