Read the secret dreams and thoughts of Kate as she looks after her sister's baby, makes friends, thinks about her lost parents, and yearns for the future in her last year of school.

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised by the Queensland Premier's Literary Award. It was recognised by the Courier Mail Book of the Year Award. It also was recognised in the YA category by the Young Adult Book Award.

There are 228 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Allen & Unwin .

JOANNE HORNIMAN has been a kitchenhand, waitress, editor, teacher and screen printer. She now writes full-time in a shed overlooking Hanging Rock Creek near Lismore, northern New South Wales. Her novels include Mahalia, Little Wing and A Charm of Powerful Trouble. My Candlelight Novel, told by Sophie O'Farrell, follows on from the story told by Sophie's sister Kate in Secret Scribbled Notebooks.