Elsewhere Girls by Emily Gale, Nova Weetman
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's midnight and I'm alone in the kitchen eating a cold potato scallop. Coach O'Call would say something like, 'That's not what I expect from a scholarship girl!' because I have to be up for squad training in five hours and I'm not supposed to go near potato scallops, and--oh, yeah--it's my fifth. Cat ...Show more
Cuckoo's Flight by Wendy Orr
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
When Clio's town in Bronze Age Crete is threatened by seafaring raiders, she faces the greatest sacrifice of all. Can Clio, her herd of horses and a new young friend find a way to change their destinies? Another wonderfully engaging historical middle fiction adventure from the author of Dragonfly Song a ...Show more
My Brother Ben by Peter Carnavas
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Luke and his big brother Ben spend the summer on the banks of Cabbage Tree Creek. Quiet Luke sketches birds, while Ben leaps off the Jumping Tree. The boys couldn't be more different but they share the same dream- winning a boat so they can explore the creek properly. Then Ben starts high school and the ...Show more
Save the Joeys (#1 The Good Times of Pelican Rise) by Samone Amba
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
UGH! After-school care, again?It's official: they've finally reached grade six, and Sunday Moon and her besties Ockie, Kirra and Lottie are Legends of the School! But no matter how legendary they are, as soon as the end of day bell rings they are MAROONED in after-school care at Club Koala. Day in, day ...Show more
Listen, Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Exploring the diaspora experience, race, politics and identity, Listen, Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied is an own voices novel for young readers, which bursts with passion, humour and truth. Layla has ended the school year on a high and can't wait to spend the holidays hanging out with her friends and des ...Show more
Huda and Me by H. Hayek
$15.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Huda's sitting in the airport lounge, fiddling with our tickets. I can tell she's excited because she has a little smile on her face and she keeps glancing at her pink digital watch. I can't believe we're doing this. I can't believe we're running away from home. Well, we're not really running away. We'l ...Show more
Are You There, Buddha? by Pip Harry
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Bridget 'Bee' Ballentine is 12 and starting her first year of high school in the beach suburb Crescent Bay. Still reeling from the departure of her mother for an ashram in India, Bee talks to Buddha and begs for her first period not to arrive. She's not ready to become a woman yet, whatever that means. ...Show more
Mina and the Whole Wide World by Sherryl Clark
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Mina wants her own bedroom more than anything else in the whole wide world. And it's almost ready! Just one more lick of sunny yellow paint and it's hers. But when Mina's parents take in an unexpected guest, they give her room away. At first, Mina is too upset to speak. She doesn't care that this new ki ...Show more
The Edge of Thirteen by Nova Weetman
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Thirteen-year-old Clem deals with fitting in and falling out in this authentic story of friendship, from a beloved middle-grade author.Clem Timmins can't wait to see her best friends after being apart all summer holidays. But when they get back together, things have changed. Bridge is boy-crazy and acti ...Show more
Footprints on the Moon by Lorraine Marwood
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Humans are about to leave footprints on the moon, but what sort of mark can one girl make here on earth? It's 1969 and life is changing fast. Sharnie Burley is starting high school and finding it tough to make new friends. As the world waits to see if humans will land on the moon, the Vietnam War rages ...Show more
Cranky Chicken (#1) by Katherine Battersby
$14.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers
Narwhal and Jelly meet The Bad Guys in this heartwarming, brightly illustrated, and downright hilarious chapter book about what happens when a very cranky chicken is befriended by a very cheerful worm. Cranky Chicken is, well, cranky. With one cranky eyebrow, cranky eyes, and even cranky, scratchy feet. ...Show more
Night Ride into Danger (PB) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
From one of Australia's best-loved storytellers comes an exciting mystery adventure story set in 1874 about the Cobb & Co. It's a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb and Co night mail coach, but when his coach-driver father is injured, young Jem Donovan must take the reins.Surely a boy like Jem ...Show more