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History
Launched in 2019, the Matilda Children’s Literature Prize is managed by HarperCollins Children’s Books Australia. It seeks manuscripts for middle-grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction.
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Half My Luck
Sydney
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HarperCollins Australia
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2021
21511926
2021
single work
novel
young adult
'Layla Karimi has been cursed by the evil eye.
'Well, that's what Layla's superstitious grandmother tells her. And Layla reckons it makes sense as she's sort of Australian and sort of Lebanese: a 'halfie' who doesn't really fit into either world.
'And when all hell breaks loose at the first beach party of the summer, Layla finds herself caught between her friends and the Lebanese kids who call themselves 'the Cedar Army' (of which her cousin Sufia is the Queen Bee). One group has been wrongfully accused and Layla knows the truth that could help clear them.
'But will she speak up?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
as 'The Truth about Luck'.
