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A series for teenagers with quality writing but cheap production. Themes such as peer pressure, a desire to be liked, lack of communication with parents, and a search for identity recur through the series. The approach is postitve, with most protagonists solving their problems largely through good sense and often good luck.
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- y The Catalyst Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z185321 1989 single work novel young adult science fiction Sydney : Collins , 1989
- y Shatterbelt Glebe : Walter McVitty Books , 1987 Z396910 1987 single work children's fiction children's Troubled by increasingly frequent but puzzling mind pictures, thirteen-year-old Tracy becomes convinced that they are warning her of impending disaster. But what kind ... and when? Sydney : Collins , 1989
- y Never Tomorrow Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z177046 1989 single work novel young adult Sydney : Collins , 1989
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'"YOUNG BROTHERS JUMP TO DEATHS: LOVED SAME GIRL" reads the headline; months later the girl, 15-year-old Sally O'Leary, tries to unravel the grief and guilt of the tragic events whose misrepresentation has been part of her trauma. Sally first met Benji and his blind older brother, Joel, at a school debate on life after death--a possibility that fascinates Joel. As Sally gradually reveals in excerpts from her diary, in memories she confides to the reader, and in conversations with the psychiatrist to whom she's sent as a seriously disturbed truant, Joel later seeks her out to pursue their debate. Benji, whose parents require him to be Joel's guide and companion, makes a third in their growing friendship. It's never quite more than that; though Benji and Sally are attracted to each other, Benji "must not take that hope, or enjoy your love when it is what my brother wants most." Joel seeks meaning in New Age philosophy and the occult; and, trying to divert him from what they perceive as perilous ideas, Joel and Sally concoct a horoscope that Joel disastrously misconstrues.'
Source: Kirkus Reviews.
Sydney : Collins , 1989 - y Climbing the Wall Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z837234 1989 single work novel young adult Sydney : Collins , 1989
- y Playing for Keeps Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z832426 1989 single work novel young adult Sydney : Collins , 1989
- y First Loves John Malone , Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z832591 1989 anthology short story young adult Sydney : Collins , 1989
- y The Radical Rider Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z835711 1989 single work novel young adult Sydney : Collins , 1989
- y The Silver Cat Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z846733 1989 single work children's fiction children's thriller Sydney : Collins , 1989
- y Radical Diver Sydney : Collins , 1989 Z857778 1989 single work novel young adult adventure Sydney : Collins , 1989
- y Spaghetti Connections North Ryde : Collins , 1989 Z351204 1989 single work novel young adult North Ryde : Collins , 1989
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 33 no. 3 1989; (p. 3)
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 33 no. 3 1989; (p. 3)