Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Aboriginal teenager
Set within the explosive cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1980s, Becoming Kirrali Lewis chronicles the journeyof a young First Nations Australian teenager as she leaves her home town in rural Victoria to take on a law degree in the city of Melbourne in 1985. Adopted at birth by a white family, Kirrali d ...Show more
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Staff notes: This is such a special novel. It is, as stated on the cover, a love story, but it's not just a romantic love story. It's also a love of books and words, love of the ocean and sky. It's about family, change, loss and the future. And it contains within its pages one of the best ideas ever ... ...Show more
The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A powerful, lyrical novel about friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma, love and our hopeless, hopeful world from the award-winning author of How It Feels to Float. George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says ...Show more
The Royal Ranger (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger #1) by John Flanagan
$17.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Ranger's Apprentice and The Royal Ranger
From #1 New York Times bestselling author John Flanagan comes the story that brings the Ranger's Apprentice series full-circle and ushers in a brand new arc starring Maddie, the Royal Ranger. Will Treaty has come a long way from the small boy with dreams of knighthood. Life had other plans for him, and ...Show more
Pennies For Hitler by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Matilda | Reading Level: very good
It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi ...Show more
Grenade by Alan Gratz
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war. Hideki lives with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When the Second World War crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions: Don't come back until you've killed an ...Show more
Boss Girl (Girltopia #2) by Hilary Rogers
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Girltopia
Girltopia, as everyone now calls the city, is in the grip of a strange virus that affects only men and boys. In the race to find a cure for the virus, Clara and her bestie Arabella have a secret to keep. And it is a big secret. When Clara starts receiving strange messages from a mysterious group called ...Show more
Imagine Me (#6 Shatter Me) by Tahereh Mafi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Shatter Me
The explosive finale to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series. Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie? Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the ...Show more
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A modern cult classic, a major motion picture and a timeless bestseller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story. Charlie is not the biggest geek in high school, but he's by no means popular.Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years, caught between trying to live ...Show more
The Queen's Resistance (#2 The Queen's Rising) by Rebecca Ross
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Queen's Rising Ser.
The epic sequel to THE QUEEN'S RISING: a tale of love, rebellion, alliance and betrayal, from the extraordinary Sunday Times and New York Times number-one-bestselling author of DIVINE RIVALS. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J Maas and Shelby Mahurin. Brienna and her new family have restored th ...Show more