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'Seventeen-year-old Alba is an aspiring comic-book artist, pastry enthusiast and eternal optimist. She thinks life in her tiny town is awesome (if predictable) and she never wants it to change.
'Unfortunately Alba's just finished year 12 – so the only thing she can predict is that everything's going to change.
'Even so, Alba didn't see the end of the world coming. Apart from a questionable television psychic, no-one did. And for some reason, the world seems to be taking this guy seriously.
'As the tiny town is besieged by doomsday enthusiasts, Alba's life is thrown into chaos. The childhood friend she thought was gone forever unexpectedly reappears; the boy who has been her best friend forever is determined to leave; and even her latest comic book creation, Cinnamon Girl, is out of control.
'It could be the very last summer of Alba's life, but impending Armageddon might turn out to be the least of her problems.* Alba is about to discover that when it comes to her heart, there may not be infinite time to get things right…' (Publication summary)
Affiliation Notes
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Preppers and Survivalism in the AustLit Database
This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:
1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat- A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
- The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper.
3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.
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Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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A Series of Fortunate Readers : A Collaborative Review Article of Important Australasian YA Writing
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 32 2015;
— Review of Hitler's Daughter 1999 single work children's fiction ; The Book Thief 2005 single work novel ; Jasper Jones 2009 single work novel ; Tribe 2012- series - author novel ; The Obernewtyn Chronicles 1987 series - author novel ; Waiting for the End of the World 1983 single work novel ; On the Jellicoe Road 2006 single work novel ; The Incredible Adventures Of Cinnamon Girl 2014 single work novel -
Young Adult Fiction
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 January 2015; (p. 17)
— Review of Paper Planes 2014 single work children's fiction ; The Incredible Adventures Of Cinnamon Girl 2014 single work novel ; Nona & Me 2014 single work children's fiction -
Review : The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , October 2014;
— Review of The Incredible Adventures Of Cinnamon Girl 2014 single work novel -
Review : The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , vol. 94 no. 1 2014; (p. 15)
— Review of The Incredible Adventures Of Cinnamon Girl 2014 single work novel -
What I’m Reading
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2014;
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Review : The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , vol. 94 no. 1 2014; (p. 15)
— Review of The Incredible Adventures Of Cinnamon Girl 2014 single work novel -
Young Adult Fiction
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 January 2015; (p. 17)
— Review of Paper Planes 2014 single work children's fiction ; The Incredible Adventures Of Cinnamon Girl 2014 single work novel ; Nona & Me 2014 single work children's fiction -
Review : The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , October 2014;
— Review of The Incredible Adventures Of Cinnamon Girl 2014 single work novel -
A Series of Fortunate Readers : A Collaborative Review Article of Important Australasian YA Writing
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 32 2015;
— Review of Hitler's Daughter 1999 single work children's fiction ; The Book Thief 2005 single work novel ; Jasper Jones 2009 single work novel ; Tribe 2012- series - author novel ; The Obernewtyn Chronicles 1987 series - author novel ; Waiting for the End of the World 1983 single work novel ; On the Jellicoe Road 2006 single work novel ; The Incredible Adventures Of Cinnamon Girl 2014 single work novel -
What I’m Reading
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2014;
Awards
- 2015 shortlisted Inky Awards — Gold Inky
- 2015 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
- 2015 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Older Readers
- 2015 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers