Meanwhile, across the Tasman…
The finalists have been announced for New Zealand’s premier awards - The New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
Fiction Focus has reviewed all finalists in the Young Adult section:
- Salt, by Maurice Gee
- The sea-wreck stranger, by Anna Mackenzie
- Tomorrow, all will be beautiful, by Brigid Lowry (also a Notable Book in the CBCA Awards)
- The transformation of Minna Hargreaves, by Fleur Beale
- Zillah, by Penelope Todd (Issue 1, 2008)
The awards ceremony will be held in Wellington on 21 May.
