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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Comet Box
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'It's 1986 and Halley's Comet is hurtling towards Earth. Everyone is talking about what the comet will bring - wishes could be granted, people might go mad, great disasters could happen...

'When Andrew is asked to write down his greatest wish for the Comet Box, he can think of only one thing - that his runaway sister Amelia will finally come home. As the comet draws nearer he begins to learn the reasons why she left in the first place and the more he learns, the more he wants to forget.

'When Amelia is captured and brought home she reveals a shocking secret that makes Andrew's once safe world begin to unravel. As the comet arrives, Andrew must choose whether to be blind to the mistakes of the people around him or to side with his sister as she tears his family apart.' (From the publisher's website.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2011 .
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      Extent: 258p.
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      • Publication date: 30 May 2011.
      ISBN: 9780143206101 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Untitled Mario La Marca , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 19 no. 2 2011; (p. 21)

— Review of The Comet Box Adrian Stirling , 2011 single work novel
Untitled Christian Mondeil , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 25 no. 3 2011; (p. 49)

— Review of The Comet Box Adrian Stirling , 2011 single work novel
Untitled Carole Poustie , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 26 no. 3 2011; (p. 43)

— Review of The Comet Box Adrian Stirling , 2011 single work novel
Living without Remembering Stephen Mansfield , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 334 2011; (p. 66-67)

— Review of The Dead I Know Scot Gardner , 2011 single work novel ; The Comet Box Adrian Stirling , 2011 single work novel
Kid's Lit Bridget Cormack , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 August 2011; (p. 25)

— Review of The Comet Box Adrian Stirling , 2011 single work novel ; Black Painted Fingernails Steven Herrick , 2011 single work novel ; All I Ever Wanted Vikki Wakefield , 2011 single work novel ; Cargo Jessica Au , 2011 single work novel
Untitled Kate Sunners , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May vol. 90 no. 8 2011; (p. 44)

— Review of The Comet Box Adrian Stirling , 2011 single work novel
Review : Young Adult Barbara Baker , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 - 19 June 2011; (p. 23)

— Review of The Comet Box Adrian Stirling , 2011 single work novel
Variety with Thrills and Spice Imogen Saunders , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 July 2011; (p. 32)

— Review of A Pocketful of Eyes Lili Wilkinson , 2011 single work novel ; The Dead I Know Scot Gardner , 2011 single work novel ; The Comet Box Adrian Stirling , 2011 single work novel
Kid's Lit Bridget Cormack , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 August 2011; (p. 25)

— Review of The Comet Box Adrian Stirling , 2011 single work novel ; Black Painted Fingernails Steven Herrick , 2011 single work novel ; All I Ever Wanted Vikki Wakefield , 2011 single work novel ; Cargo Jessica Au , 2011 single work novel
Living without Remembering Stephen Mansfield , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 334 2011; (p. 66-67)

— Review of The Dead I Know Scot Gardner , 2011 single work novel ; The Comet Box Adrian Stirling , 2011 single work novel
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