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The 10PM Question

By Kate De Goldi
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The 10PM Question by Kate De Goldi is centred around a twelve-year-old boy named Frankie who is full of questions and constant worries. He leads a seemingly normal life but battles anxiety, especially about his mum and the world around him. His life takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of a spirited new classmate who helps him face his fears and uncover family secrets.
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The 10PM Question

A warm, surprising, real and intelligent novel you will fall in love with. Frankie Parsons is twelve and has a rodent voice of worry nibbling in his head. His new friend - colourful, creative, talkative Sydney - has relentless, unavoidable questions of her own that force Frankie and his family to face up to things that have lain dormant for years.

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Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man, an apparently sensible, talented boy 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?

Only Ma takes seriously his catalogue of persistent queries. But 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.

The 10PM Question by Kate De Goldi is a compelling story about fear, family, and the courage to confront uncertainty.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781741757354

Publisher: A&U Children's

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2009

Country: Australia

Imprint: A&U Children

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 282g

Pages: 256

Collections

Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction Kate De Goldi Young Adult

About the Author

Kate de Goldi lives in Wellington. She has won a number of accolades for her fiction, including the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award and the Esther Glen Medal. Her book Clubs, illustrated by Jacqui Colley, won Book of the Year in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards in 2005. In 2001, Kate was made a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate.

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