The 10 Pm Question Cd

Author: Kate De Goldi

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  • : 45.00 NZD
  • : 9781742333250
  • : Bolinda Publishing
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  • : July 2009
  • : 230mm X mm
  • : Australia
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Barcode 9781742333250
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Description

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? Will bird flu strike and ruin life as we know it? Is the kidney-shaped spot on his chest actually a galloping cancer? 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. But of course, it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask. Then the new girl arrives at school and has questions of her own: relentless, unavoidable questions. So begins the unravelling of Frankie Parsons's carefully controlled world. So begins the painful business of fronting up to the unpalatable: the ultimate 10 p.m. question.

Awards

Winner of Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Readers' Choice Award 2009. Runner-up for Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Fiction Category 2009.