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Discover these stunning books for teen readers, from Australian First Nations writers.
Ambelin Kwaymullina
A gripping YA fantasy novel featuring a deadly contest for the crown, a heroine determined to right the wrongs done to her people, and a smouldering love story that could…
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Lystra Rose
‘A deeply immersive Young Adult fantasy and an enthralling debut. It’s a privilege to walk this new path into the oldest of stories’ AMIE KAUFMAN, New York Times-bestselling author
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Melanie Saward
A poignant and powerful novel about a fire-obsessed Indigenous boy living on the margins - from an electrifying new First Nations voice in Australian fiction, Melanie Saward.
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Gary Lonesborough
The justice system characterises Jamie Langton as a 'danger to society', but he's just an Aboriginal kid, trying to find his way through adolescence.
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A funny and heart-warming queer Indigenous YA novel, set in a rural Australian community, about seventeen-year-old Jackson finding the courage to explore who he is, even if it scares him.
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Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability. The focus…
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Rafeif Ismail,Ellen van Neerven,Hella Ibrahim
In partnership with Djed Press, Fremantle Press brings 21 emerging and established own-voice writers together to imagine a new future.
Living on Stolen Land is a prose-styled look at our colonial-settler ‘present’. This book is the first of its kind to address and educate a broad audience about the colonial…
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Graham Akhurst
Borderland is a heart-pounding horror gothic that follows Jono on an epic quest to find himself in the face of unbelievable challenges.
Ambelin Kwaymullina,Ezekiel Kwaymullina
Winner of the Prize for Young Adult Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Told in two unforgettable voices, this gripping novel interweaves themes of grief, colonial history, violence…
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Mariah Sweetman
Compulsory reading for early teens and young adults. Based on true events, this gripping thriller sheds light on the brutalities of the past whilst championing the heroes who survived.
Growing up Wiradjuri is a collection of personal stories by Wiradjuri Elders. The writers are Uncles and Aunties who came of age in New South Wales in the 1950s and…
Archie Roach
In his inspirational, highly acclaimed memoir - and including reflections from First Nations Elders and young people - Archie Roach tells the story of his life and his music.
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Carl Merrison,Hakea Hustler
A First Nations murder mystery for young adult readers.
Gregg Dreise
A slam poetry persuasive and powerful vision of unity from award-winning First Nations creator Gregg Dreise. Passionate, yet peaceful, Common Wealth is a compelling plea for a future of truth…
Ambelin Kwaymullina (Author)
The Reckoning destroyed civilisation and humanity has had to rise from the ashes. But there are now people with abilities – Flyers, Firestarters, Rumblers and society is scared of them…
The Tribe is settling back into life in the Firstwood. But Ashala Wolf is struggling to control her Sleepwalking ability – it has become unpredictable and dangerous. Then Ember Crow…
A storm was stretching out across futures to swallow everything in nothing, and it was growing larger, which meant it was getting nearer…
Anita Heiss
This groundbreaking anthology aims to enlighten, inspire and educate about the lives of Aboriginal people in Australia today.
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Ellen van Neerven
Curated and introduced by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock features luminous storytelling from leading Aboriginal writers, such as Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko and Tara June Winch, as well as…
Sally Morgan
A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life for herself and…
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Bruce Pascoe
Albert Cutts is a tree feller. A fella who cuts down trees. Fog is a fox cub raised by a dingo. Hes called a dox because people are suspicious of…
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Evelyn Araluen
This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury.
Ali Cobby Eckermann
Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she…
Sally’s rich, zesty and moving work is perhaps the best loved biography of Aboriginal Australia ever written. My Place for Younger Readers is an abridged edition that retains all the…
Jazz Money
A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.
Jane Harrison
Set within the explosive cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1980s, Becoming Kirrali Lewis chronicles the journey of a young Aboriginal teenager as she leaves her home town in rural…
Meme McDonald,Boori Monty Pryor
Boori Monty Pryor’s career path has taken him from the Aboriginal fringe camps of his birth to the runway, the catwalk, the basketball court, the DJ console, and now to…
Brenton E. McKenna
It is the late 1940s and Broome, a small pearling town in the heart of an ancient land, is still recovering from WWII. Ubby, a smart, street-wise Aboriginal girl, is…
Banjo Woorunmurra,Howard Pedersen
The true story of the Aboriginal resistance fighter, Jandamarra, whose legend is etched into the Australian landscape.
Lisa Fuller
An intriguing and gripping young adult novel by the winner of the David Unaipon award.
Jared Thomas
Seventeen-year-old Phoebe’s life is turned upside down when she moves from the city to the country to live with her dad in this powerful and uplifting story about family breakdowns…