Sonya Harnett, Author, Sonya Hartnett, Author Viking Children's Books $12.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-670-86503-1
The eeriness that underscores Hartnett's Wilful Blue is even more prevalent in this grittier novel, also set in rural Australia. From the very beginning, readers will sense an unnatural aura surrounding the Willow family and the desolate land where...
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Sonya Hartnett, Author . Candlewick $15.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1620-5
Set in the harsh mining outback of Australia during the Depression, Hartnett's (Sleeping Dogs) startling coming-of-age story combines narrator Harper Flute's grindingly realistic account of a family mired in poverty with a more surreal tale...
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Sonya Hartnett, Author . Candlewick $15.99 (196p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2092-9
Hartnett (Thursday's Child) again captures the ineffable fragility of childhood in this keenly observed tale set in 1977 in her native Australia. Adrian has one school friend and many secret fears, including tidal waves, sea monsters, quicksand...
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Sonya Hartnett, Author . Candlewick $7.99 (261p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2203-9
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "Set in the harsh mining outback of Australia during the Depression, this startling coming-of-age story combines the narrator's grindingly realistic account of a family mired in poverty with a more surreal...
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Sonya Hartnett, Author . Candlewick $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2644-0
Living in a bypassed Australian town with people "sunk by the dislocation" wrought by a new highway, hardworking 23-year-old Satchel O'Rye is coping as well as he can with his overshadowing mother, Laura, a nurse, and his fanatically...
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Sonya Hartnett, Author . Candlewick $16.99 (248p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2768-3
In another eloquently written, heartrending novel, Hartnett (Thursday's Child
; What the Birds See
) plunges readers into the story of a young man facing the end of his tormented life. Through flashbacks and shifts in narrative voice, 20-year-old
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Sonya Hartnett, Author . Candlewick $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3964-8
Hartnett (Surrender
) introduces an unlikely protagonist for a one-of-a-kind love story. When 75-year-old Matilda Victoria Adelaide, or Maddy, comes home to find a mysterious boy awaiting her, she thinks it “odd, but also somehow flattering,...
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Sonya Hartnett, Candlewick, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4760-5
Hartnett eviscerates modern suburban life in this blistering story of broken families, buried secrets, and foundering lives. Plum Coyle is almost 14 and terrifically insecure, with two older brothers, Justin and Cydar, who love her but are as...
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Sonya Hartnett, Author Viking Children's Books $13.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-85718-0
Readers drawn to stories about suffering young artists will find torment aplenty in this woeful tale of a friendship cut short by suicide. Seven talented young men are commissioned to paint, sculpt and draw at Sanquedeet, a onetime monastery being...
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Sonya Hartnett. Candlewick, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7949-1
When the affluent Jensons move into town, it’s difficult for the neighborhood children to see past the allure of the fancy toys, bikes, and aboveground pool that sons Colt and Bastian have. Syd Kiley, his brother Declan, and their friends Avery and...
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Sonya Hartnett, illus. by Andrea Offermann. Candlewick, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5339-2
This somber yet not hopeless fable set during WWII offers a haunting portrait of families, human and otherwise, torn apart. Two Romany boys, 12-year-old Andrej and nine-year-old Tomas, flee with their infant sister after German soldiers arrest their
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Sonya Hartnett, illus. by Ann James. Candlewick, $14.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5315-6
Lindgren Award–winner Hartnett has been writing for younger and younger readers in recent years, but whether her audience is teenagers (Butterfly), middle-graders (The Midnight Zoo), or now chapter-book readers, she remains willing to expose...
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Sonya Hartnett, Author, Don Powers, Illustrator , illus. by Don Powers. Candlewick $15.99 (266p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2937-3
Hartnett's (Surrender
) latest offering, set in France during the Great War, is at once delicately told and deeply resonant. When two sisters, eight-year-old Coco and 10-year-old Marcelle, discover a blind and hungry soldier in the woods, they...
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