Teachers’ Notes for Mizuto and the Wind (
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Teacher Notes – Timefire
Teachers’ Notes for Timefire (pdf, 206 kb)
Julie Thorndyke
Alice’s Shoe
HB 32 | 297 x 210 | ISBN: 9781922858139 | $29.99
Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | July 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
A country child, Alice ran barefoot. On smooth waxed floorboards, over dusty clay in the yard, through icy water in the creek… she refused to wear shoes. After losing her sight and hearing through illness, Alice slowly made her way back to life and became the first deafblind person in Australia to be educated. Her hated shoe was Alice’s first connection with the world of language as she learnt to sign. Continue reading Alice’s Shoe
Nean McKenzie
Nean has had three middle-grade novels out with MidnightSun Publishing: Cryptosight (2019), Xenoflight (2022) and Timefire (2023). She was awarded a Maurice Saxby mentorship in 2016, a fellowship for the KSP Writers Centre for 2023 and has a diploma in Professional Writing and Editing from RMIT. Continue reading Nean McKenzie
Timefire
PB 200 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858030 | $17.99
Middle-grade | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | July 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
In the scorching summer of 2033, Gilbert Black is accused of being a firebug, just like his mother was thirteen years previously. That night a fire starts on his family’s farm. A fire with a tunnel in the centre of it. And that’s when things start to get really weird.
Pulled repeatedly back and forth through time, Gil finds himself at big Australian bushfires from the last two centuries. He searches across the years, determined to unlock the secret to his family’s legacy. Gil can’t change the past, but can he learn from it in time to return home and save his family from the biggest inferno ever known? Continue reading Timefire
Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar
Her previous work as a social worker provides her with a rich source of material to develop her colourful and complex characters and compelling plots. Her travels have taken her to beautiful and enchanting places, including Continue reading Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar
Missing Pieces
PB 304 | 234 x 153 | ISBN: 9781922858092 | $32.99
Novel | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | June 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Inspired by the 1831 discovery of a hoard of priceless chess pieces on a remote Scottish Island, Missing Pieces tells the story of four women who created and protected the now famous artefacts.
When Marianne is coerced into leaving the security of her comfortable London life to curate an exhibition on the Isle of Lewis, she uncovers her own ancestral connection to the mysterious island. Her eerie connections to the past introduce us to Magrit, the Icelandic artisan, beholden to a power-hungry Bishop, Morven, the rescuer, who seeks intimacy with a mysterious stranger and Mhairi, the negotiator, fighting a greedy landlord to stave off Continue reading Missing Pieces
Kaye Baillie
Kaye began writing stories and making books during the long, hot summer holidays on the orchard where she grew up in Victoria. With her sister, she sat at the kitchen table coming up with ideas and adding her own (not very good) illustrations. Now she writes stories at her kitchen table near the beach, where she lives with her family and their high-maintenance pets. Kaye has a strong interest in researching and writing stories about unique individuals and events.
Kaye has a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing. In 2022 her book When The Waterhole Dries Up was shortlisted in the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards and many of her picture books have won or Continue reading Kaye Baillie
Luisa Gioffre-Suzuki
Mizuto and the Wind
illustrated by Luisa Gioffre-Suzuki
PB 32 | 230 x 260 | ISBN: 9781922858023 | $29.99
Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | June 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Mizuto is a young boy living an ordinary life in Japan until one day, something extraordinary happens.
Following a deadly tsunami, Mizuto’s father is missing. Continue reading Mizuto and the Wind
Zena Shapter
When not writing, Zena loves movies, frogs, chocolate, potatoes and living with her family among Sydney’s beautiful Northern Beaches. She’s travelled all around the world, visiting close to 50 countries, which inspire her to create worlds of her own. With her BA (Hons) in English Literature, Zena enjoys working as a mentor, editor and inclusive creativity advocate, inspiring Continue reading Zena Shapter
When Dark Roots Hunt
PB 400 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858061 | $19.99
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | 20 May 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Don’t go out onto the lake. Wyann trees search the shallows to spear passing prey with their roots. Giant water-ants hunt anything that moves on the water-skin. Sala’s village survives hidden behind a wall of poisonous ivy, because everyone agrees: don’t go out onto the lake.
But then a strange comet crosses the night sky, throwing Sala and her pet pointer into a race through wyann-infested swampland that has her risking it all, unearthing long-hidden Continue reading When Dark Roots Hunt
Teacher Notes – Satin
Teachers’ Notes for Satin (pdf, 714 kb)
Satin
illustrated by Lorena Carrington
HB 32 | 240 x 240 | $29.99 | ISBN: 9781922858016 | March 2023 Picture
Book | MidnightSun Publishing | Distributed by NewSouth Books
Every morning early, when no-one’s about, Satin slips out of the forest and walks along the sleepy sunrise streets, looking for blue…
He’s collected all kinds of blues, from all kinds of places. He’s making something beautiful, with all those blues. But something’s missing, and he doesn’t know what it is. And then, one day, he comes to a street he’s never been in before. And what he finds there will Continue reading Satin