Description
A sweet and emotional novel about friendship, family and accepting change from afresh new voice.
Freya's world is turned upside down when she and her mum move to inner-city Melbourne. Now she's ...
Stuck in a new apartment on the eleventh floor and Freya is afraid of lifts.
Stuck in a new basketball team where not everyone likes a killer new player.
Stuck in a classroom of kids who don't know Freya is a donor-conceived baby.
Stuck, just like little Audrey in the Skipping Girl sign suspended in mid-air over the suburb of Abbotsford.
Being the new girl makes Freya feel like a dark cloud on a summer's day. Can she figure out how to belong on Vinegar Street?
Review
Freya lives with both her mum and her dad in side-by-side houses in Eltham. She has two best friends, and loves playing basketball.
When her Dad takes a job in Broome for 18 months, Freya and her mum move to anapartment in Abbotsford on the 11th floor. This is a problem in itself, as Freya is terrified of elevators. She also has to start at a new school, and play in a new basketball team, and it seems that not everyone at school is happy to have new people in their lives. Will Freya ever feel like this new place is home?
This is a wonderful story written in verse, as Freya goes through so many emotions as she struggles to find her place. She misses her dad and her old friends, and is struggling to make new one, and one girl called Val seems intent on making her life difficult. I read this book in one sitting and loved Freya. It’s funny in parts, sad in others, and very uplifting. Readers in upper primary will love this book.
Reviewed by Michelle
