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Issue Details: First known date: 1973... 1973 The Way Home
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

After a car accident three children struggle to find their way home in a world that is not as it was. They would not have made it without the help of an invisible being that protects them.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Macmillan , 1973 .
      Extent: 188p.
      Note/s:
      • Australian and British eds. both with this ISBN.
      ISBN: 0333149041
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Atheneum ,
      1973 .
      Extent: 184p.
      Note/s:
      • Published simultaneously in Canada by McClelland and Stewart.
      • 'A Margaret K. McElderry book.'
      • Also published as 'A Guild Book' (US Literary Guild Choice, 1973); publication details the same.
      ISBN: 068930322X
    • Leicester, Leicestershire,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Knight Books ,
      1977 .
      Extent: 188p.
      ISBN: 0340200804 (Pbk)

Other Formats

  • Also braille and sound recording.

Works about this Work

Off and Away Eve Pownall , 1974 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , January no. 50 1974; (p. 23-28)

— Review of Wildfire Mavis Thorpe Clark , 1973 single work children's fiction ; The Chinese Boy David Martin , 1973 single work novel ; The Flame Takers Lilith Norman , 1973 single work children's fiction ; The Way Home Joan Phipson , 1973 single work children's fiction ; The Nargun and the Stars Patricia Wrightson , 1973 single work children's fiction
Off and Away Eve Pownall , 1974 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , January no. 50 1974; (p. 23-28)

— Review of Wildfire Mavis Thorpe Clark , 1973 single work children's fiction ; The Chinese Boy David Martin , 1973 single work novel ; The Flame Takers Lilith Norman , 1973 single work children's fiction ; The Way Home Joan Phipson , 1973 single work children's fiction ; The Nargun and the Stars Patricia Wrightson , 1973 single work children's fiction

Awards

3rd place a novel for readers in the age range of 8-14 years
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