Young adult
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
All southpaws can attest to our brilliance: take Albert Einstein or Marie Curie – both brilliant lefties. See also, Leonardo da Vinci. I might be biased here, but combine that left-handed brilliance with bookselling and all manner of awesome things…
Before the Beginning by Anna Morgan
Following the end of their VCE exams, four teenagers embark on Schoolies intent on celebrating the end of high school and the start of their new-found adulthood. There, they find themselves inexplicably drawn towards a mysterious guitarist named Sierra, who…
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
Nina LaCour’s Watch Over Me is a work that sits comfortably in a COVID world where life feels disconnected and set apart, and where isolation may be our best hope for safe haven. This is a story about Mila. As…
Grown by Tiffany D Jackson
In Grown, a book about a talented young singer whose big chance to succeed comes at a price, Tiffany D. Jackson reminds readers that the conflicting pressures we put on teenage girls can have disastrous consequences.
Enchanted Jones is…
Future Girl by Asphyxia
Written by Deaf artist and writer Asphyxia, Future Girl is a remarkable Own Voices story about a Deaf girl, set in a near-future inner-city Melbourne where food security is under threat. Portrayed as the private art journal of sixteen-year-old Piper…
None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney
Some say there are no new stories under the sun, and the longstanding tradition of YA reimaginings of classic stories suggests there’s some truth to this old adage. Ellie Marney’s None Shall Sleep follows this trend, taking inspiration from The…
The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
In the first of a new fantasy duology, readers are swept into an exciting world that embraces science and magic, an ancient prophecy, a goddess, and a prince who literally falls from the clouds. Nimh is considered a living goddess…
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The latest novel by the author of The War that Saved My Life is a powerful, first-person story from the perspective of ten-year-old Della, who has been the victim of a sexual assault. She and her sister, Suki, are in…
The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Flora has been living on the pirate ship Dove as the boy Florian, along with her brother Alfie, her only living family. Life on the Dove is brutal – for the well-heeled passengers, who are informed mid-journey that they are…
The F Team by Rawah Arja
Tariq Nader is lucky enough to have a close group of friends in his life – dubbed ‘The Wolf Pack’ – but his under-resourced high school is struggling. Constant negative media attention has whipped up suspicions that Punchbowl High is…
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