Summary
A 2026 CBCA Notable Book of the Year for Older Readers
Shortlisted for the 2026 Indie Book Award - Young Adult
A beautifully written verse novel that will resonate with younger teen readers who are beginning to understand themselves and the changing world they live in.
Fourteen-year-old Nate has just moved back to Australia and is finding it hard to navigate a new city, school and changed home life. His next-door neigh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780734423900 |
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| ISBN-10: | 073442390X |
| Author: | Pip Harry |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Lothian Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Pip Harry
Pip Harry is an Australian author, copywriter, and journalist. Her verse novel, The Little Wave, won the 2020 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers.
Pip’s second verse novel, Are You There, Buddha?, was a 2022 Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Book and was shortlisted for the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature.
Pip’s novel August & Jones, published by Hachette in 2022, was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers 2023 and the 2024 YABBA Awards, and won the CBCA Shadow Judging Book of the Year for Younger Readers.
Pip has also written the picture books Over or Under? (a CBCA Notable book and shortlisted for the ABIA Picture Book of the Year Award 2025) and The Inside Dog, and the verse novel Drift (a CBCA Notable book and shortlisted for the Indie Young Adult Book Award 2026).
She lives on Sydney’s Northern Beaches with her family and energetic rescue kelpie.
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