After

Description

CJ has been banished to the country to live with his grandparents. His attempt to fade into the background at his new school is thwarted when Luke Bennett, a boy suffering from a brain injury, befriends him. Here he learns that no matter how hard you try to run from the past it is always right there in front of you, waiting.

Sue Lawson writes books for children and young adults. Her love for books began when she was a child on a farm in country Victoria where she spent her time reading, writing, listening to her father and grandfather's stories and avoiding working with the cattle. These days, she's added stationery shops to her football obsession and when not writing, teaches and runs workshops for young people and adults. In 2012, Pan's Whisper was short-listed for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, was a Notable Book at the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards and won the Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature. You Don't Even Know was short-listed for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards in 2014. Sue's website is www.suelawson.com.au

Cleverly constructed to create a dramatic and intriguing story so the reader is kept in suspense right up to the powerful ending. * Viewpoint * There is a sense of tension, a feeling of intrigue, and an underlying uncertainty about were things will head which keeps the reader on edge throughout the novel ... The honesty and emotion in this book makes it special. * Reading Time * Powerful, familiar and intriguing. Speaks to the Australian teen experience - it will move every reader. -- Persnickety Snark