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Sonya Hartnett

    February 23, 1968

    Sonya Hartnett is an author whose writing frequently transcends genre boundaries, though her works are traditionally published as young adult fiction. Her novels are lauded for their ability to capture the fragility of childhood and explore complex emotional landscapes. Hartnett crafts characters who are both vulnerable and resilient, placing them in settings that mirror external challenges and internal struggles. Her style is lyrical and insightful, allowing readers to connect deeply with her protagonists' experiences.

    The Children of the King
    Sadie and Ratz
    Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
    The Ghost's Child
    What the Birds See
    The Silver Donkey
    • The Silver Donkey

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      4.0(57)Add rating

      An inspirational illustrated novel for younger readers from the 2002 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning author of Thursday's Child.

      The Silver Donkey
    • While the residents of his town concern themselves with the disappearance of three children, a lonely, rejected nine-year-old boy worries that he may inherit his mother's insanity.

      What the Birds See
    • The Ghost's Child

      • 191 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      3.9(82)Add rating

      This is a romantic tale about a young girl's love for a boy named Feather. At the beginning, Maddy comes home to find a teenage boy sitting in her living room. She does not know him, but tells the boy the story of her life and her life with Feather. Ages 13+

      The Ghost's Child
    • In a dying country town lives Satchel O'Rye, a young man fighting the future, Chelsea Piper, a young woman fighting the past and a long-lost creature that can teach them both the art of survival. Ever since Dad went off the deep end and decided he didn't need to work anymore -- insisting the Lord would provide -- Satchel O'Rye has felt stuck for life in his dying country town. A high school dropout drifting from one small carpentry job to the next, Satchel can see nothing beyond his own dreary duty to help keep the family afloat. But things start to change when he spies a strange doglike animal at a nearby mountain -- and mentions the fact to Chelsea Piper, an awkward young woman considered the local pariah. Could the animal he saw be a Tasmanian tiger, a marsupial thought to be extinct? And if they found it again, could it give them both a new chance at life?

      Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
    • Sadie and Ratz

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      3.8(564)Add rating

      Hannah's hands, Sadie and Ratz, can behave like wild beasts. Watch out baby boy - Sadie and Ratz are on the rampage!

      Sadie and Ratz
    • It's the Second World War and, with London becoming an increasingly dangerous place to live, the Lockwood children are whisked away to the Heron Hall, to stay with their Uncle Peregrine in the countryside. But when they discover two strange boys hiding in a nearby derelict castle, the past and present collide.

      The Children of the King
    • Thursday's child

      • 217 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.8(65)Add rating

      Flute's family struggles to cope with life on the hot, dusty land. Her younger brother Tin seeks refuge in the contrast of an ancient subterranean world, a world that nutures but - as disturbing events reveal - can also kill.

      Thursday's child
    • The forest is earth and leaves, sun and shade, feather and blood and bone. It is the old way, the true way, the wild way to live. But, for Kian, wilderness is not home.

      Forest: A journey from the wild
    • Golden Boys

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.7(64)Add rating

      Rex and Tabby Jenson and their sons, Colt and Bastian, arrive in Freya Kiley’s Australian neighborhood with little fanfare, but their presence sends fissures throughout their modest community.

      Golden Boys
    • Surrender

      • 242 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Gripping psychological thriller by international award-winning author.

      Surrender