This Boy I Hardly Know

Name: This Boy I Hardly Know
Brand: Andersen Press
Price: 18.75 AUD
Availability: PreOrder

By: Lisa Heathfield

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Paperback | 29 June 2026

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Format
Paperback

Age
13 - 18

Dimensions(cm)
19.61 x 12.4 x 1.78

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A beautiful coming-of-age love story and song to the bond of sisters and found families, combined with a tense drama set against our broken care system.

Sixteen-year-old Dusty is smart, talented and fiercely protective of her younger sister Poppy. They’ve been bounced from foster carer to foster carer, until one day the unthinkable happens: Dusty and Poppy are separated.

Dusty is sent to a children’s home in a different town; Poppy to a family hundreds of miles away. No one can say when they will see each other again.

Devastated but determined, Dusty has to find a way to reach Poppy. Everything seems stacked against her until she meets beautiful, fearless Cooper at the home, and together they decide to run…

What follows is a heart-breaking love story, road movie, tense police hunt, and hope-filled celebration of sibling bonds and kindness, which shines a light on a failing care sector where a quarter of children are living apart from their siblings.

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