Description
A spine-tingling and heart-warming story about friendship and finding your special place in the world.
Gus doesn't want to make friends. She also doesn't want to be intrigued by the cat-lady teacher at her new school, or the Riley's Comet project that she and her seaweed-eating science partner are working on together.
And she definitely doesn't want to fall in love with her job as the projectionist at the Starlight, a drive-in movie theatre that her family is reviving.
Because, knowing Gus's luck, she and her family could be moving on in a day, or a week, or a month. When the ghosts that haunt Mum catch up with them. Or if the Starlight doesn't succeed.
Then she'll have to say goodbye. Again.
And saying goodbye is too hard.
Review
Gus’s Mum is a psychic. But this ability doesn’t help her life choices and they are now fleeing her Mum’s latest partner, Troy, in his car - destination unknown!
Together with her Mum, her older sister Alice and younger brother Artie, they find themselves in a little town in far north Queensland. They are quickly given the job of reopening and revitalising the drive-in theatre, and living in the small on site caravan.
Finally things seem better for everyone, and Gus even makes a friend - something she has always steered clear of, because the next move is just around the corner. The drive-in customers are increasing, but sinister motives are at play to ensure that they are never successful.
Can they overcome the odds and finally stay in one place?
This is a heart-warming story of family, belonging and finding your place in the world, and readers in lower secondary will love Gus’s story.
Reviewed by Rob
