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'#LoveOzYA celebrates the best of new Australian writing for teenage readers. It has grown from a humble hashtag into a movement, reflecting the important role young-adult fiction plays in shaping our current generation of readers. This anthology collects, for the first time, some of the tremendous work from the #LoveOzYA community.
'Featuring a foreword by award-winning Australian novelist Fleur Ferris (Risk, Wreck, Black and Found), Underdog celebrates the diverse, dynamic and ever-changing nature of our nation's culture. From queer teen romance to dystopian comedy, from hard-hitting realism to gritty allegory, this brilliant, engrossing and inspiring collection of short stories will resonate with any teen reader, proving, yet again, why there is just so much to love about #LoveOzYA.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Foreword by Fleur Ferris.
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Underdog is an initiative of #LoveOzYA.
Contents
- Meet and Greet, single work short story
- Breathe Me In, single work short story
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Remnants,
single work
short story
'Remnants is set in a not-too-distant future where the environmental crisis has forced Melody and her family to live underground, just like the rest of the world’s population. Melody loves piecing together information about the past, but then her grandma goes missing and her family is plunged into distress.'
Source: Mornington Peninsula Magazine.
- Mediocre Heroes, single work short story
- The Swan, single work short story
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The Chinese Menu for the Afterlife,
single work
short story
Traditional Chinese food dishes provide ways for the protagonist to navigate her grandfather's death.
- Variation, single work short story
- Chemical Expression, single work short story
- The Bees, single work short story
- The Gap Between Us, single work short story
- Afterdeath, single work short story
- Living Rose, single work short story
