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Jamie Orange is careening out of control the closer he comes within reach of his dreams—the powerful, frenetic, heart-stopping winner of three YA fiction awards! A fifteen-year-old reaches for stardom as he slides into psychosis in this multiple-award-winning novel for teens. New Zealand Book Awards Young...
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Jamie Orange is careening out of control the closer he comes within reach of his dreams—the powerful, frenetic, heart-stopping winner of three YA fiction awards!
A fifteen-year-old reaches for stardom as he slides into psychosis in this multiple-award-winning novel for teens.
New Zealand Book Awards Young Adult Fiction Award 2024
NZ Booklovers Best Young Adult Book 2024
Storylines Notable Young Adult Fiction Book 2023
Francesca—known to everyone as Frankie—has scored the part of Princess Fiona in the forthcoming musical production. Even though Jamie Orange has missed out on the part of Shrek, he's happy—The day I found out I was a donkey was one of the best days of my life. He may not be Frankie's leading man on stage, but he can still try to win her heart.
However, all is not well with Jamie. He can't sleep, he can't stop his thoughts—My brain was still wired, racing around in circles or spirals or—gah, it was driving me crazy. If only there was a magic switch so I could turn it off.
Bouncing between exultant highs and terrible lows, what will happen when this rising star starts to fall?
Capturing events leading to Eileen Merriman's bestselling Catch Me When You Fall, Catch a Falling Star stands tall on its own merits as an unforgettable must-read for teens and young adults.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781776953400
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 July 2023
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Audience: Teenage
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 230g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Eileen Merriman's first young adult novel, Pieces of You, was published in 2017, and was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and a Storylines Notable Book. Since then, a stream of novels for adults and young adults have followed. She has received huge critical praise, with one reviewer saying- 'Merriman is an instinctive storyteller with an innate sense of timing.' In addition to being a regular finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Merriman was a finalist in the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel and Moonlight Sonata was longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Editions of some of her young adult novels have been released in Germany, Turkey and the UK and three have been optioned for film or TV, including the Black Spiral Trilogy. In 2024, Merriman's compelling Catch a Falling Star, which depicts a 15-year-old spiralling into a mental health crisis, won both the New Zealand Book Awards Young Adult Fiction Award and NZ Booklovers' Best Young Adult Book. Her other awards include runner-up in the 2018 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and third in the same award for three consecutive years previously. She works as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital.
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