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Category Archives: Young Adult
Answering to the Caul by Ted Dawe – 2020
Andrei Reti was born with his amniotic membrane covering his head, a caul. He grows up having been told this means he will always be protected from drowning. He has multiple escapes from water, and often sees first-hand how water … Continue reading
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Kealaula by Kim Cope Tait – 2019
Kealaula lives in Vermont, her father calls her Chickadee, a bird with a plaintive call, “the saddest sound I knew” but also with a “trill that sounds like excitement spiralling up a spine.” Through this novel, Kealaula learns what that … Continue reading
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Underwater by Helen Vivienne Fletcher – 2018
Bailey and her young sister, Tilly, have been taken by their Gran to multi-generational Pine Hills Resort to try and get over a traumatic experience. They could stay in a cabin together, but Bailey opts for splitting up by demographic, … Continue reading
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Cassie Clark: Outlaw by Brian Falkner – 2018
Cassie Clark is an eighteen-year-old university literature student with a depressed mother, a prickly younger sister, a great friend called Jackson from Jackson, Mississippi, and a bodyguard. She is still recovering in hospital from being knocked off her bike when … Continue reading
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Wedlock by Denis Wright – 2018
Lucy has a mixed life: She is more-or-less the only capable adult (at age 15) in her family, living with her aging-rocker Dad and ex-prize-fighter Grandfather, who is living with Parkinson’s. She has some mates and manages to negotiate the … Continue reading
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Make a Hard Fist by Tina Shaw – 2018
Make a hard fist is an extremely powerful YA novel about the physical abuse of young women. It is edgy, scary and yet empowering. Lizzie Quinn is doing well, well apart from a hiccough in her relationship with a boy … Continue reading
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Rain Fall by Ella West – 2018
Rain fall is set in rain-soaked Westport, amidst mine-closures and the decline in dairy prices. The town in depressed; the residents trying to make the best of things. But when 15-year-old Annie misses an important basketball game when her mate’s … Continue reading
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