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From the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award comes Lucy Treloar's new novel.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
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