The Protected

The Protected

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Product Info

ISBN
9780702250194

Age Group

Teenage - Young Adult

Publisher

University of Queensland Press

Recommended For

Older Readers

Theme

Grief

I have three months left to call Katie my older sister. Then the gap will close and I will pass her. I will get older. But Katie will always be fifteen, eleven months and twenty-one days old.

Hannah’s world is in pieces and she doesn’t need the school counsellor to tell her she has deep-seated psychological issues. With a seriously depressed mum, an injured dad and a dead sister, who wouldn’t have problems?

Hannah should feel terrible but for the first time in ages, she feels a glimmer of hope and isn’t afraid anymore. Is it because the elusive Josh is taking an interest in her? Or does it run deeper than that?

In a family torn apart by grief and guilt, one girl’s struggle to come to terms with years of torment shows just how long old wounds can take to heal.

 

A tender story of grief, trust and healing … Hannah broke my heart.’ - AJ Betts

‘AMAZING. I felt a lump in my throat and like I was going to cry almost the whole way. Very powerful and so real.’ - C. Wheeler, Teacher-Librarian

‘This book is worthy of every single star. Sad, moving and with a tentative friendship at its heart, The Protected will tear your heart to pieces and glue them back together again.’- The Loony Teen Writer ‘5 Star Review’

 

  • Winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult
  • Shortlisted, CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers
  • Longlisted, 2015 Inky Gold Award
  • Selected in New Zealand Listener’s Top 50 Children’s Books for 2015

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