Karen Foxlee
THE ANATOMY OF WINGS
Winner 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize â Best First
Book South East Asia and Pacific Region
Winner of the Dobbie Award
Shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award
Ten-year-old Jennifer Day lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teenage sister Beth, she looks to the adult world around her for answers.
As she recounts the final months of Beth's life, Jennifer sifts through the lies and the truth, but what she finds are mysteries, miracles and more questions. Was Beth's death an accident? Why couldn't Jennifer â or anyone else â save her?
Through Jennifer's eyes, we see one girl's failure to cross the threshold into adulthood. We see a family slowly falling apart. In this awardwinning novel, Karen Foxlee captures perfectly the essence of growing up in a small town and the complexities and absurdities of family life.
âAn exceptional novel.'
Sydney Morning Herald
âRiveting.'
Good Reading
Elizabeth Fensham
GOODBYE JAMIE BOYD
âLove's not a cake,' I say. âYou don't carve it into pieces âtil there's none left; it's more like the Magic Pudding-the more you use of it, the more it grows.'
Anna and Jamie Boyd are inseparable, the brother and sister team who face the world, their family and school together. Their love for each other is bigger than anything else they know and stronger than any ordinary bond.
It is Jamie who challenges Anna throughout her life; Jamie who drives her to do things and makes her grow up; Jamie who dares her to jump off Ben Hall's Rock, smoke weed and drive fast round Carrot Wash Bend. So when Anna kills her brother, what follows next is a revelation to all, most especially to Anna.
âThis powerful verse novel, written by one of Australia's acclaimed authors, is such an important read for young adults. To read it is to heighten your understanding of the mental suffering that many young people endure ... A most inspiring story.'
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Back Cover Material
My mum's skin is white, my skin
is brown and I have a blue birthmark.
Two secrets rule my life.
One is something
I need to know and the other
is something I need to forget.
They won't let me go.
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Some people say you can't death roll with a beast that has already survived a million years and live to tell the story. Or can you?
First published 2009 University of Queensland Press
PO Box 6042, St Lucia, Queensland 4067 Australia
© Belinda Jeffrey 2009
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Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available from the National Library of Australia
Brown Skin Blue/Belinda Jeffrey.
ISBN (pbk) 9780702237133
ISBN (pdf) 9780702245428
ISBN (epub) 9780702245459
ISBN (kindle) 9780702245435
