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    The Year of Secret Assignments
    The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
    Feeling Sorry for Celia
    Audiobook series4 titles

    Ashbury/Brookfield Books Series

    Written by Jaclyn Moriarty

    Narrated by Charlie Casano, Susan Lyons, Bianca Amato and

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    About this series

    Best-selling novelist Jaclyn Moriarty has garnered critical acclaim for brilliantly interweaving letters, journal entries, blog postings, and homework assignments into contemporary tales brimming with mystery. Amelia and Riley have transferred to Ashbury for their senior year. In love since they were 14, they dance their nights away and sleepwalk their way through school. Their fellow students long to be drawn into their cool, self-contained world. But when Riley fears he's losing Amelia to the past and asks his peers for help, things take an ominous turn.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 1, 1970
    The Year of Secret Assignments
    The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
    Feeling Sorry for Celia

    Titles in the series (4)

    • 1

      Feeling Sorry for Celia
      Feeling Sorry for Celia

      Feeling Sorry for Celia

      Jaclyn Moriarty
      4/5 - 18 ratings
      4/5 - 18 ratings

      Author Jaclyn Moriarty's first novel is a #1 bestseller in its native Australia and a Book Sense 76 Pick, and has been nominated Best Book of the Year by the ALA. Told entirely through sticky notes from her mother, messages to "a Complete and Utter Stranger," and letters from fictitious companies, listeners get a peek into the complex life of teenager Elizabeth Clarry. "Highs and lows alternate as dizzily as adolescent hormone levels in this engaging Australian debut . adolescence, zits and all, described with wit and empathy."-Kirkus Reviews

      Author Jaclyn Moriarty's first novel is a #1 bestseller in its native Australia and a Book Sense 76 Pick, and has been nominated Best Book of the Year by the ALA. Told entirely through sticky notes from her mother, messages to "a Complete and Utter Stranger," and letters from fictitious companies, listeners get a peek into the complex life of teenager Elizabeth Clarry. "Highs and lows alternate as dizzily as adolescent hormone levels in this engaging Australian debut . adolescence, zits and all, described with wit and empathy."-Kirkus Reviews

    • 2

      The Year of Secret Assignments
      The Year of Secret Assignments

      The Year of Secret Assignments

      Jaclyn Moriarty
      4/5 - 21 ratings
      4/5 - 21 ratings

      This Booklist Editor's Choice interweaves the writings of six Australian highschoolers. When an English assignment forces "snobby" Ashbury students Lydia, Emily, and Cassie to exchange letters with "low-life" Brookfield guys, Lydia and Emily are surprised to find their Brookfield pen pals so kind and civilized. But after Cassie's cross-town correspondent threatens her, the friends plan a series of madcap missions designed to teach this malevolent male a lesson he won't forget.

      This Booklist Editor's Choice interweaves the writings of six Australian highschoolers. When an English assignment forces "snobby" Ashbury students Lydia, Emily, and Cassie to exchange letters with "low-life" Brookfield guys, Lydia and Emily are surprised to find their Brookfield pen pals so kind and civilized. But after Cassie's cross-town correspondent threatens her, the friends plan a series of madcap missions designed to teach this malevolent male a lesson he won't forget.

    • 3

      The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
      The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie

      The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie

      Jaclyn Moriarty
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      Best-selling author Jaclyn Moriarty follows her critically acclaimed novels The Ghosts of Ashbury High and The Year of Secret Assignments with this fun tale. Told imaginatively through school assignments and diary entries, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie is sure to appeal to young listeners who love a good mystery. Some people find Bindy Mackenzie's perfectionist personality a bit irritating, but would anyone really want her dead? "Bindy's unforgettable, earnest, hilariously high-strung voice . will capture and hold eager readers."-Booklist

      Best-selling author Jaclyn Moriarty follows her critically acclaimed novels The Ghosts of Ashbury High and The Year of Secret Assignments with this fun tale. Told imaginatively through school assignments and diary entries, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie is sure to appeal to young listeners who love a good mystery. Some people find Bindy Mackenzie's perfectionist personality a bit irritating, but would anyone really want her dead? "Bindy's unforgettable, earnest, hilariously high-strung voice . will capture and hold eager readers."-Booklist

    • 4

      The Ghosts of Ashbury High
      The Ghosts of Ashbury High

      The Ghosts of Ashbury High

      Jaclyn Moriarty
      4/5 - 6 ratings
      4/5 - 6 ratings

      Best-selling novelist Jaclyn Moriarty has garnered critical acclaim for brilliantly interweaving letters, journal entries, blog postings, and homework assignments into contemporary tales brimming with mystery. Amelia and Riley have transferred to Ashbury for their senior year. In love since they were 14, they dance their nights away and sleepwalk their way through school. Their fellow students long to be drawn into their cool, self-contained world. But when Riley fears he's losing Amelia to the past and asks his peers for help, things take an ominous turn.

      Best-selling novelist Jaclyn Moriarty has garnered critical acclaim for brilliantly interweaving letters, journal entries, blog postings, and homework assignments into contemporary tales brimming with mystery. Amelia and Riley have transferred to Ashbury for their senior year. In love since they were 14, they dance their nights away and sleepwalk their way through school. Their fellow students long to be drawn into their cool, self-contained world. But when Riley fears he's losing Amelia to the past and asks his peers for help, things take an ominous turn.

    Author

    Jaclyn Moriarty

    Jaclyn Moriarty grew up in Sydney, Australia and studied in the United States and England. She spent four years working as a media and entertainment lawyer and is now writing full time. Jaclyn is the author of bittersweet teen bestsellers FEELING SORRY FOR CELIA, FINDING CASSIE CRAZY and BECOMING BINDY MACKENZIE.

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