Being Bindy

Alyssa Brugman

juuli 2004 · Allen & Unwin

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A funny, sharply-observed novel for young teenagers about what happens when your worst friend, who used to be your best friend, threatens to become your sister - from the popular and award-winning author of Finding Grace and Walking Naked.

What happens when your worst friend, who used to be your best friend, threatens to become your sister?

I'd never sat on my own in the schoolyard before. Everywhere I looked I saw smirking faces, people whispering to each other, or whistling. Janey wouldn't even look at me. I overheard one of the others say, 'I don't know why you were ever friends with her,' to which she replied, I know. 'She's just so bleagh.'

That was the moment. It was officially TWDOML - The Worst Day of My Life.

Janey narrowed her eyes. 'Don't you understand anything? When adults Go Out, it's not like when we do it. Before too long they'll want to move in together and where will they live? What if they get married? We'll be sisters.'

Bindy faces some tough decisions, finding her own way among schoolmates, friends, ex-friends, boys and parents in this funny, searching novel from the author of Finding Grace and Walking Naked.

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Alyssa Brugman worked until recently as Communications Manager for a non-profit training and employment organisation. Her first two novels, Finding Grace (2001) and Walking Naked (2002) were published by Allen + Unwin to critical acclaim, and she now writes full-time.

Finding Grace:

Received Honourable Mention in Young Adults section, De Gouden Zoen Prize (prestigious Dutch literary prize, The Golden Kiss

Shortlisted 2002: Book of the Year: Older Readers (The Children's Book Council of Australia), NSW Premier's Literary Awards; Ethel Turner Prize for Books for Young Adults, Queensland Premier's Literary Award - Young Adult Category

Walking Naked:

Shortlisted 2003: VIC Premier's literary awards - Prize for Young Adult Fiction

Honour Book 2003: Book of the Year - Older Readers (The Children's Book Council of Australia)