Penni Russon

Endsister

Kate Constable

My mental telepathy is stronger than most people's. Once I stared at Lucy for a whole class, and she complained. If I can make it work on a blind person, I can make it work on anybody. - India Rule number one of fortune telling give the customer what they want. We could have made a good team. Pity I wasn't a team player. I was a strictly solo kind of girl. - Poppy India can see the future, and Poppy has a past. And when they discover old letters in the school attic it seems destiny has a plan for them. Who is the mysterious Swoosie? What does she have to do with Poppy's high-school sweetheart parents, and India's mum? Meanwhile plans for the reunion of the class of '89 are underway, and there's a lot of bad hair going round. Does the past have the power to change the future and can the future heal the past? India and Poppy are about to find out. 'Funny, warming...A great tale of friendship and family...' Amelia 15 'A great read, complex and enthralling.' Akela 16

Dear Swoosie (Girlfriend Fiction 17)

The notes of an old music box connect two girls from very different worlds--Clara, who struggles to survive poverty and violence in a troubled city, and Claire, whose ordinary life is beset by grief--in a place where neither can be sure what is real.

Only Ever Always

Undine gets along well with her unconventional mother, she adores her baby brother, and she has a devoted kindred spirit in her best friend and next-door neighbor, Trout. It's inconvenient that Trout has a sloppy crush on her, but Undine tries to overlook this. Undine is basically satisfied . . . until strange things begin happening to her. It starts with an odd feeling, a shadow in the mirror, a whisper only Undine can hear: It's time to come home. And it builds. One hot day, when Undine imagines knitting together a few scattered clouds, she creates a massive thunderstorm. Who is Undine? Where does her power come from? What is she meant to do? Undine needs answers to these questions, so she sets off in search of a father she'd always believed was dead and a self she's only beginning to discover. But Undine's magic is powerful, wild, and dangerous -- and her feelings as she uncovers the truth are even fiercer. Will Undine find herself or lose herself . . . and everyone she loves?

Undine

Does the world shape us, or do we shape the world? A suspenseful story of parallel realities - two girls in two worlds with two different ways to survive. 'Fascinating and absolutely memorable.' - Ursula Dubosarsky.

The notes of an old music box connects two girls from very different worlds--Clara, who struggles to survive poverty and violence in a troubled city, and Claire, whose ordinary life is beset by grief--in a place where neither can be sure what is real.

Two girls, one summer - and a whole lot to learn from each other. For two weeks every summer they're the Indigo Girls - surfing, bushwalking, or just hanging out at the campground or the nearby resort.

Indigo Girls

From the author: As a young girl, I used to lie in bed and think how, if the world was so big, that somewhere there might be a girl exactly like me, my twin, living another whole life. In my fantasy our connection would be strong enough one day to pull us together - one day I would find myself. I's still a compelling idea. I still half believe it to be true.Only Ever Always is a beautifully crafted and emotionally intense novel that teases out this intriguing idea. It is both a classic philosophical quandary and an exploration of the line between self and the material world - does the world shape us, or do we shape the world?

'I know what an endsister is,' says Sibbi again. We are endsisters, Else thinks, Sibbi and I. Bookends, oldest and youngest, with the three boys sandwiched in between. Meet the Outhwaite children. There's teenage Else, the violinist who abandons her violin. There's nature-loving Clancy. There's the inseparable twins, Oscar-and-Finn, Finn-and-Oscar. And then there is Sibbi, the baby of the family. They all live contentedly squabbling in a cottage surrounded by trees and possums...until a letter arrives to say they have inherited the old family home in London. Outhwaite House is full of old shadows and new possibilities. The boys quickly find their feet in London, and Else is hoping to reinvent herself. But Sibbi is misbehaving, growing thinner and paler by the day, and she won't stop talking about the mysterious endsister. Meanwhile Almost Annie and Hardly Alice, the resident ghosts, are tied to the house for reasons they have long forgotten, watching the world around them change, but never leaving. The one thing they all agree on - the living and the dead - is never, ever to open the attic door...

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