Finding Cassie Crazy (45 page)
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Authors: Jaclyn Moriarty
ASHBURY HIGH
YEAR 10
NOTICEBOARD
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
I thought I would go round the bend!
But it all worked out in the end.
Well done, Year 10!
The Spring for Unity! Concert
The Spring for Unity! Concert will take place at 7 pm tonight. The Spring for Unity! Concert looks set to be a marvellous evening. Cecily Mackenzie, mother of Bindy Mackenzie, has generously offered six free places in her Club Catamaran Sailing School as prizes for the best contributions! As Mr Botherit says, the Spirit of Friendship is alive and well again!
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Late Entry in the Spring for Unity! Concert
We have received a late contribution to the Spring for Unity! Concert.
Barney and Maribelle Learn to Fly
, a children's book
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written by Lydia Jaackson-Oberman (Ashbury), illustrated by Seb Mantegna (Brookfield), will be on display in the entry way to the hall this evening.
For Sale
ACID®PRO 4.0 (audio looping software). Comes with content CD which has multi-genre music loops (dance, hip hop, techno, industrial, rock, jazz, etc). Recently purchased and used once only. Price negotiable.
Any interest, please contact Lydia Jaackson-Oberman, Emily Thompson or Cassie Aganovic.
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Please note that the book is not suitable for childrenâall the characters suffer unexpected and startling fates on the final page.
Jaclyn Moriarty
Feeling Sorry for Celia
Dear Ms Clarry,
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join our Society.
We have just found out about your holiday. It is so impressive! You
had four assignments, an English essay and a chapter of Maths to do.
And you didn't do one single piece of homework!
Fabulous!
Also we have a feeling that you have a History test today.
And you're trying to study now? On the bus? With the Brookfield
boys climbing onto each other's shoulders to get to the emergency
roof exit? And with Celia about to get on the bus at any moment?
And you think that's going to make a difference!!!
That's really very amusing, Elizabeth. We like you for it.
You're perfect for our Society and we're very excited
about having you join.
Yours sincerely,
The Manager
Society of People who are Definitely Going to Fail High School
(and Most Probably Life as Well!
âElizabeth Clarry is exactly the sort of person I'd love for a best friend' MELINA MARCHETTA, AUTHOR OF
LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI
âHilarious . . . a must for any angst-ridden teenager'
DOLLY
âMoriarty's writing is a hoot and her sense of irony perfectly placed in this hilarious addition to the genre of genuinely comic Australian young adult novels'
THE AUSTRALIAN
Markus Zusak
The Messenger
PROTECT THE DIAMONDS
SURVIVE THE CLUBS
DIG DEEP THROUGH THE SPADES
FEEL THE HEARTS
Meet Ed Kennedyâcab driving prodigy, pathetic card player and useless at sex. He lives in a suburban shack, shares coffee with his dog, the Doorman, and he's in nervous-love with Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetenceâuntil he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.
That's when the first ace turns up.
That's when Ed becomes the messenger.
Chosen to care, he makes his way through town, helping and hurting (where necessary) until only one question remains. Who's behind Ed's mission?
The Messenger
, by the highly acclaimed author Markus Zusak, is a cryptic journey filled with laughter, fists and love.
Scot Gardner
The Other Madonna
Madonna O'Dwyer is not the mother of the Messiah and she's not a sex-powered pop diva. She's a hardworking girl with a drama queen for a sister and a dad who sounds Irish when he's drunk.
The mother who blessed (or cursed) her with her name died when she was young, leaving a hole in Madonna that, at seventeen, has become as raw as a decayed tooth.
Madonna's friends think she can heal with her hands, but Madonna has her doubts. Her hands make pizzas and wash dishes. Her hands caress the boy and smash down the door. Her hands strangle demons from her past and pray for a spirited future.
The hands of Madonna.
The other Madonna.
A humorous new novel about piercing, pizzas and the healing power of love from the highly-acclaimed author of
One Dead Seagull
,
White Ute Dreaming
and
Burning Eddy
.
Charlotte Calder
Cupid Painted Blind
The course of true love never did run smoothly.
If people have been stuffing up love since Shakespeare's time, what hope does Sephâor sefi_15 when she's onlineâhave with Tom? Look at her parents: they barely speak to each other since Nick moved out, and could her mum really have a âthing' for their balding (not to mention married) neighbour? Even Seph's best friend Piaâboy magnetâis having problems. The forces of love, like the unbearably hot summer, seem to be beyond anyone's control . . .
And now a mysterious grEMLin has invaded Seph's chat room and is about to make her life a whole lot more difficult . . .
Praise for Charlotte Calder's first novel,
Settling Storms
:
âA beautifully assured, engaging first novel . . . delightful and absorbing'
AGNES NIEUWENHUIZEN
âWell written, with an entertaining plot and a mystery . . . describes the heat, the humidity and the storms of tropical Australia in the wet season with authenticity and feeling'
VIEWPOINT
âsure to be a winner'
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