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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Free to a Good Home
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'Most people don't like being different.

'They want exactly the same things as their neighbours, only bigger and more of them. Yet no matter how much they have, they always feel there is something missing.

'The Smiths are not like other people. They might not be any good at cooking, or housework, or homework, but in their jumbled house full of strange things that will probably come in useful one day, they are happy and content. Well, almost.

'The Smiths, too, feel that there is something missing from their lives.

'And today the children went down to the shops and found it.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 2009 .
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      Extent: 30p.
      Description: col. illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st April 2010
      ISBN: 9781741663181

Works about this Work

[Review] Free to a Good Home Jenny Charlton , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 23 no. 3 2009; (p. 49)

— Review of Free to a Good Home Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book
[Review] Free to a Good Home Elizabeth Douglas , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 53 no. 3 2009; (p. 26)

— Review of Free to a Good Home Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book
[Review] Free to a Good Home Margaret Robson Kett , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 24 no. 3 2009; (p. 31)

— Review of Free to a Good Home Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book
[Review] Free to a Good Home Oliver Phommavanh , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , 15 August no. 66 2009; (p. 28-29)

— Review of Free to a Good Home Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book
[Review] Free to a Good Home Jenny Gorman , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 88 no. 9 2009; (p. 43)

— Review of Free to a Good Home Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book
Kids' Lit Jill Rowbotham , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 July 2009; (p. 12)

— Review of Letters to Leonardo Dee White , 2009 single work novel ; Free to a Good Home Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book ; The Trouble with Ghosts Mary K. Pershall , 2008 single work children's fiction
[Review] Free to a Good Home Jenny Gorman , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 88 no. 9 2009; (p. 43)

— Review of Free to a Good Home Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book
[Review] Free to a Good Home Oliver Phommavanh , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , 15 August no. 66 2009; (p. 28-29)

— Review of Free to a Good Home Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book
[Review] Free to a Good Home Margaret Robson Kett , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 24 no. 3 2009; (p. 31)

— Review of Free to a Good Home Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book
[Review] Free to a Good Home Elizabeth Douglas , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 53 no. 3 2009; (p. 26)

— Review of Free to a Good Home Colin Thompson , 2009 single work picture book
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