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20 June 2025

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Unlocked reviews: New-release YA

 

Golden
Jade Timms, Text, June 2025, reviewed by Charlotte Callander x

Jade Timms’s affecting debut novel, Golden, shortlisted for the 2023 Text Prize, is a charming book about friendship, first love, and reclaiming happiness after a devastating trauma. Seventeen-year-old Eddie’s cheerful... Read more

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Lady's Knight
Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner, A&U Children's, June 2025, reviewed by Shannon Grey x

Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner’s latest novel, Lady’s Knight, is a tantalising forbidden love story for the ages. Gwen has spent years manning the village blacksmith under the guise of... Read more

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The Pull of the Moon
Pip Smith, UWAP, June 2025, reviewed by Nadia Heisler x

In this bold, brave and boundary-pushing young adult novel, author Pip Smith (Half Wild) draws on her experience teaching asylum seekers and years of research to explore complex social themes.... Read more

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Unlocked reviews: New-release younger readers

 

Music Camp
Penny Tangey, UQP, June 2025, reviewed by Clare Millar x

Penny Tangey (Granbad, As Fast As I Can) returns to middle grade with Music Camp, a story set during a selective five-day interschool music camp. Miley lives with her mum... Read more

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R.I.P. Nanny Tobbins
Lucie Stevens, HarperCollins, June 2025, reviewed by Sophie Pusz x

R.I.P. Nanny Tobbins by Lucie Stevens is a deliciously macabre and unexpectedly funny debut fantasy for advanced middle-grade readers, blending tension, mystery and moments of humour with remarkable skill. Albertine... Read more

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Rise of the Witch (Everglade #1)
Kitty Black, illus by Rebecca Crane, Affirm, June 2025, reviewed by Annie Waters x

Take one part Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood, add a sprinkle of Diana Wynne Jones and a dash of Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for a... Read more

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