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Summer jobs, crushes, and complicated feelings above a chip shop.

Sonny & Tess

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    1 July 2025

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Summary

First job. First crush. But it’s complicated.

A sweet and charming middle-grade romance from bestselling and beloved author Nova Weetman.

It’s the end of year 7 and Tess wants a summer job. She’s keen to earn her own money and buy her own clothes. But her mum has other ideas: it looks like Tess will be stuck at home babysitting her twin brothers.

Thirteen-year-old Sonny is tired of moving around. With his dad up north, he’s staying with his uncle and aunt above their f…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780702268427
ISBN-10:0702268429
Author:Nova Weetman
Publisher:University of Queensland Press
Imprint:University of Queensland Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:1 July 2025
Weight:231g
Dimensions:20mm x 130mm x 197mm
Audience Age:11-14
A-Format
Sonny & Tess by Nova Weetman - ISBN: 9780702268427
130 × 197 mm
B-Format
C-Format
A4
mm / in
About The Author

Nova Weetman

Nova Weetman lives in Melbourne with her family. She has written for TV and is the author of many middle grade and young adult novels. The Secrets We Keep was shortlisted for the Readings Children’s Book Prize, the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards and the ABIA Awards, and was named a CBCA Notable Book. The sequel, The Secrets We Share, was a 2018 CBCA Notable Book and won the KROC Kids Reading Oz Choice Awards, NT - Best Fiction for Years 7 to 9. It was also shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards. Nova’s middle grade novel Sick Bay was a CBCA Notable Book, was shortlisted for the ABIA Awards and Japan’s Sakura Medal, and won the YABBA Awards Fiction for Years 7-9. In 2022, The Edge of Thirteen won the ABIA Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year and was a CBCA Notable Book. In 2023, The Jammer was shortlisted for the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children and was a CBCA Notable Book. Nova’s latest book is the adult memoir Love, Death & Other Scenes.

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