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'Clem Timmins can't wait to see her best friends after being apart all summer holidays. But when they get back together, things have changed. Bridge is boy-crazy and acting like a different person. Ellie is wearing a bra and having a real-life romance. Clem feels left behind. When she makes friends with Tom, suddenly everyone's gossiping about whether they're going to be a couple. Clem's got no interest in having a boyfriend. Or does she?
'At school camp, Bridge crosses the line and Clem has to ask herself - can she keep growing up with her friends when they're growing apart?
'This story of fitting in and falling out perfectly captures how it feels to balance on the edge of who you are and who you want to be.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For Aidan. Always.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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One the Edge of Thirteen and Looking Forward
Allison Paterson
(interviewer),
2022
single work
interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 37 no. 1 2022; (p. 18-20)
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One the Edge of Thirteen and Looking Forward
Allison Paterson
(interviewer),
2022
single work
interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 37 no. 1 2022; (p. 18-20)
Awards
- 2022 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year
- 2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
- 2021 shortlisted REAL Awards — Fiction for Years 7-9
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