Baby Blue

Julia Green lives in Bath with her partner and two children. She lectures part-time in English and creative writing. leads writing workshops for adults and young people, and works as a home tutor for children who are not attending school - these include pregnant teenagers. Her first novel for Puffin was BLUE MOON.

BABY BLUE picks up Mia's story (begun in BLUE MOON) just after the birth of her baby. Mia is sixteen now, and still living with Dad, although this relationship becomes increasingly under strain. Not only is Mia having to work out the complicated emotional and practical implications of being a mother when she herself is still a child, with huge emotional needs of her own, she is also having to negotiate new relationships with the adults and young people around her.

Blue Moon

Wonderful writing creates totally believable characters and tells a real emotional drama.

Julia Green lives in Bath.  She has two children of 10 and 13, and teaches creative writing courses for young people and adults.  She also works as a home tutor for children who have been excluded from school. She has had a prize-winning short story(adult) broadcast on radio. This is her first novel for young adults.

Fifteen-year old Mia lives with her dad in a small rural community. When she discovers that she's pregnant she doesn't know where to turn - her elder sisters have left home, her mum left when Mia was six, her boyfriend, Will, is too scared to be anyhelp and her dad tries to push her into an abortion. Backed into a corner, she runs away and joins two women on a canal boat. Nobody can find her now but she discovers that the women have their own tragic stories. A fire on the boat makes her realise that she must take responsibility for the baby and herself and that home is the most likely place to get help. Her mother re-enters her life and Will's mother involves herself. Mia learns about love and realises how much her father has done for her.

Julia Green

A rites of passage story about a 14-year-old boy growing up over one summer. Simon is beginning to sort out relationships with women, and when 16-year-old Leah decides to manipulate him for her own amusement, a powerful and dangerous mix begins to simmer. Set against a wild Cornish landscape and the evidence of a harsh and violent past, this is the story of a young man growing upand the girl who ultimately betrays him.

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