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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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Zenith
Zenith
Julie Bertagna
Age 12+. 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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2008
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Zenith
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
Exodus
Julie Bertagna
Thrilling and thought-provoking in equal measure, this is a novel about hope and survival. Set in an imaginatively (yet, quite possibly realistic) created Glasgow of the future (It’s 2099) and beautifully written in stark, yet simple and lyrical prose. Don’t...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 06/06/2003
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Books by Julie Bertagna

Zenith
Zenith
Julie Bertagna
Sixteen-year-old Mara and her ship of refugees are tracking the North Star, desperate to find a homeland in the melted ice mountains of Greenland. Unwittingly, the refugees bring catastrophe in their wake for Tuck, a gypsea pirate-boy, and also for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2008
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The Ice-Cream Machine Totally Fizzbombed
The Ice-Cream Machine Totally Fizzbombed
Julie Bertagna
Twins Wayne and Wendy have two extraordinary friends - an ice-cream van called Macaroni, and a goat called Gina. Then one day they both disappear! Hot on the trail of their missing friends, the twins meet Pa Periwinkle - a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2005
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The Ice-cream Machine
The Ice-cream Machine
Julie Bertagna
Wayne and Wendy's parents are always coming up with crazy business schemes. Having unsuccessfully tried their hand at goat farming they've now bought a bashed up old ice-cream van called Macaroni, and are ready to take to the road selling...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2004
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Exodus
Exodus
Julie Bertagna
Set in 2099, this story is themed around the consequences of global warming where Mara, her family and community realize they are asylum-seekers in a world torn between high-tech wizardry and the most primitive injustice. To save her people, Mara...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2003
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