Rainfish by Andrew Paterson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'You don't kill them rainfish 'cause they'll bring trouble. Rainstorms and floods and bad things.' Aaron lives with his mum and older brother in a small town on the edge of a rainforest in tropical Far North Queensland. He's sick of being the little brother, left out of all the interesting stuff the old ...Show more
A Sprinkle of Sorcery (#2 Widdershins) by Michelle Harrison
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Magical Realism | Series: A Widdershins Adventure
Adventure with a Pinch of Magic in the bestselling series from Michelle Harrison and discover a place that exists only in fairytales. A mysterious girl has arrived at the Poacher’s Pocket looking for help and the Widdershins sisters, Betty, Fliss and Charlie, can smell adventure on the sea air. But wh ...Show more
George Orwell's 1984: The Graphic Novel (PB) by GEORGE ORWELL
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party's seemingly omniscient leader, Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceani ...Show more
When Only One by Meg Gatland-Veness
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
'There's someone in the school. Someone who's not supposed to be there. This person is walking towards the classroom. They're holding something in their hands. Something terrifying.' Sam lives with his mum, dad and four brothers in a small farming town. At his school, there are three main factions- the ...Show more
The Goodbye Year by Emily Gale
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A thoughtful and gentle middle-grade novel about the excitement and apprehension of life on the cusp of change at the end of primary school It's the start of 2020 and Harper is filled with anticipation about being in the final year of Riverlark Primary. She wants a leadership role, the comfort of her f ...Show more
Running with Horses by Jason Cockcroft
$29.99 AUD
Category: Older readers
A sequel to We Were Wolves. Rabbit's new life on the coast is threatened by a dangerous discovery. Rabbit and his mum have moved to the coast to run a small caravan park. Rabbit has been struggling since he saw his father die – he finds it hard to speak. When he befriends a local boy, Joe, Rabbit begins ...Show more
Paper Towns (Film Tie-in) by John Green
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Quentin Jacobsen - Q to his friends - is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children, they'd discovered a dead body together. Now at high school, Q's nerdy while Margo is uber-cool. One night, Q is basking in the predictable boringness of his life when Margo, dressed as a n ...Show more
Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Aboriginal teenager
Set within the explosive cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1980s, Becoming Kirrali Lewis chronicles the journeyof a young First Nations Australian teenager as she leaves her home town in rural Victoria to take on a law degree in the city of Melbourne in 1985. Adopted at birth by a white family, Kirrali d ...Show more
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Staff notes: This is such a special novel. It is, as stated on the cover, a love story, but it's not just a romantic love story. It's also a love of books and words, love of the ocean and sky. It's about family, change, loss and the future. And it contains within its pages one of the best ideas ever ... ...Show more
Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Older readers
Fourteen-year-old Dylan has always been troubled by her black skin, the legacy of her absent father. She lives with her French mother, and together they dream of one day sailing across the water to France. But when her mother dies in a freak accident, Dylan finds herself on a very different journey- a r ...Show more
The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A powerful, lyrical novel about friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma, love and our hopeless, hopeful world from the award-winning author of How It Feels to Float. George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says ...Show more
Terciel and Elinor (Old Kingdom Prequel) by Garth Nix
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Magical Realism | Series: Old Kingdom
Be swept away by the magic of the Old Kingdom in this standalone novel by Garth Nix which tells the story of Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor,and the charter magic that brings them together - and threatens to tear them apart. SHORTLISTED: 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers In the Old Kingdom ...Show more