Kate Gordon grew up in a very booky house, with two librarian parents, in a small town by the sea in Tasmania. Kates first book, Three Things About Daisy Blue was published by Allen and Unwin in 2010. She has since been published multiple times by everyone from Yellow Brick Books through to Random house Australia. Kate won the 2016 IBBY Ena Noel Award for Writing Clementine, and in 2018 was shortlisted in the Dorothy Hewett Awards for an Unpublished Manuscript. Her YA novel Girl Running, Boy Falling (2018) is a CBCA Notable. In 2021, Asters Good, Right Things (published by Riveted Press) won the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers.

A disaster has happened. Muttonbird Bay School might be closing. I mean, FOREVER. Juno Jones loves her school. She doesnotwant to have to go to the posh school up the hillorthe one down the hill next to the sewage treatment plant. But the Men in Suits want to close Muttonbird Bay Primary down. And theres only one thing Juno and her classmates can do to stop it Read. Which is perfectly fine for people like Perfect Paloma, but Juno Jones is A Kid Who Doesnt Like Reading. Will she be able to learn to like it in time to save her beloved school? It might take the unthinkable to make it happen. Juno Jones might need to become A WORD NINJA!