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First known date: 1996-1999 Issue Details: First known date: 1996-1999... 1996-1999 Rave Fiction
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y separately published work icon Channeary Steve Tolbert , South Melbourne : Longman Cheshire , 1991 Z521938 1991 single work novel young adult When the Khmer Rouge attacks her small Cambodian fishing village, Channeary has to flee for her life, and eventually reaches the safety of a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, where she is offered a chance to come to Tasmania, another step into the unknown. (Libraries Australia record). Melbourne : Longman Cheshire , 1996
y separately published work icon Cassie Who? Kerri Lane , Melbourne : Longman , 1996 Z191933 1996 single work novel young adult Melbourne : Longman , 1996
y separately published work icon Axeman! Chris McTrustry , Melbourne : Longman , 1996 Z192030 1996 single work novel young adult science fiction ' When rock-and-roll legend, Davey Hathaway asks Brad Radley to play in Davey's come back gig, Brad's folks refuse outright. But, cosmic forces are at play and Brad ends up with having to cope with girlfriend crushes, getting temporarily rid of his family, the school bully and two interplanetary visitors.' (Libraries Australia record) Melbourne : Longman , 1996
y separately published work icon The Blue Faraway Janine Burke , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1996 Z192139 1996 single work novel mystery young adult Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1996
y separately published work icon The Snake Cave Ann C. Whitehead , Melbourne : Longman , 1996 Z192444 1996 single work novel young adult Melbourne : Longman , 1996
y separately published work icon Stagefright Carole Wilkinson , Melbourne : Longman , 1996 Z204880 1996 single work novel young adult Velvet S. Pye is about to begin a really bad day, a miserable year. Things get even worse when she meets the students in her Cultural Studies class. A musical version of a Shakespearian tragedy? They must be kidding. (publisher's blurb) Melbourne : Longman , 1996
y separately published work icon This Common Ground Rod Evans , Melbourne : Longman , 1996 Z205569 1996 single work novel young adult adventure Melbourne : Longman , 1996
y separately published work icon Stepping Back Steve Tolbert , Melbourne : Longman , 1996 Z238397 1996 single work novel young adult romance Somaly is a sixteen year old part-Cambodian girl who has lived with her mother on the remote west coast of Tasmania since she was a toddler. Somaly's mother was a nurse in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia when she gave birth to Somaly. Shortly after that, Somaly's father was killed by a land mine and Somaly and her mum left the country for Tasmania. Juxtaposed with Somaly's life in Tasmania is the life of Keo, a traumatised Cambodian who lost an arm and his girlfriend in a Khmer Rouge ambush, and who now works as a hospital orderly on the Thai border. About the time Keo is informed that he'll finally be allowed to return to Cambodia, Somaly's mother in Tasmania finds out she has MS. If she's ever to return to the country she has ached over for years, she must do it soon. So Keo from the Thai border, and Somaly and her mother from Tasmania step back into a war-ravaged country filled with stoical, quietly-spoken people who, despite the legacy of Khmer Rouge rule, genocide, an estimated one million buried mines and extreme poverty, are still to this day strongly imbued with Buddhist warmth, graciousness and compassion. (from Author's website) Melbourne : Longman , 1996
y separately published work icon Eyeing Everest Steve Tolbert , Melbourne : Longman , 1996 Z238489 1996 single work novel young adult 'Fifteen-year-old Meika lives with her mother in the northern suburbs of Hobart, but spends many of her weekends at her aunt's place in the Derwent Valley. It's here Meika is told stories about her father, a man with a love for the wilderness who left Australia for Nepal after Meika's mother left him fourteen years earlier.When yet another affair ends for her, Meika's mum commits suicide and Meika is left with the task of trying to unravel her mum's last hours. What she finds out sends her life into a tailspin. She gets involved with Hobart street kids and soon is in trouble with the police. It's Meika's aunt - her guardian now - who assists her again. She arranges for Meika to travel to the Everest Track in Nepal to meet a father she has never seen before. What transpires on the Everest Track, in the Himalayas, forms the bulk of the story'. (Source: author's website.)
Melbourne : Longman , 1996
y separately published work icon Better Than Blue Jeri Kroll , South Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z47012 1997 single work novel young adult

'Felice has a good imagination, but she could never have dreamed up what would happen when she moves from a slushy, sleety, New York winter to a crackling dry Australian summer. She’s an instant hit at school – knowing the latest plots of ‘The X Files’ helps – but that kind of popularity is not going to last, not when kids find out her secret. There’s only one thing to do – get an attitude. Find something you’re good at…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

 South Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997
y separately published work icon Rank and Smelly Catherine Deveny , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z1066660 1997 single work novel young adult Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997
y separately published work icon Zeeks Alive! : An Adventure Morris Lurie , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z71952 1997 single work novel young adult humour adventure Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997
y separately published work icon Night of the Crocodile James McQueen , South Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z72055 1997 single work children's fiction children's South Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997
y separately published work icon In It Up to Here! Jim Schembri , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z72161 1997 single work novel young adult

'Alex and Nigel are two teenage boys who love the violence and action of video games. When they get involved in an actual adventure, however, they find that real danger and violence is a little harder to handle.'

