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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Cross My Heart
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'Cross My Heart is the story of a 17 year old girl from a country-family who runs away from home after deciding that she doesn’t want to marry her boyfriend as is expected of her just because she is pregnant (she was never asked about the marriage, he just asked her parents and it was excepted that she would accept the situation), and an ex-crim in his early twenties who has just got out of jail on good behaviour. Both looking for work. He offers her a lift on his bike to save her being picked up by a group of guys he knows is danger and they end up riding across half of Australia.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1993 .
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Language: German
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  • Also braille and sound recording.
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Works about this Work

Untitled Marie Evans , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 3 2001; (p. 56-57)
— Review of Cross My Heart Maureen McCarthy , 1993 single work novel
Fires Inside and Out Bring Life to the Boil Virginia Klooger , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 September 2001; (p. 17)
— Review of Burnt Out Marguerite Hann Syme , 2001 single work children's fiction ; Cross My Heart Maureen McCarthy , 1993 single work novel ; Mahalia Joanne Horniman , 2001 single work novel
Nun Too Good Monique Farmer , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 May 2001; (p. 10)
— Review of Cross My Heart Maureen McCarthy , 1993 single work novel ; Dear Henry Brenda Little , 2001 single work novel
What I Want to Read Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: The Written World : Youth and Literature 1994; (p. 19-28)
How Writers Get it Right - Eventually : Keeping Alive Spontaneity Maureen McCarthy , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 16 May 1994; (p. 3)
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 37 no. 3 1993; (p. 34)
— Review of Cross My Heart Maureen McCarthy , 1993 single work novel
Untitled Kim Caraher , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 8 no. 5 1993; (p. 35)
— Review of Cross My Heart Maureen McCarthy , 1993 single work novel
Untitled Marie Evans , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 3 2001; (p. 56-57)
— Review of Cross My Heart Maureen McCarthy , 1993 single work novel
Untitled Anna Jermolajew , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 7 no. 2 1993; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Cross My Heart Maureen McCarthy , 1993 single work novel
From the Word Go : Books for Younger Readers Stephen Matthews , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 153 1993; (p. 59-60)
— Review of The Autumn Tree Jo-ann McMeekin , 1993 single work novel ; Timmy Colin Thiele , 1993 single work children's fiction ; Cross My Heart Maureen McCarthy , 1993 single work novel ; The Hottest Boy Who Ever Lived Anna Fienberg , 1993 single work picture book
How Writers Get it Right - Eventually : Keeping Alive Spontaneity Maureen McCarthy , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 16 May 1994; (p. 3)
What I Want to Read Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , 1994 single work biography
— Appears in: The Written World : Youth and Literature 1994; (p. 19-28)
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