#LoveOzYA
1 primary work • 10 total works
Book 1
Begin, End, Begin
by Danielle Binks, Lili Wilkinson, Michael Pryor, Melissa Keil, Gabrielle Tozer, Amie Kaufman, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, and Jaclyn Moriarty
Bestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars.
This anthology has them all.
With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice Pung, Gabrielle Tozer, Lili Wilkinson and Danielle Binks, this all-new collection will show the world exactly how much there is to love about Aussie YA.
Harnessing the power of the #LoveOzYA social media movement, this anthology features incredible short stories from ten beloved Australian YA authors.
MORE AWARDS
Winner - 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards (Older Children)
Shortlisted - 2018 Inky Awards
Shortlisted -- 2017 Aurealis Awards (Best Young Adult Short Story): One Small Step by Amie Kaufman, I Can See the Ending by Will Kostakis, Competition Entry #349 by Jaclyn Moriarty, First Casualty by Michael Pryor and Oona Underground by Lili Wilkinson
Shortlisted -- 2017 Aurealis Awards (Best Fantasy Short Story): Oona Underground by Lili Wilkinson
Shortlisted -- 2017 Aurealis Awards (Best Science Fiction Short Story): One Small Step by Amie Kaufman
Shortlisted -- 2017 Aurealis Awards (Best Science Fiction Novella): I Can See the Ending by Will Kostakis
This tale is a contemporary YA story about the last night in a small town for a young girl's big brother, when she covertly tags along to take part in the goodbye revelry with his friends.
Love is never as simple as Boy Meets Girl, not for a psychic teen anyway. Nothing spoils Boy Kisses Girl quite like a vision of Girl Dumping Boy . . .
'I want to get out of here. But no amount of walking is going to get me back home . . .' Rachel Watts is adrift in the Big Smoke - until an eccentric boy called James Mycroft comes into her orbit.
Meg and Oona venture into the drains under their city to find the fortune-telling Witch Queen.
What if your history class took a school excursion to a time-travel agency to visit England in the seventeenth century? And what if you decided to secretly switch your time-travel destination, and visit your own home two weeks ago instead? Then you could witness the moment when Noah Brackman first kissed you - and figure out exactly what went wrong . . .
This is a story about moving on, letting go, embracing change, and surviving those aimless, unfilled days.
This story contains: explosions, the first person born on Mars, a greenhouse, two girls, a small tree called Horace, kissing, difficult decisions about what to do after school, action sequences, and that awkward moment when you try to figure out if your best friend is into you.
Two teens reunite on an overnight coach from Canberra to Melbourne and are forced to deal with a painful incident from their past.
A holiday trip (in space!) goes horribly wrong when alien refugees are rescued but the dark side of politics and the media emerges.