name: Kate McCaffrey
genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Children's
avg_rating: 3.82
ratings_count: 3372
about: Kate grew up in Perth’s northern suburbs. She has a degree in English and Art and a diploma in Education.Kate is the author of three award-winning novels for young adults: Destroying Avalon (2006), winner of the WAYBRA Award for older readers and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Young Adults; In Ecstasy (2008), winner of the Australian Family Therapists Children’s Literature Awards; and Beautiful Monster (2010), named a 2011 White Raven, selected from newly published books from around the world as especially noteworthy by the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany. She is currently putting the finishing touches on a fourth novel to be published by Fremantle Press in 2014.AwardsWinner, Australian Family Therapists’ Awa Kate grew up in Perth’s northern suburbs. She has a degree in English and Art and a diploma in Education.Kate is the author of three award-winning novels for young adults: Destroying Avalon (2006), winner of the WAYBRA Award for older readers and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Young Adults; In Ecstasy (2008), winner of the Australian Family Therapists Children’s Literature Awards; and Beautiful Monster (2010), named a 2011 White Raven, selected from newly published books from around the world as especially noteworthy by the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany. She is currently putting the finishing touches on a fourth novel to be published by Fremantle Press in 2014.AwardsWinner, Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature, 2008Highly Commended, Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature, 2007Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 2007Notable Book, Children’s Book Council of Australia, 2007Winner, West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award, 2007 ...more