All I Ever Wanted
10 best books like All I Ever Wanted (Vikki Wakefield): Graffiti Moon, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie, Raw Blue, Beatle Meets Destiny, Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight, Holier Than Thou, A Straight Line to My Heart, Whisper, Ferragost, The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely Lost It
| Author | Cath Crowley |
| ISBN | 0330425781 |
Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist.
Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose.
Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing eggs at her probably wasn't the best way to show it.
Jazz and Leo are slowly encircling each other.
An intense and...
The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
| Author | Jaclyn Moriarty |
| ISBN | 0439740517 |
Bindy Mackenzie believes herself to be the smartest, kindest girl at Ashbury High. Unfortunately, she is alone in that belief.
To prove her likeability, Bindy decides to document her life in transcripts, essays, and e-mails. What this reveals is a girl who's funny, passionate, hilariously...
| Author | Kirsty Eagar |
| ISBN | 0143011456 |
Carly has dropped out of uni to spend her days surfing and her nights working as a cook in a Manly cafe. Surfing is the one thing she loves doing... and the only thing that helps her stop thinking about what happened two years ago at schoolies week.
And then Carly meets Ryan, a local at the break, fresh...
I literally feel more disappointment with myself for not liking this than I do with this book for letting me down. I never begin reading a book thinking that I'll dislike it; I read for enjoyment, not self-torture. And since this is realistic fiction, a genre which has quickly risen to top position on my...
Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight is two weeks in the life of Joel Hedges and Cat Davis. Joel would prefer to get through his final year of high school without Cat Davis or his mother's faux Spanish boyfriend and just hang-out with his best-friend Luke. Cat Davis has an annoying best-friend, and even more...
| Author | Laura Buzo |
| ISBN | 1741759986 |
'What do you want, Hol?' Abby looks into my eyes.
'I ... I want to know that I'm using my powers for good and -'
'You want to make a dead man proud.'
'Whoa!'
'You want to put bandages over severed arteries that really need to be sewn shut. You want the moral high ground.'
Holly...
A Straight Line to My Heart
| Author | Bill Condon |
| ISBN | 1742377300 |
A funny, poignant, realistic story of Tiffany's first love and first job, and the inevitability of change in the first summer out of school School is over, not just for the year, but forever. Tiff and Kayla are free, which is what they've always wanted, but now summer is nearly at an end and that...
| Author | Chrissie Keighery |
| ISBN | 1921759321 |
I'm always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in the gaps, but never getting all the details. It's like trying to do a jigsaw when I don't even know what the picture is, and I'm missing one of the vital middle pieces.
How do you know if your friends are talking about...
A short story featured in Review of Australian Fiction.
Lady Celie of the Lumateran Flatlands is visiting the Belegonian spring castle on the isle of Ferragost. Cut off from the rest of Belegonia by poor weather, she is confined to the island with four others, including the mysterious castellan...
| Author | Lisa Shanahan |
| ISBN | 0385735162 |
IN MY FAMILY, when anyone rides the wave of their emotions, we say they're chucking a birkett. When the emotion drives out all common sense, we say they're chucking a big one. The telltale signs are: flaming cheeks, shortness of breath, bulging eyes, and a prolonged illogical outburst.
Gemma...
| Author | Leanne Hall |
| ISBN | 1921758643 |
I really liked Leanne Hall's debut novel
This is Shyness
. The world that Hall created was phenomenal - a perpetually night-bound suburb called Shyness where the sun has stopped rising; the relationship that blossoms wildly over the course of 24 hours between two strangers from opposite sides of...
| Author | Lili Wilkinson |
| ISBN | 1742376193 |
Smart, funny, page-turning contemporary crime fiction in the tradition of Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie—and Veronica Mars
Beatrice May Ross is smart, observant, and analytical, so when a dead body is discovered in the taxidermy department at the museum where she's interning,...
