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'From Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and a powerful story of how friendship saves and heals.
'When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. This one involves Amandla wearing a bedsheet loosely stitched as a dress. An outfit, her mother says, is certain to bring Amandla's father back home, as if he were the prince and this was the fairytale ending their family was destined for. But in truth, Amandla's father has long been gone—since before Amandla was born—and even her mother's memory of him is hazy. In fact, many of her mother's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give them strange looks--that and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is Black.
'When Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's handbag along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. What she discovers will change the shape and size of her family forever. But with her best friends at her side, Amandla is ready to take on family secrets and the devil himself. These Sugar Town queens are ready to take over the world to expose the hard truths of their lives.' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
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Young Readers Give Their Verdicts for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Shadowers' Choice Awards
2022
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2022;'For the first time, the best Australian children's books of the year have been decided by the young people reading them.'
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[Review] Sugar Town Queens
2021
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— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , September / October vol. 97 no. 5 2021; (p. 100)
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Malla Nunn, Sugar Town Queens
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 7-13 August 2021;
— Review of Sugar Town Queens 2021 single work novel'Is there any better feeling than reading a book that makes you feel as if you’re discovering all over again the singular magic of telling? Sugar Town Queens drew me in, dismantled my heart and then put it back together. It’s a stunning young adult book from the multi-award-winning author Malla Nunn, whose debut YA novel When the Ground Is Hard (2019) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and won a swag of international prizes.' (Introduction)
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Malla Nunn, Sugar Town Queens
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 7-13 August 2021;
— Review of Sugar Town Queens 2021 single work novel'Is there any better feeling than reading a book that makes you feel as if you’re discovering all over again the singular magic of telling? Sugar Town Queens drew me in, dismantled my heart and then put it back together. It’s a stunning young adult book from the multi-award-winning author Malla Nunn, whose debut YA novel When the Ground Is Hard (2019) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and won a swag of international prizes.' (Introduction)
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[Review] Sugar Town Queens
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , September / October vol. 97 no. 5 2021; (p. 100)
— Review of Sugar Town Queens 2021 single work novel -
Young Readers Give Their Verdicts for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Shadowers' Choice Awards
2022
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2022;'For the first time, the best Australian children's books of the year have been decided by the young people reading them.'
Awards
- 2022 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers — Shadowers' Choice Award
- 2022 shortlisted Readings Prizes — The Readings Young Adult Book Prize
- 2022 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Young Adult Book
- 2022 highly commended New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2022 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers