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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Cruisin'
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Told as a dual narrative, a writing style Caswell has made his own, between thirteen-and-a-half-year-old Jules Macaffrey and Suzi Q. After Jules' mother wins a cruise for four on the POLYNESIAN QUEEN, he discovers it's really a floating "geriatric ward" with very little choice of companionship other than his sixteen-year-old, dancing-obsessed cousin Adrian, the very beautiful Jenna (also sixteen), wheelchair-bound Suzi Q and bully Barry Barnes.

'Falling madly in love with the unobtainable Jenna, Jules develops a strong friendship with Suzi as she steers Jules through his unrequited love - with unexpected results.' (From the publisher's website.)

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Leg injuries, possibly psychosomatic inability to walk.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view First person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Woolshed Press , 2008 .
      Extent: 149p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 1 October 2008.
      ISBN: 9781741663440

Works about this Work

Untitled Gabrielle Ritchie , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 23 no. 1 2009; (p. 17)

— Review of Cruisin' Brian Caswell , 2008 single work children's fiction
[Untitled] Margaret Robson Kett , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 17 no. 1 2009; (p. 41)

— Review of Cruisin' Brian Caswell , 2008 single work children's fiction
Untitled Chloe Mauger , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 53 no. 1 2009; (p. 30)

— Review of Cruisin' Brian Caswell , 2008 single work children's fiction
[Untitled] Jo Goodman , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 24 no. 1 2009; (p. 40)

— Review of Cruisin' Brian Caswell , 2008 single work children's fiction
[Review] Cruisin' Aleesah Darlison , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , 15 December no. 48 2008; (p. 44-45)

— Review of Cruisin' Brian Caswell , 2008 single work children's fiction
[Untitled] Jo Goodman , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 24 no. 1 2009; (p. 40)

— Review of Cruisin' Brian Caswell , 2008 single work children's fiction
Untitled Chloe Mauger , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 53 no. 1 2009; (p. 30)

— Review of Cruisin' Brian Caswell , 2008 single work children's fiction
[Untitled] Margaret Robson Kett , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 17 no. 1 2009; (p. 41)

— Review of Cruisin' Brian Caswell , 2008 single work children's fiction
[Review] Cruisin' Aleesah Darlison , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , 15 December no. 48 2008; (p. 44-45)

— Review of Cruisin' Brian Caswell , 2008 single work children's fiction
Untitled Gabrielle Ritchie , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 23 no. 1 2009; (p. 17)

— Review of Cruisin' Brian Caswell , 2008 single work children's fiction
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