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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 The Water Boy's Story
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'In a grim world made crazy after a cyber-terrorist attack, fifteen-year-old Hamish Water Boy leaves his teen wife and the relative safety of his home to journey through Victoria in search of women to help repopulate the tiny, dying community of Plunkettville. Along the way Hamish reluctantly teams up with Shazza, a crazy old hermit woman who takes him to the city of the War Women, a separatist community on the coast. Hamish is in very real danger of losing his tongue, and his life, as even Shazza turns against him. After some fast talking he convinces a group of women to journey back to Plunkettville with him, and the inevitable happens they become lost in the high country of Victoria. The new world is populated by ragged remnants of humanity, and particularly feared are the evil and savage Bordermen from Melbourne, the City of Death. When Hamish is captured by a raiding party of Bordermen, it looks like the end of the road for Plunkettville and the pioneering families who built it not to mention the end of Hamish Water Boy.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Livre Australia , 2008 .
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      Extent: 333p.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st July 2008
      ISBN: 9780734410313 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

[Review] The Water Boy's Story Lee Finkelstein , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 53 no. 2 2009; (p. 33)

— Review of The Water Boy's Story Sue Hines , 2008 single work novel
Youthful Ingenuity and Goodness Triumph Ronni Phillips , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 September 2008; (p. 18)

— Review of Money Run Jack Heath , 2008 single work novel ; The Water Boy's Story Sue Hines , 2008 single work novel
Youthful Ingenuity and Goodness Triumph Ronni Phillips , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 September 2008; (p. 18)

— Review of Money Run Jack Heath , 2008 single work novel ; The Water Boy's Story Sue Hines , 2008 single work novel
[Review] The Water Boy's Story Lee Finkelstein , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 53 no. 2 2009; (p. 33)

— Review of The Water Boy's Story Sue Hines , 2008 single work novel
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