Stone Girl by Eleni Hale Wins the 2019 Readings Young Adult Book Prize
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FREE AUGUST 2019 Stone Girl by Eleni Hale wins the 2019 Readings Young Adult Book Prize page 17 August is for anthologies! 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August to Minus 18, an organisation that You can sign up at readings.com.au/ Our Kids’ Book Subscription is the perfect champions rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, newsletters-and-e-news gift for the little people in your life – a book transgender, intersex and queer youth in the post every month to share. There Madman DVD Sale Australia-wide. Black Inc., the book’s are two options to choose from: a six Our annual Madman DVD sale is on again publisher, has generously agreed to match The Readings Young Adult Book Prize month subscription ($185) and a ten month throughout August, featuring a wide our final donation, so Minus 18 will receive 2019 Winner subscription ($300). Each book will be range of releases including films such as a total of $4 for each copy of the book sold After a great deal of deliberation from the selected monthly by our expert children’s Gurrumul, Arrietty, The Death of Stalin, and at Readings in August. To find out more judging panel – consisting of Readings staff booksellers, and then posted out by us. We Lost in Paris. With plenty of discounted about the amazing work Minus 18 do, visit and author Cath Crowley – we’re proud to recommend this subscription for children Madman titles, this sale is not to be missed. minus18.org.au announce that Stone Girl by Eleni Hale is aged 0-4 years old. The subscription Visit your local Readings to check out the the winner of this year’s Readings Young is available for purchase exclusively full range. The sale will be available in all Adult Book Prize. Chair of Judges Georgia in the Readings online shop. For more of our seven shops as well as online at Melbourne International Film Festival 2019 Phelan writes that in Stone Girl, Hale information about the Readings Kids’ Book readings.com.au The Melbourne International Film Festival ‘delivers a raw dose of reality to her readers has launched their 2019 program. This year’s with tender yet unflinching prose, and deftly festival runs from 1–18 August, and features navigates the intricate violence of broken films of all genres from both local and systems and the truths lived by Australia’s international filmmakers. Tickets to the full foster youth’. Congratulations to Eleni, who program are on sale now, including single receives $3000 in prize money. We’d like to tickets, passes to special events and galas, extend our congratulations to the other five and mini-passes, which provide admission shortlisted books for offering such strong to any ten standard sessions at the festival. competition. More information about the To find out more, buy passes or become Prize and Stone Girl can be found on page 17. a MIFF member, please visit miff.com.au. Readings is a proud sponsor of MIFF. 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