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Fifteen-year-old Charlie Bones from Kenmore has always felt like the extra chair at the table. 


Then a Saturday-night bus delivers him and his friends to the place every lost thing ends up: a government Department with a window for lost patience, a unionised ibis workforce, and a file on Charlie that has been open since birth. 


It's funny and warm, with a found-family heart. Ages 12+.  Book 1 of The Assembly of Inconvenient Phenomena. 

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Young Adult, Humour, Found Family, Brisbane, Government Bureaucracy, Ibis

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Michael Bosworth-Knight was born in Brisbane and grew up in the western suburbs, where he went to Centenary State High School. He works in the public service by day.  

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