Graffiti Moon (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Lucy: a glass artist and twelth year student on her way to college. Lucy is infatuated with a clandestine graffiti artist named Shadow, whom she has never met.
• Ed: Ed is a high school drop-out turned grafftii artist named Shadow. The reader knows that Ed is Shadow from the beginning, but Lucy is unaware of this.
• Leo: Also known as Poet, Leo is Ed's best friend and provides the poetry to Shadow's graffitti creations.
• Jazz: Add a description of this character.
• Dylan
• Daisy
• Beth
• Malcolm Dove

Quotes edit see section history

• “I guess love's kind of like a marshmallow in a microwave on high. After it explodes it's still a marshmallow. but, you know, now it's a complicated marshmallow.”

  Lucy

• “When wanting collides with getting, that's the moment of truth. I want to collide.”

  Lucy

• “There was no skin on my voice and she heard the bones in my words.”

  Shadow

• “Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.”

  Shadow

• “I look across at the line of the city. The nights are mean in this place, full of smog that eats the stars. 'Who does feel hope around here?”

• “No guts, no glory.”

  Bert

• “-Where’s the fire, Lucy Dervish? -In me. Under my skin.”

• “‘I was hard-core obsessed,’ he says without thinking about it. ‘Not in love.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ He’s about to throw a stone at the streetlight but stops. ‘Prison,’ he says, and puts the stone in his pocket.”

• “Her voice Sounded like space and dark skies But that night all my dreams Had floors”

  Poet

• “‘Kissed someone,’ I say. ‘Not anyone.’”

  Lucy

• “Trust me. I’m psychic.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Australia

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Cath Crowley (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (2011: Young Adult Fiction)
• Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Awards (Finalist, 2011: Honour Books: Older Readers)

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Social Situations › Friendship
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance
• Books › Children's Books › Arts & Music › Art

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