The Memory Book by Lara Avery
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Perfect for YA readers of Nicholas Sparks and Nicola Yoon, a bittersweet story of love and loss, told one journal entry at a time. Sammie McCoy is a girl with a plan: graduate at the top of her class and get out of her small town as soon as possible. Nothing will stand in her way-not even the rare gene ...Show more
Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga #1) by Jennifer Donnelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Waterfire Saga
Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe. When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winni ...Show more
Becoming Aurora by Elizabeth Kasmer
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Tonight we are wolves. Our pack moves as one, past empty shop fronts and faded billboards. Sixteen-year-old Rory is at a crossroads in her life. While her gang plans its next move in a racially motivated turf war, Rory is sentenced to spend her summer at an aged care facility. She's proud of taking the ...Show more
Dead Boys' Club by Geoffrey Malone
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'If they ever come here,' his father had warned, 'drop everything. Just run and hide!' And now they were here. God's Freedom Army or whatever their name was. Bringers of blood and suffering. Rebels! Killers! Every one of them. Hundreds of thousands of children are abducted from their homes and used as b ...Show more
When Michael Met Mina by Randa Abdel-Fattah
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the bestselling author of Does My Head Look Big In This? A boy. A girl. Two families. One great divide. When Michael meets Mina, they are at a rally for refugees - standing on opposite sides. Mina fled Afghanistan with her mother via a refugee camp, a leaky boat and a detention centre. Michael' ...Show more
Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
John Green meets Rainbow Rowell in this irresistible story of first love, broken hearts, and the golden seams that put them back together again. Henry Page has never been in love. He fancies himself a hopeless romantic, but the slo-mo, heart palpitating, can't-eat-can't-sleep kind of love that he's be ...Show more
Everything is Changed by Nova Weetman
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
If only we could all go back to the way it was before...Jake and Alex. Best mates. One terrible mistake. Two lives that will never be the same.Told in reverse, this powerful and gritty novel moves through the wreckage of a broken friendship, back to the moment when everything changed.
The Last Beginning (The Next Together #2) by Lauren James
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Next Together
The epic conclusion to Lauren James' debut The Next Together about true love and reincarnation. Sixteen years ago, after a scandal that rocked the world, teenagers Katherine and Matthew vanished without a trace. Now Clove Sutcliffe is determined to find her long lost relatives...But where do you start l ...Show more
It Looks Like This by Rafi Mittlefehldt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In spare, understated prose heightened by a keen lyricism, a debut author will take your breath away. A new state, a new city, a new high school. Mike s father has already found a new evangelical church for the family to attend, even if Mike and his plainspoken little sister, Toby, don t want to go. Dad ...Show more
The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO TO TRUST WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN TRUST YOURSELF? I look at my hands. One of them says FLORA BE BRAVE. Flora has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything day-to-day: the joke her friend made, the instructions her parents gave her, how old ...Show more
Silence is Goldfish by Annabel Pitcher
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
SILENCE IS GOLDFISH is a story that demands to be heard. 'I have a voice but it isn't mine. It used to say things so I'd fit in - to please my parents, to please my teachers. It used to tell the universe I was something I wasn't. It lied.' Fifteen-year-old Tess doesn't mean to become mute. At first, she ...Show more
Before You Forget by Julia Lawrinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Year Twelve is not off to a good start for Amelia. Art is her world, but her art teacher hates everything she does; her best friend has stopped talking to her; her mother and father may as well be living in separate houses; and her father is slowly forgetting everything. Even Amelia. At times funny, at ...Show more