Unnecessary Drama by Nina Kenwood
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
From the author of the much-loved It Sounded Better It My Head comes a deliciously entertaining new rom-com, set in a run-down student share house in Melbourne. Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone's birthdays, but also organises the group present, pays for it, ...Show more
We Who Hunt the Hollow (#1 Hollow) by Kate Murray
$22.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers | Series: Hollow
A firecracker urban fantasy about the youngest daughter of a family of women warriors, and the power she wishes she had... Seventeen-year-old Priscilla Daalman's entire family are Hollow Warriors - legendary monster hunters charged with killing evil beasts from beyond our universe. She's desperate to ...Show more
Where You Left Us by Rhiannon Wilde
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
An evocative YA mash-up that's like Wuthering Heights meets Sherlock Holmes, with Taylor Swift's evermore as the soundtrack. Think Kristen Stewart playing Heathcliff, and Holmes and Watson as teenagers with social anxiety - all set on the beach.Cinnamon Prince is angry. She's living at home with her roc ...Show more
The Wearing of the Green by Claire Saxby
$19.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
A powerful historical novel exploring themes of racism, classism and gender expectations present in a growing nation. When Biddy arrives in Melbourne from Ireland in 1850, she knows exactly what she’s going to do – find her rebellious big brother, Ewen. Her plans are derailed when he’s not there to meet ...Show more
Slipping the Noose (CBCA Notable 2023) by Meg Caddy
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
This rollicking historical novel from Australian writer Meg Caddy takes us into the world of real-life pirate Anne Bonny, picking up her story where history left off. The way out is through. Anne Bonny is chained up in the hold of a prison ship, nursing nine-month-old Molly. The baby is all she has lef ...Show more
Scorpion Falls by Martin Chatterton
$19.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
Age range 11-18Loner Theo Sumner is a 14-year-old living in the isolated Queensland mining town of Scorpion Falls.Following the arrival of an unsettling guest at the Iguana Motel, teenagers start disappearing in mysterious circumstances.As Theo looks for answers, he is drawn deeper into the murky underb ...Show more
The Stand In by A J Rushby
$19.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
When new girl Millie shows up at Lena’s boarding school, she arrives with a question. Why is Lena pretending to be someone she’s not? Lena ignores her. Until Millie shows her photo after photo of someone who looks like her. Exactly like her. Intrigued, Lena agrees to meet her look-alike, Saskia. Saskia ...Show more
Triple Threat by Katy Warner
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
A contemporary young adult novel about musical theatre, first romance and standing up for yourself from the brilliant Australian YA author Katy Warner. At the prestigious performing arts school Arcadia Grammar, the theatre kids and the musical theatre kids have just one rule: you DO NOT go for each othe ...Show more
Invisibly Grace (CBCA Notable 2023) by McDougall, Avery
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
Set in a fictional suburb of Launceston about a young woman with an autoimmune disease. Grace's family is new to the state and she tries to hide her invisible illness at her new school. Grace makes friends and enemies, adores her sister, gets diagnosed with mixed connective tissue disorder, and looks to ...Show more
A Little Spark by Barry Jonsberg
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
From the bestselling multi-award-winning author of My Life as an Alphabet and A Song Only I Can Hear comes another wonderful middle fiction novel that is warm, upbeat, intriguing and wholly absorbing. I don't tell Mum and Sam anything about my weekends with Dad. It would be giving them tickets into that ...Show more
Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending (CBCA Notable 2023) by Jodi McAlister
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
Nineteen-year-old Libby Lawrence is good at pretending. Problem is, she's not entirely sure how to stop. Which is good for her role in the campus production of Much Ado About Nothing ... but poses problems in her personal life. Especially when the list of things she can't admit to, even to her best frie ...Show more
Interned (CBCA Notable 2023) by Pamela Rushby
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2023 Older Readers
Based on true events, Interned is a moving, well-researched and evocative historical fiction novel that highlights an often forgotten moment in Australian history. It’s 1914. Gretta lives a privileged life in Singapore, the daughter of a businessman; Tilly lives a modest life in Brisbane, the daughter ...Show more