Kealy Siryj
Kealy Siryj is from Readings Carlton & Kids
Review — 24 May 2023
Sunshine on Vinegar Street by Karen Comer
When Karen Comer’s Grace Notes came out earlier this year, it was an exciting opportunity to place a verse novel into the hands of our teenage customers. With Sunshine on…
Review — 27 Mar 2023
I Had a Father in Karratha by Annette Trevitt
Following the sudden death of her father, Annette Trevitt becomes a regular visitor to Karratha as the executor of her father’s will. What follows is an almost three-year journey to…
Review — 3 Mar 2023
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
In 1995, a girl was murdered on the grounds of her elite private boarding school in New Hampshire, and Bodie Kane suspects the wrong man went to prison. Bodie is…
Review — 3 Mar 2023
Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
In 1951, le pain maudit – or ‘the cursed bread’ – was at the centre of a mass poisoning event that tore through the small village of Pont-Saint-Esprit, leaving seven…
Review — 27 Feb 2023
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock birthed a mythology so entrenched in the Australian culture that it is now inextricable from the landmark itself. First published in 1967, the story…
Review — 28 Feb 2021
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
Everyone at school knows about locker 89. The process is simple: write a letter confessing your relationship woes, pay a small fee of $10, and wait patiently for the solution…
Review — 2 Aug 2020
You Were Made for Me by Jenna Guillaume
You Were Made For Me is the second novel by Australian YA rom-com master Jenna Guillaume, and it does not disappoint. Our protagonist, Katie Camilleri, is sixteen years old and…
Review — 29 Mar 2020
The Book of Chance by Sue Whiting
There is not much that twelve-year-old Chance Callahan is uncertain about. She draws a hard line between true and false, and values honesty over everything else. Chance’s mother has kept…
Review — 29 Jan 2019
Highway Bodies by Alison Evans
In Alison Evans’ latest novel the zombie apocalypse has hit Australia with force. Highway Bodies is written from the perspective of three different teens, all of whom are forced to…
Review — 2 Aug 2020
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
I revisited Judy Blume’s cult favourite Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret as it turns fifty years old in 2020. I first read Blume’s widely challenged book when I…
