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Young Adult Fiction
by Bec Kavanagh
November 2011, no. 336

A Pocketful of Eyes by Lili Wilkinson

Allen & Unwin, $17.99 pb, 311 pp, 9781742376196

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Beatrice May Ross (Bee) is a list-maker, an amateur detective, a taxidermy assistant, and a regular teenage girl. She falls in love, fights with her best friend, and hates her mother’s new boyfriend, like plenty of adolescents. But she does so while stitching together a dead koala and trying to solve the ever-developing mystery surrounding the death of her mentor.

 


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A Pocketful of Eyes by Lili Wilkinson

Allen & Unwin, $17.99 pb, 311 pp, 9781742376196

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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