That’s all the problems solved. Mum’ll marry Steve and live happily ever after. Sam’ll blob through another romance, this time with Chani, and stuff it up for sure. Ty’ll become a super cop and sort out little thugs like Tommy and co. Danny’ll become a great mechanic and end up doing the tuning in the pit for some world-class racing driver. And me? I’ll go with Danny for a while then a million other guys for a while, go to Bali and bake in the sun (okay, plastered in factor 15+ if Mum’s got any say in it) … catch up with Alicia one day …
Two things I know. One is I’m not going on the run again to look for some dumb excitement or person or follow some stupid dream. Been there, done that.
And the second is that I’ve got to get out of being the Young Achiever of the Year no matter what it takes. It would ruin my reputation forever!
Other books by Margaret Clark
The Big Chocolate Bar
All junk food has been banned from the school camp. So Spoonhead, Amy Yui, Trash, Zits and some of the others think up outrageous ways of getting round the authorities. But their ingenuity results in a thriving black market with drinks going for up to $20 a can!
A novel for kids who are sick and tired of health food.
Famous For Five Minutes
Charmwood High, and Year 8 plans to turn the school play, Romeo and Juliet, into a rock musical. Everything’s moving along until someone mentions Equal Opportunity. There aren’t enough roles for girls in this production.
For the narrator, Peter Nutt, Equal Opportunity means more opportunities for teachers like Poxon and girls like Ravolini to get at him. And then there’s Millie Miletic from the Holy Family of the Little Sisters by the Sea: she’s in love!
Fat Chance
Can you become ‘The Face’ when you look like a pregnant rhinocerous? Lisa wants to know.
Can you snatch a modelling contract when you’re fourteen and a social outcast, with a mother who pumps donuts, hot dogs and chilli pancakes into you like there’s no tomorrow? FAT CHANCE!
Hold My Hand—or Else!
What about all that stuff you keep reading about: the moonlit walks, the red roses, waves softly kissing the sandy shore? It doesn’t exist.
Does it have to be a problem just because you don’t want to hold your mother’s hand anymore and you’re not ready to hold anyone else’s?
Before you try to give yourself a hickey tonight, read this!
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Margaret Clark is one of Australia’s funniest writers for young people. She has worked as a teacher and university lecturer and at the Geelong Centre for Alcohol and Drug Dependence.
Her novels for older readers include The Big Chocolate Bar, Fat Chance, Hot or What, Kiss & Make Up, Famous for Five Minutes and a trilogy about the Studleys: Hold My Hand – Or Else!, Living with Leanne and Pulling the Moves. Back on Track: Diary of a Street Kid and Care Factor Zero and No Standing Zone, three searing novels for young adults, have become bestsellers.
Margaret lives in Geelong and enjoys reading, sailing and walking with the family dog. She now writes full-time.
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Living With Leanne
9781742746784
Copyright © Margaret Clark 1994
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First published in 1994
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Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry
Clark, M.D. (Margaret Dianne), 1943
Living with Leanne.
ISBN 978 0 09182 898 1.
ISBN 0 09 182898 8.
Title
A823.3
Cover photograph by Jason Lucas
Cover design by Andrew Hoyne Design
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