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Coasting
9781925324464

First published by Random House Australia in 2016

Copyright © Ben Karwan, 2016

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Creator: Karwan, Ben, author
Title: Coasting / Ben Karwan
ISBN: 9781925324464 (ebook)
Target audience: For young adults
Subjects: Teenage girls – Fiction
Friendship – Fiction
Teenagers – Conduct of life – Fiction
Dewey number: A823.4

‘Just be happy, and if you can’t be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.’

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