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All in reads for kids
“I think it is a very human thing to store away some little nugget of the present deep inside yourself - ready for a future version to pluck it out and reexamine when you're able to. That's what I did in some way, even as a 12-year-old; I kind of reminded myself to not forget this stuff.”
This moment when, for a tiny space in time, Australia’s history crossed paths with the much bigger story happening in south-eastern Europe has been little explored in fiction, but Danielle Binks’s warm and brilliant middle grade debut, The Year the Maps Changed, captures it all through the eyes of the fierce and immediately endearing Winifred – or Fred, to her dad.
Nova Weetman’s latest middle grade novel features two beautiful young characters and a hard-won friendship.
In which Kilmeny of the Orchard turns out to be an uncomfortable story-version of 1D’s “What Makes You Beautiful.”
A review of the haunting and beautiful graphic novel, Zenobia.
