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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Pink
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Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Pink Lili Wilkinson , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1610783 2009 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units)

'The pink jumper was practically glowing in my grey bedroom. It was like a tiny bit of Dorothy's Oz in boring old black-and-white Kansas. Pink was for girls.

'Ava Simpson is trying on a whole new image. Stripping the black dye from her hair, she heads off to the Billy Hughes School for Academic Excellence, leaving her uber-cool girlfriend, Chloe, behind.

'Ava is quickly taken under the wing of perky, popular Alexis who insists that: a) she's a perfect match for handsome Ethan; and b) she absolutely must audition for the school musical.

'But while she's busy trying to fit in - with Chloe, with Alexis and her Pastel friends, even with the misfits in the stage crew - Ava fails to notice that her shiny reinvented life is far more fragile than she imagined.' (From the publisher's website.)

Material Girls, Material Boys Deakin University 2016 (Semester 1)
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