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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Notes
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In 2010, Rebecca Sparrow published, Find Your Tribe (and 9 Other Things I Wish I'd Known in High School), a guide for teenagers. In 2013, she published the follow-up Find Your Feet. Both information books are published by the University of Queensland Press.
In 2015 she published Ask Me Anything (Heartfelt answers to 64 anonymous questions from teenage girls)
Personal Awards
- 2007 Australia Council Literature Board Grants — Grants for Developing Writers $25,000 for young adult literature writing.
Awards for Works
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Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight
Camberwell
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Penguin
,
2007
Z1397167
2007
single work
novel
young adult
humour
- 2008 longlisted Inky Awards — Gold Inky
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y
The Girl Most Likely
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
,
2003
Z1004262
2003
single work
novel
humour
'At 17, Rachel Hill was the girl most likely to succeed. At 27, with an Honours degree and a career as a travel writer, she wonders if marriage is the only thing missing from this perfect trifecta.
'But one distrastrous life decision changes everything. Suddenly she is living back at home in her childhood bedroom – a room still celebrating 1987. She’s also working as a nanny for a surly six-year-old, proof-reading erotic fiction and crucifying movie themes on the piano.
'With Su-su-sudio in the cassette deck, Rachel tumbles head first into a ‘quarter-life’ crisis. As she revisits her idea of perfection, she finds that happiness is living the life you want to live, rather than the one you’re expected to.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2004 joint winner One Book One Brisbane
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