Inkflower by Suzy Zail
$23.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
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
One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World by A. J. Betts
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
'In a few months, the four of us will be elsewhere, doing other things, and this chance we have now will be long gone. We won't get a redo. We won't get another shot at changing the very course of our existence.' Eva writes intimate, personal songs. She wants to make it as a musician, but after three fa ...Show more
Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth by Anna Fienberg
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
Frances is in a new house in a new neighbourhood and going to a new school, but no amount of new can make her forget the old, sad secret dragging at her heart. Not the pictures of bacteria that she draws with painstaking precision, not even Picasso, the puppy with the long soft ears and the cute black c ...Show more
We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
A wonderful emotional rollercoaster of a novel about two young men, each on a journey of discovery. It's part coming-out story, part falling-in-love story, part relationship breakdown story, part extended Greek family story. It's warm and funny, a little bit heartbreaking, and completely satisfying. Sev ...Show more
The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
Magic, romance, and slumbering gods clash in the start of a riveting fantasy series that spans gangsters' dens, forgotten temples, and the high seas from the New York Times bestselling author of the Aurora Cycle. When Selly's father leaves her high and dry in the port of Kirkpool, she has no intention ...Show more
A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers | 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
Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
In a dazzling new fantasy world full of whispered secrets and political intrigue, the magic of women is outlawed but three girls with unusual gifts have the chance to change it all. 'A luscious, sumptuously woven and totally addictive fantasy.' Amie Kaufman, New York Times' bestselling author of These B ...Show more
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London #2) by Garth Nix
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers | Series: Old World Police
Return to the enchanting world of ABIA winner The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, as a team of booksellers must fight to keep dangerous magic under cover before the stuff of legends destroys our world. From master world-builder Garth Nix, this riveting fantasy adventure is set in an alternate 1980s ...Show more
Two Can Play That Game by Leanne Yong
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
Funny and romantic, an upbeat YA novel about gaming, goals and getting even from a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction. How did I let my sister talk me into going out when I have a game to fix and a jerkface to destroy? Sam Khoo has one goal in life: create cool indie games. She's willing to do any ...Show more