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Hetty Feather

The Girl in the Painting

Witness

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Stolen

It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him.

This is my story.

A letter from nowhere.

Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back?

The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback. Months when the lines between love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don't exist—almost.

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The Queen On Our Corner

Lucy Christopher, Nia Tudor, 2021

Counting on Grace

Elizabeth Winthrop, 2006

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Sharon Creech, 2002

The Rocking Horse

Rita Kindt, 2018

Hetty Feather

Nick Sharratt, Jacqueline Wilson, 2009

The Girl in the Painting

Eve Bunting, Susan Meddaugh, 1990

Witness

Karen Hesse, 2000

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Anne Cassidy, 2004