The Long Way Home — Jessi Hammond

Gary has lived on the streets for three months. It's not his choice - his Gran is in hospital and the streets are safer than living with Mum and his creep of a stepfather.Then one day Gary finds a bunch of silk flowers in a skip bin. Those flowers, and what he chooses to do with them, will change his life. Utopia Bay is a small town on the east coast of Australia. This is one of its stories.