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Wildlife

Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.

Main Author: Wood, Fiona (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Poppy/Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Australia > Young adult fiction.
High schools > Young adult fiction.
Grief > Young adult fiction.
Friendship > Young adult fiction.
Melbourne (Vic.) > Young adult fiction.
Bildungsromans > Young adult.
Summary: Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.
Item Description: "First published in 2013 by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Ltd."--Title page verso.
Physical Description: 385 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780316242097 (hc)
0316242098 (hc)
Author Notes: Fiona Wood is an author of young adult novels based in Australia. She is a graduate of Melbourne University with a degree in arts. She has worked in marketing, arts management, Freelance journalism and studied screenwriting at RMIT. She has been writing television scripts for more than ten years. Her other interests include serving as a judge for the AWGIE Awards (Australian Writers' Guild) and is an ambassador for The Stella Prize Schools Program.

Her first novel was Six Impossible Things (2010). Her next novel Wildlife(2013) won the Indie Award, Young Adult, and the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award, Older Readers. Her third book, Cloudwish (2015), won the 2016 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award, Older Readers. Wild. Her book, Take Three Girls (2017), won the 2018 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award, Older Readers.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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