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The 10 PM question / Kate De Goldi.

By: Publication details: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2008.Description: 251 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781741757354
  • 1741757355
Other title:
  • 10 P.M. question
  • Ten PM question
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.2 22
LOC classification:
  • PR9639.3.D44 A13 2008
Awards:
  • New Zealand Post Young Adult Fiction, 2009.
  • Montana New Zealand Book Awards Readers' Choice Award, 2009
  • New Zealand Post Book of the Year, 2009
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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Book Book MHERC Youth/Teen Resources RIM 823.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 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. A50000069
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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.

New Zealand Post Young Adult Fiction, 2009.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards Readers' Choice Award, 2009

New Zealand Post Book of the Year, 2009