Giveaway of The Girl in the Mirror
This month, our sponsor, Eagle Books, is offering a giveaway of The Girl in the Mirror by Jenny Blackford. Subscribe to our HNSA newsletter then comment on this post to enter the draw. Contest ends at 5 pm on 21 October 2019. Winning entries will be determined via random.org.
'A wonderful story, with creepiness lurking in the corners, to startle you and make you look twice next time you go past a mirror. Jenny Blackford has created a time-shifting, spine-tingling winner with The Girl in the Mirror.' (Geoffrey McSkimming)
Maddy is picked on by bullies at her new school and terrified by ghosts in the old house her family has moved to – but she soon becomes friends with Clarissa, who slept in that same room and used the same mirror more than 100 years earlier.
Then Maddy's baby brother nearly dies of whooping cough, and Clarissa discovers that her poisonous Aunt Lily is even more evil than she seems. The two girls have to use all their intelligence and verve to fight against Aunt Lily's plots, each in her own time, with help from Clarissa's ghostly brother Bertie…but will they succeed?
An enthralling, original debut middle-grade novel by award-winning poet and short-story writer Jenny Blackford.
About the author:
JennyBlackford writes poems and stories for people of all ages, usually with a tingeof myth and legend, ancient history, science, or deep time. Over 30 of hershort stories and over 50 of her poems have appeared in Australian andinternational anthologies and journals. She loves to write for kids as well asadults. Her poems and stories for kids have been published in the School Magazine, Our Home is Dirt by Sea:Australian Poetry for Australian Kids, Stories for Nine Year Olds and otherwonderful places. Kids aged 11 plus should enjoy her poetry books The Loyalty of Chickens and The Duties of a Cat, both published byPitt Street Poetry, as well as her short YA novel The Priestess and the Slave, published by Hadley Rille.
Jenny's most recent poetry prizes are first place in the NEWC Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Poetry 2017 and first place in the Humorous Verse section of the Henry Lawson Awards 2017. She won two prizes in the Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Awards 2016 for a murder mystery set in classical Delphi, with water nymphs. In 2014 she was awarded third in the prestigious ACU Prize for Literature 2014.
Good luck in the draw!
