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  • Published: 7 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143004202
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $19.99

Kill the Possum




A girl desperate to live a normal life.
A family tormented by a monster's cruelty.
Two boys with a plan to make him stop. Forever.

From the award-winning author of Lost Property and Bridge to Wiseman's Cove comes a gripping and powerfully moving story of a family stretched to breaking point - and a portrait of a killer...

  • Published: 7 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143004202
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

James Moloney

James Moloney has been writing for young people for more than twenty years. Once a teacher and a librarian, his thirty or so books – ranging in audience from seven to seventeen year-olds – have made him one of Australia's most respected authors. James' award-winning books have been translated into French, Korean, Lithuanian and Flemish/Dutch, and include Kill the Possum, Lost Property, A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove, Touch Me, and The Book of Lies.

James' Aussie Chomps titles – The Mobile Phone Detective, Trolley Boys, 68 Teeth and Grommet Saves the World – continue to be amongst Penguin's best-selling titles.

James and his wife, Kate, live in Brisbane with their three children.

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