Alana Oakley: Torment & Trickery

Alana Oakley: Torment & Trickery returns with Alana and her high-school mates - Khalilah, Maddie, and Sofia, as they face new challenges as Year 8 students at Gibson High. As usual, Alana's mum isn't making it easy. You'd think, after winning a songwriting contest and meeting the world's hottest rock stars, that life in Year 8 would be sweet. But no, Mum has other ideas, like getting caught speeding on national television. Alana goes from hero to zero faster than a Ferrari!

Awful? It gets worse. Alana still has to dodge Nurse Cathy, get through Shakespeare Week, survive the soccer match against the undefeated Football Academy's Bruisers, and detention with their history teacher, Mrs Snell, who has a personal collection of medieval torture artefacts.

When the gypsy cousin of Alana's superstitious friend, Sofia, predicts they will meet a tall, dark, mysterious stranger, Alana doesn't know who it's meant to be—Bad-Boy Flynn, who has just started school, or Teen Expert, Dr Gray, who starts dating her mum. There's something dodgy about both of them, so Alana sets out to uncover the mysteries. But Alana gets more than she bargains for. She gets trouble. Double-trouble.

Is Flynn the serial arsonist who is setting schools alight? Is Dr Gray a modern Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Can Alana solve the mysteries before her birthday? And will her birthday be another epic fail? All will be revealed in another of the chaotic adventures that Alana calls Life. Welcome back to her world!