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The Yearbook Committee

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'SMART, FUNNY AND RELEVANT'
- Melina Marchetta, bestselling author Looking for Alibrandi and Saving Francesca


Five teenagers. Five lives. One final year.

The school captain: Ryan has it all ... or at least he did, until an accident snatched his dreams away. How will he rebuild his life and what does the future hold for him now?

The newcomer: Charlie's just moved interstate and she's determined not to fit in. She's just biding her time until Year 12 is over and she can head back to her real life and her real friends ...

The loner: At school, nobody really notices Matty. But at home, Matty is everything. He's been single-handedly holding things together since his mum's breakdown, and he's never felt so alone.

The popular girl: Well, the popular girl's best friend ... cool by association. Tammi's always bowed to peer pressure, but when the expectations become too much to handle, will she finally stand up for herself?

The politician's daughter: Gillian's dad is one of the most recognisable people in the state and she's learning the hard way that life in the spotlight comes at a very heavy price.

Five unlikely teammates thrust together against their will. Can they find a way to make their final year a memorable one or will their differences tear their world apart?

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    • Books+Publishing

      February 4, 2016
      Five very different Year 12 students find themselves on the Yearbook Committee for their prestigious private school. Some are loners and some are popular, but all are facing their own battles: bullying; peer pressure; divided loyalties between two cities; a dream-destroying injury; a mother incapacitated by depression. At first, the committee is a disaster, but as the year goes on each of them begins to bring their own skills and interests to the task, and friendships are formed. But the pressures they face can turn to tragedy in a moment. The Yearbook Committee is a mostly hopeful coming-of-age story. The prose and characterisation are a little pedestrian, but there are heart-warming moments of loners coming together and people learning to stand up for themselves. A tragedy at the end of the book establishes the real stakes of the characters’ struggles, but it doesn’t entirely work emotionally: it feels a little like a shock afterthought to an already-completed story, despite the foreshadowing in the prologue. The Yearbook Committee should appeal to middle- and upper-high school fans of realistic contemporary fiction who don’t mind some tragedy in their stories. Jarrah Moore is a primary literacy editor at Cengage Learning Australia

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