Jill Murray lives in Montreal. Her next novel, Rhythm and Blues will be published in Spring 2010 (Doubleday Canada)

Just when Nadine “Lady Six Sky” Durant’s crew finally has a shot at the Hogtown Showdown, the T-Dot’s biggest b-boy battle, her parents drop the bomb: they’re moving from Parkdale, downtown, to cheesy Rivercrest, a million miles away in the middle of nowhere.

Is this a conspiracy to keep her from breakdancing? Are they trying to force a break up with her boyfriend, Ruckus? And how’s she going to get respect in Rivercrest, when everywhere she turns another hater is waiting to smack her down?

But b-girling is hers and nothing is going to stop Nadine from dancing.

Rights Sold
Doubleday Canada (2007)

“Jill Murray’s Break On Through is a YA Novel with substance and style… The author has a fresh, contemporary voice.”
– Montreal Review of Books.

“Murray’s characters provide great examples, even role models, of young women attempting something important to them and breaking through (pardon the pun!) any barriers preventing them from reaching whatever goals they may have.”
– CM Magazine