Tom can't wait to finish Year 12 and leave his home town of Hervey Bay. Zooey feels stranded between a losing-it father and an uncaring mother. Both are waiting for newness, for change, for the advent of Spring Rain ... Spring Rain is the sequel to Richard Yaxley's award-winning verse novel, Drink The Air.
I write powerful and engaging stories for all age groups. My novels are:
- Leonardo Forever (Scholastic 2023) - Harmony (Scholastic 2021) - A New Kind of Everything (Scholastic 2020) - The Happiness Quest (Scholastic 2018; CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers 2019) - This Is My Song (Scholastic 2017; ACU Book Of The Year 2019; Winner of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Literature; Finalist in the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards; also published in the Czech Republic by Albatros Media) - Joyous and Moonbeam (Scholastic 2013; Finalist in the 2014 West Australian Premier’s Awards for Young Adult Literature) - Spring Rain (Self-published 2011) - Drink the Air (Strictly Literary: Winner of the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Award for Young Adult Fiction) - Bloodlines (Strictly Literary 2009) - The Rose Leopard (University of Queensland Press 2003) For further information on me and my work, go to http://richardwyaxley.com