Megan Jacobson Megan Jacobson i(A62654 works by)
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'Megan Jacobson is an award-winning Sydney-based YA author and TV scriptwriter. Her first novel, Yellow, was shortlisted in the CBCA Awards. Her second novel, The Build-Up Season, won the Australian Family Therapists’ Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.' (https://booksfromaustralia.com/book/big-love/)

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y separately published work icon Big Love Melbourne : Walker Books Australia , 2021 20449529 2021 single work picture book children's

'How big is love? Does anybody know? Especially the love of a parent for their child. This book has the answer.

'A hymn to love, this evocative text for the very young, describes the scope of a parent’s love for their child. From the familiar to the furthest reaches of the universe. From the familiar to the great unknown.' (Publication summary)

2022 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Children's Illustrated Book designed by Amanda Tarlau.
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Early Childhood
y separately published work icon The Build-up Season Melbourne : Penguin Random House Australia , 2017 11571390 2017 single work novel young adult

'He’s back.
The monster.
It’s the middle of the night and I’m awake, because even though I’m seventeen I still haven’t outgrown the childhood monster that haunts you in the dark. I haven’t outgrown it, because when I was a child, the monster was real.
He was my father.
But the thing is, the monster was the person I was closest to in the whole world, closer than I’ve been to anyone since.
That will tell you everything you need to know about me.
And still, I wouldn’t hesitate to kill the monster.
That will tell you even more about me.

'Seventeen-year-old Iliad Piper is named after war and angry at the world. Growing up with a violent father and abused mother, she doesn’t know how to do relationships, family or friends. A love-hate friendship with Max turns into a prank war, and she nearly destroys her first true friendship with misfit Mia. Ily takes off her armour for nobody, until she meets Jared, someone who's as complicated as she is.' (Synopsis)

2019 shortlisted REAL Awards Fiction for Years 7-9
2018 joint winner Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature Older Readers
2018 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
y separately published work icon Yellow Melbourne : Penguin , 2016 8874207 2016 single work novel young adult crime fantasy

'Yellow is a YA murder mystery with a slight supernatural edge, but at heart it's about the redemptive power of kindness. Publishing in February 2016, it’s a beautifully written coming-of-age story about family, first love, finding your place and uncovering the secrets of the past.

'If fourteen-year-old Kirra is having a mid-life crisis now, then it doesn't bode well for her life expectancy. Her so-called friends bully her, whatever semblance of a mother she had has been drowned at the bottom of a gin bottle ever since her dad left them for another woman, and now a teenage ghost is speaking to her through a broken phone booth. Kirra and the ghost make a pact. She'll prove who murdered him almost twenty years ago if he does three things for her. He makes her popular, he gets her parents back together, and he doesn't haunt her. Things aren't so simple however, and Kirra realises that people can be haunted in more ways than one. ' (Publication summary)

2018 shortlisted REAL Awards Fiction for Years 7-9
2017 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2017 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Young Adult Book
2017 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Older Readers
2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
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