| Author: | Sally Rippin |
| Category: |
Junior Readers |
| Series: | Polly and Buster |
From Australia's best-selling female author, Sally Rippin, comes Polly and Buster - a brand new junior fiction series about the magic of friendship. Who ever heard of a witch and a monster being friends? &... read more
| Author: | Karen Foxlee |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Reading Level: | 8 Kids Middle Readers |
| Awards: | Shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year: Older Reader 2019 |
Perfect for readers who love Liar and Spy, Counting by 7s, and Bridge to Terabithia, a heartwarming and transformative novel about family, loss, and never giving up from beloved author Karen Foxlee.
Lenny Spink is the sister of a gia... read more
| Author: | Yuliia Yakovleva (Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)) |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
Russia in 1938 is a place of great terror. Joseph Stalin is in charge. His Secret Police are everywhere, searching for anyone who might be his enemy. People have no idea who they can trust.
Seven-year-old Shura doesn't know about any of this. He's happy in his litt... read more
| Author: | Geoff Havel |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
An action-packed middle-grade story that explores friendship, bullying, and living with a disability Ian and Warren, better known as Sticks and Ranga, are best friends. They live on the same street, go to the same school and love the same things, like skateboarding and PlayStation... read more
| Author: | Norman Jorgensen |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Reading Level: | Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11 |
"Red Read's life takes a surprising u and alarming u turn when his mother sells him to an infamous smuggler plying his trade off the north-west coast of Australia in the closing days of the 19th century. From terrifying encounters with cut-throat pirates to battling the for... read more
| Author: | Celine Kiernan |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Series: | The Wild Magic Trilogy |
"Ireland's answer to JK Rowling." Sunday Independent A middle-grade fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Frances Hardinge and Katherine Rundell. When witches kidnap Mup's dad, she must journey to their home to save him, and so begins a fantas... read more
| Author: | John Boyne |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne, the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is another extraordinary historical fiction about World War II and innocence in the face of evil.
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home ... read more
| Author: | Bren MacDibble |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Awards: | Winner of the 2018 NZ Children's Book Awards - Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction Short-listed for Queensland Literary Awards 2017 (Australia) and Griffith University Children's Book Award 2018 (Australia). |
Sometimes bees get too big to be up in the branches, sometimes they fall and break their bones. This week both happened and Foreman said, 'Tomorrow we'll find two new bees.'
Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. In a world where real bees... read more
| Author: | Tamara Moss |
| Category: |
Junior Readers |
Incredibly exciting adventure on the high seas, filled with deadly creatures, impossible tasks, dangerous quests, nailbiting battles . . . and two friends determined to make their way in the world.
| Author: | Neil Gaiman |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Awards: | WINNER of the 2010 CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL and the 2009 JOHN NEWBERY MEDALWINNER OF THE LOCUS YOUNG ADULT AWARDWINNER OF THE HUGO BEST NOVEL PRIZEWINNER OF THE BOOKTRUST TEENAGE AWARD Winner of Hugo Award: Novel Category 2009 and Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009. Shortlisted for Kate Greenaway Medal 2010 and Carnegie Medal 2010. |
'Every page is crowded with invention, both funny and scary' PATRICK NESS 'A tale of unforgettable enchantment' NEW YORK TIMESNobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He woul... read more
| Author: | Mat Larkin |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
An explosive, suspenseful and utterly brilliant middle-grade mystery for fans of Louis Sachar's Holes.
Not-quite twelve year-old Pri Kohli knows the town of Dunn's Orchard better than anyone. After all, he was the first kid ever to live th... read more
| Author: | Jeremy Lachlan |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Series: | The\Jane Doe Chronicles Ser. |
| Awards: | Winner ABIA Boof of the Year for Older Children - 2019 Shortlisted ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children - 2019 |
John Doe and his infant daughter, Jane, appeared on the steps of the Manor the night the earthquakes started and the gateway to the Otherworlds closed. The people on the remote island of Bluehaven have despised them ever since, blaming Jane and her father... read more
