How can 12-year-old Alan find happiness in a world that's fallen apart for him?Where has his mum gone and why?Living with sour Aunt Jessie at the Boomerang Milkbar is no fun in spite of nearby Coogee Beach. Alan misses his mother and two brothers, and big sister Desley's visits don't help. At his new school there's a bully, and even when he surfs with new friends, Alan is on the look-out for trouble.Then the juke box and rock'n'roll arrive at the Boomerang, and everything changes.Celebrating 25 years of Libby Hathorn, acclaimed author of the Australian young adult classic THUNDERWITH. 'Hathorn deftly injects a sense of wonderment into this intense, very real story. Readers cannot help but be swept up on the action and emotion.' - American Publishers Weekly on THUNDERWITH'A powerful novel about hope and the human spirit's ability to finally win through.

' - Courier Mail, Brisbane on THUNDERWITH.