Yours sincerely,
The Manager
Society of People who are Definitely Going to Fail High School
(and Most Probably Life as Well!)
‘Elizabeth Clarry is exactly the sort of person I’d love for a best friend’
MELINAMARCHETTA, AUTHOR OF LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI
‘I absolutely loved it. I wish I’d written it’
MARIAN KEYES
‘Moriarty’s writing is a hoot and her sense of irony perfectly placed in this hilarious addition to the genre of genuinely comic Australian young adult novels’
THE AUSTRALIAN
Jaclyn Moriarty
Finding Cassie Crazy
Protest in Mr Botherit’s English Class today!
Do you value your life?
Then say NO to Mr B’s Ashbury–Brookfield Pen Pal Project! WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T WRITE A LETTER IN CLASS TODAY! If Mr B asks why, remind him that:
• The reason judo is compulsory here at Ashbury is so we can defend ourselves against Brookfield students.
• You can’t get in to Brookfield unless you have a criminal record.
• Brookfield students don’t know how to read or write.
Year 10 is pretty crazy for best friends Lydia, Cassie and Emily, and when their English teacher starts the Pen Pal Project so that they can experience the Joy of the Envelope with boys from scary Brookfield High, life gets even crazier.
As Lydia turns into a secret agent and Emily a relationship expert, it is not so clear what is happening to Cassie. She is writing to someone, but not even her friends know what’s going on. Does she even have a pen pal? Or has Cassie really lost it?
‘a powerful, stylish, funny and complex novel’
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
‘Feeling Sorry for Celia is funny; Finding Cassie Crazy is funnier . . . Definitely recommended’
AUSTRALIAN BOOKSELLER & PUBLISHER
Markus Zusak
The Messenger
PROTECT THE DIAMONDS
SURVIVE THE CLUBS
DIG DEEP THROUGH THE SPADES
FEEL THE HEARTS
Meet Ed Kennedy – cab driving prodigy, pathetic card player and useless at sex. He lives in a suburban shack, shares coffee with his dog, the Doorman, and he’s in nervous-love with Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence – until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.
That’s when the first ace turns up.
That’s when Ed becomes the messenger.
Chosen to care, he makes his way through town, helping and hurting (where necessary) until only one question remains. Who’s behind Ed’s mission?
The Messenger, by the highly acclaimed author Markus Zusak, is a cryptic journey filled with laughter, fists and love.
Cath Crowley
The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain
Star noun: any large body like the sun,
immensely hot and producing its
own energy by nuclear reactions;
Soccer star noun: Gracie Faltrain
Goal-kicking, supergirl, soccer star. Gracie Faltrain is on her way. To the National Championships. To Nick. To everything she’s ever wanted. Or so she thinks. Gracie’s about to find out that life is messy. And hard. And beautiful.
Then her best friend moves away, the soccer team want her off the field and, after an unfortunate incident at the movies involving an ear (Nick’s) and a tongue (Gracie’s), Gracie has become a social outcast. And that’s when Gracie’s parents hit her with the worst news of all . . .
Before she has time to take a breath, Gracie’s rushing headlong into screwing up, making up and trying to keep it all together. Welcome to the life and times of Gracie Faltrain.
Teenage girls will love this book . . . a resounding success’
COURIER MAIL
‘[Crowley’s] rapid shifts of perspective spin us around, just like the best children’s books have always done and, hopefully, will always do’
WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
Touching and hilarious, you’ll love it’
GIRLFRIEND MAGAZINE
Cath Crowley
Gracie Faltrain Takes Control
Gracie Faltrain is back and she couldn’t be happier. Her team won the Championships, she scored a few goals and a boyfriend!
Just as she’s settling down to a new season of soccer, the stakes are raised. Coach has entered the team in the Firsts – a boys’ only league. To prove herself, Gracie has to fight harder than ever before. The other teams will do anything to keep her out of the game and, if she makes it, they’ll do anything to see her lose.
But Gracie is sick of losing. She’s sick of seeing friends, like Martin and Alyce, unhappy. Gracie Faltrain has decided it’s time to take control and even the score for everyone, on and off the field.
John Marsden
The Tomorrow Series
‘The feeling of reality you bring into your work is extraordinary. It makes you feel as if you are running along the dangerous streets with Ellie, tense and alert, about to blow up a bridge, or a couple of houses, or waiting quietly inside a container in the bottom of a ship, about to do the biggest thing of your life.’
KIM, MOUNT GAMBIER
‘We have bags under our eyes thanks to your books, because we can’t put them down long enough to sleep!’
COURTNEY & DIANNA, YORKETOWN
Readers across Australia are unanimous: this is the greatest series ever published in this country.
Seven books charged with high emotion, drama, action and even a dash of romance.
When you open the first page of Tomorrow, When the War Began you’ll enter a world that’ll change you forever.
A world of danger, risks, challenge and self-discovery.
A world that will stay with you, through all the years of your life.
Tomorrow, When the War Began is the first of the Tomorrow Series, and is followed by The Dead of the Night, The Third Day, The Frost, Darkness, Be My Friend, Burning for Revenge, The Night is for Hunting and The Other Side of Dawn.
PRAISE FOR THE TOMORROW SERIES
‘. . . compulsively readable’
NEW YORK TIMES
‘. . . without a doubt the best series for younger readers that an Australian writer has ever produced’
DAILY ADVERTISER
‘. . . makes for reading as exciting, disturbing, provocative, as we have had for many years’
JUNIOR BOOKSHELF (UK)
‘Like ancient myths, the stories confront the purpose of life, death, betrayal, killing, love, hate, revenge, selflessness, sacrifice and, in the most recent book, faith’
THE AGE
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