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Gender: Female
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Emily Gale is a Melbourne-based author. Emily as worked as an editor, reviewer and bookseller, and also spent time as a children's book buyer at Readings Books, and established their Children's Book Prize.

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y separately published work icon The Goodbye Year Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2022 24689087 2022 single work novel young adult children's

'It’s the start of 2020 and Harper is filled with anticipation about being in the final year of Riverlark Primary. She wants a leadership role, the comfort of her friendship group, and to fly under the radar of Riverlark’s mean-boy.

'But one by one things go wrong. When Harper’s best friends are made school captains they are consumed by their roles, while her own role — library captain — is considered second-rate. Then something major throws life off course: her parents take overseas jobs as nurses in a war zone. Harper moves in with Lolly, a grandmother she barely knows — and her five pets, vast collection of old trinkets and very different expectations.

'Just as Harper is getting used to Lolly, the pandemic arrives, and her goodbye year is nothing like she’d hoped it would be. Strange things are happening: she wakes in the night in odd places, fixates on an old army badge that seems to have a mind of its own, and on a visit to the school library during lockdown she’s convinced she’s seen a ghost.

'Who is haunting her?

'Can she get through the anxiety of the pandemic without her mum and dad? And will Harper find a way to be happy with her goodbye year?

'The Goodbye Year explores all the trickiness and confusion of the end of primary school and a new stage of life that looms with all its uncertainties and possibilities.' (Publication summary)

2024 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Children's Literature
2023 shortlisted Educational Publishing Awards Australia Primary Educational Chapter Book
2023 winner New South Wales Premier's History Prize New South Wales History Prize Young People's History Prize
2023 longlisted Davitt Award Best Children's Novel
2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Children's Division
y separately published work icon Aussie STEM Stars : Gisela Kaplan Melbourne : Wild Dingo Press , 2021 21026880 2021 single work biography children's

'Aussie STEM Stars is an inspiring children’s series that celebrates Australia’s experts in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

'The fourth book is about Gisela Kaplan, one of Australia’s leading bird and primate scientists, whose love for animals has seen her care for and rehabilitate numerous species.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2023 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Eight to 10 Years
y separately published work icon Elsewhere Girls Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2021 20916191 2021 single work children's fiction children's

'It’s midnight and I’m alone in the kitchen eating a cold potato scallop. Coach O'Call would say something like, ‘That’s not what I expect from a scholarship girl!’ because I have to be up for squad training in five hours and I’m not supposed to go near potato scallops, and—oh, yeah—it’s my fifth.

'Cat has recently started at a new school on a sports scholarship, and she’s feeling the pressure of early morning training sessions and the need for total commitment. Fanny loves to swim and she lives for racing, but family chores and low expectations for girls make it very hard for her to fit in even the occasional training session.

'Cat and Fanny have never met. They both live in the same Sydney suburb, but in different worlds, or at least different times: Cat in current-day Sydney, and Fanny in 1908. But one day, time slips and they swap places.

'As each girl lives the other’s life, with all the challenges and confusion it presents, she comes to appreciate and understand herself and the role of swimming in her own life.

'Narrated in alternating chapters by Cat and Fanny, Elsewhere Girls is a moving and funny story of two girls with a deep connection, one based on the Australian Olympic champion, Fanny Durack. It’s a fresh and engaging exploration of the challenges and pressures for young women growing up in the past and today.' (Publication summary)

2022 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's History Prize New South Wales History Prize Young People's History Prize
2021 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Children's Division
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Younger Readers
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