Hardcover, 288 pages Published March 19th 2019 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers #Middlegrade #Fiction #Contemporary
My novel Firegirl was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in 2006. The story was narrated by seventh-grader Tom Bender, and it centered on the three weeks that a severely burned stud…
From Tony Abbott all the way down to pundits in the conservative press, the verdict is clear: popular election is illegitimate when it returns a result they don’t like
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Liberal party stalwart and former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett does not believe that his party is in a "panic" about One Nation andt has predicted closer alignment with the party in parliament.
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Tony Abbott and other Liberal conservatives still imagine they can build a winning constituency from the no side. Instead, he has wrapped the party in impossible tangles
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Firegirl written by Tony Abbott is a powerful middle grade book about a young boy named Jeff that finds an unlikely friendship with a girl named Jessica who is a burn victim. Jeff's life changes when his teacher announces that there will be a new student in the class. All of the students are excited until the teacher announces that Jessica is different. When she explains that Jessica was in a terrible fire and suffered burns to her whole body, the 7th grade students are anxious about meeting this new student.
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