Scar Town by Tristan Bancks
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A missing father. A drowned town. A buried secret. Three friends on a dangerous mission to uncover the truth.Seven years after Old Scarborough was drowned, a house is emerging from the water. Will and his friends Dar and Juno dare each other to explore it.But when they find bones - and a stash of cash - ...Show more
Flap Out (#11 Real Pigeons) by Andrew McDonald
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers | Series: Real Pigeons Ser.
Ever wonder why pigeons always act so weird? It's because they're out there chasing the bad guys and saving your butts! The Real Pigeons love flapping around the city and fighting crime. But when lunches start mysteriously DISAPPEARING from tummies, a LOOKALIKE pigeon makes evil plans and a dangerous D ...Show more
Saving Charli by Di Walker
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Who are you when your other half is gone? Twelve-year-old Charli knows no other way of being than as a twin. But when her twin sister, Freya, succumbs to a lifelong battle with illness, Charli, consumed by grief, retreats into a tent in her backyard. Closed off from her family and friends, Charli risks ...Show more
Meet Me at the Moon Tree by Shivaun Plozza
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A tender Australian story about searching for the impossible in the places where magic and science meet.For Carina Sugden, there is nothing more special than a moon tree - a tree grown from the seeds taken on the 1971 Apollo mission into space. Her father taught her everything she knows about them. But ...Show more
Being Jimmy Baxter by Fiona Lloyd
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A gently funny yet powerful coming-of-age middle grade novel about surviving the odds, unlikely friendships and the magical music of Elvis.It's not eggsactly easy being Jimmy Baxter 'cause- The real Jimmy's hiding inside Ned Kelly's giving him the evil eye Mum's stopped going to work and stays in bed Th ...Show more
Aggie Flea is Not a Liar! (Aggie Flea #1) by Tania Ingram
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Meet Aggie Flea—a girl with a big imagination ... that lands her in even bigger trouble! When a mysterious new neighbour arrives in the middle of the night, Aggie’s convinced he’s a vampire! Can she prove it? Or will everyone think she’s a liar?
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
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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