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Jennifer Donnelly
This is a richly layered historical coming-of-age novel about a book-loving girl negotiating family duty, education, friendship and romance while a murder’s consequences reach into her community.
Annabel Pitcher
This is a grief-focused family story told through Jamie’s limited understanding. It combines painful circumstances with comic moments, friendship and movement towards hope, while showing how adults’ responses to loss affect children.
Sophie Cameron
A fantastical mystery carries a grieving teenager through questions of compassion, identity and who gets to control another being’s story. The emotional centre is mother loss rather than the supernatural premise alone.
Barry Jonsberg
This is a humorous, emotionally serious story about a guarded young person whose magic, friendship and care for her grandmother bring questions about love, loss and opening up.
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