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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 All Fall Down
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'Fourteen-year-old Christabel McManus is bored and lonely. Since the death of her mother, her father has thrown himself into his work, and she has only her governess and the cook for company. When a servant's eight-year-old son is kidnapped, Christabel impetuously decided to rescue him—by dressing as a boy and heading into the squalid and crime-ridden streets of The Rocks.

'What begins as a game takes a terrifying turn, as Christabel discovers that the notoriously violent gangs that infest the slums are not the only threat; an outbreak of the deadly bubonic plague is imminent. And when Christabel, too, is kidnapped, the game becomes very dangerous indeed'. (Source: Author's website)

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Works about this Work

Untitled Nicola Muller , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 30-31)

— Review of All Fall Down Susan Geason , 2005 single work children's fiction
Untitled Liz Derouet , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 13 no. 3 2005; (p. 45)

— Review of All Fall Down Susan Geason , 2005 single work children's fiction
Untitled Margot Nelmes , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 49 no. 3 2005; (p. 27-28)

— Review of All Fall Down Susan Geason , 2005 single work children's fiction
Historical Adventures Katharine England , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 273 2005; (p. 62-63)

— Review of All Fall Down Susan Geason , 2005 single work children's fiction ; The Astrolabe : Adventure on the Southern Seas Susan Arnott , 2005 single work children's fiction ; Our Enemy, My Friend : The Diary of Emma Shelldrake, the Adelaide Hills, 1915 Jenny Blackman , 2005 single work children's fiction ; The Castaway Convict Wendy Macdonald , 2005 single work children's fiction
Rocks in My Head Nick Hardcastle , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Limelight , June 2005; (p. 60)

— Review of All Fall Down Susan Geason , 2005 single work children's fiction ; High Hopes on Sea Jenny Wagner , 2005 single work children's fiction
Shorts: Children's Books Christopher Bantick , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 April 2005; (p. 17)

— Review of Woolly Jumpers Nette Hilton , 2005 single work children's fiction ; Hooray for Horrible Harriet Leigh Hobbs , 2005 single work picture book ; Little Book of Australian Children's Rhymes 2004 anthology poetry ; All Fall Down Susan Geason , 2005 single work children's fiction ; Oscar's Half Birthday Bob Graham , 2005 single work picture book
For Kids Dianne Dempsey , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 30 April 2005; (p. 6)

— Review of All Fall Down Susan Geason , 2005 single work children's fiction
Untitled Michael Janssen-Gibson , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 20 no. 2 2005; (p. 33)

— Review of All Fall Down Susan Geason , 2005 single work children's fiction
In Short : Fiction Michael McGirr , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 May 2005; (p. 26)

— Review of Beyond Mombasa Frank Coates , 2005 single work novel ; Unbroken Blue Jan Borrie , 2005 single work novel ; All Fall Down Susan Geason , 2005 single work children's fiction
Rocks in My Head Nick Hardcastle , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Limelight , June 2005; (p. 60)

— Review of All Fall Down Susan Geason , 2005 single work children's fiction ; High Hopes on Sea Jenny Wagner , 2005 single work children's fiction
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