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Barry Jonsberg
Rob has a huge crush on the new girl at school. But Rob is painfully shy and suffers severe panic attacks. How is her heart to be won? Another wonderful…
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R. J. Palacio
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don’t make other…
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Davina Bell
When lifelong friends Lola, Belle, Maisie and Sophia reunite at their beloved Corner Park Clubhouse for the winter school holidays, Lola has a great idea: they’ll enter the local drama…
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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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Gary Paulsen
The internationally best-selling story of survival against the odds, now with a striking new cover look to celebrate its 30th anniversary
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Ann M. Martin
Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey are best friends and founding members of The Baby-sitters Club.
Phillip Pullman
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra’s search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen…
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Christopher Paolini
When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the…
Andy Mulligan
Raphael lives on a dumpsite, eking out a living sifting through rubbish. One unlucky-lucky day, he makes an extraordinary and deadly discovery. Now he and his two friends, Gardo and…
Ransom Riggs
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable…
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Louis Sachar
“This is a story of friendship with the cleverest of plot twists, and descriptions so vivid you can feel the heat of Stanley’s desert prison burning off the page. A…
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…
Tristan Bancks
In the middle of the night, Sam is woken by angry voices from the apartment above. He goes to the window to see what’s happening - only to hear a…
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham
Bestselling author Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham’s middle grade graphic novel about the happiness and heartache of making first friends.
Jack Cheng
An astonishingly moving middle-grade debut about a space-obsessed boy’s quest for family and home.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied,Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Layla’s mind goes a million miles a minute, so does her mouth - unfortunately her better judgement can take a while to catch up!
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Jaclyn Moriarty
Long ago, the little Prince of Cloudburst was stolen from the seashore by a Water Sprite. Now, ten years later, the prince has found his way home. The King and…
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…
Laugh-out-loud funny and wonderfully touching, H is for Happiness is the film based on Barry Jonsberg’s award-winning novel My Life as an Alphabet.
Raina Telgemeier
Callie loves theater and this year she’s determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a school budget.
Kate Constable
When twelve-year old Clancy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Tash, visit their Pa at his aged-care facility, they have no idea that the three of them will soon set out on…
Rebecca Stead
Miranda and Sal are friends, but when Sal gets punched by a kid for no apparent reason, he shuts Miranda out of his life. Then she finds a mysterious note…
Jeremy Lachlan
Step inside. Don’t look back. Forward is the only way. His Dark Materials meets Mad Max in this unforgettable blockbuster adventure about the world between worlds.
Derek Landy
Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course). Oh yeah. And dead. Then there’s…
Robert Muchamore
The first title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James hits rock bottom before he’s offered a new start in an intriguing organisation …
Robin Stevens
When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless…
Danielle Binks
One extraordinary year will change them all…
Amy Sarig King
The new middle-grade novel from the acclaimed YA author known as A.S. King, The Year We Fell from Space is a delightfully moving story of twelve-year-old budding astronomer Liberty as…
Kelly Yang
Recent immigrants from China, desperate for money, ten-year-old Mia Tang’s parents take a job managing a rundown Southern California motel for skinflint Mr. Yao, whose son is the only other…
Jerry Spinelli
Before ELEANOR AND PARK, there was STARGIRL. The seminal life-affirming YA novel celebrating first love and self-acceptance - now in a beautiful new edition for the next generation of readers.
From the award-winning Jaclyn Moriarty comes a spellbinding tale of unlikely friendship, unexpected magic and competitive athletics.
An enchanting and whimsical spell-filled fantasy novel from Jaclyn Moriarty, the award-winning author of Feeling Sorry for Celia and A Corner of White, suitable for readers who loved A Most…
A gripping time-slip adventure, in the tradition of Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Exploring the diaspora experience, race, politics and identity, Listen, Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied is an own voices novel for young readers, which bursts with passion, humour and truth.
Ursula Le Guin
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
Jane Godwin
A runaway boy, a baby and a whole lot of questions…
A brilliant and timely middle-grade novel from the bestselling author of My Life As An Alphabet and A Song Only I Can Hear.
Rebecca Lim
Wen Zhou is determined to create a future for herself that is more satisfying than the life her parents expect her to lead. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter…
Chris Vick
Storm, shipwreck, survival. This novel delves deep into the might and majesty of the unpredictable ocean, the strength of an unlikely friendship between a British boy and a Berber girl…
Nova Weetman
Clem Timmins can’t wait to see her best friends after being apart all summer holidays. But when they get back together, things have changed.
A beautiful coming-of-age story about identity, expectation, class, justice, society, fairness, and, above all, kindness.
David Levithan
The wonderful debut middle-grade novel by New York Times bestselling author David Levithan.
