Angela Crocombe
Angela Crocombe is the Readings Prize and Readings Foundation coordinator and a senior buyer for Readings Kids. She is also the author of two books on sustainable living, A Lighter Footprint: A Practical Guide to Minimising your Impact on the Planet and Ethical Eating: How to Make Food Choices That Won’t Cost the Earth.
Review — 31 Jan 2021
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Six apartments are rented to six families in the exclusive Sunset Towers, a building that has a perfect view to the mansion of reclusive millionaire Samuel Westing. When Westing suddenly…
Review — 28 Feb 2021
The Gaps by Leanne Hall
The Gaps is a powerful, searing psychological novel that explores teenage fear, anger and vulnerability. When a 16-year-old girl, Yin Mitchell from the Year 10 class at Balmoral Ladies College…
Review — 6 Sep 2020
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The latest novel by the author of The War that Saved My Life is a powerful, first-person story from the perspective of ten-year-old Della, who has been the victim of…
Review — 6 Sep 2020
Howl by Kat Patrick & Evie Barrow
At the end of a long day, when everything is frustrating and not quite right, comes a full moon that makes it impossible to sleep. Young Maggie turns wolfish. She…
Review — 1 Oct 2020
Windows by Patrick Guest & Jonathan Bentley
No doubt, there will be a number of books published in the wake of our year of lockdown, but none quite so beautiful or pitch perfect as this one. As…
Review — 6 Sep 2020
The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
In the first of a new fantasy duology, readers are swept into an exciting world that embraces science and magic, an ancient prophecy, a goddess, and a prince who literally…
Review — 6 Sep 2020
The Heart of the Bubble by Trace Balla
Beloved graphic novelist for children, Trace Balla, has created a heartfelt comic about all the good things that can happen as a result of coronavirus. A family readjusts to being…
Review — 2 Aug 2020
The Erasure Initiative by Lili Wilkinson
A girl wakes up with no knowledge of who she is or what has happened in her past. All she knows is that she is on a driverless bus speeding…
Blog post — 20 Jul 2020
Lisa Fuller wins the Readings Young Adult Book Prize 2020
We are absolutely delighted to announce Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller as the winner of the Readings Young Adult Book Prize for 2020. Ghost Bird is a terrifying and spooky…
Review — 28 Jun 2020
The Pony Question by Jackie Merchant
Essie gave up on horses after she was caught up in a cheating scandal with her last pony. Her dad was the parent who helped with her horse and riding…
