

The Build-up Season (Penguin Random House Australia, 2017) Joint Winner, 2018 Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature for Older Readers Shortlisted, 2019 YABBA for Fiction Years 7-9, 2018 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature. Yellow (Penguin Random House Australia, 2016) Shortlisted, 2018 YABBA for Fiction Years 7-9, 2017 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, 2017 Davitt Award Best Young Adult Book, 2017 Davitt Award Best Debut. Yellow by Megan Jacobson - View book on Bookshelves at Online Book Club - Bookshelves is an awesome, free web app that lets you easily save and share lists of books and see what books are trending. She has a degree in journalism and has also worked as an in-house script story-liner for several Australian television dramas. Her mother is drowning her sorrows in a bottle. Her charming yet useless father has left to shack up with another woman.

Her short stories have been published in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Review of Australian Fiction, aired on ABC radio, and appeared in the UTS Writers Anthology. Set in the late ’90s, in the time of Spice Girls and Friends, Yellow is the story of a girl called Kirra who lives in a small coastal town. Yellow by Megan Jacobson(Goodreads Author) 3.93 Rating details 782 ratings 170 reviews If fourteen-year-old Kirra is having a mid-life crisis now, then it doesn't bode well for her life expectancy. Megan Jacobson grew up in Darwin and the far north coast of NSW but now lives in Brisbane with her family.
