Julia Green
Children's Author
(c) Lou Abercrombie
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Biography
Julia writes realistic, contemporary stories for children of all ages about the natural world, family, friendship, love and loss. She founded and was Course Director of the specialist MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University until 2019. She lives on the beautiful North East coast.
Ettie and the Midnight Pool (2024)
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Children’s Fiction 2025
Ettie has lived blissfully with just her grandma for company and the wild woods as her playground.
Until she meets the mysterious Cora and she starts to crave more – now she wants to explore further, to discover secrets of her own.
So, when Cora leads her to the hidden quarry pool – deep, cold, beautiful and dangerously inviting – Ettie is ready to jump straight in.
But the quarry has secrets too, and Ettie will have to dive deep into the darkness to uncover them . . .
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‘Right from the start, the boy loved the sea!
He ran along the sand, danced in and out of the waves, his heart full of longing and delight’
The boy has always loved the sea. So he builds a boat and sails away on a voyage of adventure . . .
The wonders of the world await you in this beautiful and inspiring book about following your dreams.
The world’s in trouble.
When war comes to the heart of the Italian city where Isabella lives with her family, everything changes. She makes the long journey with her dad to a safer place – the old house where he grew up in the north of England.
Isabella must adapt to a completely different life. No shops, no electricity, no phone signal. No friends or neighbours – until she meets two ‘wild’ children. Rowan and Kelda live by themselves, hidden from the world, survivors of the sickness that swept through the valley. When Dad fails to return from a trip to find food, Isabella has to work out what to do and how to survive. Together, can the children build a new life, a life for the future?
What do we really need for a happy life?
A beautifully written tale of courage, friendship, and survival.
Imagine a tiny island far out in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. On some days, you can hardly see where the sea ends and the land begins, everything merged in a blue-grey mist of sea spray and wind-blown sand. There is nothing between here and America. I say nothing, but what I mean, of course, is nothing but ocean. And about sixty-five kilometres out to sea, one last remote outcrop of islands and sea stacks, with the highest sea cliffs anywhere in the UK-St Kilda. Distant, desolate, and difficult to reach. The islands at the edge of the world . . .
