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Mike Grant had big problems. His father was a drunk, and his older brother was too lazy to get a job. At fourteen there wasn't much Mike could do to help his worried and over-worked mother, she didn't even have a washing machine, and Mike dreamed of surprising her with one on Christmas day.

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Off and Away Eve Pownall , 1975 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Official Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , January no. 54 1975; (p. 17-26)
— Review of Paper Boy James Preston , 1974 single work children's fiction ; Panic in the Cattle Country Leslie Rees , 1974 single work children's fiction ; Albatross Two Colin Thiele , 1974 single work children's fiction ; Storm Boy Colin Thiele , 1963 single work children's fiction ; Magpie Island Colin Thiele , 1974 single work children's fiction