C. G. Drews C. G. Drews i(13514207 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Australian author of young-adult fiction.

In September 2022, her forthcoming young-adult horror novel was announced by a 2024 publication with Feiwel and Friends with the title Skeleton Boys (published as Don't Let the Forest In). In early 2024, a forthcoming novel, with the title You Did Nothing Wrong, was announced for St Martin's Press.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Boy Who Steals Houses The Boy Who Steals Houses | The Girl Who Stole His Heart London : Orchard Books , 2019 15644075 2019 single work novel young adult

'Can two broken boys find their perfect home? By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, this is a gorgeously told, powerful story.

'Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he’s ever known. Now Sam’s trying to build a new life for them. He survives by breaking into empty houses when their owners are away, until one day he’s caught out when a family returns home. To his amazement this large, chaotic family takes him under their wing -- each teenager assuming Sam is a friend of another sibling. Sam finds himself inextricably caught up in their life, and falling for the beautiful Moxie.

'But Sam has a secret, and his past is about to catch up with him.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Older Readers
2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
2020 nominated Yoto Carnegies Library Association Awards (UK) CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Awards Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing
y separately published work icon A Thousand Perfect Notes Melbourne : Lothian , 2018 13514236 2018 single work novel young adult

'Beck hates his life. He hates his violent mother. He hates his home. Most of all, he hates the piano that his mother forces him to play hour after hour, day after day. He will never play as she did before illness ended her career and left her bitter and broken. But Beck is too scared to stand up to his mother, and tell her his true passion, which is composing his own music - because the least suggestion of rebellion on his part ends in violence.

'When Beck meets August, a girl full of life, energy and laughter, love begins to awaken within him and he glimpses a way to escape his painful existence. But dare he reach for it?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2019 shortlisted Inky Awards Gold Inky
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