Xavier in the Meantime by Kate Gordon
$15.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
Sometimes Xavier wakes up feeling hopeless. Every new doctor … this will fix it. Removing him from school … this will fix it. The therapy group … this will fix it. And his dad moving out. Maybe, this will fix it. Despite his positive affirmations, the black dog never really leaves him. It watch ...Show more
Runt by Craig Silvey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author of Jasper Jones and Honeybee. 'You don't have to carry the weight of the world in your tool belt.' Annie Shearer lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an adopted stray dog called R ...Show more
August & Jones by Pip Harry
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
From the CBCA Award-winning author of The Little Wave comes the story of two extraordinary kids who discover the life-changing power of friendship and teamwork. Eleven-year-old Jones Kirby has just moved to Sydney from her farm in country New South Wales. She's missing her alpacas and wide-open paddocks ...Show more
Evie and Rhino by Neridah McMullin
$18.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
A young girl with a tragic past and a rhinoceros facing life in captivity form an unlikely and magical bond after a fateful storm and a shipwreck bring them together. A moving tale about love, connection and the healing power of friendship. On a stormy night off the coast of southern Australia, a ship t ...Show more
Mim and the Woeful Wedding (The Travelling Bookshop, #2) by Katrina Nannestad
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: The Travelling Bookshop
The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived ...Show more
Ming and Flo Fight for the Future (#1 The Girls Who Changed the World) (CBCA Notable 2023) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: The\Girls Who Changed the World Ser.
An empowering and exhilarating look at the girls who went before us, and the way they shaped the world. Twelve-year-old Ming Qong is convinced that girls must have changed the world, even if they are rarely mentioned in history books. So when Ming gets the chance to go back in time she imagines herself ...Show more
No Words by Maryam Master
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
Hero doesn't feel like a hero, but sometimes she feels as if the universe is asking her to be one. When Aria, a mysterious boy who never EVER speaks, starts at school and is picked on by His Royal Thug-ness Doofus (Rufus), Hero and her bestie Jaz feel compelled to help. But they're far too chicken to ac ...Show more
The Book of Wondrous Possibilities by Deborah Abela
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
A middle grade adventure for 8-12-year-old heroes (even if they don't know it yet).Arlo Goodman lives with his Uncle Avery in a run-down flat above their bookshop. He has no friends, except for his pet mouse, Herbert.But when a girl called Lisette bursts into the shop and begs him to hide her from a mur ...Show more
The Raven's Song by Zana Fraillon, Bren MacDibble
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
A wonderful children's novel by two stellar writers featuring Shelby and Phoenix, living 100 years apart yet unexpectedly joined across time - and each make the discovery of a lifetime that has the potential to upend their worlds. 'This is how we have to live now.'Shelby and her best friend Davy live qu ...Show more
The Way of Dog: Shortlisted for the 2023 CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers by Zana Fraillon
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
Be strong. Be fierce. Life is more than a concrete floor. Scruffity is born into the harsh, grey world of a puppy farm. Taken from his mamma and locked in a concrete cage, what he yearns for most is Family. To belong is The Way of Dog. But no one wants him. Just as his chances of adoption grow dangerous ...Show more
Waiting for the Storks by Katrina Nannestad
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad. I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl. I am. I am. I am. It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in f ...Show more
We Run Tomorrow by Nat Amoore
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
You can run from your past, but the future is tomorrow... Tonight, we're gonna kidnap our best friend. And tomorrow? We run. Sticks, Maki, Jed and Tommy live on the same street. But the adults around them are making decisions that could tear the four friends apart. When they discover their favourite com ...Show more