Stars in their Eyes by Jessica Walton; Aśka
$19.99 AUD
Category: Graphic novel
In this debut graphic novel, pop culture-obsessed Maisie can't wait to get to her first Fancon. But being a queer, disabled teenager with chronic pain comes with challenges. Can Maisie make it through the day without falling over, falling in love or accidentally inspiring anyone? Maisie has always dream ...Show more
Girls in Boys' Cars by Felicity Castagna
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Rosa was never really trying to kill anyone, no matter what they said in court. But she's ended up in juvenile jail anyway, living her life through books and wondering why her best mate Asheeka disappeared. A page-turning novel about a complicated friendship; a road trip through NSW in a stolen car; the ...Show more
Can the Real JR Stand Up, Please by NADIA L. KING
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR When Jake Rollins isn't worrying about his dad going ape-sh*t, he's busy creating out-of- this-world manga and hanging out with his best mate. Jake and his mum spend their lives dodging Jake's dad's fists, but it's the last year of high school and Jake has the perfect plan to escape ho ...Show more
Skin Deep by Hayley Lawrence
$15.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Scarlett was gifted with beauty. But beauty can be taken in a day, in a single moment, by one car fire. Now permanently disfigured, Scarlett has become a smudge in her perfect world. She can see only one acceptable solution: to escape the modern world for Matilda Mountain, which is desolate, isolated, f ...Show more
How to Repaint a Life (CBCA Honours 2022) by Steven Herrick
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A powerful prose novel from one of Australia's most awarded authors.Isaac is running from his old life when he steps off the bus in a small town. He doesn't plan on sticking around and has nowhere to stay, but a local cafe owner's kindness offers him a chance to change his story. Then Isaac meets Sophie ...Show more
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
$19.99 AUD
Category: Older readers | Reading Level: very good
Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark ha ...Show more
Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the award-winning author of the CBCA shortlisted When the Ground is Hard, comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and an uplifting story of how friendship saves and heals. Fifteen-year-old Amandla's mother has always been strange. For starters, she's a white woman living in Sugar Town, one of ...Show more
Henry Hamlet's Heart by Rhiannon Wilde
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
I'm losing it because I kissed you / Because I kissed you I might lose you. Henry Hamlet doesn't know what he wants after school ends. It's his last semester of year twelve and all he's sure of is his uncanny ability to make situations awkward. Luckily, he can always hide behind his enigmatic best frien ...Show more
Social Queue by Kay Kerr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A funny and insightful Own-Voices novel about an autistic teen who realises she's been missing all the signs when it comes to her romantic life. I thought I was nobody's teen crush, but turns out I was just missing the signs. Zoe Kelly is starting a new phase of her life. High school was a mess of bully ...Show more
The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's Karnawal season in a snow-cloaked kingdom of Lechija, a time of wintry balls and wicked disguises, and cavalcades of nightly torch-lit sleigh-parties. But among the oblivious merrymakers, two monsters join in the fun, descending upon the ancient capital in the guise of two innocent girls. Newfound ...Show more
The Gaps by Leanne Hall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What does it mean to be the one left behind? When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of Yin being found alive is becoming smaller and smaller. Police suspect the abd ...Show more
Road Tripping with Pearl Nash by Poppy Nwosu
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friendship with a whirlwind end-of-year road trip that is definitely, absolutely, most positively going to solve all her problems. Except, instead of her best friend Daisy's feet on her dash, suddenly Pearl ends ...Show more