Author(s): Gary Crew

Teen Fiction

Gary Crew is one of Australia's most awarded authors for youth, having won, been shortlisted, or been nominated for over fifty Australian and international literary awards. He has won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award four times; twice for his novels, twice for his illustrated books. He is Australia's 2024 nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen award. Synopsis for In The Secret Place:What does a teenage boy do when he has no friends? When everyone who knows him sneers. When he is laughed at to his face? The answer is simple. That boy chooses his own path. That boy makes his own way in life. That boy grows stronger.He finds his secret place and there - alone, in the dark - he grows even stronger. Ben Gardner is such a boy. Ben Gardner could be you?..