Gracie Faltrain Takes Control (20 page)

Girl Scouted in Saturday's Game Along with the Rest of Her Team.
The Daily Times

‘Not bad,' I say, holding the paper while Flemming rewinds the tape of the match for the fifteenth time. ‘It's a great picture of me. Woodbury looks okay, too.' I'm shaking his hand in the photo. We're holding the scout's business card up at the camera and grinning.

‘Not bad at all, Faltrain,' Flemming answers. ‘Where's Knight? Isn't he coming to celebrate with the rest of us?'

‘He's on his way.' And he is. ‘He's just going to take a little longer.'

‘It's not over till it's over,' as Jane would say. You better believe it. Not in the life and times of Gracie Faltrain.

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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'
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‘[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
Chasing Charlie Duskin

Charlie Duskin is running.

Fleeing from failures and memories and friends who have given up on her. And she's not only running, she's chasing things — like a father who will talk to her, friends who don't think she's as invisible as a piece of cling wrap, and an experience with a boy in which she doesn't look like an idiot.

But Charlie Duskin is about to have the best summer of her life. She's about to fall in love. She just doesn't know it yet.

Jaclyn Moriarty
Feeling Sorry for Celia

Dear Ms Clarry,
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join our Society.
We have just found out about your holiday. It is so impressive! You had four assignments, an English essay and a chapter of Maths to do. And you didn't do one single piece of homework!
Fabulous!
Also we have a feeling that you have a History test today.
And you're trying to study now? On the bus? With the Brookfield boys climbing onto each other's shoulders to get to the emergency roof exit? And with Celia about to get on the bus at any moment? And you think that's going to make a difference!!!
That's really very amusing, Elizabeth. We like you for it.
You're perfect for our Society and we're very excited about having you join.
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'
MELINA MARCHETTA, 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?

The eagerly awaited, deliciously humorous new novel from the author of the award-winning bestseller,
Feeling Sorry for Celia.