Two Pan Macmillan Books make the CBCA Notables List for 2022!
Congratulations to Girls in Boys’ Cars by Felicity Castagna and Exit Through the Gift Shop by Maryam Master, nominated for the CBCA Notables 2022!
Girls in Boys’ Cars has been nominated for Book of the Year: Older Readers, and Exit Through the Gift Shop has been nominated for Book of the Year: Younger Readers.
Established in 1945, the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is a not-for-profit, volunteer run organisation. Find out more about the list here.
About the books
Girls in Boys’ Cars by Felicity Castagna
A complicated friendship.
A roadtrip in a stolen car.
The stories that define us.
And two funny, sharp, adventurous young women who refuse to be held back any longer.
Rosa was never really trying to hurt anyone, no matter what they said in court.
But she’s ended up in juvenile jail anyway, living her life through books and wondering why her best mate Asheeka disappeared.
A page-turning novel about a complicated friendship; a road trip through NSW in a stolen car; the stories that define us; and two funny, sharp, adventurous young women who refuse to be held back any longer.
WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARD FOR WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS 2022
Exit Through the Gift Shop by Maryam Master
Anahita Rosalind Ghorban-Galaszczuk (yes, that really is her name but you can call her Ana) is discovering that life is absurd. As if dying of cancer at the age of 12.5 isn’t bad enough, she still has to endure daily insults from her nemesis, Alyssa (Queen Mean) Anderson.
Ana’s on a wild roller-coaster of life and death, kindness and cruelty, ordinary and extraordinary.
And she’s got a few things to do before she exits . . .