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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Boss of the Pool
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Shelley feels uncomfortable around the handicapped people from the hostel where her mother works, but when circumstances lead her to teaching Ben to swim, she learns some lessons about life and herself.

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y separately published work icon Boss of the Pool : The Play Mary Morris , Paddington : Currency Press , 1993 Z394867 1993 single work drama children's

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    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Omnibus Books , 1986 .
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      Extent: 68p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1997
      ISBN: 0949641529, 0949641537 (pbk.)
    • Norwood, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Omnibus Books , 1991 .
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      Extent: 68p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1997 , 2005
      ISBN: 1862910944 (pbk.)
    • Lindfield, Chatswood - Gordon - Castlecrag area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Scholastic Australia , 2011 .
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      Extent: 80p.
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      • Published: 1st May 2011
         

      ISBN: 9781862919372
    • Gosford, Central Coast, New South Wales,: Omnibus Books , 2020 .
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      Extent: 80p.p.
      Edition info: 35th Anniversary Edition
      ISBN: 9781760976101
Alternative title: Huem vinder?
Language: Danish
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      Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,      :       Thorup ,       1989 .
      Extent: 66p.
      ISBN: 8789062302
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