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The seventh pebble / Eleanor Spence ; illustrated by Sisca Verwoert
Bib ID 1676798
Format BookBook
Author
Spence, Eleanor, 1928-
 
Description Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1981. 
172 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. 
ISBN 0195543564 : 
Summary

When the Connells move into the run down old mining town of Hollybush Flat, they make a few friends but most of the town is unfriendly towards them because they are Irish, Catholic and poor, and their father is suspiciously absent.

Notes

Children's stories in English. Australian writers, 1945-. Texts (ANB/­PRECIS SIN 037024x)

First published: Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1980.

For children.

Subjects Irish - Australia - Assimilation.  |  Mining towns - New South Wales.
Form/genre Children's stories, Australian.  |  Domestic fiction.
Other authors/contributors Verwoert, Sisca

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