Two Ticks Tuesday; Am I Normal Yet?
Holly Bourne All Evie wants is to be normal. She’s almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as the girl-who-went-crazy. She’s even going to parties and making friends. There’s only one thing left…
Not That Kind of Girl
Siobhan Vivian Slut or saint? Good friend or bad friend? In control or completely out of it? Life is about making choices, and Natalie Sterling prides herself on always making the right ones. She’s avoided the jerky guys populating her…
Unboxed
Non Pratt Unboxed is about four teenagers who come together after several months apart. In previous years, they had put together a time capsule about their best summer with a friend who was dying. Now that their friend has passed,…
What’s A Girl Gotta Do?
Holly Bourne HOW TO START A FEMINIST REVOLUTION: 1. Call out anything that is unfair on one gender 2. Don’t call out the same thing twice (so you can sleep and breathe) 3. Always try to keep it funny 4.…
Author Interview: Hemmie Martin
Hemmie Martin Alice Calwin finds herself without purpose in life after the death of her mother, whom she’d been caring for following a stroke. Theo Edwards, a literary journalist, has a sour outlook on life, bolstered by his ongoing divorce,…
Little Lies
Liane Moriarty She could hear men and women shouting. Angry hollers crashed through the soft humid salty summer night. It was somehow hurtful for Mrs Ponder to hear, as if all that rage was directed at her . . .…
Buddy Review: Since You've Been Gone
This month Faye and Caroline divulge their deep dark secrets as well as their thoughts on Morgan Matson‘s newest novel, Since You’ve Been Gone. The Pre-Sloane Emily didn’t go to parties, she barely talked to guys, she didn’t do anything…
Lies Like Love
Louisa Reid LIES ‘There were a few problems . . . bullying . . . a fire . . .’ LIKE’ I think she’s verging on psychosis . . . now she’s lashing out. ‘ LOVE’ She’s got no one…
After the Fall
Charity Norman In the quiet of a New Zealand winter’s night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He’s fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse, and his condition is critical.…
Have A Little Faith
Candy Harper Being fourteen is a minefield: with fashion dilemmas, teacher trauma, embarrassing parents and boy drama, Faith is just hoping to make it through Year Ten without too many disasters. But when she and her best friend Megs sign…
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