Fiona Wood Fiona Wood i(A145589 works by) (a.k.a. Fiona Anna Wood)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Australian author.

Fiona Wood worked as a television script-writer for twelve years, before writing and publishing children's and young-adult fiction.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Fiona Wood  is a Stella Prize Schools Program speaker.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon How to Spell Catastrophe Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2022 24818854 2022 single work children's fiction children's

'Nell McPherson is a catastrophe expert, but nothing has prepared her for the impending catastrophe of her mum's plans to merge families with boyfriend, Ted and his annoying daughter, Amelia. As if that's not dire enough, grade six is turning into an emotional obstacle course as Nell moves away from her old spelling bee friends and into some rule-bending with new girl, Plum.

'When Nell decides to tackle the biggest catastrophe of them all, climate change, and campaigns for grade six to attend the School Strike 4 Climate, old friends and new will come together, and along the way plans to foil the family merge give way to an understanding that it might not be such a disaster after all.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2023 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book designed by Astred Hicks.
y separately published work icon Take Three Girls Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2017 11545468 2017 single work novel young adult

'Kate, a quiet boarder, making some risky choices to pursue the experimental music she loves.

'Clem, shrugging off her old swim-team persona, exploring her first sexual relationship, and trying to keep her annoying twin, Iris, at arm's length.

'Ady, grappling with a chaotic family, and wondering who her real friends are; she's not the confident A-lister she appears to be.

'When St Hilda's establishes a Year 10 Wellness Program in response to the era of cyber-bullying, the three girls are thrown together and an unlikely friendship is sparked. One thing they have in common: each is targeted by PSST, a site devoted to gossip and slander that must have a source within St Hilda's.

Who can you trust when rumour is the new truth?' (Publication Summary)

2022 shortlisted REAL Awards Fiction for Years 7-9
2018 selected White Ravens
2019 shortlisted REAL Awards Fiction for Years 7-9
2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book
2018 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Older Readers
2018 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
2018 shortlisted Inky Awards Gold Inky
2018 shortlisted Indie Awards Young Adult
y separately published work icon Cloudwish Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2015 8775290 2015 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units)

'For Vân Uoc Phan, fantasies fell into two categories: nourishing, or pointless. Daydreaming about Billy Gardiner, for example? Pointless. It always left her feeling sick, as though she'd eaten too much sugar.

'Vân Uoc doesn't believe in fairies, zombies, vampires, Father Christmas - or magic wishes. She believes in keeping a low profile: real life will start when school finishes.

'But when she attracts the attention of Billy Gardiner, she finds herself in an unwelcome spotlight.

'Not even Jane Eyre can help her now.

'Wishes were not a thing.

'They were not.

'Correction.

'Wishes were a thing.

'Wishes that came true were sometimes a thing.

'Wishes that came true because of magic were not a thing!

'Were they?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2016 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Older Readers
2016 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
2016 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
2016 shortlisted Inky Awards Gold Inky
2016 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award Older Readers
2016 winner Indie Awards Young Adult
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