Between Us: Winner of the CBCA's Book of the Year for Older Readers 2019 by Clare Atkins
$20.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Between Us is the story of two teenagers - Jono and Anahita - falling in love for the first time. There's just one thing standing between them: twenty kilometres of barbed wire fence. Anahita lives in the Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre, where asylum seekers are detained while they wait to be ...Show more
Thicker Than Water by Brigid Kemmerer
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
"Kemmerer will melt your heart and blow your mind." --#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout On his own Thomas Bellweather hasn't been in town long. Just long enough for his newlywed mother to be murdered, and for his new stepdad's cop colleagues to decide Thomas is the primary ...Show more
This Mortal Coil (#1) by Emily Suvada
$17.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: This Mortal Coil
"Redefines 'unputdownable.'" --Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of Iluminae "I was thrilled. I was shocked." --NPR "Stunning twists and turns." --BCCB (starred review) In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father's message ...Show more
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
$18.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: 9 YA
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s got massive shoes to fill. But when her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, Bri finds herself at the centre of controversy and p ...Show more
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
From New York Times bestselling author of POET X comes a story of a girl with talent, pride and a little bit of magic that keeps her fire burning bright. Ever since she got pregnant during freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about making the tough decisions, doing what has to be done for her d ...Show more
Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
$16.99 AUD
Category: Adult | Reading Level: 12+
Thirteen-year-old Hayaat is on a mission. She believes a handful of soil from her grandmother's ancestral home in Jerusalem will save her beloved Sitti Zeynab's life. The only problem is the impenetrable wall that divides the West Bank, as well as the check points, the curfews, the permit system and Hay ...Show more
Sergius Seeks Bacchus - Translated from the Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao by Norman Erikson Pasaribu; Tiffany Tsao (Translator)
$24.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult
To say it is hard to be queer in Indonesia is a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regular basis - from those around them, and increasingly, from the state itself. Yet this was the stage on which Norman Erikson Pasaribu's poetry collection Sergius Seeks Bacchus made its deb ...Show more
Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda
$17.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger comes a suspenseful psychological mystery about one girl's search to uncover the truth behind her ex-boyfriend's death. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and We Were Liars. Jessa Whitworth knows she doe ...Show more
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Refugee issues
Born in a refugee camp, all Subhi knows of the world is that he's at least 19 fence diamonds high, the nice Jackets never stay long, and at night he dreams that the sea finds its way to his tent, bringing with it unusual treasures. And one day it brings him Jimmie. Carrying a notebook that she's unable ...Show more
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
From the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award comes Lucy Treloar's new novel. Some things collapse slow, and cannot always be rebuilt, and even if a thing can be remade it will never be as it was. Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the fa ...Show more
The Yearbook Committee by Sarah Ayoub
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
The school captain: Ryan has it all...or at least he did, until an accident snatched his dreams away. How will he rebuild his life and what does the future hold for him now? The newcomer: Charlie's just moved interstate and she's determined not to fit in. She's just biding her time until Year 12 is ove ...Show more
The Secret Commonwealth (#2 The Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: The Book of Dust 2 | Reading Level: near fine
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 almost ten 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 ...Show more