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I didn’t always live here. Not so long ago I was living in a thriving metropolis with more than one coffee shop on each block and four full bars of reception. I went to Heathmont High School, home to one thousand students, two best friends, a deeply average orchestra, and one cursed statue. Well, allegedly.
Reece still isn’t used to living in the small beachside town of Hamilton: she misses her old school, her old friends and her old life. She can’t go back and she can’t move forward: nothing feels right anymore. Not that she’s trying very hard – she hasn’t even unpacked yet, and the only new friend she’s made is a middle-aged barista.
But when Reece inherits a strange artefact that belonged to her beloved grandmother, she begins to unravel a mystery that might change the way she feels about everything around her, including her charismatic classmate Gideon…
A lively, witty novel about letting go of the past and finding your place in the world, The Museum of Broken Things introduces a dazzling new voice in contemporary fiction.
‘A clear-eyed, absorbing and atmospheric story of loss (and love) that pulls you in, then warmly holds you there.’ Rhiannon Wilde, award-winning author of Henry Hamlet’s Heart
- Themes:Dystopian, Coming of Age, Refugees, Australia, Dystopia, self esteem & relianceReading age:14+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
- Themes:music, friendship, overcoming fear, cultural differencesReading age:9+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
- Themes:homelessness, friendshipReading age:13+
- Themes:settlement, land rights, identityReading age:15 +Australian
- Themes:Friendship, rural Australia, sisters, coming of ageReading age:12+Australian
- Themes:class, identity, decayed values, material excess, historyReading age:15+
- Reading age:14+openbookTeaching notes
- Themes:Shakespeare, first love, dysfunctional familiesReading age:13+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
- Themes:fantasy, death, adolescenceReading age:14+
- Themes:Friendship, Teen suicide, Coming-of-Age, Teen relationships, teen alcoholism, supernaturalReading age:14+
- Reading age:13+
- Reading age:14+openbookTeaching notes
- Reading age:13+
- Themes:holocaust, moral choices, good and evil, friendship, IdentityReading age:14+
- Themes:adventure, mystery, friendship, steampunk, actionReading age:9+Australian

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