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'Harriet Price has the perfect life: she’s a prefect at Rosemead Grammar, she lives in a mansion, and her gorgeous girlfriend is a future prime minister. So when she decides to risk it all by helping bad-girl Will Everhart expose the school’s many ongoing issues, Harriet tells herself it’s because she too is seeking justice. And definitely not because she finds Will oddly fascinating.
'Will Everhart can’t stand posh people like Harriet, but even she has to admit Harriet's ideas are good – and they’ll keep Will from being expelled. That’s why she teams up with Harriet to create Amelia Westlake, a fake student who can take the credit for a series of provocative pranks at their school.
'But the further Will and Harriet’s hoax goes, the harder it is for the girls to remember they’re sworn enemies – and to keep Amelia Westlake’s true identity hidden. As tensions burn throughout the school, how far will they go to keep Amelia Westlake – and their feelings for each other – a secret?' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Chosen for the 2019 White Ravens list.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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[Review] Amelia Westlake Was Never Here
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , May/June vol. 95 no. 3 2019; (p. 140)
— Review of Amelia Westlake 2018 single work novel
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[Review] Amelia Westlake Was Never Here
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , May/June vol. 95 no. 3 2019; (p. 140)
— Review of Amelia Westlake 2018 single work novel
Awards
- 2019 selected White Ravens
- 2019 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
- 2019 shortlisted Inky Awards — Gold Inky
- 2019 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2019 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book