Hostage by Karen Tayleur
The thing I remember is that the chemist floor had a large black scuff near the counter.
I don’t remember the knife.
I remember something cold on my neck, which could have been a knife, or could just have been his long cold fingers pressing in to me.
But it was the scuff I remember best.
I was thinking, ‘Someone should really clean that.’
And then we were in the car.
And then we were gone.
Tully becomes a hostage when she is abducted on Christmas Eve. Her ordeal lasts 24 hours.
Or so she says…
After by Sue Lawson
What happens when you’re not the cool kid at school anymore?
CJ has been banished to the country to live with his grandparents. No one asks him if he wants to be there. It seems like no one really cares. And no matter how hard he tries to outrun it, trouble seems to follow him wherever he goes.
“This is a special book. Sue manages to weave the profound with the everyday language of a teenager.”
—Jackie French
Sugar Sugar by Carole Wilkinson
Jackie has left Australia with a psychedelic suitcase and a dream to become a world-famous fashion designer. She knows exactly where she’s going and how she’s going to get there. So how does a weekend in Paris send her spinning off-course? How does she end up somewhere she couldn’t even find on a map?
“A beautifully paced, closely observed and utterly compelling story about losing a dream and finding your passion … you’re not reading this book, you’re living it.”
—Julia Lawrinson