Nona & Me

Author(s): Clare Atkins

Contemporary | Brooke

Rosie and Nona are sisters. Yapas.


They are also best friends. It doesn't matter that Rosie is white and Nona is Aboriginal: their family connections tie them together for life.


The girls are inseparable until Nona moves away at the age of nine. By the time she returns, they're in Year 10 and things have changed. Rosie prefers to hang out in the nearby mining town, where she goes to school with the glamorous Selena and her gorgeous older brother, Nick.


When a political announcement highlights divisions between the Aboriginal community and the mining town, Rosie is put in a difficult position: will she have to choose between her first love and her oldest friend?

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Longlisted, 2015 Inky Awards

Shortlisted, 2015 Childrens Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers

‘A fascinating book, beautifully told, with rich insight into a deeply Australian but little known community.’ – Jackie French

‘Rosie’s story brims with the joy and pain and complexity of friendship and love at sixteen. I adored this smart, heartfelt book about family, kinship, country, and finding out what really matters.’ – Fiona Wood

‘Clare Atkins’ debut novel is a triumph: a coming-of-age tale that celebrates friendship and loyalty, family and community. Here is a striking new voice in Australian youth literature, and her story is one that will surely leave its mark.’ – Kill Your Darlings

Clare Atkins has worked as a scriptwriter for many successful television series including All Saints, Home and Away, Winners and Losersand Wonderland. Nona and Me is her first book, which she wrote while living in Arnhem Land.

General Fields

  • : 9781863956895
  • : Black Inc
  • : Black Inc
  • : 0.29
  • : September 2014
  • : 202mm X 132mm X 22mm
  • : September 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : black & white illustrations
  • : YFB
  • : 304
  • : en
  • : Paperback
  • : Clare Atkins