Ursa
Tina Shaw
Walker Books, $23.00,
ISBN 9781760651244
Invisibly Breathing
Eileen Merriman
Penguin Random House, $20.00,
ISBN 9780143772859
Flight of the Fantail
Steph Matuku
Huia, $30.00,
ISBN 9781775503521
An unspecified number of years back at a Going West Festival, I was on a panel talking about aspects of YA fiction. At question time, a firm voice from the floor asked why we needed the YA category, anyway? Wasn’t it maybe a bit of a fad, a publishers’ ploy to sell more titles? We’d got along for years without it, so why invent it now?
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