![]() ![]() ![]() The book doesn't come with trigger warnings, but I assume that secondary school librarians have some process for shielding younger students from books with very detailed drug references and abuse of all kinds. It has the PRC (Premiers' Reading Challenge) sticker on it too, selected for the Years 9 & 10 list, but it is, IMO, very much a book for senior students or for those for whom it is deemed suitable by the judgement of a responsible adult. The book is obviously very popular because it has taken ten weeks for my reserve to come through, and my library has multiple copies of it. In July it was announced that Eleni had won the 2019 Readings Young Adult Prize for Stone Girl. So I reserved it at my library online as soon as I got home. ![]() Her story, as she told it on the night, was so impressive and her passion for lifting the profile of kids in out-of-home care was so compelling, that copies of Stone Girl sold out. Mairi blogged the event so I won't reproduce what's already been said except to say that the event was about 'turning your life into fiction'-and Eleni had mined her own life in state care to write what has now become an award-winning debut novel. ![]() In June this year I attended an author event at the Sandringham branch of Bayside Library with my good friend and author Mairi Neil, and was introduced to a local writer I hadn't come across, Eleni Hale. ![]()
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