Description |
333 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
Series |
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards 2016 shortlist |
Contents |
At seventeen, Jack is all grown up. She's living with her runaway sister, Trudy, and is in love with Luke, who doesn't love her back. She's stuck in Mobius -- a dying town beside a macabre forest -- working in the roadhouse. Then a stranger sets up camp in the forest and Jeremiah, the boy next door, returns. Sometimes she laughs about it, but mostly Jack feels as if she is losing everything, including her mind. When love proves to be the biggest mystery of all, she learns just how many choices there are |
Summary |
At seventeen, Jacklin Bates is all grown up. She's dropped out of school. She's living with her runaway sister, Trudy, and she's in secret, obsessive love with Luke, who doesn't love her back. She's stuck in Mobius; a dying town with the macabre suicide forest its only attraction, stuck working in roadhouse & babysitting her boss's demented father |
Analysis |
Australian |
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Australian fiction (Australia) |
Audience |
For young adults |
Has Indexes |
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Notes |
The Children's Book Council of Australia - Short-listed Book, 2016 |
Subject |
Australian fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Families -- Juvenile fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Families -- Young adult fiction
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Life change events -- Juvenile fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.
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Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
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Life change events -- Young adult fiction
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Teenage girls -- Young adult fiction
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Teenage girls -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction.
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Young adult fiction.
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Family life -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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LC no. |
2016436336 |
ISBN |
9781922182364 |
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