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- Lothian Children's Books
Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
From one of Australia's favourite authors comes the sequel to the bestselling THUNDERWITH.
Can Lara help Marna, the painfully shy new girl, emerge and spread her wings?
Lara wants to help the shy new girl Marna. But first she must deal with her own feelings. Does she love the faithful Stan, her first boyfriend? Or the beautiful, exciting Jake, on the road with his Crimson River rock band? How can she cope with the hated bully, Gowd Gadrey, who's back in town, awakening powerful memories? And her reserved and troubled stepmother, Gladwyn, who has her own tragic past to confront? A gang of out-of-town bikies with evil intentions, whom Gowd seems to know quite well, leads to a night of revelations for Lara.
It is not only Marna who is 'at the chrysalis stage' in this immensely moving story, a celebration of the human spirit, liberation and hope, from Libby Hathorn, the bestselling author of the Australian young adult classic THUNDERWITH.
'A powerful novel about hope and the human spirit's ability to finally win through.' - COURIER MAIL, Brisbane on THUNDERWITH
'Hathorn deftly injects a sense of wonderment into this intense, very real story. Readers cannot help but be swept up on the action and emotion.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY on THUNDERWITH
'A believable plot featuring a shattering climax and a satisfyingly realistic resolution.' - HORN BOOK on THUNDERWITH
Praise for Chrysalis
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A powerful novel about hope and the human spirit's ability to finally win through. - Courier Mail, Brisbane on THUNDERWITH
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Hathorn deftly injects a sense of wonderment into this intense, very real story. Readers cannot help but be swept up on the action and emotion. - American Publishers Weekly on THUNDERWITH
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A believable plot featuring a shattering climax and a satisfyingly realistic resolution. - Horn Book on THUNDERWITH
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Libby Hathorn
Libby Hathorn is an award-winning author and poet of more than eighty books for children, young adults, and adult readers. Her recent picture book No! Never!, written with her daughter Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, won the CBCA Children's Picture Book of the Year Award, Younger Readers, 2021. Translated into several languages and adapted for both stage and screen, her work has won honours in Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Holland. She is the recipient of the ABIA Pixie O'Harris Award, 2022, and the Lady Cutler Award, 2020, for distinguished services to Australian children's literature. In 2014 she won The Alice Award, a national award given to 'a woman who has made a distinguished and long term contribution to Australian literature'. In 2017 she won the Asher Award, a peace prize, for A Soldier, a Dog and a Boy.
Libby is a keen educator who has lectured part-time at Sydney University and is devoted to being an ambassador for poetry anywhere and everywhere. She has been a National Ambassador for Reading and often acts as a judge for various literary prizes, including the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
www.libbyhathorn.com
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