Julia Lawrinson

• Jun-2002
• / General Fiction
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This story centers on Caitlin who, after blowing her academic scholarship and freaking out her family, is sent to Bayview, a psychiatric hospital for adolescents. Here she meets the beautiful Anna, who everyone loves. But, as Caitlin is soon to disco...

• Feb-2004
• / General Fiction
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Laura - Loz - is twelve years old and she and her friends, Al, Emily, Luci, Nina and Shelley, are planning to be the next big pop sensation, tour the world and make heaps of money. Everything in life is great until, suddenly - almost overnight, it se...

• May-2006
• / General Fiction
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She thought of Billy, and how he would never say 'Bye, beautiful' to someone like her, that likely no one would ever say anything like that to her in her life, and how she could not do anything to change any of it. Sandy does not know if she would...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Love is just about the only hold anyone can have over another person; if you have that, nothing else is necessary. 'Is she - was she with Johnno?' asked Erica. 'It doesn't work like that,' Trish said. 'It's more. fluid.'Erica is restl...

• Aug-2011
• / General Fiction
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A lighthearted novel for children about the game of chess. Jackson is sporty and popular. Anna doesn't like the sporty, popular people. So when Jackson joins the chess squad, Anna does not initially welcome him. But Anna is about to learn so...

• Mar-2012
• / General Fiction
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To avoid Losing It in the bushes with some random guy in a heavy-metal T-shirt after too many tequila shots, four best friends make a bet: to lose it before schoolies week and preferably in a romantic, sober way that they won't regret. What follow...

• Aug-2015
• / General Fiction
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Telia makes her movements graceful as well as technically perfect. And when she finishes with a full straight-body somersault - something I have never been able to do - her delighted grin makes everybody else smile. Even the judges. Even me. Eve...

• Jan-2017
• / General Fiction
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Year Twelve is not off to a good start for Amelia. Art is her world, but her art teacher hates everything she does; her best friend has stopped talking to her; her mother and father may as well be living in separate houses; and her father is slowly f...

• Dec-2019
• / General Fiction
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This is a contemporary and timely exploration of friendships between young girls and the pressures they're faced with in the modern world. Maddie Lee is in 6th grade and she feels ordinary and dull. Her best and oldest friend Katy is head counselor a...

• Dec-2021
• / Historical
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Shell and Mel are best friends, united by their love of ABBA. But when Scary Sharon decides she wants to be friends with Shell, and Mel begins acting strangely, things start changing fast. Confiding in her pen pal from 1829, Shell discovers she has a...