The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Saturnin by Zdenek Jirotka; Mark Adrian Corner (Translator)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Modern Czech Classics Ser.
On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected--if temporary--reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation. In the years since, the novel has been hailed as a classic of Czech literature, and this translation makes it availab ...Show more
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (#1 Lara Jean / To All The Boys) by Jenny Han
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: To All the Boys I've Loved Before/ Lara Jean | Reading Level: near fine
Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. One for every boy she's ever loved. When she writes, she can pour out her heart and soul and say all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and ...Show more
Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: near fine
Jayne and June Baek are nothing alike. June's three years older, a classic first-born, know-it-all narc with a problematic finance job and an equally soulless apartment (according to Jayne). Jayne is an emotionally stunted, self-obsessed basket case who lives in squalor, has egregious taste in men, and ...Show more
Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim
$16.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Notables
What I feel most days is that nothing is ever going to change. That my life won't even start, and that I'll be stuck like this forever. Wen Zhou is the daughter and only child of Chinese immigrants whose move to the lucky country has proven to be not so lucky. Wen and her friend, Henry Xiao - whose mum ...Show more
Tell Me Why (For Young Adults) by Archie Roach
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
‘There are many Australian stories, and mine is just one about what happened to me and other First Peoples of this country. It’s important for me to tell my story - because it’s not just part of my healing but of this country’s as well. We all have a story and as you read this book I would like you to t ...Show more
Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
$26.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A Reese's Book Club YA PickA powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line--even her blooming love story--to follow her dreams.In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan li ...Show more
Song Beneath the Tides by Beverley Birch
$27.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Ally arrives from England with her brothers to stay for a month in Africa - weeks of running wild on an unspoiled, untamed coast amid mangrove creeks, vast white sandy beaches, coral reefs and warm seas. But on their first walk through the forest to the beach, Ally is swamped by a sense of an unseen pr ...Show more
The Broken Raven (#2 Shadow Skye) by Joseph Elliott
$18.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Shadow Skye Trilogy
Shadows are gathering over Scotia, in the second book in the thrilling Shadow Skye trilogy. The battle may be over, but the war is just beginning… Agatha and Jaime have returned home as heroes, but peace on Skye doesn’t last long. When Agatha uncovers a terrible secret, she unwittingly unleashes a force ...Show more
The Good Hawk (#1 Shadow Skye) by Joseph Elliott
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Shadow Skye
A rich fantasy adventure trilogy, full of warring clans, deadly shadows and devastating plagues... If everything was taken from you, what would you do to get it back? Agatha patrols the sea wall with pride, despite those in her clan who question her right to be there, because of the condition she was bo ...Show more
Soul Hunters (#1) by Chris Bradford
$14.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Have you ever experienced dreams so vivid it seems like you have lived them? Or had dej vu so strong you're convinced you must have been there before? For Genna, dej vu comes almost as regularly as breathing. And that's exactly what Genna thinks she is - regular. A regular schoolkid, with a best friend ...Show more
Future Girl by Asphyxia
$24.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Piper's mum wants her to be 'normal', to pass as hearing and get a good job. But when peak oil hits and Melbourne lurches towards environmental catastrophe, Piper has more important things to worry about, such as how to get food. When she meets Marley, a CODA (child of Deaf adult), a door opens into a n ...Show more