num_pages: 335
description: Seventeen-year-old Gem loves movies, her feminist mom, and Dodgy, her coworker in a video store (at least she thinks she loves Dodgy). When a school trip inspires Gem to make an underground film, her best friends Lo and Mira are quick to join the project, taking on the roles of producer and star. The film is intended to cement the girls' friendship as well as their superiority over their sucker high school peers. But when the fragile balance of their friendship begins to falter, and intentions lead to betrayals big and small, it will take great movies, bad haiku, and a pantheon of great voices―from Dostoyevsky to Emerson to The Beatles―to help Gem find the meaning of love, friendship, and being true to herself.
language: English
title: Notes from the Teenage Underground
titlecomplete: Notes from the Teenage Underground
genres: Young Adult Contemporary, Young Adult, Australia, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Art, Romance
ratings_count: 542
places: Australia, Melbourne, Victoria
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Victorian Premier's Literary Award
category: Young Adult Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Inky Awards
category: Gold Inky, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Inky Awards Shortlist
category: Gold Inky
publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens