Cirrus@Austlit

'"When I was smaller I thought that at some point in my life I’d reach the top of the mountain. You know, the place where you’re finally happy. The night I got a standing ovation in the school play was the night I got to the top. The trouble was, no one ever told me that I’d have to hike back down."

'Finally, everything is going right for 13-year-old Jazmine Crawford. After years of being invisible, she’s making friends, talking to her mum and hanging out with Liam. But what happens when everyone around her changes? Will getting back in touch with her grandma help her cope or just make things worse? And who’s going to finally give arrogant Angela what she deserves?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Jazmine Crawford doesn’t make decisions. She doesn’t make choices. She doesn’t make friends. Jazmine Crawford only wants one thing: to be invisible. For Jazmine, it’s a lot easier to take out her hearing aid and drift along pretending that nothing’s wrong than it is to admit that she’s heartbroken. She starts to come out of her shell when she's forced to be in the school play and even makes friends with bouncy Gabby and chocolate-loving Liam. But can she stand up to the school bully, and is she strong enough to face the truth about what really happened to her dad?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'When you don't know where you belong, who are you really? Jazmine’s deaf. And she’s getting tired. Tired of having to try hard, tired of fitting in, tired of pretending to be like everyone else. When Jaz goes to deaf camp, a new world opens up to her. A world where things are easier, and she finally seems to have a place. But when you leave one world and enter another, what happens to the people you leave behind? And why is one of her new deaf friends suddenly pushed out of the group? Which world will Jaz live in? Can she keep a foot in both? How will she figure out the best way to be Jazmine?

Being Jazmine is the third book in the Invisible series.'

(Source: author's website)

'It's Christmas, but Coco Franks isn't happy. In fact, she's devastated. Her mum has just dropped six words on her that are probably going to ruin the rest of her life. It's true. Someone wrote a book about her! Like, for reals.

'Coco can't handle it. Everything she's ever done is now on display for the world to see, and she's terrified that she'll be hated forever. But, as her twin sister Charlie says, does it matter what people think - really?

'Six Words That Wreck Your Life is a clean, humorous, Australian Christmas short story or flash fiction, featuring Coco and Charlie Franks, characters from the Love and Muddy Puddles and Charlie Franks is A-OK series for young teen girls and older middle grade readers.' (Publication summary)

'Unlike her drama-queen twin sister, Charlie Franks is always fine. At least she is until she has to start a new school, finds out she can't ride her new horse, and gets told that her Mum has something totally weird wrong with her. Charlie's not A-OK. Not at all. And she can't see how things are ever going to get better.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Thirteen year old fashionista Coco Franks has finally made it into the popular group when her dad decides to move the whole family to the country so they can 'bond'. Social death is looming, her shoes are covered in mud and all Coco wants to do is get herself back to her city friends. After all, things can't get any worse, right?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.