Daz is in love with Valentine O'Leary, the biggest pig in Mimosa High School. Her brother William is in love with a girl he's never spoken to. Eleanor Wand, the music teacher, is in love with the headmaster …
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Themes:
Other People and Lands
Eleanor Wand, the music teacher, is in love with the headmaster. Everyone is in love with someone - and doing rather badly.
Meanwhile Daz's granny is searching for Bonnie, the long-ago friend of her heart.
Will anyone be successful in the quest for lost friends and true love?
Her three Al Capsella novels and her collection of stories The Boy on the Lake were first published in Australia with great success, and later in America.
The first book in the Al Capsella series, The Heroic Life of Al Capsella, was included in the American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults list (1990), and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (1988). Al Capsella and the Watchdogs was shortlisted for the same award in 1990, and won the Variety Club Young People's Talking Book of the Year Award (1990).
Download Teaching Guides: Teaching guide for Friend of my Heart from O'Brien Teaching Guides for Second Level Schools.
