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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:Australian history, Convicts, True Stories, Tasmania, Sailing, Birds, Pirates, IllustratedReading age:9+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
- Themes:music, friendship, overcoming fear, cultural differencesReading age:9+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
- Themes:art, domestic violence, family, coming-of-age, mental healthReading age:14+openbookTeaching notes
- Themes:Mental Health, Peer Pressure, Coming of Age, Friendship, Family, Ghost storyReading age:14+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
- Themes:Coming of Age, Romance, LGBTQIA, Small Town Life, Family,Reading age:14+Australian
- Themes:Friendship, rural Australia, sisters, coming of ageReading age:12+Australian
- Themes:Friendship, growing up, rural Australia, sisters, coming of ageReading age:12+Australian
- Themes:Coming of age, friendship, troubled teensReading age:13+Australian
- Themes:Friendship, rural Australia, sisters, coming of ageReading age:12+Australian
- Themes:imagination, friendship, overcoming fearReading age:all ages
- Themes:adventure, friendshipReading age:9+Australian
- Themes:survival, honour, friendship, love, refugees, dystopiaReading age:14+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
- Themes:resilience, grief, family, friendship, identity, animals, cancerReading age:9+openbookTeaching notes
- Themes:LGBTQI, friendshipReading age:14+
- Themes:comedy, space travel, adventure, crime, family, suspenseReading age:14+Australian
- Themes:time-travel, adventure, fantasy, steampunk, friendship, historyReading age:12+Australian
- Themes:time-travel, adventure, fantasy, steampunk, friendship, identityReading age:12+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
- Themes:adventure, family, identity, disability, friendship, history, WWIIReading age:10+openbookTeaching notes
- Themes:identity, survival, honour, sacrifice, friendship, guilt, courage, grief and lossReading age:14+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
- Themes:friendship, family and legacy, art, surrealism and creativity, cross-cultural identity, adolescence, magic and imaginationReading age:9+openbookTeaching notesAustralian
- Themes:holocaust, moral choices, good and evil, friendship, IdentityReading age:14+
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