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    Six Summers of Tash and Leopold

    Danielle Binks

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    A CBCA NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERS 2025

    Alytash and Leopold - Tash and Leo - are neighbours who used to be best friends, but aren't anymore, for reasons that Leo doesn't entirely understand. But now it's the last week of Year Six and Tash is standing in Leo's front yard with a misdelivered letter - and a favour to ask.

    It's a request that will set off a chain of events in their little crescent in Noble Park, a suburb that is changing, and fast.

    As they solve an unfolding neighbourhood mystery and help Ms Shepparson, a reclusive neighbour with a tragic past, Tash and Leo each has to confront fault lines in their own recent histories and families.

    They will discover that friendships can grow and change, that bravery takes many forms, and that, most of all - whatever the future holds - friends and family are what matter.

    Six Summers of Tash and Leopold is for fans of Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia and Nova Weetman's The Secrets We Keep, as well as Danielle Binks' previous bestseller, The Year the Maps Changed - and for anyone who enjoys a big, hopeful, coming-of-age middle-grade book that features complicated families and life-changing summers.

    'Friendship, family and finding your way. This book perfectly captures the complex world of being twelve. I loved it.' NOVA WEETMAN

    'Middle-grade readers who enjoyed A L Tait's The First Summer of Callie McGee and Nova Weetman's The Edge of Thirteen will delight in this compelling coming-of-age story . . . Equal parts plot- and character-driven, the narrative moves along at a gentle albeit page-turning pace' BOOKS+PUBLISHING

    Praise for The Year the Maps Changed

    'A gorgeous book . . . it's timeless and beautiful and it deserves to be read by people of all ages' MELINA MARCHETTA

    'A brilliant gem that will make you see the world - and your place in it - in a new way' EMILY GALE

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    Danielle Binks

    Danielle Binks is a writer, reviewer, agent and book blogger who lives on the Mornington Peninsula. In 2017, she edited and contributed to Begin, End, Begin, an anthology of new Australian young adult writing inspired by the #LoveOzYA movement, which won the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children (Ages 13+) and was shortlisted in the 2018 Gold Inky Awards. The Year the Maps Changed, Danielle's debut middle-grade novel, was a CBCA Notable Book for Younger Readers 2021, longlisted for the ABIA Book of the Year Award for Younger Children 2021, shortlisted for the Readings Children's Book Prize 2021 and longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2021. The Monster of Her Age is Danielle's debut YA novel.

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