Loner by Georgina Young
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers | Reading Level: very good
Loner is a book about drifting. About having been good at school and seemingly destined for great things but, once thrust into the structureless maelstrom of the adult world, simply... stalling. Stalling, and waiting, and doing not much of anything except feeling a lot of things. And then maybe watching ...Show more
Peta Lyre's Rating Normal by Anna Whateley
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
At sixteen, neurodivergent Peta Lyre is the success story of social training. That is, until she finds herself on a school ski trip - and falling in love with the new girl. Peta will need to decide which rules to keep, and which rules to break... I'm Peta Lyre,' I mumble. Look people in the eye if you c ...Show more
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (#1 Old World Police TPB) by Garth Nix
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers | Series: Old World Police | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Angel Mage, this new fantasy adventure set in 1980s London follows one girl's quest to find her father, leading her to a secret society of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World when it disastrously intrudes into the modern world. Eighteen-year-old ...Show more
Where We Begin by Christie Nieman
$19.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
Seventeen-year-old Anna is running into the night. Fleeing her boyfriend, her mother, and everything she has known. She is travelling into the country, to the land and the grandparents she has never met, looking for answers to questions that have never been asked. For every family has secrets. But some ...Show more
Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
Fourteen-year-old Dylan has always been troubled by her black skin, the legacy of her absent father. She lives with her French mother, and together they dream of one day sailing across the water to France. But when her mother dies in a freak accident, Dylan finds herself on a very different journey- a r ...Show more
Please Don’t Hug Me by Kay Kerr
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
The most stressful interactions for me are ones like this, where the person's face says one thing but their words say another. Which one am I supposed to believe? Faces seem to be more truthful, but people always act as though their words are the only things that matter. Erin is looking forward to schoo ...Show more
The Lost Soul Atlas by Zana Fraillon
$19.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
One street-boy's quest to reunite and make amends with his best friend told in an epic story that spans a city, a decade, and the divide of life and death itself. From the award-winning author of The Bone Sparrow. A boy awakens in the Afterlife, with a pocketful of vague memories, a key, a raven, and a ...Show more
Deep Water by Sarah Epstein
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
A suspenseful mystery about a missing boy and a group of teenagers, one of whom knows something but isn't telling, from the award-winning author of Small Spaces. HENRY WEAVER IS MISSING Three months ago, thirteen-year-old Henry disappeared from The Shallows during a violent storm, leaving behind his m ...Show more
When It Drops by Alex Dyson
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
Caleb Clifford has earbuds, not real buds. And he prefers it that way. 1. They always give him what he wants to hear. 2. He can adjust the volume. 3. If things get tangled, it's relatively easy to straighten them out again ... Sixteen-year-old songwriter and aspiring social outcast Caleb Clifford fills ...Show more
The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love by Davina Bell
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
She said we didn't know what the world out there had become. We had been alone there so long on that tiny island, in that tiny church. But in the night, I couldn't bear it. My chest beat like wings. Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from a destroyed world ...Show more
Future Girl by Asphyxia
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
Piper's mum wants her to be 'normal', to pass as hearing and get a good job. But when peak oil hits and Melbourne lurches towards environmental catastrophe, Piper has more important things to worry about, such as how to get food. When she meets Marley, a CODA (child of Deaf adult), a door opens into a n ...Show more
The F Team by Rawah Arja
$23.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers | Reading Level: 14+
Age range 14+ Meet Tariq Nader, leader of 'The Wolf Pack' at Punchbowl High, who has been commanded by the new principal to join a football competition with his mates in order to rehabilitate the public image of their school. When the team is formed, Tariq learns there's a major catch – half of the team ...Show more