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Is part of
The Just Series
1992
series - author
children's fiction
Issue Details:
First known date:
2007...
2007
Just Shocking!
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'Is this the right book for you?
'Take the SHOCKING TEST and find out.
- Do you wish you could drive around in a monster truck crushing everybody and everything that gets in your way?
- Do you love watching videos of people having painful accidents?
- Do you do any – or all – of the following: touch electric fences, play with loaded mousetraps or put buttons up your nose?
- Do you think stories about exploding pink butterflies are funny?
- Do you ever laugh so hard that you feel like you're going to throw up all over yourself... and then you actually do?
'SCORE: One point for each yes answer.
3-5: You are a shocking, shocking person! You will love this book.
1-2: You are quite shocking! You will love this book.
0: What a shocking score! You will love this book.' (Publication summary)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Pan Macmillan Australia
, 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Why I Love Choco-Pops in 50 Words or Less, single work children's fiction children's humour
- Fun with a Fire Hose, single work children's fiction
- I Am a Ro-bot, single work children's fiction children's
- Balloons of Doom, single work children's fiction
- Unfunniest Home Video, single work children's fiction
- 101 Really Dangerous Things, single work prose children's
- A Really, Really Good Excuse, single work children's fiction
- Lemonade Roulette, single work children's fiction
- The Exploding Butterfly Story, single work children's fiction
- Fun with a Monster Truck, single work children's fiction
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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[Review] Just Shocking!
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , November no. 3 2007; (p. 23)
— Review of Just Shocking! 2007 selected work children's fiction -
Under Age
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 18 November 2007; (p. 30)
— Review of Just Shocking! 2007 selected work children's fiction
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Under Age
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 18 November 2007; (p. 30)
— Review of Just Shocking! 2007 selected work children's fiction -
[Review] Just Shocking!
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , November no. 3 2007; (p. 23)
— Review of Just Shocking! 2007 selected work children's fiction
Awards
- 2008 winner KOALA Awards — Younger Readers
- 2008 winner COOL Award — Fiction for Younger Readers
- 2008 winner BILBY (Books I Love Best Yearly) Awards
- 2008 winner West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Younger Readers
- 2008 winner YABBA — Fiction for Younger Readers
Last amended 5 Jun 2020 09:57:54