A Corner of White
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Jaclyn Moriarty
The Spell Book of Listen Taylor
Listen Taylor has just started Year Seven. She and her dad have moved into an apartment with a woman named Marbie Zing. Listen has found a mysterious spell book (including a Spell to Make a Vacuum Cleaner Break). And her friends are about to break her heart.
Cath Murphy, primary school teacher, is feeling awkward, quirkly, wicked and extremely blonde. As her mother likes to say, all meetings with new people, even locksmiths or seven-year-olds, can make you a little afraid. Cath has just met a very tall man with a talent for rhymes and a wishful look in his eye. And she’s about to meet a girl named Cassie Zing.
The Zing family live in a curious world of Intrusions, Distractions and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. Every Friday night they gather in their garden shed and discuss their Family Secret. Listen and Cath don’t know it yet, but they’re about to get entangled with that Secret.
Jaclyn Moriarty
Dreaming of Amelia
Dreaming of Amelia is the story of Amelia and Riley. They’re bad kids from the bad crowd at bad Brookfield High, and they’ve just transferred to Ashbury.
Brilliant, mysterious and probably evil, they have the rich kids at Ashbury spellbound.
But just who are Amelia and Riley?
Tantalisingly aloof, they are somehow managing to have an extraordinary impact on all the HSC Ashbury students, and the staff.
Told through memoirs written as part of the gothic fiction elective in the HSC English exam, Dreaming of Amelia is a story about ghosts, secrets, madness, passion, locked doors, femme fatales — and that terrifying moment in the final year of high school when you realise that the future’s come to get you.
A brilliant new novel from Jaclyn Moriarty, whose compelling storytelling weaves lyrically around the reader.