Juno Jones, Rival Reader

by Kate Gordon, Sandy Flett (Illustrator)

DISASTER HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED…THE SCHOOL HAS CLOSED.

Not Muttonbird Bay Primary, of course, but their neighbour Pademelon Point. When five new kids join Juno Jones’ class, Juno must do whatever she can to keep her title as the school’s ‘Super Reader.’ Her greatest rival: Tess Golightly—a warrior maiden and ace reader with a pet Gryphon. Everyone wants to be friends with Tess, but Juno thinks nobody can be that awesome unless they have something to hide…

Author Kate Gordon (Aster’s Good, Right Things) and illustrator Sandy Flett (Edie’s Experiments) are back with another hilarious entry in the Juno Jones series.

108 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2021

About the author

Kate Gordon grew up in a small town by the sea in Tasmania. She is the author of numerous award-winning picture-books and novels for younger readers, including Aster’s Good, Right Things, published by Yellow Brick Books in November, 2020, which won the CBCA Book of the Year for younger readers in 2021, and was shortlisted in the Tasmanian Literary Awards in 2022. The companion novels, Xavier in the Meantime and Indigo in the Storm were published in 2021 and 2023. Whalesong was published by Yellow Brick Books in 2022, following Kate’s residency at the Maritime Museum of Tasmania. Kate continues to write novels and picture books from a cottage overlooking the river and the mountain on the Eastern Shore of Hobart. She has two daughters, an elderly cat and a very silly labradoodle.