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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing
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'A fairytale, a mystery, a history of hot-air ballooning, and a romance . . . A novel so brilliant, moving, zingy – and Zingy – that it could only have come from Jaclyn Moriarty.

'The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry, and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing Family Secret – one so huge it draws the family to the garden shed for meetings every Friday night.

Into their world comes socially isolated middle grader Listen Taylor, whose father is dating a Zing. Enter Cath Murphy, a young teacher at the elementary school that Cassie Zing attends, suffering from a broken heart. How will the worlds of these two young woman connect? Only the reader can know!' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • A re-written version of I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Arthur A. Levine Books ,
      2007 .
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      Extent: 496p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published autumn 2007.

      ISBN: 0439846781

Works about this Work

Untitled Nicola Muller , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 61)

— Review of The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Jaclyn Moriarty , 2007 single work novel
[Review] The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Joy Lawn , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 52 no. 1 2008; (p. 34)

— Review of The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Jaclyn Moriarty , 2007 single work novel
[Untitled] Angela Meyer , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 15 no. 4 2007; (p. 50)

— Review of The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Jaclyn Moriarty , 2007 single work novel
[Untitled] Sally Harding , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 22 no. 4 2007; (p. 43)

— Review of The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Jaclyn Moriarty , 2007 single work novel
Untitled Mike Shuttleworth , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 28 October 2007; (p. 30)

— Review of Old Tom's Big Book of Beauty Leigh Hobbs , 2007 single work picture book ; The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Jaclyn Moriarty , 2007 single work novel
Untitled Mike Shuttleworth , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 28 October 2007; (p. 30)

— Review of Old Tom's Big Book of Beauty Leigh Hobbs , 2007 single work picture book ; The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Jaclyn Moriarty , 2007 single work novel
[Untitled] Sally Harding , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 22 no. 4 2007; (p. 43)

— Review of The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Jaclyn Moriarty , 2007 single work novel
[Untitled] Angela Meyer , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 15 no. 4 2007; (p. 50)

— Review of The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Jaclyn Moriarty , 2007 single work novel
[Review] The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Joy Lawn , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 52 no. 1 2008; (p. 34)

— Review of The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Jaclyn Moriarty , 2007 single work novel
Untitled Nicola Muller , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 61)

— Review of The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing Jaclyn Moriarty , 2007 single work novel
Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 September 2007; (p. 30)
A column canvassing current literary news including the announcement of the publication of Jaclyn Moriarty's The Spell Book of Listen Taylor and the Secrets of the Family Zing. Wyndham says: 'Moriarty spent a year rewriting [I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes], which raises interesting questions about what distinguishes adult and teen fiction. "I didn't try to dumb it down," [Moriarty] says, "or change the vocabulary ... but I restructured it so the story opens with the girl and other things start to shift."'
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