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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Hard Time
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'Teens! Everything's black or white. No greys. Everyone believes they are invincible -- or useless. Who hasn't thought, 'that won't happen to me'? Well it happens to Debbie, Rocket, Kylie, and Steven -- a stolen car, a high-speed chase, a crash. There lives are put on hold ...except Stephen. He has no life.This novel doesn't flinch from portraying the reality and harshness of juvenile detention centers; the hope and despair, the fairness and inequity. It also addresses many fundamental issues: the nature of offense, peer pressure, death, loyalty and friendship, self-image, hopelessness and suicide. A compelling read with a shocking climax.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • This work is the same story told from two different perspectives. Each author has written one perpective.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Fremantle Press , 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Cabin 34, Elspeth Cook , single work novel young adult
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Untitled Sue Ann Barber , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 14-15)

— Review of Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , 1998 selected work novel
Untitled Jane Connolly , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 13 no. 4 1998; (p. 37)

— Review of Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , 1998 selected work novel
Untitled Sue Maher , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 42 no. 4 1998; (p. 26)

— Review of Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , 1998 selected work novel
Slice of Life Fiction Pam Macintyre , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 203 1998; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , 1998 selected work novel ; In the Chainman's House Anna Donald , 1998 single work novel ; Cabin 34 Elspeth Cook , 1998 single work novel
Untitled Sue Maher , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 42 no. 4 1998; (p. 26)

— Review of Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , 1998 selected work novel
Untitled Jane Connolly , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 13 no. 4 1998; (p. 37)

— Review of Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , 1998 selected work novel
Untitled Sue Ann Barber , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 14-15)

— Review of Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , 1998 selected work novel
Slice of Life Fiction Pam Macintyre , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 203 1998; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Hard Time Elspeth Cook , Anna Donald , 1998 selected work novel ; In the Chainman's House Anna Donald , 1998 single work novel ; Cabin 34 Elspeth Cook , 1998 single work novel
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