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Copyright © Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey, 1979

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First published 1979 by McPhee Gribble, Penguin Books Australia Ltd
This edition published in 2012 by The Text Publishing Company and Random House Australia

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Author: Carey, Gabrielle, 1959-, Lette, Kathy, 1958-
Title: Puberty blues
ISBN: 9781742759289 (pbk.) 9781742759296 (epub)
Subjects: Teenagers—Australia—Fiction.
Australia—Social life and customs—20th century—Fiction.
Dewey Number: A823.3

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