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'Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is on the run—running to escape memories of her mother and of the family curse. And of a grandfather who'd like her to stay. She's lost, alone and afraid.
'Silence, a street kid, finds Friday and she joins him in a gang led by beautiful, charismatic Arden. When Silence is involved in a crime, the gang escapes to a ghost town in the outback. In Murungal Creek, the town of never leaving, Friday must face the ghosts of her past. She will learn that sometimes you have to stay to finish what you started—and often, before you can find out who you are, you have to become someone you were never meant to be.'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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Young Adult
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , May 2014; (p. 64)
— Review of Friday Brown 2012 single work novel -
Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , November 2013;
— Review of Friday Brown 2012 single work novel -
[Review Essay] Friday Brown
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 1 2013; (p. 256-259)
— Review of Friday Brown 2012 single work novel -
Old Kids on the Block Take Titles
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 August 2013; (p. 32) The Age , 17 August 2013; (p. 29) The Canberra Times , 17 August 2013; (p. 20) -
Reality Check for Young Readers
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 13 April 2013; (p. 27)
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[Review Essay] Friday Brown
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June/July vol. 91 no. 9 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of Friday Brown 2012 single work novel -
[Review Essay] Friday Brown
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 344 2012; (p. 74)
— Review of Friday Brown 2012 single work novel -
[Review Essay] Friday Brown
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 27 no. 4 2012; (p. 45)
— Review of Friday Brown 2012 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 October 2012; (p. 26) The Saturday Age , 27 October 2012; (p. 32) The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 October 2012; (p. 36)
— Review of Friday Brown 2012 single work novel -
For Kids and Teens
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 20 - 21 October 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of Friday Brown 2012 single work novel -
Five Reach Kids' Book Shortlist
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 April 2013; (p. 24) -
Reality Check for Young Readers
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 13 April 2013; (p. 27) -
Old Kids on the Block Take Titles
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 August 2013; (p. 32) The Age , 17 August 2013; (p. 29) The Canberra Times , 17 August 2013; (p. 20)
Awards
- 2014 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Writing for Young Adults
- 2014 winner Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Young Adult Fiction
- 2013 longlisted Inky Awards — Gold Inky
- 2013 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
- 2013 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Young Adults' Fiction — Young adult fiction
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