Birgit Schmiz Birgit Schmiz i(A95006 works by)
Gender: Female
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4 13 y separately published work icon Friday Brown Vikki Wakefield , ( trans. Birgit Schmiz with title Zeit zu gehen, Friday Brown ) Aarau : Sauerländer , 2014 Z1883752 2012 single work novel young adult

'Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is on the run—running to escape memories of her mother and of the family curse. And of a grandfather who'd like her to stay. She's lost, alone and afraid.

'Silence, a street kid, finds Friday and she joins him in a gang led by beautiful, charismatic Arden. When Silence is involved in a crime, the gang escapes to a ghost town in the outback. In Murungal Creek, the town of never leaving, Friday must face the ghosts of her past. She will learn that sometimes you have to stay to finish what you started—and often, before you can find out who you are, you have to become someone you were never meant to be.'

2 17 y separately published work icon All I Ever Wanted Vikki Wakefield , ( trans. Birgit Schmiz with title Alles was ich will ) Berlin : Bloomsbury , 2012 Z1767534 2011 single work novel young adult

'Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go — anywhere but home, stuck in the suburbs with her mother who won't get off the couch, and two brothers in prison. She's set herself rules to live by, but she's starting to break them.

'Now Mim has to retrieve a lost package for her mother.

'Does this make her a drug runner? Why is a monster dog called Gargoyle hidden in the back shed? And Jordan, the boy she sent Valentines to for years, why is he now suddenly a creep? How come there's a huge gap between her and her best friend, Tahnee? And who is the mysterious girl next door who moans at night?

'Over the nine days before her seventeenth birthday, Mim's life turns upside down. She has problems, and she's determined to solve them herself.

'But in the end, she works out who her people are, and the same things look entirely different.' (From the publisher's website.)

5 6 y separately published work icon Family Baggage Monica McInerney , ( trans. Birgit Schmiz with title Träume Im Gepäck Roman ) Munich : Knaur-Taschenbuch , 2008 Z1198228 2005 single work novel romance

'Tour guide Harriet Turner knows all about journeys. She's arranged hundreds of them for the travel agency her family runs. But when her work colleague and foster sister Lara disappears on the eve of a big overseas trip, Harriet finds herself in uncharted territory. Left in charge of a coachload of eccentric tourists on a themed tour based on the English TV detective series Willoughby, Harriet soon has her hands full. But as the bus wends its way through the picturesque countryside of Devon and Cornwall, the tour becomes another kind of journey for her. She finds herself facing big questions about her family, her childhood and her feelings for the guest of honour on the tour, the charming star of Willoughby, Patrick Shawcross. And the biggest puzzle of all: what has happened to Lara?' (Publication summary)

3 6 y separately published work icon The Alphabet Sisters Monica McInerney , Munich : Knaur , 2005 Z1098253 2004 single work novel
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