Maryam Master

A book for every kid who has ever felt different. From the multi-award-winning author of Exit Through the Gift Shop, No Words and Laughter is the Best Ending (winner of the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers 2025). Leif is named after a valiant Viking. But being a two-foot nothing, fraidy-cat kid with a thousand and one phobias...

Highly Commended for NSW Premier's Literary Awards The Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature 2022 Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Children's Literature 2022 Shortlisted for the ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children (Ages 7-12) 2022 Shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers 2022 Anahita Rosalind Ghorban-Galaszczuk (yes, that really is her name...

Laughter is the Best Ending is the winner of the 2025 Russell Prize for Humour Writing for Young People, the CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers, and the CBCA Book of the Year: Shadow Judging. Zee is a loner. She likes to read Oscar Wilde and watch documentaries all day, which, according to her parents, is not normal for...

WINNER OF THE READINGS CHILDREN'S PRIZE 2023 WINNER OF THE CHILDREN'S PEACE LITERATURE AWARD 2023 WINNER OF THE ABDA BOOK DESIGN AWARDS 2023 BEST DESIGNED CHILDREN'S FICTION COVER Hero doesn't feel like a hero, but sometimes she feels as if the universe is asking her to be one. When Aria, a mysterious boy who never EVER speaks, starts at school...