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Title: 10PM Question, The
Author: GOLDI KATE DE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/02/2009
Imprint: ALLEN & UNWIN
Price: $16.00
Publishing status: Active
winner, 2009 New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award for Children and Young Adults
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.
‘In Kate de Goldi’s sensitive, vital and hilarious novel, Frankie and the reader walk hand in hand through pages that gleam with hope and humour.’ Ursula Dubosarsky
New Zealand author Kate De Goldi has been awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship.
De Goldi, whose most recent novel The 10pm Question (A&U) won both Book of the Year and Best Young Adult fiction at the 2009 New Zealand Post Children and Young Adults’ Book Awards, will use the $100,000 fellowship to research and write a nonfiction book about children’s literature.
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.
ISBN: 9781741757354
Dimension: 195mm X 130mm
Pages: 252