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The Year the Star Fell
The summer Cassie turns twelve is the summer she loses her best friend. Brought together by their love of horses, Cassie and Lou have been best friends ever since they were little girls. But the summer holidays before they start high school mark a turning point in their lives. Can Cassie mend the broken friendship that has always meant so much to her?
140 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
About the author
Alison Stewart
24 books40 followersAlison has had nine books published - two books for adults and seven for young people. Four of them have been translated into Italian, Danish, Dutch and Thai.
Her latest project,Cold Stone Soup, an unpublished memoir about growing up under apartheid and migrating to Australia has won the FAW 2013 National Literary Awards (Jim Hamilton Award for a non-fiction manuscript). Cold Stone Soup was also runner-up in the 2010 Penguin/Varuna Scholarship.
Her first book for adults, Born Into the Country (Justified Press 1988, South Africa) was shortlisted for the 1987 AA Mutual Life Vita Young Writers’ Award. Heinemann Australia published her next adult novel, Bitterbloom in 1991. Her YA novel, The Wishing Moon was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian Multicultural Children’s Award and was a 1995 Children’s Book Council Notable book.
Her YA dystopia, Days Like This, published by Penguin Australia was a finalist in the inaugural 2010 Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough Novel Award in the YA category.
Alison lives in Sydney and is married with two adult children. When she gets the chance, she loves travelling - who doesn't? Alison worked for years as a news and feature journalist. She currently writes travel stories.
Her latest project,Cold Stone Soup, an unpublished memoir about growing up under apartheid and migrating to Australia has won the FAW 2013 National Literary Awards (Jim Hamilton Award for a non-fiction manuscript). Cold Stone Soup was also runner-up in the 2010 Penguin/Varuna Scholarship.
Her first book for adults, Born Into the Country (Justified Press 1988, South Africa) was shortlisted for the 1987 AA Mutual Life Vita Young Writers’ Award. Heinemann Australia published her next adult novel, Bitterbloom in 1991. Her YA novel, The Wishing Moon was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian Multicultural Children’s Award and was a 1995 Children’s Book Council Notable book.
Her YA dystopia, Days Like This, published by Penguin Australia was a finalist in the inaugural 2010 Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough Novel Award in the YA category.
Alison lives in Sydney and is married with two adult children. When she gets the chance, she loves travelling - who doesn't? Alison worked for years as a news and feature journalist. She currently writes travel stories.
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May 1, 2011
READ IN DUTCH
Toen ik dit boek toevoegde aan de GR database, zag ik toevallig dat de Nederlandse titel niet juist op de site van de auteur stond. Toen ik haar erop wees, kreeg ik een heel leuk en vriendelijk bedank emailtje. Altijd leuk!
Valse vriendschap is uitgegeven als Tina Topper, en leest ook net zo lekker weg als de andere boeken in de serie. Ik vond ze vroeger heel fijn om te lezen als tussendoortje.
Toen ik dit boek toevoegde aan de GR database, zag ik toevallig dat de Nederlandse titel niet juist op de site van de auteur stond. Toen ik haar erop wees, kreeg ik een heel leuk en vriendelijk bedank emailtje. Altijd leuk!
Valse vriendschap is uitgegeven als Tina Topper, en leest ook net zo lekker weg als de andere boeken in de serie. Ik vond ze vroeger heel fijn om te lezen als tussendoortje.
September 15, 2009
Oh geez, there is totally more information available on this book in Dutch than in English! Apparently I've read it, but I don't remember anything about it :(
ETA - it's amazing what a blurb in English can do ;) Suddenly I can so vividly remember finding this in the ERC library at uni... they had the most amazing childrens' section there!
ETA - it's amazing what a blurb in English can do ;) Suddenly I can so vividly remember finding this in the ERC library at uni... they had the most amazing childrens' section there!
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