ISBN: 9781741663976

Price: $18.95

it's yr life (Random House) is a brand new Young Adult novel, written by Tempany Deckert and Tristan Bancks.

Temp and Tristan worked together as actors in TV series, Home and Away a few years back and now they've re-teamed to write a novel together. Tempany wrote from Hollywood, USA and Tristan wrote from Byron Bay, Australia. They emailed back and forth and didn't meet at all during the writing process!

Sparks fly in this unputdownable young adult novel about two teenagers who don’t get along – until it becomes a matter of life or death.

Sim and Milla don’t have anything in common. Sim lives in a halfway house for kids who don’t know where their parents are, and Milla lives in a mansion with her family, including her bigshot movie producer dad. So when they’re forced to email each other for a school assignment, this is one pairing that seems doomed to fail.

But soon the two can’t stop emailing each other. Why? Secrets. What did Sim find in a dumpster that has him running scared? Whose footprints are outside Milla’s

window – and how can she fix her screwed-up family before something terrible happens?

It’s easy to make an enemy when you don’t see eye to eye – but it’s better to make a friend. It’s your life, so what are you going to do about it?

From Random House Catalogue:

*Young adult fiction for readers aged 14 and over.

*Funny, sassy, prickly – and absolutely thrilling. Once you find out what’s happening in Sim and Milla’s worlds, you won’t be able to put it down until the mysteries are solved and the answers revealed.

*Solid educational potential, with lots of themes including: family relationships, foster homes, parental responsibility, stalking, domestic violence, dealing with drug use in a family member, coping with fame/celebrity, freeganism, environment, using technology, seeking help through counselling, friendship, filmmaking and scriptwriting. Plenty of interactivity and web links on the above themes adds to its educational appeal.

*The two authors each wrote a character – Tristan wrote Sim from his home on the East Coast of Australia, and Tempany wrote Milla from her home in LA. 

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