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Alternative title: Red Dirt Diaries
Is part of Red Dirt Diary Katrina Nannestad , 2010 series - author children's fiction (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston
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'Blue Weston's life is spiralling out of control. Her parents are sending her to boarding school next year. Her mad twin brothers are building pig chariots in the back shed. Her best friend has been abducted by zombies and replaced with a boy-crazy tween. And then there's the drought that's showing no signs of ending soon ... It's New Year's Day, and Blue has resolved to keep a diary of the year's events. It will be another hard year of dust storms and drought on her family's farm - with the odd leech attack and bagpipe-loving pig thrown in for good measure! Red Dirt Diary is the hilarious tale of eleven-year-old tomboy Blue Weston, who lives with her family on a property outside Dubbo. Illustrated with black-and-white diary doodles throughout, it's the perfect book for fans of Robin Klein's Penny Pollard series and of Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson series. Ages 8+' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2010 .
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      Extent: 175p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published May 1st 2010
      ISBN: 9780733328053 (pbk.)
    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2014 .
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      Extent: 192p.
      Edition info: 2nd edition
      Note/s:
      • Published 24/11/2014
      • With title Red Dirt Diaries

Works about this Work

Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston Kate O'Donnell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 27 no. 1 2012; (p. 38)

— Review of Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston Katrina Nannestad , 2010 single work children's fiction ; Blue About Love Katrina Nannestad , 2012 single work children's fiction
Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston Helen Martin , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 54 no. 3 2010; (p. 30)

— Review of Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston Katrina Nannestad , 2010 single work children's fiction
Animal and Other Antics Margaret Bromley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 September 2010; (p. 30)

— Review of Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston Katrina Nannestad , 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Incredible Pound Dogs : Two Adventure Stories Jenny Ferguson , 2010 selected work children's fiction
Animal and Other Antics Margaret Bromley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 September 2010; (p. 30)

— Review of Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston Katrina Nannestad , 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Incredible Pound Dogs : Two Adventure Stories Jenny Ferguson , 2010 selected work children's fiction
Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston Helen Martin , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 54 no. 3 2010; (p. 30)

— Review of Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston Katrina Nannestad , 2010 single work children's fiction
Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston Kate O'Donnell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 27 no. 1 2012; (p. 38)

— Review of Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston Katrina Nannestad , 2010 single work children's fiction ; Blue About Love Katrina Nannestad , 2012 single work children's fiction
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