SuitabookIdentity under pressure
Friday joins a gang, faces pressure within that group and is described as needing to become someone she was never meant to be before finding out who she is.
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Vikki Wakefield - Author
This is a tense coming-of-age story about a young person shaped by family history, fear and uncertain loyalties. Friday’s movement from running away to confronting the past suggests a focus on identity, belonging and difficult choices.
Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is on the run - running to escape memories of her mother and of the family curse. And of a grandfather who'd like her to stay. She's lost, alone and afraid. Silence, a street kid, finds Friday and she joins him in a gang led by beautiful, charismatic Arden. When Silence is involved in a crime, the gang escapes to a ghost town in the outback. In Murungal Creek, the town of never leaving, Friday must face the ghosts of her past. She will learn that sometimes you have to stay to finish what you started - and often, before you can find out who you are, you have to become someone you were never meant to be.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a tense coming-of-age story about a young person shaped by family history, fear and uncertain loyalties. Friday’s movement from running away to confronting the past suggests a focus on identity, belonging and difficult choices.
Friday joins a gang, faces pressure within that group and is described as needing to become someone she was never meant to be before finding out who she is.
Friday runs from her mother’s memories and family curse, while her grandfather wants her to stay; later, the story frames staying as potentially necessary to finish what was started.
The book may suit a reader ready to discuss fear, family strain, crime and complicated belonging.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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