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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Game as Ned
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'Silent, desperate, on the run. To set things right, he'll have to be as game as Ned Kelly.

Ned is a teenager with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Australian bushrangers. He is also autistic. Erin is a sixteen-year-old trouble-magnet trying to make a fresh start in a new town. Ned never speaks. Erin rarely stops - and when she stands up to a bully the consequences are catastrophic. Now Ned's on the run, branded 'disturbed and dangerous' by police. To set things right, he'll need to be as game as Ned Kelly...'

(Source: back cover)

Notes

  • Warning: Please be aware that this work may contain words, terms or descriptions which may be culturally sensitive and are considered inappropriate today, but which reflect the period in which it was written.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Autism.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view First person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2007 .
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      Extent: 209p.
      Reprinted: 25 Aug 2014 E-book
      Note/s:
      • Published September 1st 2007
      ISBN: 9780732285760 (pbk.), 9781460704448 (ebk)

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Works about this Work

[Review] Game as Ned Jan Finning , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 42-43)

— Review of Game as Ned Tim Pegler , 2007 single work children's fiction
From Days of Solitude Tim Pegler , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 16 no. 1 2008; (p. 10-11)
Pegler discusses what inspired him to write, why he continues writing, and how he came to write a story about a boy with autism.
[Review] Game as Ned Stella Lees , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 51 no. 4 2007; (p. 36)

— Review of Game as Ned Tim Pegler , 2007 single work children's fiction
[Review] Game as Ned Mike Shuttleworth , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , November no. 3 2007; (p. 22)

— Review of Game as Ned Tim Pegler , 2007 single work children's fiction
[Review] Game as Ned Mario La Marca , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 15 no. 4 2007; (p. 17)

— Review of Game as Ned Tim Pegler , 2007 single work children's fiction
[Review] Game as Ned Heath Graham , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 87 no. 2 2007; (p. 23)

— Review of Game as Ned Tim Pegler , 2007 single work children's fiction
[Review] Game as Ned Mike Shuttleworth , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 30 September 2007; (p. 42)

— Review of Game as Ned Tim Pegler , 2007 single work children's fiction
Surfacing Beyond Silence Ronni Phillips , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 September 2007; (p. 18)

— Review of Game as Ned Tim Pegler , 2007 single work children's fiction ; Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight Nick Earls , Rebecca Sparrow , 2007 single work novel ; The Truth About Emma Gary Crew , 2007 single work novel ; Getting Air Debra Oswald , 2007 single work novel ; Solo Alyssa Brugman , 2007 single work novel
Austenitis Ruth Starke , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 296 2007; (p. 60-61)

— Review of Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight Nick Earls , Rebecca Sparrow , 2007 single work novel ; Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs Michael Gerard Bauer , 2007 single work novel ; The Truth About Emma Gary Crew , 2007 single work novel ; Game as Ned Tim Pegler , 2007 single work children's fiction ; Solo Alyssa Brugman , 2007 single work novel ; Marty's Shadow John Heffernan , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Game as Ned Sally Harding , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 22 no. 4 2007; (p. 44)

— Review of Game as Ned Tim Pegler , 2007 single work children's fiction
From Days of Solitude Tim Pegler , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 16 no. 1 2008; (p. 10-11)
Pegler discusses what inspired him to write, why he continues writing, and how he came to write a story about a boy with autism.
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