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y separately published work icon The Third Day, The Frost single work   novel   young adult  
Is part of Tomorrow Series John Marsden , 1993 series - author novel (number 3 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 The Third Day, The Frost
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'What's the biggest danger you can think of? This is bigger. What's the toughest challenge you can imagine? This is tougher. What's the greatest fear you have?

'You're about to find out.

"How long do you think they'll keep looking for us?" I asked Lee, as we lay there.

"Until they find us," he answered grimly.

'They came in summer. They fell upon the land swiftly and suddenly. Through autumn they spread, like locusts, like mice, like a plague. Now it's winter. They're still here. But so too are Ellie and Homer and their friends.' (Source: Trove)

Notes

  • Dedication: To my sister and long-time friend, Rosalind Alexander.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and has an Asian-Australian character, Lee, of Thai and Vietnamese heritage.


  • Preppers and Survivalism in the AustLit Database

    This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:

    1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
    2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat

    • A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
    • The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper. 

    3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.

    As a tier two work, this text has been identified as key to prepping in a broader, more conceptual relationship. These texts have been classified as ‘key’ prepper-adjacent texts that are important to prepping, even if they themselves are not about prepping or do not include preppers. These texts have been identified in the database through various means such as interviews with preppers, scholarship on preppers, and online prepper forums.
     

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan , 1997 .
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      Extent: 278p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st September 1997
      ISBN: 0330360264
    • Boston, Massachusetts,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Houghton Mifflin ,
      1998 .
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      Alternative title: A Killing Frost
      Extent: 265p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
      ISBN: 0395837359
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Bantam Books ,
      1999 .
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      Alternative title: A Killing Frost
      Extent: 275p.
      ISBN: 0440228328
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Quercus ,
      2012 .
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      Extent: 278p.p.
      ISBN: 9780857388766, 0857388762
Alternative title: Den tredje dagens kyla
Language: Swedish

Other Formats

  • Braille.
  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Invasions of the Mind : John Marsden and the Threat from Asia Adrian Caesar , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 157 1999; (p. 46-50)
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost Culture Vulture , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 4-5 December 1999; (p. 72)

— Review of The Third Day, The Frost John Marsden , 1995 single work novel
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost Culture Vulture , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 27-28 June 1998; (p. 51)

— Review of The Third Day, The Frost John Marsden , 1995 single work novel
John Marsden : 'Fighting On' John Foster , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 173-182)
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost Lorraine Lewis , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 27-28)

— Review of The Third Day, The Frost John Marsden , 1995 single work novel
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost Sue Clancy , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 40 no. 2 1996; (p. 36-37)

— Review of The Third Day, The Frost John Marsden , 1995 single work novel
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost Joan Zahnleiter , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 11 no. 1 1996; (p. 35)

— Review of The Third Day, The Frost John Marsden , 1995 single work novel
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost Lorraine Lewis , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 27-28)

— Review of The Third Day, The Frost John Marsden , 1995 single work novel
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost [and] Earthsong Nicola Robinson , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 75 no. 1061 1995; (p. 56)

— Review of The Third Day, The Frost John Marsden , 1995 single work novel ; Earthsong Victor Kelleher , 1995 single work novel
Kept on Tenterhooks Katharine England , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 October 1995; (p. 11)

— Review of The Third Day, The Frost John Marsden , 1995 single work novel
Young Adult Fiction Prize Cathrine Harboe-Ree , 1996 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 11 no. 5 1996; (p. 39)
Invasions of the Mind : John Marsden and the Threat from Asia Adrian Caesar , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 157 1999; (p. 46-50)
John Marsden : 'Fighting On' John Foster , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 173-182)
The Festival Literary Awards : 1996 Katharine England , Daryl McCann , Ruth Starke , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 1996; (p. 8-10)
Bleak House, or The Sun Also Rises : A View of Young Adult Fiction Lorraine Elliott , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 4 no. 4 1996; (p. 3-4)
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