Middle Grade Fiction

Berkelouw Bookshop

Berkelouw Bookshop
My favourite local bookshop has had a ‘glow-up’!! Congratulations @berkelouwbookshornsby 🎉👏🎉 It is wonderfully ...

CBCA Notables 2025

CBCA Notables 2025
Loved hanging with the cool kids at @cbcaustralia @cbcansw Night of the Notables. Congratulations ...

The Little Wave

The Little Wave
Picture books and verse novels – both look easy until you try to write them. It’s true what they say – every word ...

Catch a Falling Star

Catch a Falling Star
Skylab. Memories… Like McKinlay’s central character, Frankie, I was 11 when the anticipation of Skylab hurtling to ...

The Dog Runner

The Dog Runner
Bren MacDibble is no stranger to the CBCA shortlist. In 2018, her novel How to Bee took home the Book Of The Year ...

The Thing About Oliver

The Thing About Oliver
​I've only just started my annual exploration of the CBCA shortlist in the Younger Readers category for 2020, and ...

Detention

Detention
A couple of years ago, Tristan Bancks received well-deserved accolades for Two Wolves. For many years, I had been ...

She wolf

She wolf
I must admit, when this was suggested for our Y6 Book Club, I was a little dubious. Wolves and vikings aren't ...

Shouting at the rain

Shouting at the rain
Shouting at the rain was the book shared at the most recent Book Club.  As with Sick Bay, this book explores ...

Sick Bay

Sick Bay
Sick Bay, by Nova Weetman, was on my radar after it kept popping up on my social media feeds with rave reviews. I ...
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