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Alexandra Adornetto an Australian author who writes for children and young adults. Her works include The Strangest Adventures series and the Halo trilogy. She grew up in Melbourne's inner east in a cottage called 'Byron'. In 2006, she won the State Legacy Public Speaking Competition. She claims she "Kind of stumbled across writing". She says she was 13 years old and on school holidays when she decided to become a recluse and started writing her first book for young adults, entitled The Shadow Thief. Since then, Alexandra has written five more novels and has been featured in Fairfax publications commenting about substance abuse and sexual interests. Adornetto's completed books are The Shadow Thief  and The Lampo Circus, Von Gobstopper's Arcade, Halo, and Hades. Her sixth book, and the final volume in the Halo trilogy, entitled Heaven, was released in August 2012.