Stormbird

Before technology and social connectivity became integral to our busy lives, some may argue that we lived a much simpler life. But perhaps Jack Armstrong, a student of Evansdale High, would beg to differ as his final year of high school comes to an end.

It's 1998 and it's warming up to be one of the hottest summers in Australian history. With the build-up of heat the storm season is on its way to Tropical North Queensland, but not before a series of malicious events set to end Jack's chances of graduation.

Even the distraction of Jack's growing feelings towards Susan, his best friend and lifelong neighbour, has little effect on easing the mounting pressures from the influential adults around him. Nothing is certain to him anymore.

With the high school bully hot on his heels, it's up to Jack and his friends to discover why he is the target, and what link an assigned novel - Paperback Writer - has to all these events, before it's too late and before it becomes a matter of life or death.