Woman Crush Wednesday: Melina Marchetta

March 25, 2015 by Erin

Popular Works: Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, Jellicoe Road (published as On the Jellicoe Road in Australia), The Lumatere Chronicles About Her: Melina Marchetta is an Australian young adult author and former English and History teacher. Her first two novels were awarded the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year, and in 2009 she received the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz award for Jellicoe Road. Her first fantasy novel, Finnikin of the Rock, received Australia’s Aurealis Fantasy Award […]

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More Swans, Less Woodcutters, Please – Dearest Review

February 18, 2015 by Erin

Title: Dearest (Woodcutter Sisters #3) Author: Alethea Kontis Genre: Young Adult (maybe middle grade) fantasy/fairy tale Published: February 3, 2015 Rating: ★★★☆☆ In the third book of the Woodcutter Sisters series, magically gifted young seamstress Friday Woodcutter is caught in the middle of a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Wild Swans.” This is labeled a companion book to the series, and should stand alone, but it is best if you read Enchanted and Hero first. After a series of […]

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