We Didn't Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
From the author of the award-winning The Boy from the Mish, comes a compelling coming-of-age YA novel about sixteen-year-old Jamie Langton finding his future and navigating the challenges of racism, family and friendship in a small Australian town.The thought comes to me: This is how I die. Dally is goi ...Show more
This Time It's Real by Ann Liang
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
Get ready to fall in love in this hilarious romcom about a girl who begins a fake relationship with the famous actor in her class, perfect for fans of Meg Cabot and Jenny Han. When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin's essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, her entire life changes o ...Show more
The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
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
Stuck Up & Stupid by Angourie Rice, Kate Rice
$23.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
A modern trans-Pacific twist on Pride and Prejudice, from an authentic team of debut authors who know their material, and deliver it heartwarmingly and hilariously. This modern tale captures the spirit and energy of Austen's original satire of manners, while updating and developing it for contemporary a ...Show more
Let's Never Speak of This Again by Megan Williams
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
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
I Am the Mau and other stories by Chemutai Glasheen
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
Two worlds collide in Chemutai Glasheen's debut short story collection, I Am the Mau and Other Stories.This enticing collection of contemporary fiction is a celebration of our ubuntu- the invisible ties that bind us all together. From ancient forest guardians to modern cultural warriors, from grappling ...Show more
If You Tell Anyone, You're Next by Jack Heath
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
An exclusive group chat. A deadly challenge. How far would you go to join? Jayden Jones is missing. Everyone thinks he ran away. His best friend, Zoe Ross, knows they’re wrong. Zoe’s search leads her to the 17—a secret group chat, used by anonymous teens to blackmail the powerless. To join, you have t ...Show more
Eta Draconis by Brendan Ritchie
$33.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
Elora is leaving her hometown for university. Leaving behind friends, family, and safety to follow her dream of studying theatre while she still has the chance.Together, Elora and her older sister, Vivienne, set out by road for the city and the upcoming semester. The relationship between them is fractur ...Show more
Grace Notes by Karen Comer
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
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
Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer (#1 Eleanor Jones) by Amy Doak
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
Karen McManus and Holly Jackson meets Fleur Ferris in this fast-paced YA murder mystery. Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her mum are always moving on, Eleanor likes to stay on the outer, to stay invisible. So maybe it's just bad luck that th ...Show more
Borderland by Graham Akhurst
$23.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
Age range 13+Jono, a city-born Indigenous teenager is trying to figure out who he really is. Life in Brisbane hasn’t exactly made him feel connected to his Country or community. Luckily, he’s got his best friend, Jenny, who has been by his side through their hectic days at St Lucia Private.After graduat ...Show more
Blind Spot by Robyn Dennison
$23.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
When Dale stumbles into a bedroom at a party and sees a drunk girl being undressed by a group of guys, he backs away and runs. He's pretty drunk himself, but he knows what he saw. Why didn't he stop them? Why did he run? These questions haunt him. He wants to make things right but he doesn't know how. T ...Show more