The Midlands
$15.59
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2026
Summary
- As The Great War rages overseas, eleven-year-old Lorna Whittle and her four sisters fight their own battles in the heart of Tasmania’s Midlands. Left with their cold and distant mother while their gentle father heads to war, the Whittle girls unleash their mischief amongst the wild countryside surrounding their grandparent’s farmhouse —painting cows, brewing stink bombs, and waging war on rules of every kind.
But when their father’s first letter arrives, Lorna begins to s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780645869378 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0645869376 |
| Author: | Kate Gordon |
| Publisher: | Yellow Brick Books |
| Imprint: | Riveted Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 209mm x 136mm |
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About The Author
Kate Gordon
Kate Gordon grew up in a very bookish house, with two librarian parents, in a small town by the sea in Tasmania. In 2009 she won a Varuna fellowship and hasn’t stopped writing since. Her first book, Three Things About Daisy Blue, was published in 2010. She has since been published multiple times. Kate won the 2016 IBBY Ena Noel Award for Writing Clementine, and in 2018 was shortlisted in the Dorothy Hewett Awards for an Unpublished Manuscript. Her YA novel Girl Running, Boy Falling (2018) is a CBCA Notable. In 2021, Aster’s Good, Right Things won the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, and in 2023, Xavier in the Meantime was shortlisted in the same category.
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