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YA, scrapbook style, set in Australia/NZ

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1Caramellunacy
Feb 11, 2009, 4:44 pm

I read this one about 10 years ago (not sure if it was new then or not). It was a YA book, and I believe it was set in Australia or NZ.

I think the book was about the disappearance of a boy. There's also a mystery involved that he was trying to solve (I think). It was presented as a sort of scrapbook or dossier with newspaper articles, journal entries, maybe transcripts of tapes, and descriptions of physical objects found with them.

I know it's not much to go on. I don't remember much of the plot. It was the unique presentation that stood out. Does anybody remember this one?

2infiniteletters
Feb 14, 2009, 9:53 pm

3Caramellunacy
Apr 22, 2009, 3:55 am

Sorry to have left this so long.

Infiniteletters, that's not it. It seems a little 'younger' than the book I'm looking for. Thanks for checking, though!

4Rubbah
Apr 22, 2009, 4:00 am

5Caramellunacy
Apr 22, 2009, 4:08 am

Rubbah, the format looks very similar, but I'm pretty sure the book I'm looking for pre-dates widespread Internet.

Also, this may help, I don't think there was any narrator other than the boy that had disappeared. The journal entries were his, but the objects had been collected by the police or agency or something. Reading the book was just like reading through those assembled bits and pieces in a dossier.

6crgalvin
Apr 28, 2009, 7:26 pm

7Caramellunacy
May 30, 2012, 12:51 pm

Finally found this one as well - it was Strange Objects by Gary Crew.

8MyriadBooks
May 30, 2012, 2:02 pm

Glad you found it! Thanks much for coming back and letting us know.