Cath Crowley

Fiona Wood

Simmone Howell

"This beautifully crafted, lively novel captures the good and the bad of female friendship" Bec Kavanagh Books + Publishing, 5 stars. 3 award-winning authors.1 compelling book.ADY - not the confident A-Lister she appears to be.KATE - brainy boarder taking risks to pursue the music she loves.CLEM - disenchanted swim-star losing her heart to the wrong boy.All are targeted by PSST, a toxic website that deals in gossip and lies. St Hilda's antidote to the cyber-bullying? The Year 10 Wellness program. Nice try - but sometimes all it takes is three girls. Exploring friendship, feminism, identity and belonging. Take Three Girls is honest, raw and funny

Take Three Girls

"It was just Dad and me and Gully living in the flat above the shop in Blessington Street, St Kilda. We, the Martin family, were like inverse superheroes, marked by our defects. Dad was addicted to beer and bootlegs. Gully had 'social difficulties' that manifested in his wearing a pig-snout mask 24/7. I was surface clean but underneath a weird hormonal stew was simmering. My defects weren't the kind you could see just from looking. Later I would decide they were symptoms of Nancy."This is the story of a wild girl and a ghost girl; a boy who knew nothing and a boy who thought he knew everything. And it's about life and death and grief and romance.All the good stuff.From the award-winning author of Notes from the Teenage Underground, and Everything Beautiful.

Girl Defective

When Riley's Dad gets a new girlfriend, life turns upside down for Riley. She doesn't like Norma and Norma doesn't like her. But it is not until Riley finds herself shipped off to 'camp' that she realises just how bad things have become. Determined to continue on her path of bad behaviour and general obnoxiousness, Riley Rose is sure that she can turn this 'spiritual camp' upside down. And when she meets Dylan Luck, recent paraplegic, she thinks she has found a fellow troublemaker. What follows is a very surprising week for Riley. Truths are told and secrets revealed, and sex, cigarettes and booze prove to be a potent cocktail, but in the end Riley has learnt quite a lot about herself, Dylan and exactly why she appeared hell-bent on self-destruction.

Everything Beautiful

Seventeen-year-old film buff Gem sets out to make an underground movie with her friends Lo and Mira, but discovers much about her own life in the process.

Notes from the Teenage Underground

Three authors. Three appealing and relatable characters. One smart YA novel about a trio of unlikely friends who team up to take down the school cyberbully. “Mean stuff spreads so fast. One click. Post. Send. Share. Online bullying = sometimes suicides, so all the private schools have strategies for dealing with it. At St Hilda’s, it’s Wellness classes. We greeted the idea with genuine enthusiasm. Why not? Everyone loves the chance to slack off.” Popular Ady seems cool and confident at school, but at home her family is falling apart. Brainiac Kate wants to pursue her dreams of playing music, even if it jeopardizes her academic scholarship. And swim champ Clem finds herself disenchanted with the sport . . . and falling for a very wrong boy. When these three very different girls are forced to team up in a wellness class, they’re not too pleased. But over time, they bond—and when they’re all targeted by PSST, a website that dishes out malicious gossip and lies, they decide to take a stand, uncover the culprits, and fight back. But can they really fix a broken system? With each girl’s story told by a different author, as well as intriguing questionnaires from the wellness class included throughout, this empowering novel explores today’s most relevant topics— from cyberbullying and fat shaming to drug abuse and financial stress.

Skylark não é mais uma menina, mas os outros personagens dessa história não estão prestando atenção nesse fato. Gully, o irmão mais novo de Sky, tem dez anos e está obcecado por investigar uma tentativa de assalto; sua mãe foi embora para o Japão numa busca insana pela vida artística; seu pai, Bill, parece satisfeito em beber enquanto permanece imerso na loja de vinis e no passado; do alto do terraço, Nancy, a amiga mais velha e experiente, fuma um cigarro e diz que Sky deve se divertir mais; uma garota é encontrada morta e há cartazes com seu rosto estampado por todo o bairro; há uma estranha ligação entre a garota dos cartazes e Luke, o novo funcionário de seu pai. Nessa história, cada acontecimento tem sua própria melodia. E essa é a história de como Sky encontra seu lugar no mundo. Um lugar em que não existem garotas perfeitas. É também a história de uma garota louca e de uma garota fantasma; de um garoto que não sabia de nada e de um garoto que achava que sabia de tudo. E é sobre vida, morte, luto e romance. Só coisa boa. Destaques do livro "Divertida e dona de um olhar mordaz sobre as imperfeições do mundo (e sobre ela mesma), Sky é autêntica." – Kirkus Reviews

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