Double Cross | Malorie BlackmanJust this once. Just this once and no more, I promise. Please let me get away with it just this once . . . Tobey wants a better life for him and for Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the violent gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some extra money, how much could it hurt to just this once say 'yes'? Callie Rose knows all about the danger of saying 'yes'. She knows about terrible mistakes, and violence

sharp and tender emotional truths hit home

caring and insightful

he had never had a pop hit

Imperialists

Fox and Owl are able to honestly chart the course of life as a trans teen

Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy

If you've ever been on a night out where you got blackout drunk and have laughed the next day as your friends tell you all the stupid stuff you said

His older brother was the prime suspect and left Echo Ridge in disgrace

Nornie grew up on the island of Mer in the Torres Strait and while her wanderlust would take her to Italian and Japanese kitchens in Melbourne and London via Townsville

There is their mother

'A day will come when you won't missthe country na nagluwal sa 'yo

By the year's end he had a better sense of what the Poles had turned their backs on - southern mountains