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  • Published: 19 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9781760893361
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $16.99

Go!




Go big. Go fast. Go together. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ... Go!

Fifteen-year-old Jack has just discovered the one thing he loves, and is really good at: go kart racing. With the support of his mentor, Patrick, an old race-car driver with a dark past, and his best mates Colin and Mandy, Jack must learn to control his reckless streak. Only then will he be in with a chance to defeat the best drivers in Australia, including his ruthless rival Dean, and win the National title.

Now a major Australian motion picture - in cinemas January 2020.

  • Published: 19 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9781760893361
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $16.99

About the author

Steve Worland

Steve Worland has worked extensively in film and television in Australia and the USA. He wrote the screenplay for the smash hit Australian family film Paper Planes with director Robert Connolly, won the ACCTA award for best original screenplay for the same film, and adapted the movie into a bestselling novel for young readers. Steve has written screenplays for Working Title, Icon Productions and The Jim Henson Company, worked in script development for James Cameron's Lightstorm and wrote Fox Searchlight's Bootmen, which won five ACCTA awards. Steve also wrote the action-comedy telemovie Hard Knox for New Line Television, episodes of the Southern Star action series Big Sky and the Saturn award-winning Farscape. He is the author of the action-adventure novels Velocity, Combustion and Quick as well as the charity joke book The Bloke-a-saurus, which he wrote with his brother, Gus.

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Praise for Go!

Written as a novelised version of the movie of the same name by Steve Worland (of Paper Planes fame), this is an easy-to-read story that will be enjoyed by both male and female readers who love competition.

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