Play the Game
By (Author) Nova Weetman
5
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Hardie Grant Egmont
5th June 2024
Australia
Children
Fiction
Paperback
320
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
When it comes to netball, Edie Thomas is a natural. She's only ever played for fun and to hang out with her netball-mad bestie Tess. But when Edie makes the state team, it looks like netball will be taking centre stage. Until ...1. Edie drops out of the team when she scores a lead role in Romeo and Juliet opposite her long-time crush, Freddy. But will the school play be all that Edie dreams it will be And will Tess ever forgive her for dumping netball 2. Edie begins to resent netball taking over her entire life. Can a cute distraction, in the shape of footballer hottie Finn, rekindle her passion for sport or will she quit netball for good In this pick-a-path story YOU get to make Edie's decisions, and choose where her story goes. Follow your heart right to the end, or go back and choose all over again.
Nova Weetman is the author of three books in theChoose Your Own Ever Afterseries Change of Heart, A Hot Cold Summer andPlay the Game. One of her young adult novels,Everything is Changed,was aChildrens Book Council of Australia Notable, and was shortlisted for Best YA at the Davitt Awards. Her middle grade novel,The Secrets We Keep, was a CBCA Notable. It was shortlisted for the Readings Childrens Prize, the ABIA Awards, the Speech Pathologist Awards and the YABBA Awards, and it won the Kroc Award for Best Fiction for Years 7 to 9. Her second book in this series,The Secrets We Share,was aCBCA Notable.Noah and Blues Zooniverseis Novas series for junior readers. Nova has also published numerous short stories and written for television shows such asNeighboursandBackyard Science.She wrote the short filmsRipplesandMr Wasinskis Song,which received anAWGIE nomination and won the Best Australian Short at Melbourne International Film Festival.