The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst by Jaclyn Moriarty
$23.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Older Readers | 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 Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Older Readers
Olga loves the stories of the old cartographers and pores over their ancient books and maps, trying to unlock their secrets. Sometimes, she thinks she can even feel through the maps- almost see into them-as if by magic. But magic is banned in Tsaretsvo, ever since the war with the birds that divided the ...Show more
Across the Risen Sea by Bren MacDibble
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Older Readers
'It's one of them days when everything is off. A hot sweaty night in Rusty Bus means we kids is all grouchy-tired. Me and my best friend, Jaguar, is trying to cool down by taking turns at dipping in the sea pool. Him standing on the sea wall made from car frames and rocks on lookout for crocs, me swimmi ...Show more
Zoe, Max and the Bicycle Bus by Steven Herrick
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Older Readers
The sun is shining and today feels like an adventure, only one I can go on whenever I want because I have a bicycle and friends and a city just waiting to be explored.With their new teacher's help, the kids in Class 5D ride to school together in a bicycle bus. Olivia can fix a puncture in two minutes an ...Show more
Aster's Good, Right Things by Kate Gordon
$15.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Older Readers
Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesnt think shes special at all. If she was, her mother wouldnt have left. And if she isnt careful, everyone else will leave her too. Each day Aster must do a good, right thinga challenge she sets herself, to make someone elses life better. Nobody can kno ...Show more
The January Stars by Kate Constable
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Older Readers
This thoroughly enjoyable novel about two sisters determined to help their grandfather will delight middle fiction readers of all ages. From the author of the bestselling and much-loved novels Crow Country & Cicada Summer. When twelve-year old Clancy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Tash, visit the ...Show more
Loner by Georgina Young
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers | Reading Level: very good
Loner is a book about drifting. About having been good at school and seemingly destined for great things but, once thrust into the structureless maelstrom of the adult world, simply... stalling. Stalling, and waiting, and doing not much of anything except feeling a lot of things. And then maybe watching ...Show more
Peta Lyre's Rating Normal by Anna Whateley
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
At sixteen, neurodivergent Peta Lyre is the success story of social training. That is, until she finds herself on a school ski trip - and falling in love with the new girl. Peta will need to decide which rules to keep, and which rules to break... I'm Peta Lyre,' I mumble. Look people in the eye if you c ...Show more
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (#1 Old World Police TPB) by Garth Nix
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers | Series: Old World Police | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Angel Mage, this new fantasy adventure set in 1980s London follows one girl's quest to find her father, leading her to a secret society of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World when it disastrously intrudes into the modern world. Eighteen-year-old ...Show more
Where We Begin by Christie Nieman
$19.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
Seventeen-year-old Anna is running into the night. Fleeing her boyfriend, her mother, and everything she has known. She is travelling into the country, to the land and the grandparents she has never met, looking for answers to questions that have never been asked. For every family has secrets. But some ...Show more
Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
Fourteen-year-old Dylan has always been troubled by her black skin, the legacy of her absent father. She lives with her French mother, and together they dream of one day sailing across the water to France. But when her mother dies in a freak accident, Dylan finds herself on a very different journey- a r ...Show more
Please Don’t Hug Me by Kay Kerr
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
The most stressful interactions for me are ones like this, where the person's face says one thing but their words say another. Which one am I supposed to believe? Faces seem to be more truthful, but people always act as though their words are the only things that matter. Erin is looking forward to schoo ...Show more