Summary
A gripping, beautifully observed tale of what a teenage girl will do to keep her friends, by one of Australia’s finest writers, Sonya Hartnett.
On the verge of her fourteenth birthday, Plum knows her life will change. But she has no idea how.
Over the coming weeks, her beautiful neighbour Maureen will show her how she might fly. Her adored older brothers will court catastrophe in worlds that she barely knows exist. And her friends - her worst enemies - will tease and test, sme…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143203056 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143203053 |
| Author: | Sonya Hartnett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 175g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 132mm x 196mm |
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Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett’s work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults, and children.
Her accolades include:
- Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (for Of A Boy)
- The Age Book of the Year (for Of A Boy)
- Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (for Thursday’s Child)
- Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for both Older and Younger Readers (for Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost’s Child, The Midnight Zoo, and The Children of the King)
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (for Surrender)
- Three shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for Of a Boy, Butterfly, and Golden Boys)
- CILIP Carnegie Medal (for The Midnight Zoo)
Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008).
She published her fourth picture book, Blue Flower, illustrated by Gabriel Evans, in 2021, which was shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award.
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