All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell
$24.99 AUD
Category: non-fiction picture book | Reading Level: very good
Smart is not just ticks and crosses,smart is building boats from boxes.Painting patterns, wheeling wagons,being mermaids, riding dragons … From the award-winning creators of The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella comes this joyful ode to all the unique and wonderful qualities that ...Show more
Be More Bernard by Simon Philip
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Staff notes: This is an absolute shop favourite. Bernard is a rabbit, but he’s not like all the other rabbits. Let’s just say he’s a little bit… curious. While all the other rabbits dream of carrots, Bernard dreams of disco. When the others hop, he bounces, and when they bounce, he hops. Bernard refuses ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird (Vintage Classics) by Harper Lee
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidd ...Show more
The Storm Keeper's Island (#1 Storm Keeper) by Catherine Doyle
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Storm Keeper Quartet
Catherine Doyle's stunning middle-grade debut, an evocative tale of ancient magic, bravery, and family bonds."Fans of Harry Potter or Percy Jackson can add Fionn Boyle as a generous and brave hero from the Emerald Isle." - School Library Connection When Fionn Boyle sets foot on Arranmore Island, it beg ...Show more
Pax (#1 Pax) by Sara Pennypacker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
National Book Award Longlist * New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year This paperback edition has french flaps. From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
The Wild Robot (#1) by Peter Brown
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Wild Robot
Wall-E meets Hatchet in this New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got th ...Show more
The Power by Naomi Alderman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION** What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ...Show more
Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
This CBCA Honour Book from the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Lenny's Book of Everything is a magical tale about a girl who saves a dragon and rescues her family. How to save a dragon:1)Assemble equipment. Water, Weet-Bix, sugar, syringe, sticky tape, scissors.2)Believe in everything.Pip ...Show more
Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds by Jeremy Lachlan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Jane Doe Chronicles
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. When a fierce quake strikes the remote island of Bluehaven, and her father disappears, Jane Doe is thrown headfirst into an epic quest to br ...Show more
Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief: CBCA Honour Book 2022 by Katrina Nannestad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Readers Cup 2023 Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards for Childrens Literature Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ... Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her rou ...Show more
In the Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: General Adult
A moving, sweet and uplifting novel of love, grief and the heartache of letting go, from a wonderful new Australian author. Cate Carlton has recently died, yet she is able to linger on, watching her three young children and her husband as they come to terms with their life without her on their rural hor ...Show more