The Secrets of Magnolia Moon (#1 Magnolia Moon) by Edwina Wyatt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Early Reader | Series: Magnolia Moon | Reading Level: Younger Readers
CBCA award-winning picture book author Edwina Wyatt makes her fiction debut with a whimsical tale of a curious little girl who shares more than just her surname with the moon: They're both excellent secret keepers. Magnolia Moon is nine years old, likes Greek mythology, her best friend Imogen May (who u ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: 9 YA
When her parents announce their impending separation, Natalie can't understand why no one is fighting or at least mildly upset. Then Zach and Lucy, her two best friends, hook up, leaving her feeling slightly miffed and decidedly awkward. She'd always imagined she would end up with Zach one day - in the ...Show more
Me and My Fear by Francesca Sanna
$27.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Introducing a companion picture book to the award-winning picture book, The Journey, from rising star Francesca Sanna. When a young immigrant girl has to travel to a new country and start at a new school, she is accompanied by her Fear who tells her to be alone and afraid, growing bigger and bigger ...Show more
The Boy Who Steals Houses by C.G. Drews
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader | Reading Level: Teen
Can two broken boys find their perfect home? By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, this is a gorgeously told, powerful story. Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he's ever known. Now Sam's trying to build a new life for them. He surv ...Show more
All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
Smart is not just ticks and crosses,smart is building boats from boxes.Painting patterns, wheeling wagons,being mermaids, riding dragons … From the award-winning creators of The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella comes this joyful ode to all the unique and wonderful qualities that ...Show more
La La La: A Story of Hope (HB) by Kate DiCamillo
$24.99 AUD
Category: Wordless Books
Conceived by Newbery Medalist DiCamillo and featuring enchanting illustrations by Kim, this nearly wordless graphic story follows a little girl in search of a friend. Full color.
Secrets of a Schoolyard Millionaire by Nat Amoore
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Finding a million dollars in your backyard - every kid's dream, right? That's what me and my best friend Toby thought too. Jumping castles at school. Lollipops for our adoring fans. Wearing sunglasses indoors ('cos that's what all the millionaires do). There's a lot you can get with a million dollars. ...Show more
Small Things (HB) by Mel Tregonning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Wordless Books
'The best art gives a voice to the voiceless parts of our lives, and Small Things does so with heartfelt precision.' Shaun Tan..An ordinary boy in an ordinary world...With no words, only illustrations, Small Things tells the story of a boy who feels alone with his worries, but who learns that help is al ...Show more
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsiderati ...Show more
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Haunting, original and told entirely through exquisitely imagined black, white and sepia pictures, THE ARRIVAL is the story of one man's encounter with life in a strange new world. It's a timeless, universal story that will resonate with anyone, anywhere who has struggled to start again in a place that ...Show more
How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox
$18.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Macmillan Children's Books Story Collections
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Writing for Young Adults 2020. Biz knows how to float. She has her posse, her mum and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn't be here - because he died when she was seven - but is ...Show more