New Kind of dreaming

"After arriving in the remote western Australian town of Port Barren to live in a foster home, seventeen-year-old Jamie is unaccountably drawn to an abandoned boat, where he hears the voice of a dead young girl that leads him on a dangerous quest to uncover the townspeople's dark secrets."@en
"A special reissue of an Australian classic ten years since first published. To live here, you have to learn that life is a balance between being a wanderer and being a lost one. Jamie Riley has hit rock bottom. Busted for stealing cars, he's been shipped off to serve time in Port Barren, a stinking hot town stuck between the desert and the sea. The minute Jamie gets off the bus, he can feel something is not quite right about Port Barren  the town has a past it doesn't want to share. After being warned that Port Barren is his last chance before jail, Jamie resolves to serve his time."@en