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Change of Heart

Choose Your Own Ever After
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Change of Heart by Nova Weetman is a contemporary pick-a-path story exploring life, first crushes, and friendship. The protagonist, Mackenzie, navigates big changes when her mum moves to the country, shifting her friendships and band dynamics, and when she chooses to live with her dad in the city, contending with new challenges and a budding romance. Readers get to decide Mackenzie's journey, creating multiple possible endings.
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Mackenzie loves living in the city, so when she's offered the chance to live in the country, she has to make some big decisions. Should she stay, and get to know her cute new neighbour - or leave to be closer to her family? In this contemporary pick-a-path story, readers can choose Mackenzie's next move!

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A contemporary pick-a-path series about life, first crushes and friendship, that lets the reader choose how the story goes!

Mackenzie loves her life in the city. She’s in a band with her bestie, she’s just met a cute boy called Toby, and she doesn’t mind moving between her parents’ places each week. But then her mum decides to move away, and everything changes …

1. When Mack moves to the country with her mum, she starts hanging out with music-mad Laura … and drifting apart from her old best friend, Immy. Are they destined to lose their friendship, especially when Mack’s old band is playing without her?

2. When Mack decides to live with her dad in the city, she has to put up with his control-freak girlfriend moving in too! But maybe the upcoming Battle of the Bands competition – and getting to know the adorable Toby – will be enough of a distraction …

Follow your heart right to the end, or go back and choose all over again.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760502522

Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 June 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Illustration: n-a

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 274g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Nova Weetman is the author of three books in the cult hit Choose Your Own Ever After series – Change of Heart, A Hot Cold Summer and Play the Game.

Nova's novels for children and young adults have received numerous award commendations, including Children's Book Council of Australia, the Readings Prize, and the Sisters in Crime Association's Davitt Awards. Her junior fiction series is Noah and Blue’s Zooniverse.

Nova has also published numerous short stories and written for television shows such as Neighbours and Backyard Science. She wrote the short films Ripples and Mr Wasinski’s Song, which received an AWGIE nomination and won the Best Australian Short at Melbourne International Film Festival.

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