Books with author Anne Fitzpatrick

This is an adventure tale about resilience and agency—building one and realizing the other—and a survival story that will empower young people ‘We’ll be on the ground shortly, Spence,’ he said into his headset. ‘Thanks for coming up with me. Can’t imagine a better flight companion.’Spencer grinned at him. ‘Don’t lose it now, Dad. Get this thing back on the ground safe and sound, okay?’ Spencer Gray is 12 and finally old enough to join dad in his glider. His friends are going to be so jealous! Going up is awesome, but when disaster strikes, Spencer will need to be nothing short of amazing.

They failed to kill the King so now they're after the King's favoured Advisor. When Marya is stranded in the town after curfew and being hunted down by mercenaries, she must trust a voice that suddenly sounds in her head. Can she find a safe path back to the castle, unmask the traitors and at the same time protect her unborn child? 'Spirit Wings' was awarded first prize in Mystic-Ink's international novella competition in 2001 and later published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine in abridged form. Now for the first time here is the complete story.

Ally Queen, aged fifteen, is uprooted from her comfortable city existence and dumped in bogans -ville. Her mum, after witnessing a hit-and-run, is suffering from post-traumatic stress. The quiet country life is meant to improve things, but it just seems to make things worse for Mum, for Ally, for everyone. Ally finds it hard to find her place in the new town, after all there are only three types of people there: bogans, surfies and organic spinach-munching hippies. She s finding it hard, too, to figure out her place in the family. She misses the way things used to be. She misses doing stuff with her dad and her little brother. But she s a teenager now. Teenaged girls don t go fishing. Even if they really like it. And she misses her mum. When she meets Rel, it seems she s hit rock bottom. But first impressions can be deceptive. As Ally starts to relax into herself, she finds life doesn t need to be as hard as she makes it. In this absorbing story of first love and self-discovery, Deb Fitzpatrick has created an utterly convincing character in a completely believable world, while at the same time filling her pages with luminous prose and poignant profundity.

Joel and Craggs are in it together. They drink booze together, they flirt with petty theft together and, when Craggs turns violent, they face the consequences together too. Thats until Joels dad makes a deal with the police. Craggs is off to juvenile detention and Joel to solitary confinement. Ninety days of fending for himself in a remote bush shack with no radio, telephone or fridge. Miles from anywhere, Joel starts to like his own company, till one day the past tracks him down. Craggs is on his doorstep and he hasnt changed a bit.

Deliveries do not come late on a school night. They don’t come in a speeding car. And they don’t cry. When Poppy Campbell’s dad opens the front door to find a small, very distressed child clinging to a green blanket, the family try their hardest to do the right thing. They make the little girl comfortable, call the police, and look after her while the authorities search for her family.