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Six impossible things

Fourteen-year-old Dan Cereill's life is turned upside-down when his father announces he is gay and leaves Dan and his mother with nothing, forcing them to move to an aunt's house, Dan to enroll in public school, and his mother to try to start a business, but the top thing on Dan's list is kissing Es...

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Main Author: Wood, Fiona (Fiona Anna)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Boston : Poppy, Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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Moving, Household > Young adult fiction.
Family problems > Young adult fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Young adult fiction.
High schools > Young adult fiction.
Schools > Young adult fiction.
Gay fathers > Young adult fiction.
Australia > Young adult fiction.
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Summary:Fourteen-year-old Dan Cereill's life is turned upside-down when his father announces he is gay and leaves Dan and his mother with nothing, forcing them to move to an aunt's house, Dan to enroll in public school, and his mother to try to start a business, but the top thing on Dan's list is kissing Estelle, the girl next door.
Physical Description:282 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780316242165 (hardcover)
0316242160 (hardcover)
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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