Eleanor, Elizabeth
This story encapsulates much of the misery of the time betwixt and between childhood and adulthood. Eleanor has been forced to move away from her urban environment to the unfriendly fringe of the Australian Bush, where her mother is reclaiming her own family home. School is not going well: she is seldom in accord with her younger brothers; and then she discovers a diary kept by her high-spirited grandma 65 years previously, and when the novel reaches its destructive, fiery climax, it is the knowledge of that diary which enables Eleanor to save her own life and the lives of her brother and their friend. The language is mildly raw in one or two places and the story rather slowly-paced until the end but it should find readership amongst thoughtful, lower-mid secondary girls.