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Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 The Seventh Pebble
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'When the Connells move into the run down old mining town of Hollybush Flat, they make a few friends but most of the town is unfriendly towards them because they are Irish, Catholic and poor, and their father is suspiciously absent.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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,: Oxford University Press , 1981 .
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      Extent: 172p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1981
      ISBN: 0195543564 (pbk.), 0195542622
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hodder Headline , 1995 .
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      Extent: 1 v.p.
      ISBN: 073360157X
      Series: y separately published work icon Starlight Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1993-2003 Z1329409 1993- series - publisher children's fiction novel children's young adult
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  • Also braille and sound recording.
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Works about this Work

Untitled Laurie Copping , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 79 1981; (p. 46-47)
— Review of The Seventh Pebble Eleanor Spence , 1981 single work children's fiction
Fantasy Didacticism and a Disappearing Act : the Australian Children's Book Awards 1981 Margaret Dunkle , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 32 1981; (p. 5-7)
— Review of Playing Beatie Bow Ruth Park , 1980 single work novel ; Darkness under the Hills Bill Scott , 1980 single work novel ; Jandy Malone and the Nine O'Clock Tiger Barbara Bolton , 1980 single work picture book ; Mr. Archimedes' Bath Pamela Allen , 1980 single work picture book ; Marty Moves to the Country Kate Walker , 1980 single work picture book ; The Seventh Pebble Eleanor Spence , 1981 single work children's fiction
Fantasy Didacticism and a Disappearing Act : the Australian Children's Book Awards 1981 Margaret Dunkle , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 32 1981; (p. 5-7)
— Review of Playing Beatie Bow Ruth Park , 1980 single work novel ; Darkness under the Hills Bill Scott , 1980 single work novel ; Jandy Malone and the Nine O'Clock Tiger Barbara Bolton , 1980 single work picture book ; Mr. Archimedes' Bath Pamela Allen , 1980 single work picture book ; Marty Moves to the Country Kate Walker , 1980 single work picture book ; The Seventh Pebble Eleanor Spence , 1981 single work children's fiction
Untitled Laurie Copping , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 79 1981; (p. 46-47)
— Review of The Seventh Pebble Eleanor Spence , 1981 single work children's fiction
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