This pitch-perfect story is full of hope and magic. Is this for real? Has a mysterious boy been sent to help Summer? Or could it be the other way around? 'Summer Jackman is prickly, sad, funny - and absolutely loveable. In Australia, Summer makes an unlikely friend, who seems to be magically connected to her guitar. The next thing she knows, they've moved to the other side of the world.
to save them is turning Summer's life upside down again. Having an extraordinary best friend like Mal helps a little, but Summer's secret source of happiness is a link to the past- one very special guitar. Her middle grade books include the much-loved novels The Secrets We Keep, The Secrets We Share and Sick Bay.Summer is trying to recover from a tragedy, but it seems impossible when her family is falling apart around her. Nova has written thirteen books for young adults and children. Her books include Eliza Boom's Diary, Girl, Aloud, Steal My Sunshine and The Other Side of Summe and its companion novel I Am Out with Lanterns. Emily has been involved in the children's book industry for twenty years. They both live in Melbourne-at the same time-and they love swimming. Emily Gale and Nova Weetman are friends and writers. It's a fresh and engaging exploration of the challenges and pressures for young women growing up in the past and today. Narrated in alternating chapters by Cat and Fanny, Elsewhere Girls is a moving and funny story of two girls with a deep connection, one based on the Australian Olympic champion, Fanny Durack. As each girl lives the other's life, with all the challenges and confusion it presents, she comes to appreciate and understand herself and the role of swimming in her own life. But one day, time slips and they swap places. Cat lives in current-day Sydney, and Fanny in 1908.
They both live in the same Sydney suburb, but in different worlds, or at least different times. Fanny loves to swim and she lives for racing, but family chores and low expectations for girls make it very hard for her to fit in even the occasional training session. Cat has recently started at a new school on a sports scholarship, and she's feeling the pressure of early morning training sessions and the need for total commitment.
Coach O'Call would say something like, 'That's not what I expect from a scholarship girl!' because I have to be up for squad training in five hours and I'm not supposed to go near potato scallops, and-oh, yeah-it's my fifth. It's midnight and I'm alone in the kitchen eating a cold potato scallop.
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