End of the Alphabet

YOUNG ADULT FICTION FINALIST

End of the Alphabet
Fleur Beale
Random House New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86979-070-7 pb RRP $19.99
Target age 12+

Ruby Yarrow is 14 and she’s a good girl. She cooks, she looks after the little ones and she helps her mum. That’s okay with Ruby until her best friend, Tia, accuses her of being a doormat. That gets to Ruby. But how do you get some backbone and start standing up for yourself? Tia has made her start thinking – and things will never be the same again for Ruby or her family.

Fleur Beale is also the author of Juno of Taris among many other award-winning books – she has now had more than 30 books published in NZ, with some of them also being published in the US and England.

Fleur won the 2007 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book with Slide the Corner and the 2009 LIANZA Esther Glen Award for Juno of Taris, which was also a finalist in the 2009 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.