TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charlwood,Don
TI  - All the green year
T2  - Text classics
SN  - 9781922079428 (pbk.) :
U1  - A823.3 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Melbourne, Vic.
PB  - Text Publishing
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Victoria
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian
N1  - Previously published: 1965; Also available online
N2  - It was the end of an era; a year of ‘outlandish happenings’; a time when everything seemed to change for Charlie Reeve, a daydreaming lad growing up in a small town on the Mornington Peninsula.

His teacher and dad are giving him a hard time, his neighbour Squid keeps getting him into trouble, and his best mate Johnno is busy seeing a girl—which leads Charlie to a nasty fight with Big Simmons.

First published in 1965, and subsequently made into a popular ABC TV series, All the Green Year is the story of a boy’s journey towards adulthood—‘not only the humour of it but its drama and pain’, as the 96-year-old Don Charlwood writes in his revised afterword
ER  -