Join us on Saturday 27 July at 2pm for the launch of The Sugarcane Kids and the Empty Cage, the second book in the award-winning Sugarcane Kids series. The book will be launched by CBCA Judge, Teacher Librarian and book reviewer, Kathryn Beilby. Books will be available for purchase and for signing. 

Charlie Archbold is an educator and an award-winning writer. Her first novel, Mallee Boys, was a CBCA older readers honour book. Her first book in the Sugarcane Kids middle-grade series, The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-bottomed Boat, was shortlisted for the Text Prize and went on to win the Readings Children’s Prize and the Davitt Children’s Novel Award and was a CBCA notable book.