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'Yellow is a YA murder mystery with a slight supernatural edge, but at heart it's about the redemptive power of kindness. Publishing in February 2016, it’s a beautifully written coming-of-age story about family, first love, finding your place and uncovering the secrets of the past.
'If fourteen-year-old Kirra is having a mid-life crisis now, then it doesn't bode well for her life expectancy. Her so-called friends bully her, whatever semblance of a mother she had has been drowned at the bottom of a gin bottle ever since her dad left them for another woman, and now a teenage ghost is speaking to her through a broken phone booth. Kirra and the ghost make a pact. She'll prove who murdered him almost twenty years ago if he does three things for her. He makes her popular, he gets her parents back together, and he doesn't haunt her. Things aren't so simple however, and Kirra realises that people can be haunted in more ways than one. ' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
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'Bitch-Slaps from Fate' : Four Recent Young Adult Novels
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 62-63)
— Review of Summer Skin 2016 single work novel ; Frankie 2016 single work novel ; Yellow 2016 single work novel ; The Way We Roll 2016 single work novel -
[Review] Yellow
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 April 2016; (p. 36)
— Review of Yellow 2016 single work novel
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[Review] Yellow
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 April 2016; (p. 36)
— Review of Yellow 2016 single work novel -
'Bitch-Slaps from Fate' : Four Recent Young Adult Novels
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 382 2016; (p. 62-63)
— Review of Summer Skin 2016 single work novel ; Frankie 2016 single work novel ; Yellow 2016 single work novel ; The Way We Roll 2016 single work novel
Awards
- 2018 shortlisted REAL Awards — Fiction for Years 7-9
- 2017 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2017 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Young Adult Book
- 2017 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
- 2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book