With the summer holidays here, our Good Reading for Young Adults team have put together a list of our top 10 favourite books from the past year which you can dip into over your break!
You Don’t Know What War Is: The diary of a young girl from Ukraine
Yeva Skalietska
Age Guide 10+
This is the gripping and moving diary of young Ukrainian refugee Yeva Skalietska. It follows 12 days in Ukraine that changed 12-year-old Yeva’s life forever. She was woken in the early hours to the terrifying sounds of shelling. Russia had invaded ...
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2022-12-2023-01 Young Adult
Cover Story
Katrina Nannestad on her prize-winning ‘Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief’
Episode 248
Katrina Nannestad talks turning a true story into an award-winning novel for children and how she used stories of ...
Features
ARA Historical Novel Prize Winners
Author KATRINA NANNESTAD’S book, Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief, has won the ARA Historical Novel Prize in the ...
Literary Winners – The Mary Poppins Literary Competition
The Mary Poppins Literary Competition for young writers and poets was established to honour P L Travers and ...
Original Poem: The Knight by Mhyumie
The Knight
by Mhyumie. Year 8, St Columba’s Catholic College, Springwood NSW 2777
In the bristles of ...
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