Friday Brown (1970)

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Friday Brown is the breathtaking second novel from the author of the award-winning All I Ever Wanted . Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book, 2013 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. Vikki Wakefield 's first young adult novel, All I Ever Wanted , won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Literary Award for Young