The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox
$19.99 AUD
Category: YA Fiction
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
Being Jimmy Baxter by Fiona Lloyd
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
A gently funny yet powerful coming-of-age middle grade novel about surviving the odds, unlikely friendships and the magical music of Elvis.It's not eggsactly easy being Jimmy Baxter 'cause- The real Jimmy's hiding inside Ned Kelly's giving him the evil eye Mum's stopped going to work and stays in bed Th ...Show more
When You're A Boy by Blake Nuto
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A powerful and moving exploration of what it means to be a boy from an exciting new author-illustrator talent. When you're a boy you are told how to be like the white-roaring oceans. But I've learned the fierceness of flowers the glory of colour and the beauty of dreaming. Wander through forests, cross ...Show more
A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: YA Fiction | Series: A Hunger of Thorns
Be swept up in this brilliant witchy tale about forbidden magic and missing girls who don't need handsome princes to rescue them. Perfect for fans of the Serpent; Dove series. Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls wh ...Show more
Country Town (HB) by Isolde Martyn, Robyn Ridgeway
$29.95 AUD
Category: Education
Age range 9 to 12 Happy times, sad times, boom times and gloom times! From the First Peoples camp at the river crossing in the 1820s through to Carols by Candlelight at the showground in today’s world, this is a decade by decade wonderfully illustrated story of a small country community.
Grace Notes by Karen Comer
$19.99 AUD
Category: YA Fiction
This song has a grace note, a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored, not played. Tonight, I add it in - just because. We can all do with an extra note of grace. Grace Dalfinch is a talented violinist who longs to play contemporary music in bars, but her mum forbids her. Jam ...Show more
Inkflower by Suzy Zail
$22.99 AUD
Category: YA Fiction
A gritty YA novel about family secrets, hope and healing. Based on a true story.Lisa’s father has six months to live. And a story to tell about a boy sent to Auschwitz. A boy who lost everything and started again. A story he has kept hidden – until now.But Lisa doesn’t want to hear it, because she has s ...Show more
Let's Never Speak of This Again by Megan Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: YA Fiction
Ella and I have been best friends since grade one. We can spend hours talking about everything and nothing. We know each other's greatest fears, things that irrationally annoy us, and ideal career if money and skill weren't an issue. If there was only one Hartford Bakery brownie left in the whole world ...Show more
Scar Town by Tristan Bancks
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
A missing father. A drowned town. A buried secret. Three friends on a dangerous mission to uncover the truth.Seven years after Old Scarborough was drowned, a house is emerging from the water. Will and his friends Dar and Juno dare each other to explore it.But when they find bones - and a stash of cash - ...Show more
That Bird Has Arms by Kate Temple, Jol Temple
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Roy is an ordinary bird in every way. He is not the biggest, or the smallest. His squawk is not the loudest or the quietest. He even follows the same football team as everyone else. He was very normal except for one thing – he has ARMS. Absolutely nobody knows – and Roy would like to keep it that way... ...Show more
The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart: Shortlisted for the 2024 CBCA Awards by Samera Kamaleddine
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
Friendship, family and feelings collide in this sparkling middle-grade debut from Matilda Prize winner, Samera Kamaleddine. Evie Hart likes rules. A lot. But as she embarks on her very last year of primary school, it feels like all the rules around her are being broken. When Evie's class starts learning ...Show more
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence by Corey Tutt
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Non-Fiction
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! is an inspirational, illustrated compendium that celebrates the diversity and success of First Nations People. Written by Corey Tutt, author of The First Scientists, this book features the profiles of 80 Blakfellas who are doing deadly things across sport, art, activism and s ...Show more