I say dumb things
I wear stupid clothes
I can't make my hair behave
some days the whole world
looks wrong to me.
Dawn doesn't know where she belongs. It's not with the style queens at school. And it's not at home, where all her parents do is fight. Even her best friend, Emily, doesn't seem to want to be best friends any more.
Sherryl Clark brings to life all the beauty, vulnerability and pain of twelve-year-old emotions.
With words that are more like snapshots and presented in a semi-poetic manner, Sherryl lets us into Dawn's world: a world that is dark at times, but can also feel like 'sunlight'.
This book was shortlisted for the 2008 Children's Book Council of Australia Book Awards: Younger Readers.
Sherryl Clark's first children's book was The Too-Tight Tutu which was published in the Aussie Bites series in 1997. Since then she has published a further 23 children's books.
Paperback. 72 pages.
Age 10+
