CBCA VIC Branch - BOOK CLUB

Term 4 - Wednesday, November 16, 2022 @ 5 p.m.

Join our discussion with guest author Nova Weetman with her new book “The Jammer”.

Nova has written for TV and is the author of many middle-grade and young-adult novels. "The Secrets We Keep" was shortlisted for the Readings Children’s Book Prize, the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards and the ABIA Awards. The sequel, "The Secrets We Share", was a 2018 CBCA Notable Book and won the KROC Kids Reading Oz Choice Awards, NT – Best Fiction for Years 7 to 9. It was also shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards. Nova’s middle-grade novel "Sick Bay" was a CBCA Notable Book and shortlisted for the ABIA Awards. In 2022, "The Edge of Thirteen" was shortlisted for the ABIAs Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year and was a CBCA Notable Book: Younger Readers.

With her insightful, clear writing and thoughtful characterisation, Nova Weetman is carving an influential place for herself as an Australian YA author.

BOOK via TryBooking

CBCA Members $5.00 / Non-Members $20.00

Karys McEwen (left) (Librarian at Prahran High School and former CBCA Judge for the Older Readers category)
& Ruth Woolven (right) (Librarian at Kew Primary School and former CBCA Judge for the Younger Readers category) will discuss new releases for primary and seconday libraries.

This Victorian based BOOK CLUB is open to all - Librarians, teachers, teacher/librarians, publishers, booksellers, creators, and other interested parties!