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'SAM KINNISON IS A GEEK, AND HE'S TOTALLY FINE WITH THAT.
'He has his horror movies, his nerdy friends, World of Warcraft - and until Princess Leia turns up in his bedroom, worry about girls he won't.
'Then Camilla Carter turns up instead. She's beautiful, friendly and completely irrelevant to his plan. Sam is determined to ignore her, except that Camilla has a plan of her own - and he seems to be part of it.
'Sam believes that everything he needs to know he can learn from the movies. But perhaps he's been watching the wrong ones.
'Life in Outer Space is Melissa Keil's brilliantly sweet and funny debut YA novel. It's also the first book ever to be signed up through the Ampersand Project, Hardie Grant Egmont's initiative for emerging YA writers.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Writing Their Way to Fame
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 April 2014; (p. 58) -
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— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 27-28 April 2013; (p. 21)
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Young at Heart
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— Appears in: Writing Queensland , April no. 228 2013; (p. 12-13) -
Young Adult Fiction
2013
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 April 2013; (p. 23)
— Review of Life in Outer Space 2013 single work novel ; Black Spring 2012 single work novel ; Alex as Well 2013 single work novel ; When We Wake 2013 single work novel -
Life in Outer Space by Melissa Keil
2013
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— Appears in: Buzz Words , January 2013;
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2012/13 vol. 92 no. 3 2012; (p. 31)
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2013
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— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 28 no. 1 2013; (p. 43)
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Young Adult Fiction
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 April 2013; (p. 23)
— Review of Life in Outer Space 2013 single work novel ; Black Spring 2012 single work novel ; Alex as Well 2013 single work novel ; When We Wake 2013 single work novel -
Untitled
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 27-28 April 2013; (p. 21)
— Review of Life in Outer Space 2013 single work novel -
[Untitled]
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 21 no. 1 2013; (p. 40-41)
— Review of Life in Outer Space 2013 single work novel -
Young at Heart
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Writing Queensland , April no. 228 2013; (p. 12-13) -
Writing Their Way to Fame
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 April 2014; (p. 58)
Awards
- 2016 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Older Readers
- 2014 winner Ena Noël Award
- 2014 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Young Adults' Fiction
- 2014 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Young Adults
- 2014 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
