- Interpersonal relations, Families, Teenage girls, Juvenile fiction
In 1980s Australia, nearly fourteen-year-old Ariella "Plum" Coyle fears the disapproval of her friends, feels inferior to her older brothers, and hates her awkward, adolescent body but when her glamorous neighbor befriends her, Plum starts to become what she wants to be--until she discovers her neighbor's ulterior motive.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Sonya Hartnett
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press, London : Hamish Hamilton, Bolinda Audio
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780763663346
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