Conflict and Crisis
“Charlie saw a woman and her child in distress in the water, struggling to stay afloat. Charlie didn’t think twice…he knew they needed help.”
— Charlie’s Swim by Edith Wright & illustrated by Charmaine Ledden-Lewis
Katrina Nannestad
By Katrina Nannestad
The powerful novel from award-winning Australian writer Katrina Nannestad.
Sometimes it's good to be wild.
Sometimes you have to be wild.
When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that she will keep her brother and sister safe.
But sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things.
Sometimes to survive, you must become a wolf.
Bestselling author Katrina Nannestad returns with her most masterful novel yet -- a book to crack open your heart, a book to light you up inside, a book to love.
AWARDS
Winner - ABDA Best Designed Children's Fiction Book 2021
Winner - Book Links Award for Children's Historical Fiction 2021
Winner - ARA Historical Novel Prize 2021 (Children's and Young Adult Category)
Winner - Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2022 (Children's Literature Award)
Shortlisted - CBCA Book of the Year Award (Younger Readers) 2021
Shortlisted - Queensland Literary Awards 2021 (Children's Book Award)
Shortlisted - Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2021 (Children's Literature Award)
By Katrina Nannestad
Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ...
Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My sister pokes her bruised face out from beneath the table and shouts, 'Run, Sasha! Run!'
So I run. I run like a rabbit.
It's spring, 1942. The sky is blue, the air is warm and sweet with the scent of flowers.
And then everything is gone.
The flowers, the proud geese, the pretty wooden houses, the friendly neighbours. Only Sasha remains.
But one small boy, alone in war-torn Russia, cannot survive.
One small boy without a family cannot survive.
One small boy without his home cannot survive.
What that small boy needs is an army.
From the award-winning author of We Are Wolves comes the story of a young boy who becomes a soldier at six, fighting in the only way he can -- with love. But is love ever enough when the world is at war?
AWARDS
Honour Book - CBCA 2022 (Younger Reader's Book of the Year)
Winner - The Indie Book Awards 2022 (Children's)
Winner - ABA Bookseller's Choice 2022 Book of the Year Awards (Children's)
Winner - ARA Historical Novel Award 2022 (Children and Young Adult)
Shortlisted - ABIAs 2022 (Book of the Year for Younger Children)
