The Secret Commonwealth (#2 The Book of Dust HB) by Philip Pullman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: The Book of Dust
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage- The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of t ...Show more
In the Land of Punctuation [handmade kids book] by Sirish (TRN) Rathna (ILT); Rao Christian; Ramanathan Morgenstern
$64.70 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: General Adult
First published in 1905, German poet Christian Morgenstern's piece is a darkly comic linguistic caprice. Illustrated with punctuation marks, the text is a romp, and yet the political undertones are unmistakable, suggesting systems of menacing control. Rathna Ramanathan's art and design invoke well-known ...Show more
Untidy Towns by Kate O'Donnell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Seventeen-year-old Adelaide is sick of being expected to succeed on other people's terms. She knows she just has to stick it out at school for one more year and then she'll be free. Instead, she runs away from her fancy boarding school back to her sleepy hometown to read and dream.But there are no free ...Show more
Living on Hope Street by Demet Divaroren
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
We all love someone. We all fear something. Sometimes they live right next door--or even closer. Kane will do everything he can to save his mother and his little brother Sam from the violence of his father, even if it means becoming a monster himself. Mrs. Aslan will protect the boys no matter what--ev ...Show more
Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity by Randa Abdel-Fattah,Sara Saleh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Although there are 22 separate Arab nationalities representing an enormous variety of cultural backgrounds and experiences, the portrayal of Arabs in Australia tends to range from homogenising (at best) to racist pop-culture caricatures. Edited by award-winning author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, an ...Show more
How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: 9 YA
'A BOOK AS FIERCE, TENDER, AND RARE AS ITS APTLY NAMED HEROINE, TIGER.' - Meg Leder, author of Letting Go of Gravity It's the brightest day of summer and it's dark outside. It's dark in your house, dark in your room, and dark in your heart. You feel like the darkness is going to split you apart. Here is ...Show more
Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins
$27.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult
The award-winning author of You Bring the Distant Near explores identity, homecoming, and the legacy of assault in this personal and ambitious new novel. Katina King is the reigning teen jujitsu champion of Northern California, but she's having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past.Robin Thornton ...Show more
The Uncommon Feast by Eileen Chong
$12.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult
In The Uncommon Feast, Eileen Chong gives us a collection of poetry, essays and recipes that remark on how food has shaped her life, her way of understanding her world, and the world of connections with those around her. For Chong, food is an act of sharing and an act of generosity. Here, she shares wit ...Show more
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
$17.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
The second novel by the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper – now a major Netflix series. What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her w ...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
Children of Blood and Bone (#1 Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Legacy of Orisha | Reading Level: very good
In Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut. They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zelie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orisha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flam ...Show more
When You Were Everything by WOODFOLK, ASHLEY
$32.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
You can't rewrite the past, but you can always choose to start again. It's been twenty-seven days since Cleo and Layla's friendship imploded. Nearly a month since Cleo realized they'll never be besties again. Now Cleo wants to erase every memory, good or bad, that tethers her to her ex-best friend. B ...Show more