Changes in the composition of the family or friendship group are among the most challenging situations to confront children, so it is no surprise that many books for the upper-primary-aged reader address this theme.
For Elizabeth Honey’s engaging Henni Octon (The Ballad of Cauldron Bay, Allen & Unwin, $15.95 pb, 289 pp), writing her third novel about the Stella Street gang on her very own c ... (read more)