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Sophie Hardcastle
An evocative and emotionally powerful debut novel of life, death and learning to breathe in between. Sophie is an emerging Australian writer who is already receiving critical acclaim.
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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.
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Fleur Ferris
Ebony Marshall is in her final year of high school. Five months, two weeks and four days … She can’t wait to leave the town where she’s known only as…
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Emily Gale
This sweet and spellbinding story about family, friends and believing in yourself will warm your heart.
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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…
Shivaun Plozza
Originally published in Australia by Penguin Australia Pty Ltd. –Copyright page.
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Sarah Ayoub
From the much - loved author of HATE IS SUCH A STRONG WORD ‘smart, funny and relevant’ - Melina Marchetta, bestselling author of LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI, SAVING FRANCESCA and ON…
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Scot Gardner
Will went to private school, and Julian went to juvie. Will is running from a family secret, and Julian is running from the goat next door. The boys meet pushing…
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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…
Megan Jacobson
If fourteen-year-old Kirra is having a mid-life crisis now then it doesn’t bode well for her life expectancy. Her so-called friends bully her, whatever semblance of a mother she had…
Meg Caddy
When Lowell Sencha finds the strange girl lying as if dead on the riverbank, he is startled to find that she is like them: waer. Human, but able to assume…
Kirsty Eagar
Jess Gordon is out for revenge. Last year the jocks from Knights College tried to shame her best friend. This year she and a hand - picked college girl gang…
Justine Larbalestier
Che’s little sister Rosa is smart, talented, pretty, and so good at deception that Che’s convinced she must be a psychopath. She hasn’t hurt anyone yet, but he’s certain it’s…
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…
Lili Wilkinson
Astrid Katy Smythe is beautiful, smart and popular. She’s a straight - A student and a committed environmental activist. She’s basically perfect. Hiro is the opposite of perfect. He’s slouchy…
Vikki Wakefield
At seventeen, Jacklin Bates is all grown up. She’s dropped out of school. She’s living with her runaway sister, Trudy, and she’s in secret, obsessive love with Luke, who doesn’t…
Ambelin Kwaymullina (Author)
A storm was stretching out across futures to swallow everything in nothing, and it was growing larger, which meant it was getting nearer…
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Kathryn Barker
One of the most original novels I’ve read for a long while. Great voices. Complex relationships. Just what I love to read.‘ - Melina Marchetta Caught in a dreamscape, mistaken…
Sue McPherson
Written from teenager girl Fuzzy Mac’s perspective, Grace Beside Me is a quirky, warmly rendered story of home and family life in a small town. The black&write! judges remarked on…
Melina Marchetta
Five years on from Saving Francesca, Thomas Mackee is the one who needs saving. Tom wants oblivion. Wants to forget parents who leave and friends he used to care about…
Margo Lanagan
10 outstanding stories that delight, shock, intrigue, amuse and move the reader to tears with their dazzling imaginative reach, their dark humour, their subtlety, their humanity and depth of feeling.
Clare Strahan
A wonderful debut novel that captures the essence of real, messy teenage lives: of action and consequence, of poor choices and fragile friendships, of standing up for what is right…
Penni Russon
Does the world shape us, or do we shape the world? A suspenseful story of parallel realities - two girls in two worlds with two different ways to survive. ‘Fascinating…
Kelly Gardiner
England, 1640. Sixteen-year-old Isabella is forced to flee her home when her father’s radical ideas lead him into a suicidal stand against Oliver Cromwell’s army. Taking refuge in Amsterdam and…
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Jack Heath
Chloe wakes up to find all her memories are gone. The only person who knows what happened is a teenage girl who looks and sounds just like her. But who…
During a Melbourne heatwave, Hannah’s family life begins to distort beyond her deepest fears. It’s going to take more than a cool change to fix it, but how can a…
Suzy Zail
Hanna Mendel didn’t plan on her street being turned into a ghetto. She didn’t plan on being rounded up and thrown in a cattle truck. She didn’t plan on spending…
Daniel Herborn
Funny, sweet and beautifully depicted, YOU’RE THE KIND OF GIRL I WRITE SONGS ABOUT is a startlingly fresh voice from a very talented new author. Tim is repeating the HSC…
Sue Saliba
A novel about love and the things you can and can’t change, from the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for young adult fiction, Sue Saliba.
Allyse Near
With a motley pack of possibly imaginary friends watching over her, Isola Wilde feels safe, loved. But even her protectors can’t save her from the anguish of watching her mother’s…
Meg McKinlay (Author)
Beautifully crafted dystopian novel from award-winning author Meg McKinlay.
John Larkin
One moment. One pause. One whole new life. Declan seems to have it all: a family that loves him, friends he’s known for years, a beautiful girlfriend he would go…
Gripping, devastating and terrifying. The scariest thing is that everything that happens in Risk is all too possible.‘ Rebecca James, bestselling author of Beautiful Malice Taylor and Sierra have been…
A.J. Betts
The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with questionable taste in music. In the real world, he wouldn’t -…
Steph Bowe
Nina doesn’t have a conventional family. Her family robs banks. But Nina is fed up and wants things to change-she’s made a friend she’s determined to keep. Spencer and Nina…
Kelpie and Dymphna are accustomed to the mean streets of 1930s Sydney, but this is a day that will test their courage, their loyalty, and their ability to survive both…
Silence, a street kid, finds Friday and she joins him in a gang led by beautiful, charismatic Arden. When Silence is involved in a crime, the gang escapes to a…
An exciting and engaging dystopian novel in the vein of John Marsden set in outer Sydney from a brand new voice in Australian YA literature.
Erin Gough
Seventeen-year-old Delilah’s crazy life is about to get crazier. Ever since her father took off overseas, she’s been struggling to run the family’s cafe - The Flywheel - without him…
Jared Thomas
Calypso Summer is a story told by Calypso, a young Nukunu man, fresh out of high school in Rastafarian guise. After failing to secure employment in sports retail, his dream…
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…
Dianne Touchell
A devastating, compelling novel that will get everyone talking, from the author of Creepy and Maud.
Gabrielle Williams
A rock chick. An artist with attitude. A girl with a past. A party animal. Four lives collide when one of the world’s most famous paintings is stolen. It’s a…
Julia Lawrinson
Set in the wheat-belt area of Western Australia, in the 1960s, it’s about a family and a town drama, with the backdrop of racial and societal changes that were taking…
Life is made up of three parts: in the first third, you’re embarrassed by your family; in the second, you make a family of your own; and in the end…
Trinity Doyle
Lucy’s life was going as smoothly as any teenager’s could. She was the state backstroke champion, and swimming obsessed. She lived with her parents and her brother, Cam, in the…
Nicole Hayes
When is a secret not a secret? When your whole life is public. Frankie is used to being a politician’s daughter, but with her mum now running for Premier, life’s…
Alice Pung
Alice Pung tells an involving, original story that captures the drama and pain of school life today, as well as revealing much about the choices of young women.
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