A Dance with Fate
Reviewed onBook Two in the Warrior Bards series picks up a few months after the first book The Harp of Kings ended. Marillier proves yet again that building strong relationships between …
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The Harp of Kings
Reviewed onA story about trusting yourself and your comrades, the first instalment of the Warrior Bard series by Juliet Marillier brings together a new set of characters in a world familiar …
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Worse Things
Reviewed onThe beauty of verse novels is that they can articulate complex feelings and strong emotions in just a few words and Sally Murphy is a master of this genre, as …
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Girls Can Fly
Reviewed onGirls Can Fly is an inspirational book for younger teenagers, created by Aboriginal writer and artist Sally Morgan and her daughter Ambelin. Together they have written and illustrated this delightful …
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Young Dark Emu: A Truer History
Reviewed onBruce Pascoe wants our children to rebel. “We need our children to rebel … If we don’t encourage them to demonstrate or protest, then we need to instil the wisest …
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Brontide
Reviewed onBrontide tells the stories of Rob, Pen, Benny Boy and Jack, a mix of Aboriginal and white boys who are in conversation with narrator Sue over the course of a …
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My Father’s Shadow
Reviewed onKaya and her mother are in hiding. Her father is missing, feared dead following his decision to turn whistle blower. Now suffering PTSD after a traumatic event she cannot recall, …
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Invisible Boys
Reviewed onTold in turn from the perspectives of three very different boys, Holden Sheppard’s Invisible Boys is a powerful and compelling debut by a talented new voice in YA fiction. Introverted …
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Ubby’s Underdogs: Return of the Dragons (III)
Reviewed onThe Ubby’s Underdogs graphic novel trilogy is unlike anything else you’ll find in comics. Set in Broome in the late 1940s, our titular teenage heroine, Ubby, is the leader of …
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Rogue
Reviewed onRogue is the phenomenal second novel in the duology that began with Hive. Teenaged Hayley has been ejected from her insular underwater world and is adrift in a vast ocean. …
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