Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved Red Dirt Diaries, now with amazing new covers!

Blue Weston is on a mission!

• She's starting Hardbake Plains' first ever newspaper with Mat and Ben
• She's determined not to like her new teacher, the Colonel
• And she's trying to convince Miss McKenzie to come back from Scotland

But despite Blue's best intentions, things don't go exactly to plan ... And to make matters worse, her mum is dusting off the old boarding school uniform! Can Blue get things back on track? And boarding school? Her parents wouldn't dare ...

Katrina Nannestad is a multi-award-winning Australian author. Her books include the CBCA-shortlisted We Are Wolves, The Girl Who Brought Mischief, The Travelling Bookshop series, The Girl, the Dog and the Writer series, the Olive of Groves series, the Red Dirt Diaries series, the Lottie Perkins series, and the historical novels Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief, Waiting for the Storks, Silver Linings and All the Beautiful Things.

Katrina grew up in country New South Wales in a neighbourhood stuffed full of happy children. Her adult years have been spent raising boys, teaching, daydreaming and pursuing her love of stories. Katrina celebrates family, friendship and belonging in her writing. She also loves creating stories that bring joy or hope to other people's lives.

Katrina now lives on a hillside in central Victoria with her husband, a silly whippet called Olive and a mob of kangaroos.

www.katrinanannestad.com