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  • Published: 28 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9781760142827
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Frankie




Frankie Vega is angry. Just ask the guy whose nose she broke. Or the cop investigating the burglary she witnessed, or her cheating ex-boyfriend or her aunt who's tired of giving second chances . . . 

Frankie Vega is angry. Just ask the guy whose nose she broke. Or the cop investigating the burglary she witnessed, or her cheating ex-boyfriend or her aunt who's tired of giving second chances . . . 
When a kid shows up claiming to be Frankie's half brother, it opens the door to a past she doesn't want to remember. And when that kid goes missing, the only person willing to help is a boy with stupidly blue eyes . . . and secrets of his own.
Frankie's search for the truth could change her life, or cost her everything.

  • Published: 28 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9781760142827
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

About the author

Shivaun Plozza

Shivaun Plozza is an award-winning Children’s and YA writer. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Frankie, was a CBCA Notable Book, shortlisted for the Inky Awards, Highly Commended at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and won the YA category of the Davitt Awards. Her second novel, Tin Heart, was released in March 2018 – both of Shivaun's books have sold into multiple territories. Her short story ‘The Point’ is part of Where the Shoreline Used to Be, an anthology of YA fiction, and 'The Challenge' is part of the footy-themed collection for children Speccy-tacular AFL Stories. Other short works have appeared in various journals, magazines and anthologies. When she’s not writing she works as an editor and manuscript assessor.

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Awards & recognition

Sisters in Crime Davitt Award

Winner  •  2017  •  Best Young Adult Crime Novel

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards

Highly commended  •  2017  •  Writing for Young Adults

CBCA Book of the Year Awards

Shortlisted  •  2017  •  Older Readers

Inky Awards

Shortlisted  •  2017  •  Gold Inky Award for an Australian Book