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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Market Blues
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'A timeslip adventure novel about a boy who goes busking at the market and finds himself transported back to a century ago.

'Things unravel so fast. One day Sam is a kid with a straightforward life, next moment he's sucked into a time warp and flung back a hundred years. Meeting Flea, Gertie and the gang is just the start of a crazy adventure with Sam on the run from police, sleeping outside the morgue, laying bets on horse races, fighting thieves and larrikins. An accident in a shooting gallery confronts Sam with the hardest decision he's ever had to make. Can he change the past - and his own future?

'Market Blues is a fast-moving drama about city kids then and now, about change, choice and responsibility.' (Publication summary)

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2001 .
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      Extent: 240p.
      Note/s:
      • Published February 2001

      ISBN: 9781865082844

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  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Slipping back through Time : Discovering Time-Slip Fiction Jenny Sandercombe , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking about Books for Children , May vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 8-11)
Untitled Judithe Hall , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 45 no. 2 2001; (p. 25)

— Review of Market Blues Kirsty Murray , 2001 single work children's fiction
Untitled Diane Trezise , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 2 2001; (p. 54)

— Review of Market Blues Kirsty Murray , 2001 single work children's fiction
Market Blues by Kirsty Murray Chris Wheat , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 9 no. 2 2001; (p. 22)
Child's View of History Jenny Pausacker , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 November 2001; (p. 11)

— Review of Who Am I? : The Diary of Mary Talence : Sydney, 1937 Anita Heiss , 2001 single work children's fiction ; Market Blues Kirsty Murray , 2001 single work children's fiction ; Papunya School Book of Country and History Papunya School Publishing Committee , Nadia Wheatley , 2001 single work information book ; Ramose : Prince in Exile Carole Wilkinson , 2001 single work children's fiction
Untitled Judithe Hall , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 45 no. 2 2001; (p. 25)

— Review of Market Blues Kirsty Murray , 2001 single work children's fiction
CoverNotes Mike Shuttleworth , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 18 February 2001; (p. 11)

— Review of Market Blues Kirsty Murray , 2001 single work children's fiction
Fantasy Colin Steele , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 17 June 2001; (p. 61)

— Review of Lirael : Daughter of the Clayr Garth Nix , 2001 single work novel ; Market Blues Kirsty Murray , 2001 single work children's fiction
Untitled Fran Knight , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 16 no. 2 2001; (p. 35-36)

— Review of Market Blues Kirsty Murray , 2001 single work children's fiction
Child's View of History Jenny Pausacker , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 November 2001; (p. 11)

— Review of Who Am I? : The Diary of Mary Talence : Sydney, 1937 Anita Heiss , 2001 single work children's fiction ; Market Blues Kirsty Murray , 2001 single work children's fiction ; Papunya School Book of Country and History Papunya School Publishing Committee , Nadia Wheatley , 2001 single work information book ; Ramose : Prince in Exile Carole Wilkinson , 2001 single work children's fiction
Slipping back through Time : Discovering Time-Slip Fiction Jenny Sandercombe , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking about Books for Children , May vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 8-11)
Market Blues by Kirsty Murray Chris Wheat , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 9 no. 2 2001; (p. 22)
Last amended 28 Aug 2017 16:16:02
Subjects:
  • Brunswick, Brunswick - Coburg area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,
Settings:
  • 1900
  • 2000
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