Misfit

What’s an ordinary girl doing in a time -warped place where the boys wear black lids to keep their brains in?
Crystal doesn’t know how she’s going to handle it, but it isn’t the first time her parents have sent her to an unusual school. She’s been to a Catholic School, Michael’s Experimental, ordinary Fernhill State, and to a hippie school. But in this school, all the kids are Jewish. She has to learn to decipher writing that looks like fly –dots and to find a way to speak to a whole new set of kids. Even Sharon the bully.
A story about cultural differences, kosher food, friendships, hockey ,bullying, birthday parties , school camp and a miss who does fit, eventually.
‘Misfit’ is set in Shalom , a fictional Australian Jewish school.
When you look through a Crystal, you can see from different perspectives.

Diversity, from a humorous viewpoint

2015 edition published by Garnet (www.hazeledwards.com) as ‘Misfit’
First published in 1989 by Collins Publishers Australia as ‘So. Who’s The Misfit’. In Collins Footprint series ISBN 073227303X