2024 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Younger Readers Novel
The entire town turns against her family. And then her dad is arrested.
The trouble started when Miracle's dad scored a job at Compassionate Cremations. A spate of sudden deaths got everyone twitching.
Miracle takes the full weight on her shoulders. Named because she was born in Australia’s biggest-ever earthquake, fourteen-year-old Miracle is tormented by her classmates, even by Oli, the boy she can’t get out of her head. She fears for her agoraphobic mother, and for her angelic, quake-damaged brother, Julian.
When Oli plays a cruel trick on Miracle, he sets off a chain of devastating events.
How can she convince the town of her dad’s innocence?
‘Ingeniously plotted, with the best combination of grit and quirkiness, Miracle is sure to become a fast favourite with a wide range of readers.' Catherine Robertson (No. 1 best-selling New Zealand author of the Gabriel'''s Bay series)
‘A crime thriller that has a wicked sense of humour and totally engaging characters … comes high recommended.’ Wellington Libraries
Winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award 2024 for the Best YA novel and shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards 2023. This author's second novel: she in an award winner with both her novels.
A teenage mystery book which will appeal to young adults and their parents. Click the BUY NOW button to enjoy a heartbreaking, delightful and quirky family crime novel.
Genre: Mystery
The trouble started when Miracle's dad scored a job at Compassionate Cremations. A spate of sudden deaths got everyone twitching.
Miracle takes the full weight on her shoulders. Named because she was born in Australia’s biggest-ever earthquake, fourteen-year-old Miracle is tormented by her classmates, even by Oli, the boy she can’t get out of her head. She fears for her agoraphobic mother, and for her angelic, quake-damaged brother, Julian.
When Oli plays a cruel trick on Miracle, he sets off a chain of devastating events.
How can she convince the town of her dad’s innocence?
‘Ingeniously plotted, with the best combination of grit and quirkiness, Miracle is sure to become a fast favourite with a wide range of readers.' Catherine Robertson (No. 1 best-selling New Zealand author of the Gabriel'''s Bay series)
‘A crime thriller that has a wicked sense of humour and totally engaging characters … comes high recommended.’ Wellington Libraries
Winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award 2024 for the Best YA novel and shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards 2023. This author's second novel: she in an award winner with both her novels.
A teenage mystery book which will appeal to young adults and their parents. Click the BUY NOW button to enjoy a heartbreaking, delightful and quirky family crime novel.
Genre: Mystery
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