YA fiction
Christine Bongers was a Qld Claytons Judge in the Older Readers category for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards in 2011 and 2012.
Click here for my 2012 Clayton’s Shortlist for Older Readers
Click here for my 2012 Clayton’s Notable Books for Older Readers
Click here for my 2011 Clayton’s Notable Books for Older Readers
Click here for my 2011 Clayton’s Shortlistfor Older Readers
Christine has a MA (Research) in Children’s and Youth Writing. Her debut novel Dust, published by Woolshed Press, an Imprint of Random House Australia, was a Notable Book in the 2010 CBCA Book of the Year Awards, and Highly Commended in the Prime Ministers Literary Awards for Children’s Fiction.
Her middle school novel Henry Hoey Hobson was shortlisted for the 2011 CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, WA Premier’s Book Awards and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.
She is currently working on a YA novel, Intruder:
Everyone else in the street calls her Edie, but to me she’s Edwina, the evil cow who I now avoid.
She pretended to be my Mum’s best friend. Right up till the day she died. Right up till the day she betrayed her.
I hate the evil cow.
I don’t speak to her.
I don’t walk past her house.
I wish she was dead. Even deader than my Mum.
Which makes it hard … because she was the one who came running when I screamed.
