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'Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go — anywhere but home, stuck in the suburbs with her mother who won't get off the couch, and two brothers in prison. She's set herself rules to live by, but she's starting to break them.
'Now Mim has to retrieve a lost package for her mother.
'Does this make her a drug runner? Why is a monster dog called Gargoyle hidden in the back shed? And Jordan, the boy she sent Valentines to for years, why is he now suddenly a creep? How come there's a huge gap between her and her best friend, Tahnee? And who is the mysterious girl next door who moans at night?
'Over the nine days before her seventeenth birthday, Mim's life turns upside down. She has problems, and she's determined to solve them herself.
'But in the end, she works out who her people are, and the same things look entirely different.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Suburb's Dark Side a Novel Stimulus
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SA Contenders
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Reading and Reviewing : Texts for Years 9-10
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— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 46 no. 3 2011; (p. 110)
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[Review Essay] All I Ever Wanted
2011
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Childrens' Book Council of Australia , August vol. 55 no. 3 2011; (p. 39-40)
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[Review Essay] All I Ever Wanted
2011
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— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 19 no. 3 2011; (p. 10)
— Review of All I Ever Wanted 2011 single work novel
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[Review Essay] All I Ever Wanted
2011
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May vol. 90 no. 8 2011; (p. 44)
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Off the Shelf : Young Adult Fiction
2011
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 23 July 2011; (p. 34)
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[Review Essay] All I Ever Wanted
2011
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— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 25 no. 2 2011; (p. 59-60)
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Spirited Antipodean Fare
2011
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 July 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of Vinnie's War 2011 single work children's fiction ; Silvermay 2011 single work novel ; The Shattering 2011 single work novel ; Black Painted Fingernails 2011 single work novel ; All I Ever Wanted 2011 single work novel -
Kid's Lit
2011
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 August 2011; (p. 25)
— Review of The Comet Box 2011 single work novel ; Black Painted Fingernails 2011 single work novel ; All I Ever Wanted 2011 single work novel ; Cargo 2011 single work novel -
Flawed and Fearless
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May vol. 90 no. 8 2011; (p. 48) -
My Kind of Place
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 2 July 2011; (p. 26-28) -
The Person is Not the Postcode
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— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 378 2011; (p. 26) -
Not the Book I Meant to Write : Vikki Wakefield on All I Ever Wanted
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— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 19 no. 3 2011; (p. 9-10) -
SA Contenders
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 August 2012; (p. 20)
Awards
- 2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Young Adult Book Award
- 2012 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Young Adult Fiction
- 2012 winner Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — Young Adult Fiction
- 2012 longlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers