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The playground

Author: Shaun Tan
Publisher: Port Melbourne : Lothian, 1998.
Series: After dark, bk. 30.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English
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When Gavin is given a metal detector for Christmas, he thinks he's going to turn up tonnes of treasure. How wrong can he be? Until he discovers the playground, that is, but the treasure he finds hidden there proves far more deadly than any pirates loot. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
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Genre/Form: Horror
Children's stories, Australian
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Shaun Tan
ISBN: 0850918987 9780850918984
OCLC Number: 38901181
Target Audience: Children.
Description: 48 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Series Title: After dark, bk. 30.
Responsibility: Shaun Tan.

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When Gavin is given a metal detector for Christmas, he thinks he's going to turn up tonnes of treasure. How wrong can he be? Until he discovers the playground, that is, but the treasure he finds hidden there proves far more deadly than any pirates loot. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

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