Book description
Get out, or get even? Once, in a street not very far from yours, there
lived a girl called Anonymity Jones. Anonymity's life is falling apart.
Her father has left to have a mid-life crisis, her mother's new
boyfriend is a definite worry, her Europe-bound sister has changed her
name (just to make a point) and all her girl friends are now
girlfriends, with boyfriends. And then there's the art teacher.
Anonymity is losing control, and it's decision time. Does she hang on,
get out, or get even? James Roy was born in western New South Wales in
1968 and spent much of his childhood in Papua New Guinea and Fiji,
adventuring by day and reading books at night. Then one day, tired of
reading books by dead people, he decided to start writing his own. Since
his first novel was released in 1996, James has written a number of
critically acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction for young people,
including the CBCA Honour Books Captain Mack and Billy Mack's War, and
six CBCA Notable Books. In 2008, Town also won the Ethel Turner Prize
for Young People s Literature in the NSW Premier s Literary Awards, as
well as the Golden Inky in Australia s only teenage choice awards.
Anonymity Jones won the 2010 Western Australian Premier s Book Award
for young adult literature. James lives with his family in the Blue
Mountains. He enjoys trying to make music and art, doesn t like olives
very much, and hasn t entirely abandoned his dream of sailing around
the world.
