The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart: Shortlisted for the 2024 CBCA Awards by Samera Kamaleddine
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Friendship, family and feelings collide in this sparkling middle-grade debut from Matilda Prize winner, Samera Kamaleddine. Evie Hart likes rules. A lot. But as she embarks on her very last year of primary school, it feels like all the rules around her are being broken. When Evie's class starts learning ...Show more
Ming and Hilde Lead a Revolution (The Girls Who Changed the World, #3) by Jackie French
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers | Series: The\Girls Who Changed the World Ser.
The third book in the best-selling Jackie French historical series that places girls centre stage. Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed history throughout the world. She's faced danger and adventure when Herstory sent her to the past to witness girls' bravery in the incredible feats left out ...Show more
Dirrarn: Daisy Utemorrah Award Winner by Carl Merrison, Hakea Hustler
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers | Series: Black Cockatoo Ser.
Age range 10+Mia could hear the squarks of her Jarriny before she saw them. Her eye’s had flicked to the sky in search of the passing dirrarn but soon realized the noise was from the bird just beyond the gate.We first met Mia in Black Cockatoo, as she navigated her way through culture, Country and famil ...Show more
Sunshine on Vinegar Street by Karen Comer
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A sweet and emotional novel about friendship, family and accepting change from a fresh new voice. Freya's world is turned upside down when she and her mum move to inner-city Melbourne... Stuck in a new apartment on the eleventh floor and Freya is afraid of lifts. Stuck in a new basketball team where not ...Show more
Evie Dreams Big (Bored, #3) by Matt Stanton
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers | Series: Bored Ser.
Sometimes feeling bored is just the beginning ... From million-copy bestseller Matt Stanton, author of FUNNY KID and THE ODDS, comes this laugh-out-loud series about the complicated business of being a kid. PRAISE FOR BORED 'Milo Finds $105 is about friendships and how they can morph and evolve, and . ...Show more
Huda Was Here by H. Hayek
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Huda hatches a bold plan to help her dad get a job - which lands her and her brother in all kinds of trouble. A delightful and hilarious story from a CBCA award-winning author, about a lion-hearted girl who just wants the best for her family. Huda yawns loudly and stretches out her arms. Almost like she ...Show more
Harriet Hound by Kate Foster
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
The world's happiest and most dog-friendly superhero is here! A brand new adventure for junior readers from Kate Foster.Meet Harriet Hound. She's eight years old and loves dogs!But Harriet has something else that makes her super ... the power to summon the dogs from her family's rescue shelter every tim ...Show more
Pearly and Pig and the Lost City of Mu Savan by Sue Whiting
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers | Series: Pearly and Pig Ser.
A fast-paced adventure series perfect for readers 8+, from award-winning author Sue Whiting. Pearly Woe is a worrier. But there is no room for worries when you are trying to prove yourself. Yet this is little comfort to Adventurologist-in-training, Pearly Woe, as she motors down the mighty Mekong River ...Show more
So That Happened . . . But Maybe You Already Knew That by Tami Sussman
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
This hilarious and heart-warming middle-grade debut tackles how to be a good friend (and realise when you’ve been a bad one), leaving childhood behind, and, most importantly, how to get back up when it feels like the world has knocked you down. Natalie (Nutty to her friends) knows turning 12 is a big de ...Show more
Running With Ivan by Suzanne Leal
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Yearning to escape the new family he never wanted, thirteen-year-old Leo Arnold is transported to wartime Europe where he must draw on his courage to save himself and those around him. From award-winning author Suzanne Leal comes a gripping timeslip novel inspired by true stories. Thirteen-year-old Leo ...Show more