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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)
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Red Dirt Diary : Drought, Super Rat and a Bagpipe-Loving Pig... a Year in the Life of Blue Weston
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 2010 single work children's fiction ; Blue About Love 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
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 2010 single work children's fiction -
Animal and Other Antics
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 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Incredible Pound Dogs : Two Adventure Stories 2010 selected work children's fiction
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Animal and Other Antics
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 2010 single work children's fiction ; The Incredible Pound Dogs : Two Adventure Stories 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
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 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
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 2010 single work children's fiction ; Blue About Love 2012 single work children's fiction
Awards
- Dubbo area, Wellington - Dubbo - Narromine area, Central West NSW, New South Wales,
- Rural,