Julie Bertagna

Julie Bertagna was born in Ayrshire and brought up near Glasgow. After an English degree at Glasgow University she worked as the editor of a small magazine, a teacher and then as a freelance feature writer for various publications. She was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary - the second highest ever given to a children's writer in Scotland - after the publication of her first novel, The Spark Gap, which was shortlisted for the Angus Award.

 

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Featured Books, with extracts by Julie Bertagna

Aurora
Julie Bertagna

Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2011
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Zenith
Julie Bertagna
Mara’s daughter Lily’s hope for a new life is dependant on finding land somewhere in the newly watery world. As her ship navigates the strange new terrain she continues to believe in a better future. Fox, living in the ruins...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2008
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Zenith
Julie Bertagna
Zenith is the incredible story of three teenagers with the will to make their own beginnings in the harshest of worlds.  It continues the stunning journey begun in Exodus, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2007
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Exodus
Julie Bertagna
Prize-winning Julie Bertagna creates a thrilling and touching adventure of love and loss in this intelligent and brave story set in a brilliantly conceived future world transformed by the ravages of climate change. Mara is growing up in a world...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 06/06/2003
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