Exit Through the Gift Shop by Maryam Master
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
Anahita Rosalind Ghorban-Galaszczuk (yes, that really is her name but you can call her Ana) is discovering that life is absurd. As if dying of cancer at the age of 12.5 isn't bad enough, she still has to endure daily insults from her nemesis, Alyssa (Queen Mean) Anderson. Ana's on a wild rollercoaster o ...Show more
Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
From the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Lenny's Book of Everything comes 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 never wants to ...Show more
Pawcasso by Remy Lai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers | Series: Remy Lai
A delightful graphic novel about friendship and belonging, starring the world's most adorable dog, perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Guts. Every Saturday, Pawcasso trots into town with a basket, a shopping list, and cash in paw to buy groceries for his family. One day, he passes by Jo's house, wher ...Show more
Mim and the Baffling Bully (The Travelling Bookshop, #1): CBCA Notable Book 2022 by Katrina Nannestad
$15.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers | Series: The Travelling Bookshop
The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arriv ...Show more
The Right Way to Rock by Nat Amoore
$14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers
Without music, the world is just blah. That's my take on life, anyway. Mum says rock is the only music worth listening to, but I think everyone should find their own beat. When I hear that Principal Keiren plans to cut all of the arts classes at Watterson Primary, there's no way me and my new mate Flynn ...Show more
The Detective's Guide to Ocean Travel by Nicki Greenberg
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Detective's Guide
The first middle-grade novel from award-winning author Nicki Greenberg, this book is a classic whodunnit mystery set aboard a grand ocean liner in the 1920s. For as long as she can remember, Pepper Stark has wanted one thing: to join her father, the Captain, aboard the magnificent RMS Aquitania on a voy ...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
A Glasshouse of Stars: Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Younger Readers 2022 by Shirley Marr
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers
An exquisite, heartbreakingly beautiful gem of a novel for anyone who loved Wonder, Lenny's Book of Everything, A Monster Calls or When You Reach Me.'Heart-twisting and hopeful, bursting with big feelings and gentle magic. This is a special book from a powerful, compassionate new voice in children's lit ...Show more
Always (#7 Felix & Zelda) by Morris Gleitzman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Felix & Zelda
The final part in the highly moving 'Once' sequence about Felix, who began life in an orphanage, hiding from the Nazis. Late in life, Felix finds himself back where he started, living in an aged-care home that reminds him of his childhood orphanage. He's not happy. His body might be old, but his spirit ...Show more
Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows (#1) by Denis Knight, Cristy Burne
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Wednesday Weeks | Reading Level: near fine
In a world of magic, can science save the day? Wednesday Weeks never wanted to be a sorcerer's apprentice. She'd rather study science than magic. But when her cloak-wearing, staff-wielding grandpa is captured by a power-hungry goblin king, Wednesday must find a way to embrace her magical heritage and re ...Show more
Little Gem by Anna Zobel
$14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers
Sometimes getting a little lost can help you discover who you really are... When a travelling spell goes terribly wrong, Gem finds herself in a strange, empty house, outside a strange, colourful town. She's certainly not in Witchcraft School any more. In fact, she's not even in the right time any more. ...Show more
Elsewhere Girls by Emily Gale, Nova Weetman
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's midnight and I'm alone in the kitchen eating a cold potato scallop. Coach O'Call would say something like, 'That's not what I expect from a scholarship girl!' because I have to be up for squad training in five hours and I'm not supposed to go near potato scallops, and--oh, yeah--it's my fifth. Cat ...Show more