| Author: | Davina Bell |
| Category: |
non-fiction picture book |
| Awards: | Winner - ABIA Picture Book of the Year - 2019 |
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 co... read more
| Author: | Sally Rippin |
| Category: |
Junior Readers |
| Series: | Polly and Buster |
What would you do if everyone thought your best friend was dangerous? Polly the witch and Buster the monster shouldn't be friends. And they definitely shouldn't be on the run from almost everyone in town. But when Polly is called to... read more
| Author: | Jessica Townsend |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Series: | Nevermoor Ser. |
| Awards: | Winner, Book of the Year 2018 at the Indie Book Awards. Winner, Children's Book Category at the Indie Book Awards. Winner, Best Children's Fiction at the Aurealis Awards. Winner, Younger Fiction at the Waterstones Children's Book Prize (UK). A CBCA Notable book.Longlisted for the ABIA Awards. Shortlisted for the Readings Children's Book Prize. |
Morrigan Crow's adventures in the magical world of Nevermoor continue . . . The most anticipated sequel of the year - a treat for all fans of magic and 'wunder... read more
| Author: | Karen Foxlee |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Reading Level: | 8 Kids Middle Readers |
| Awards: | Shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year: Older Reader 2019 |
Perfect for readers who love Liar and Spy, Counting by 7s, and Bridge to Terabithia, a heartwarming and transformative novel about family, loss, and never giving up from beloved author Karen Foxlee.
Lenny Spink is the sister of a gia... read more
| Author: | Sally Rooney |
| Category: |
Contemporary |
| Awards: | 2018 Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year Winner of the 2018 Costa Novel Award LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction |
A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud and ... read more
| Author: | Neal Shusterman |
| Category: |
Science Fiction/Dystopian |
| Series: | Arc of a Scythe |
Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Michael L Printz Honor award book, the first in a chilling new series from the author of the New York Times' bestselling Unwind dystology.
| Author: | Sally Rippin |
| Category: |
Junior Readers |
| Series: | Polly and Buster |
From Australia's best-selling female author, Sally Rippin, comes Polly and Buster - a brand new junior fiction series about the magic of friendship. Who ever heard of a witch and a monster being friends? &... read more
| Author: | Jessica Townsend |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Series: | Nevermoor |
| Awards: | Winner Gold ABIA for Book of the Year 2018 Winner ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Readers Winner Jessica Townsend 2018 ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year Winner Children's Fiction and Overall Book of the Year 2018 Indie Book Awards Winner Younger Reader's Category for the 2018 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Notabled CBCA Book of the Year Younger Readers Category 2018 |
A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world-but is then tested beyond her wildest imaginationMorrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on E... read more
| Author: | Brooke Davis |
| Category: |
Contemporary |
| Awards: | Winner of ABIA Australian General Fiction Book of the Year 2015 and ABIA Australian Newcomer of the Year (Debut Writer) 2015. |
At seven years old, Millie Bird realises that everything is dying around her. She wasn't to know that after she had recorded twenty-seven assorted creatures in her Book of Dead Things her dad would be a Dead Thing, too. Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and has not left her house since h... read more
| Author: | Cressida Cowell |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Series: | The\Wizards of Once Ser. |
No.1 Bestselling Series from the Blue Peter Award winning author of How To Train Your Dragon. Enter a land of wizards, warriors, mythical creatures and powerful magic in an exciting new fantasy adventure. Witches are creating havoc in the Wildwoods and danger ... read more
| Author: | Gail Honeyman |
| Category: |
Contemporary |
| Reading Level: | very good |
| Awards: | Winner Book of the Year - British Book Awards 2018 Winner Costa Debut Book of the Year 2018 Longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction |
Eleanor lives a highly regulated life, struggles with social cues, has no mouth “filter” and relaxes on the weekend eating pizza and consuming two bottles of vodka, feeling she’s completely fine. When her work computer malfunctions, t... read more
| Author: | Anna James |
| Category: |
Middle Readers |
| Series: | Pages and Co Ser. |
A captivating, curl-up-on-the-sofa debut about the magic of books and the power of the imagination.
Since her mother's disappearance, eleven-year-old Tilly has found comfort in stories at Pages & Co., her grandparents' bookshop. But when her f... read more
