The Year the Maps Changed
by Danielle Binks
One extraordinary year will change them all...
About the book
Sorrento, Victoria, 1999.?Fred's family is a mess. Her mother died when she was six and she's been raised by her Pop and adoptive father, Luca, ever since. But now Pop's had to go away, and Luca's girlfriend Anika and her son have moved in. More and more it feels like a land-grab for family and Fred is the one being left off the map.
Even as things feel like they're spinning out of control for Fred, a crisis from the other side of the world comes crashing in. When a group of Kosovar-Albanian refugees are brought to a government 'safe haven' not far from Sorrento, their fate becomes intertwined with the lives of Fred and her family in ways that no one could have expected.
Praise for The Year the Maps Changed
'A brilliant gem that will make you see the world - and your place in it - in a new way.'
'A brilliant gem that will make you see the world - and your place in it - in a new way.'
Danielle Binks
Danielle Binks is a Melbourne-based writer, reviewer, agent, book blogger and Youth Literature Advocate. In 2017, she edited and contributed to?Begin, End, Begin,?an anthology of new Australian young adult writing inspired by the #LoveOzYA movement, which won the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children (Ages 13+) and was shortlisted in the 2018 Gold Inky Awards.?The Year the Maps Changed?is Danielle?s debut middle-grade novel coming out with Hachette Australia in 2020.