Making Trouble (A Good Kind of Trouble, #2): The sequel to the heart-warming coming-of-age story for younger YA readers

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A brilliantly warm-hearted NEW book from Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward, a follow-up to A Good Kind of Trouble. Stella and Jamie are charming characters full of high school longing whose story encompasses friendship, rivalry, ballet, footy, secrets, and believing in a future big enough to hold all your dreams.

Things don't always go to plan.

I should be at the Australian Ballet School. But instead, here I am, boarding and going to school hundreds of kilometres away from home, but I feel even further away from my dreams. At least I've got Jamie ... that part's deadly.

Until she finds out my secret.

Stella is nervous about another new city, a new school, and new friends. Her love for ballet - and Jamie - pulls her forward, but fear threatens to drag her back home.

It's only when she thinks she's lost everything that Stella starts to see what she's been missing. Maybe she can shine - in class, on stage, and in her own story - and make her family and Jamie proud.

Brooke Blurton, proud Noongar-Yamatji woman and Australian TV star, and Melanie Saward, proud Bigambul and Wakka Wakka woman and acclaimed author, have created a heartfelt story of friendship, rivalry, ballet, footy, secrets, and believing in a future big enough to hold all your dreams.

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Brooke Blurton is a proud Noongar-Yamatji woman and broke records as the first Indigenous and bisexual Bachelorette for Network Ten's reality television franchise. Brooke is a passionate mental health advocate and champion of young people, especially First Nations and queer youth, and all people of colour. Brooke developed her passion for mental health advocacy as a youth worker by reflecting on her own challenging journey and educating young people about essential life skills, including Aboriginal Mental Health First Aid. Brooke is an RUOK Ambassador, supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart via the Uluru Youth Network, and is a champion for LGBTIQ groups. She lives in Melbourne. Melanie Saward is a proud Bigambul and Wakka Wakka woman. She is a writer, editor, and academic based in Tulmur (Ipswich), Queensland. Her debut novel Burn was published in 2023 and her first romantic comedy novel, Love Unleashed, was published in 2024.