Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers
YEAR: 2083. LOCATION: LONDON. MISSION: WAKE ROMEO. It's the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forwards. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the 'now', living off the scraps that were left behind. Among these are eighteen-year-old Juliet and the love of her lif ...Show more
Terciel and Elinor (Old Kingdom Prequel) by Garth Nix
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers | Series: Old Kingdom
Bestselling novelist Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, and the charter magic that brought them together - and threatened to tear them apart. A long-awaited prequel to a classic fantasy series. In the Old Kingdom, a land o ...Show more
Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers
From the award-winning author of the CBCA shortlisted When the Ground is Hard, comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and an uplifting story of how friendship saves and heals. Fifteen-year-old Amandla's mother has always been strange. For starters, she's a white woman living in Sugar Town, one of ...Show more
Social Queue by Kay Kerr
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers
A funny and insightful Own-Voices novel about an autistic teen who realises she's been missing all the signs when it comes to her romantic life. I thought I was nobody's teen crush, but turns out I was just missing the signs. Zoe Kelly is starting a new phase of her life. High school was a mess of bully ...Show more
Skin Deep by Hayley Lawrence
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers
Scarlett was gifted with beauty. But beauty can be taken in a day, in a single moment, by one car fire. Now permanently disfigured, Scarlett has become a smudge in her perfect world. She can see only one acceptable solution: to escape the modern world for Matilda Mountain, which is desolate, isolated, f ...Show more
Road Tripping with Pearl Nash by Poppy Nwosu
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers
The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friendship with a whirlwind end-of-year road trip that is definitely, absolutely, most positively going to solve all her problems. Except, instead of her best friend Daisy's feet on her dash, suddenly Pearl ends ...Show more
Stars in their Eyes by Jessica Walton; Aśka
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers
In this debut graphic novel, pop culture-obsessed Maisie can't wait to get to her first Fancon. But being a queer, disabled teenager with chronic pain comes with challenges. Can Maisie make it through the day without falling over, falling in love or accidentally inspiring anyone? Maisie has always dream ...Show more
How to Repaint a Life (CBCA Honours 2022) by Steven Herrick
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers
A powerful prose novel from one of Australia's most awarded authors.Isaac is running from his old life when he steps off the bus in a small town. He doesn't plan on sticking around and has nowhere to stay, but a local cafe owner's kindness offers him a chance to change his story. Then Isaac meets Sophie ...Show more
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers | Reading Level: very good
Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark ha ...Show more
Morrison & Mr Moore by Michael Hyde
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers
Morrison is 17. Smart, sarcastic, annoying, and very angry. Mr Moore, a school principal on the verge of retirement, has seen it all. Now coping with a wife who has Alzheimers, his plans for his life in retirement are in tatters. The last thing he needs is someone like Morrison.What happens when two unl ...Show more
The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers
It's Karnawal season in a snow-cloaked kingdom of Lechija, a time of wintry balls and wicked disguises, and cavalcades of nightly torch-lit sleigh-parties. But among the oblivious merrymakers, two monsters join in the fun, descending upon the ancient capital in the guise of two innocent girls. Newfound ...Show more
Henry Hamlet's Heart by Rhiannon Wilde
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Category: CBCA 2022 Older Readers
I'm losing it because I kissed you / Because I kissed you I might lose you. Henry Hamlet doesn't know what he wants after school ends. It's his last semester of year twelve and all he's sure of is his uncanny ability to make situations awkward. Luckily, he can always hide behind his enigmatic best frien ...Show more