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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 1836 : Do You Dare? : Fighting Bones
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'Fighting Bones is the convict-era adventure in this series of exciting, action-packed Australian stories for boys aged 8 to 12.

'Irish brothers Danny and Declan Sheehan are inmates at Tasmania's Point Puer prison for convict boys in 1836. When tragedy strikes and the prison bully is on the rampage, escape is their only chance to survive... But will they dare?

'It's an adventure in history.' (Publication summary)

Affiliation Notes

  • This work has been affiliated with the Irishness in Australian Literature dataset because it contains Irish characters, settings, tropes or themes.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2014 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 194p.
      Description: illus., map
      Note/s:
      • Published: 25/06/2014
      ISBN: 9780143307556 (paperback), 014330755X (paperback)
      Series: y separately published work icon Do You Dare? : Adventures in History Melbourne : Penguin , 2014-2015 7179462 2014 series - publisher novel young adult children's historical fiction

Works about this Work

Review : 1836 H. M. Saxby , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 29 no. 3 2014; (p. 36)

— Review of 1836 : Do You Dare? : Fighting Bones Sofie Laguna , 2014 single work children's fiction
Review : 1836 H. M. Saxby , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 29 no. 3 2014; (p. 36)

— Review of 1836 : Do You Dare? : Fighting Bones Sofie Laguna , 2014 single work children's fiction
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