WHSG Book Award

Launched in 2018, the Westcliff High School for Girls (WHSG) Book Award offers every student from Years 7–13 the opportunity to participate. The shortlist of eight books is selected from national book award shortlists to offer students the greatest level of diversity and good quality literature. Students are encouraged to read as many of the shortlist as they want to, then vote for their winner at the end of the spring term.

The aim of the WHSG Book Award is to inspire and nurture a love of reading for pleasure, nurturing freedom of choice and the opportunity to discover new authors beyond student’s usual reading experience.

WINNER 2024

The Girl Who Broke the Sea

Connors, A. ISBN: 9780702317583
Paperback / softback

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Lily's emotional problems run deep - three miles deep. After she gets kicked out of school for her destructive behaviour, Lily agrees to an unusual fresh start: going with her mum to live at Deephaven, an experimental deep-sea mining rig and research station located at the bottom of the ocean. Lily instantly regrets her decision: claustrophobic and isolated, it's hardly her idea of home. Turns out, Deephaven has problems of its own. The head scientist, they quickly learn, has disappeared - just as he was on the brink of a shocking discovery. In the darkness of the deep, something is stirring ... something dangerous. And it's calling out to Lily. 

- Browns Books Synopsis