Connellan, Nicole (text) and Chuo, Selina (illustrations), The story of 2020, Elephant Imprints, September 2020, RRP $20.35 (pbk), ISBN 9780648859901 This is the first book from Nicole Connellan, a former primary school […]
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Bruce Pascoe (text) and Charmaine Ledden-Lewis (illustrator), Found, Magabala Books, August 2020, 38 pp., RRP $24.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781925936483 Magabala Books continue to perform a needed and laudable service to Indigenous writers and illustrators with this latest addition
Helena Fox, How it Feels to Float, PanMacmillan Australia, April 2019, 384 pp., RRP $17.99 (pbk) ISBN 9781760783303 You’ll learn not to float completely away…you’ll be able to bring yourself back
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Melina Marchetta (text) and Deb Hudson (illustrator), What Zola did on Monday, Puffin Books, June 2020, 96pp., RRP $12.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781760895150 Zola is a young girl who tries but doesn’t always get things
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Cindy Pon, Want, Simon & Schuster, April 2019, 352 pp., RRP $15.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781481489232 Dystopian fiction may have fallen from the original Hunger Games heights, but a
C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses, Hachette Australia, April 2019, 300 pp., RRP $16.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781408349922 Fifteen-year-old Sammy Lou steals
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Margaret Wild (text) and Ann James (illustrator), Goodbye House, Hello House, Allen & Unwin, July 2019, 32 pp., RRP $24.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781743311103 I was lucky enough to hear
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Thanhha Lai, Butterfly Yellow, University of Queensland Press, March 2020, 304 pp., RRP $19.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780702262890 It is not common to find a novel set in the past
Barry Jonsberg, H is for Happiness, Allen & Unwin, January 2020, 256 pp., RRP $16.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781760527402 H is for Happiness is a film tie-in edition
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Cate Whittle, Emergency Rescue Angel, Scholastic Australia, February 2020, 256 pp., RRP $16.99, ISBN 9781760669263 This interesting blend of genres usually involve older female protagonists,
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