Raincheck on Timbuktu

Author	Jaclyn Moriarty
ISBN	0312287364

A funny, touching, revealing story written entirely in the form of letters, messages, postcards - and bizarre missives. Hilariously candid, shows that the roller coaster ride of being a teenager is every bit as fun as we remember--and every bit as harrowing.

Life is pretty complicated for...

Author	Brigid Lowry
ISBN	0312342969

My name is Rosie Moon. I am nearly sixteen. I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out the window at night and I can taste it out there, waiting for me.

Popular and smart, fifteen-year-old Rosie Moon is the quintessential good girl. She also wishes she could be someone else for a while, someone more...

Author

Nick Earls

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	Rachel Cusk
ISBN	0571233627

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives.

Beginning with the neighbouring passenger...

Author	Nick Earls
ISBN	0618452958

48 Shades of Brown was the 2000 winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Older Readers (phew - that's a mouthful). And, in many ways it was, perhaps, a fairly significant winner, in that it was one of the handful of Australian 'Young Adult' books released around that...