[PDF] The Life And Times Of Gracie Faltrain eBook

Author : Cath Crowley
Publisher : Pan
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
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ISBN : 9781760784263

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STAR (noun): any large body like the sun, intensely hot and producing its own energy by nuclear reactionsSOCCER STAR (noun): Gracie FaltrainGoal-kicking, super-girl, soccer star. Gracie Faltrain is on her way. To the National Championships. To Nick. To everything she's ever wanted. Or so she thinks. Gracie's about to find out that life is messy. And hard. And beautiful.There's a shadow falling across her mum and dad. Her best friend is about to leave town. She's trying desperately to be with the right boy, on the edge of falling in love with the wrong boy. She's rushing headlong into screwing up, making up, trying to keep it all together. Welcome to the life and times of Gracie Faltrain.A hilarious, sometimes poignant look at what good can happen when your world is falling apart by award-winning novelist Cath Crowley.

Author : Cath Crowley
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2007-11-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1742625207

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STAR (noun): any large body like the sun, intensely hot and producing its own energy by nuclear reactions SOCCER STAR (noun): Gracie Faltrain Goal-kicking, super-girl, soccer star. Gracie Faltrain is on her way. To the National Championships. To Nick. To everything she's ever wanted. Or so she thinks. Gracie's about to find out that life is messy. And hard. And beautiful. There's a shadow falling across her mum and dad. Her best friend is about to leave town. She's trying desperately to be with the right boy, on the edge of falling in love with the wrong boy. She's rushing headlong into screwing up, making up, trying to keep it all together. Welcome to the life and times of Gracie Faltrain. From first-time novelist Cath Crowley comes this sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant look at what good can happen when your world is falling apart.

Author : Cath Crowley
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101937661

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“One of the loveliest, most exquisitely beautiful books I’ve read in a very long time. . . . I didn’t just read the pages, I lived in them.” —Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places A beautiful love story for fans of Jandy Nelson and Nicola Yoon: two teens find their way back to each other in a bookstore full of secrets and crushes, grief and hope—and letters hidden between the pages. Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she moved away, she tucked a love letter into his favorite book in his family’s bookshop. She waited. But Henry never came. Now Rachel has returned to the city—and to the bookshop—to work alongside the boy she’d rather not see, if at all possible, for the rest of her life. But Rachel needs the distraction. Her brother drowned months ago, and she can’t feel anything anymore. As Henry and Rachel work side by side—surrounded by books, watching love stories unfold, exchanging letters between the pages—they find hope in each other. Because life may be uncontrollable, even unbearable sometimes. But it’s possible that words, and love, and second chances are enough.

Author : Cath Crowley
Publisher : Pan
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
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ISBN : 9781760784287

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As Gracie begins Year 12, she has only one thing on her mind, and it's not school work. It's not even Martin, now that he's dumped her for the third time. It's soccer: a new season, a new team, a new league. This is the big time, the state trials, and Gracie can't wait. Except there's one small problem. She's no longer the biggest fish in the pond, and one of the other players is the cousin of her arch enemy, Annabelle Orion.Gracie wants to get it right this year, but everything seems to be going wrong - she hardly has time to see her friends, Martin won't talk to her, and she's falling even further behind at school.Gracie needs help both on and off the field, but when it shows up, it's not from the person she expected.

Author : Cath Crowley
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1742621813

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From the award-winning author of Chasing Charlie Duskin and the Gracie Faltrain series An intense and exhilarating 24 hours in the lives of four teenagers on the verge: of adulthood, of HSC, of finding out just who they are, and who they want to be. Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist. Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose. Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing eggs at her probably wasn't the best way to show it. Jazz and Leo are slowly encircling each other. Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Award Ethel Turner Prize 2011 Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards' Young Adult Fiction 2011 Shortlisted for Children's Book Council Awards' Older Readers 2011 Shortlisted for the Victoria Premier's Literary Award Prize for Writing for Young Adults 2011 Shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards' Young Adult Book Award 2011

Author : Cath Crowley
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1454938285

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Three authors. Three appealing and relatable characters. One smart YA novel about a trio of unlikely friends who team up to take down the school cyberbully. “Mean stuff spreads so fast. One click. Post. Send. Share. Online bullying = sometimes suicides, so all the private schools have strategies for dealing with it. At St Hilda’s, it’s Wellness classes. We greeted the idea with genuine enthusiasm. Why not? Everyone loves the chance to slack off.” Popular Ady seems cool and confident at school, but at home her family is falling apart. Brainiac Kate wants to pursue her dreams of playing music, even if it jeopardizes her academic scholarship. And swim champ Clem finds herself disenchanted with the sport . . . and falling for a very wrong boy. When these three very different girls are forced to team up in a wellness class, they’re not too pleased. But over time, they bond—and when they’re all targeted by PSST, a website that dishes out malicious gossip and lies, they decide to take a stand, uncover the culprits, and fight back. But can they really fix a broken system? With each girl’s story told by a different author, as well as intriguing questionnaires from the wellness class included throughout, this empowering novel explores today’s most relevant topics— from cyberbullying and fat shaming to drug abuse and financial stress.

Author : Cath Crowley
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2007-11-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1741970245

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To win a little you have to risk something. To win big, you have to risk it all. Gracie Faltrain is back and she couldn't be happier. Her team won the Championships, she scored a few goals and a boyfriend, as well. Just as she's settling down to a new season of soccer, the stakes are raised. Coach has entered the team in the Firsts – a boys only league. To prove herself, Gracie has to fight harder than ever before. The other teams will do anything to keep her out of the game, and if she makes it, they'll do anything to see her lose. But Gracie is sick of losing. She's sick of seeing friends, like Martin and Alyce, unhappy. Gracie decides it's time to take control and even the score for everyone, on and off the field.

Author : Cath Crowley
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2007-11-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1742623808

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Charlie Duskin is running. Fleeing from failures and memories and friends who have given up on her. And she's not only running, she's chasing things-like a father who will talk to her, friends who don't think she's as invisible as a piece of cling wrap, and an experience with a boy in which she doesn't look like an idiot. But Charlie Duskin is about to have the best summer of her life. She's about to meet a friend who'll change her forever. She's about to fall in love. She just doesn't know it yet.

Author : Lee McGowan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000693147

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Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction’s uncertain – and until now – only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, catalogues, and reviews the book demonstrates a topographic perspective of the field – one that captures and establishes its breadth, depth, and distinctive identity. The book uses and adapts two distinct reading models of abstraction, in conjunction with closer textual analyses. Together they assist in realising a set of demonstrable conventions, outline a taxonomy of fictive types, establish the genre’s current state of play, and advance the football novel as a form with its own literary history and traditions. This book is a valuable resource for those studying and researching in the areas of the social and cultural aspects of football, sports fiction, sports writing, creative writing, and literary and genre studies. Furthermore, related industry professionals will find this a fascinating read, particularly football writers, fans of the sport, and those interested in sports history and cultural phenomena.