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Will Kostakis
The relationship between three very different teen boys changes as they mourn the death of their mutual best friend, in this heart-wrenching story from an award-winning Australian author about grief…
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Zana Fraillon
Subhi’s imagination is as big as the ocean and wide as the sky, but his world is much smaller: he’s spent his whole life in an immigration detention centre. The…
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Hilary Reyl
A heartwarming and original story about acceptance, falling in love for the first time and learning that the line between reality and imagination does not have to be fixed.
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Darren Groth
A tough, funny, touching story of the echoes left behind by tragedy and the bonds carried forward by healing.
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Pip Harry
Meet Tiny and Nola. Two very different girls with two very different stories who are just trying to find a place to belong. A powerful and compelling novel about friendship…
Elizabeth Acevedo
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do…
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Nicola Yoon
Madeline Whittier is allergic to the outside world. So allergic, in fact, that she has never left the house in all of her seventeen years. But when Olly moves in…
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Wai Chim
This incredible tale about two boys’ swim from mainland China to Hong Kong in search of freedom from poverty and oppression is inspired by a true story.
Clementine Beauvais
A wickedly funny and life-affirming coming-of-age roadtrip story - winner of France’s biggest prize for teen and YA fiction.
Shivaun Plozza
Originally published in Australia by Penguin Australia Pty Ltd. –Copyright page.
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…
Claire Zorn
CBCA Book of the Year Award Winner (Older Readers) 2017
Sam stared at the picture of the boy about to be tipped off the edge of the world: the crushing…
Amy Reed
Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives…
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Mal Peet,Meg Rosoff
The final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, with all the characteristic beauty and strenth of his prose.
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Demet Divaroren
We all love someone. We all fear something. Sometimes they live right next door - or even closer.
Aisha Saeed
Aisha Saeed’s middle-grade debut tells the compelling story of a girl’s fight to regain her life and dreams after being forced into indentured servitude.
Mark Smith
Mark Smith’s The Road to Winter tells a thrilling, primal, twenty-first century story of courage and survival in the Australian wilderness.
Meredith Russo
Meet Morgan and Eric: born on the same day, at the same time and bonded for life.
Alison Evans
Highway Bodies is a unique zombie apocalypse story featuring a range of queer and gender non-conforming teens who have lost their families and friends and can only rely upon each…
Helena Fox
A stunning, profound, deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice in YA.
Deb Caletti
Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, eighteen, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her…
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Robert Newton
I don’t know if it’s possible for people to change, not really. The way you’re made up, the important stuff, I reckon you’re born with that…when it matters, when it…
Harriet Reuter Hapgood
A teen artist loses her ability to see colour when her mother mysteriously disappears in this story of grief and healing reminiscent of Jandy Nelson.
Samira Ahmed
New York Times bestselling and Carnegie Prize-nominated author Samira Ahmed (Love, Hate and Other Filters) fights against Islamophobia and complicit silence in a novel about a futuristic internment camp for…
Eleni Hale
A heartbreaking novel of raw survival and hope, and the children society likes to forget. A stunning and unforgettable debut YA.
Clare Atkins
Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Older Readers 2019. Ana’s in a detention centre and Jono’s life is spiralling out of control. Can their growing romance…
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…
Kathleen Loughnan
A fresh and compelling novel about an Aboriginal scholarship student and her surprising final year of school.
Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. As the daughter of an underground rap legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s got…
Laurie Halse Anderson
Resonant and fiercely authentic. This timely, critically acclaimed and award-winning modern classic about a high school sexual assault is now a powerful graphic novel.
A novel about growing up in a migrant Asian family with a mother who is suffering from mental illness from the highly commended author of Freedom Swimmer
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Holden Sheppard
Invisible Boys is a raw, confronting YA novel that explores the complexities and trauma of rural gay identity with painful honesty, devastating consequences and, ultimately, hope.
Vikki Wakefield
A gritty, ultimately triumphant novel from one of Australia’s most loved YA writers, the author of award-winning Friday Brown
