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The Final Year and The First Year

By: Matt Goodfellow
Narrated by: Matt Goodfellow
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The Final Year: Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to high school. Nate is ready for it all, knowing his best friend PS is at his side. But when they are put in two different classes and PS finds a new friend in Turner, the school bully, Nate's world turns upside down. As he struggles to make sense of this and forge new friendships, he's dealt another blow when his youngest brother, Dylan, is rushed into the hospital. His new teacher, Mr Joshua, sees a spark inside of Nate that's lit by his love of reading and writing and shows him how to use this to process what's going on.

The First Year: Nate's 11 and has just finished primary school. After a challenging final year, life is looking up. His brother has recovered from a life-threatening heart condition, he's got the love of his mum, brothers and Auntie San, and he's off to secondary school with his two best mates. But while he's making new friends and struggling to come to terms with a strict new teacher, a sudden surprise appearance in Nate's life threatens to throw him completely off course.

©2023 Matt Goodfellow (P)2025 Bolinda Publishing Chapter Books & Readers Literature & Fiction High School Heartfelt

Critic reviews

'Powerful, compelling and heartwarming, I can't recommend it highly enough.' (on The Final Year) (Irish Independent)
'This is so beautiful. Cried buckets towards the end. The sibling's relationship is perfection.' (on The First Year) (Dawn Woods, The School Librarian (SLA))
'It is heart-wrenching and heart-warming and I loved it.' (on The Final Year) (Maz Evans, bestselling author of Who Let the Gods Out series)
'The seeming simplicity of the text belies the complexity of emotion and experience which the story explores. The power and poignancy in places is breath taking, making Nate's continued story ever bit as engaging as it was in The Final Year.' (on The First Year) (Through the Bookshelf)
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In this book I like the passion and all the carecters🩷😊🚗😎😂 it is so funny with some emotion and it really made me think

The final year more like the best book ever!

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