The Secret Runners of New York by Matthew Reilly
$18.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: 8
THE COMING END When Skye Rogers and her twin brother Red move to Manhattan, rumours of a coming global apocalypse are building. But this does not stop the young elite of New York from partying without a care. CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? And then suddenly Skye is invited to join an exclusive gang known as the ...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
Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth by Anna Fienberg
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Frances is in a new house in a new neighbourhood and going to a new school, but no amount of new can make her forget the old, sad secret dragging at her heart. Not the pictures of bacteria that she draws with painstaking precision, not even Picasso, the puppy with the long soft ears and the cute black c ...Show more
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
$15.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortuneteller's mysterious answer (An elephant An elephant will lead him there ) sets o ...Show more
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time by Mark Haddon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Mark Haddon's bestselling The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is an unusual detective story written from the perspective of an autistic boy. Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock ...Show more
Ursa by Tina Shaw
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Dystopian
This alternate history coming-of-age YA is the Winner of the 2018 Storylines Tessa Duder Award. “An inferior people, that’s what the Director called us at the beginning of his reign, but still useful.” There are two peoples living in the city of Ursa: the Cerels and the Travesters. Travesters move free ...Show more
Cop and Robber by Tristan Bancks
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
If your mum was a cop and your dad was a crim who needed your help to commit a crime, would you do it to save him? At what cost? Nash Hall's dad is a criminal who just can't seem to go straight. He wants Nash to help him commit a robbery. A big one. The trouble is, Nash's mum is a cop. And the robbery ...Show more
Gus and the Starlight by Victoria Carless
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
A spine-tingling and heart-warming story about friendship and finding your special place in the world. Gus doesn't want to make friends. She also doesn't want to be intrigued by the cat-lady teacher at her new school, or the Riley's Comet project that she and her seaweed-eating science partner are worki ...Show more
The Raven's Song by Zana Fraillon, Bren MacDibble
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
A wonderful children's novel by two stellar writers featuring Shelby and Phoenix, living 100 years apart yet unexpectedly joined across time - and each make the discovery of a lifetime that has the potential to upend their worlds. 'This is how we have to live now.'Shelby and her best friend Davy live qu ...Show more
90 Packets of Instant Noodles by Deb Fitzpatrick
$17.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Australians eat 150 million packets of instant noodles every year - that's about 7 packets each. But Joel is a teenager who goes to extremes, and 90 packets may not be enough.Joel and Craggs are in it together. They drink booze together, they flirt with petty theft together and, when Craggs turn violent ...Show more
The History of Mischief by Rebecca Higgie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Older readers | Reading Level: very good
When Jessie and her older sister Kay find a book called The History of Mischief,hidden beneath the floorboards in their grandmother's house, they uncover asecret world. The History chronicles how, since antiquity, mischief-makers haveclandestinely shaped the past - from an Athenian slave to a Polish sal ...Show more
We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that ...Show more