The 10 pm question /
Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man: an apparently sensible, talented Year 8 with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head: Are the smoke alarm batteries flat? Does the cat, and therefore the rest of the family, have worms? Most of the significant people in Frankie...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Crows Nest, NSW :
Allen & Unwin,
2008.
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| Summary: | Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man: an apparently sensible, talented Year 8 with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head: Are the smoke alarm batteries flat? Does the cat, and therefore the rest of the family, have worms? Most of the significant people in Frankie's world - his father, his brother and sister, his great-aunts, his best friend Gigs - seem gloriously untroubled by worry. Only Ma takes seriously his catalogue of persistent anxieties; only Ma listens patiently to his 10 p.m. queries. Then the new girl arrives at school and has questions of her own: relentless, unavoidable questions. So begins the unravelling of Frankie Parson's carefully controlled world. |
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| Item Description: | Reprint. First pubished: Dunedin, N.Z. : Longacre Press, 2008. |
| Physical Description: | 251 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Audience: | For secondary school age. |
| ISBN: | 9781741757354 (pbk) 1741757355 (pbk) |