The Sky So Heavy by Claire Zorn
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
This haunting dystopian novel thrillingly and realistically looks at a nuclear winter from an Australian perspective. For Fin it’s just like any other day—racing for the school bus, bluffing his way through class, and trying to remain cool in front of the most sophisticated girl in his universe. Onl ...Show more
The Book of Wondrous Possibilities by Deborah Abela
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels
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
Market Day: CBCA Shortlisted Book by Carrie Gallasch
$24.99 AUD
Category: 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood Shortlist
When a girl is given a coin to spend at the market, she thinks carefully about what to buy. She is tempted by the towering stacks of fruit, spinning rides and glass jars filled with sweets.But it isn’t until a stranger gives something to her, without expecting anything in return, that she knows exactly ...Show more
A Glasshouse of Stars: Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Younger Readers 2022 by Shirley Marr
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
An exquisite, heartbreakingly beautiful gem of a novel for anyone who loved Wonder, Lenny's Book of Everything, A Monster Calls or When You Reach Me.'Heart-twisting and hopeful, bursting with big feelings and gentle magic. This is a special book from a powerful, compassionate new voice in children's lit ...Show more
Neverlanders (CBCA Winner 2023) by Tom Taylor
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
Neverland has become a war zone and it's up to a new group of lost teens to set things right in this gritty YA graphic novel series from #1 New York Times bestselling Australian author Tom Taylor and powerhouse Australian comic artist Jon Sommariva!Bee and her fellow runaways are their own found family. ...Show more
Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is on the run - running to escape memories of her mother and of the family curse. And of a grandfather who'd like her to stay. She's lost, alone and afraid. Silence, a street kid, finds Friday and she joins him in a gang led by beautiful, charismatic Arden. When Silence i ...Show more
There's No Such Book: CBCA Shortlisted Book by Jessica Dettmann
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Information Books
There's No Such Book is a funny and heartwarming that will resonate with anyone who has experienced the frenzy of Book Week.It's the night before the Book Week parade and Ellie announces that she needs a costume by the morning. Mum, who is taken by surprise, desperately tries to piece together a costume ...Show more
The Inheritance by Armin Greder
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Picture Books
A provocative call-to-arms to economic leaders to change course and better protect our planet and its people, presented in words and pictures by the multi-award-winning creator of The Island and The Mediterranean. 'All this will soon be yours, respect what I have built and make it prosper.' These are th ...Show more
The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst by Jaclyn Moriarty
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | Series: Bronte Mettlestone / Kingdoms and Empires
A magical tale of mystery and adventure that proves that sometimes even ordinary middle children can be heroes, from the bestselling author of The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone and the award-winning The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars. Long ago, the little Prince ...Show more
The Coat by Julie Hunt
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Picture Books
A bold and original picture book that will lift you off your feet and whirl you away The Coat stands in a paddock at the end of a row of strawberries. It is buttoned up tight and stuffed full of straw and it is angry. "What a waste of me " it yells. Then along comes a man. "I could do with a coat like t ...Show more
The Bravest Word by Kate Foster
$17.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels
A rescue story of love and trust between a boy and a dog from the talented author of Paws. Do you hear that? You’re Cliff now, and your life is going to get better, I promise. When eleven-year-old Matt finds Cliff, a hurt, neglected dog abandoned in the bush, he knows the brave little pup needs saving. ...Show more
Ask No Questions by Eva Collins
$25.00 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No Questions, Eva Collins writes spare affecting lines about her own experience as a teenager when her parents decided to emigrate from ...Show more