Source : author's website

 Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997
y separately published work icon E-mail Murder Mystery Hazel Edwards , Goldie Alexander , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z113110 1997 single work novel young adult mystery Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997
y separately published work icon Watching Seagulls Sue Saliba , Melbourne : Longman , 1997 Z192340 1997 single work novel young adult Sisters Leamy and Em support each other as their family disintegrates round them, but eventually each has to find her own salvation. (Source: SLWA catalogue) 1998 CBC Notable Book Melbourne : Longman , 1997
y separately published work icon On Ya, Sonya Margaret Clark , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z200458 1997 single work novel young adult humour Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997
y separately published work icon Winter with Susan Peter Thompson , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z200557 1997 single work novel young adult 'Sometimes having a friend like Susan makes you feel like the most together person in the world. Sometimes it doesn't. It was Jeni's idea to enter the Dolly model contest. She thought Susan would win for sure. But that was before the disaster, before the bad decision to skip school, before the audition. Even if all that had gone to plan, who could have known what effect the whole thing would have on Lin...and, more importantly, how all this mess could lead a person into the deepest, darkest despair.' (Back cover) Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997
y separately published work icon The Tenth Hero Barry Klemm , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 Z834553 1997 single work novel young adult adventure Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997
y separately published work icon Annie With Attitude Margaret Clark , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998 Z939505 1998 single work novel young adult Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998
y separately published work icon The Jay Beans Guild Jim Schembri , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998 Z387964 1998 single work novel young adult satire

'Wealthy private school student Lionel Nebber has his comfortable, upper-class life thrown off course when his class visits a small town. Lionel is troubled by the spirit of a murdered settler and finds he must sacrifice a great deal to discover the dark secret hidden in the town’s violent past.'

Source : author's website

 Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998
y separately published work icon Escape to Kalimantan Steve Tolbert , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998 Z430547 1998 single work novel young adult 'Escape to Kalimantan tells the story of fifteen year old Jack, who has been taught by his father, Arnold, to respect life, to feel a strong compassion for it in all its rich and varied forms. But the horror of 28 April 1996 changes all that. Jack's sister is killed in the Port Arthur Massacre, and days later Jack's mother leaves for good. When his father's mental state begins to deteriorate, Jack realises he's got to do something to help his father get on with life again. Wild places and wildlife are Arnold's passionate interests, so close contact with these, Jack believes, will provide his father with his best hope of recovery. He finds out about a place that has the richest animal and plant life in the world. It's called Kalimantan - wild Kalimantan. Like his poster filled room, the perfect place to escape to, Jack thinks.' (Source: Author's website) Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998
y separately published work icon Say Boo to Penny for Me Jim Schembri , South Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998 Z63749 1998 single work novel young adult humour science fiction

'Set in the near future, three close girlfriends are unwittingly drawn into a complex plot of politics, corruption and drug trafficking after helping apprehend a man who has overdosed on a dangerous new narcotic. As they are drawn in deeper, they discover that the comfort of living in a consumerist information age comes at a high cost, part of which is the identity microchip implanted in every citizen at birth.'

Source: Author's website.

 South Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998
y separately published work icon The Third Room Jacqueline Ross , South Melbourne : Longman , 1998 Z137040 1998 single work novel young adult mystery South Melbourne : Longman , 1998
y separately published work icon Beyond Blue Jeri Kroll , South Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998 Z24278 1998 single work novel young adult

'The one thing missing in Felice’s life is her best friend Nancy. When Nancy arrives from New York City to spend Christmas in Adelaide, Felice can’t wait to introduce her to her horse Sienna and her boyfriend Jared. But both Felice and Nancy have changed…

'In this sequel to Better then Blue, horseriding and friendship compete as Felice wrestles with new emotions and tests the limits of her relationship with Jared. How will she deal with the choices they demand?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

 South Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998
y separately published work icon Dead Reckoning James McQueen , South Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998 Z191434 1998 single work children's fiction children's South Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998
y separately published work icon The Candelaria Massacre James McQueen , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998 Z34598 1998 single work children's fiction children's

Sixteen-year old Jos and Michael go to Rio de Janeiro on holiday and find themselves confronting murder and corruption.

 Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998
y separately published work icon Losing It Moira Burke , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998 Z35030 1998 single work novel young adult 'In the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie’s father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie’s mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat.

'And Josie is surviving, or not—self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friendships.

'But her internal monologue—intense, immediate and raw—reveals a heartbreaking portrait of an intelligent young woman desperately looking for a way to make sense of her life, grappling with her feelings of repulsion and love for her father and her longing to be loved.

'First published in 1998, Losing It is a vivid and visceral account of 1980s working-class Melbourne and a coming-of-age story that is both familiar and unique, shocking and intimate.' (Publication summary)  Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1998
y separately published work icon Quicksilver Hoa Pham , South Melbourne : Longman , 1999 Z939520 1999 single work novel young adult 'There are girl ghosts,' said Marion. 'They're called quicksilvers. Like mercury.'

'Don't you ever want to smash things?' said Marion. 'That's what quicksilvers do. Girl poltergeists.' A girl poltergeist. Thinh liked the idea - the idea of having a ghost that could break things and interfere with other people. For Thinh, Viviane, Marion and Becky, Q is their shared secret, an outlet for the monotony of school life and the pressures at home. Q wreaks all sorts of havoc - writes phoney love letters, makes prank calls, floods school toilets. She leaves a trail of chaos where ever she goes - not to mention her trademark 'Q' on windows and mirrors. But Q can't help you when your parents break up, you start failing at school, and no one cares about you, or your problems. In fact, sometimes Q only makes things worse - much worse.' (Source: Author's website) South Melbourne : Longman , 1999
y separately published work icon The Last Voyage of the Albatross Barry Klemm , Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1999 Z551310 1999 single work novel young adult adventure Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1999
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