In this episode of the Your Kid’s Next Read Friday First Chapters series:
A. L. Tait reads ‘Willow Bright’s Secret Plot’
A.L. Tait reads from ‘Willow Bright’s Secret Plot’, a new middle-grade mystery story about growing up, finding your place in the world and the restorative power of nature.
About A. L. Tait
Allison Tait, also known as A. L. Tait, is the internationally published bestselling author of 11 middle-grade novels, including fantasy adventure series such as The Mapmaker Chronicles, The Ateban Cipher, and the Maven & Reeve Mysteries.
Her latest novels are contemporary stories: ‘The First Summer of Callie McGee’ (2023), ‘Willow Bright’s Secret Plot’ (new) and ‘Danger Road’ (July 25).
Allison’s novels have been longlisted and shortlisted for various awards, including the 2024 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award (Callie McGee).
Allison is the co-host of the Your Kid’s Next Read podcast, speaks regularly in schools and at conferences and festivals, and teaches creative writing for children at the Australian Writers’ Centre.
About ‘Willow Bright’s Secret Plot’
A middle-grade mystery story about growing up, finding your place in the world and the restorative power of nature.
‘I feel her in the breeze that makes the dahlias bob, and in the scent of the roses …’
After moving to the city from the country, Willow Bright feels like she’s lost her mum all over again―and landed on another planet.
Her clothes are wrong, her taste in music is wrong, and even the food she eats is wrong. But when Willow spots a pattern in a series of puzzling accidents and mishaps, she forms an unlikely friendship―and finds new purpose.
Can Willow solve the mystery and find room to be herself along the way? Or will her plot to run home to the wide-open spaces and memories of her mum land Willow in even more trouble?
Published by Scholastic Australia
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Our books
The Mapmaker Chronicles series by A. L. Tait
The Ateban Cipher (duology) by A. L. Tait
The Maven & Reeve Mysteries by A. L. Tait
The First Summer of Callie McGee by A. L. Tait
Willow Bright’s Secret Plot by A. L. Tait
Danger Road by A. L. Tait
The Beehive by Megan Daley
Teacher, Teacher (anthology), edited by Megan Daley
Raising Readers by Megan Daley
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