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'Life? It's simple: be true to yourself. The tricky part is finding out exactly who you are...
'"In the holidays before the dreaded term at Crowthorne Grammar's outdoor education camp two things out of the ordinary happened. A picture of me was plastered all over a twenty-metre billboard. And I kissed Ben Capaldi."
'Boarding for a term in the wilderness, sixteen-year-old Sibylla expects the gruesome outdoor education program - but friendship complications, and love that goes wrong? They're extra-curricula. Enter Lou from Six Impossible Things - the reluctant new girl for this term in the great outdoors. Fragile behind an implacable mask, she is grieving a death that occurred almost a year ago. Despite herself, Lou becomes intrigued by the unfolding drama between her housemates Sibylla and Holly, and has to decide whether to end her self-imposed detachment and join the fray.
'And as Sibylla confronts a tangle of betrayal, she needs to renegotiate everything she thought she knew about surviving in the wild.
'A story about first love, friendship and NOT fitting in.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Review : Fiona Wood, Wildlife
2014
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— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 74 no. 3 2014;
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Judges Comments on the Winner and Honour Books : Older Readers
2014
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— Appears in: Reading Time , August 2014; -
Book of the Year : Older Readers Award : Acceptance Speech by Fiona Wood
2014
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— Appears in: Reading Time , August 2014; -
Coming-of-Age Tale Wins Book of the Year
Wildlife Snares Kids' Book Gong
2014
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 August 2014; (p. 5) The Age , 16 August 2014; (p. 11) -
Writing Their Way to Fame
2014
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 April 2014; (p. 58)
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[Review] Wildlife
2013
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— Appears in: Books + Publishing , April vol. 92 no. 5 2013; (p. 15)
— Review of Wildlife 2013 single work novel -
[Untitled]
2013
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22-23 June 2013; (p. 20)
— Review of Wildlife 2013 single work novel -
[Review] Wildlife
2013
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 June 2013; (p. 28)
— Review of Wildlife 2013 single work novel -
[Review] Wildlife
2013
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 28 no. 3 2013; (p. 45)
— Review of Wildlife 2013 single work novel -
[Review] Raven Flight [and] Wildlife
2013
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 18 August 2013; (p. 13)
— Review of Raven Flight 2013 single work novel ; Wildlife 2013 single work novel -
Fiona Wood
2013
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interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 28 no. 4 2013; (p. 18-20) -
Writing Their Way to Fame
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 April 2014; (p. 58) -
Coming-of-Age Tale Wins Book of the Year
Wildlife Snares Kids' Book Gong
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 August 2014; (p. 5) The Age , 16 August 2014; (p. 11) -
Book of the Year : Older Readers Award : Acceptance Speech by Fiona Wood
2014
single work
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— Appears in: Reading Time , August 2014; -
Judges Comments on the Winner and Honour Books : Older Readers
2014
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— Appears in: Reading Time , August 2014;
Awards
- 2015 honour book KOALA Awards — Fiction for Years 7-9
- 2014 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
- 2014 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2014 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Writing for Young Adults
- 2014 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers