Uncle Xbox by Jared Thomas
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Age range 7 to 12 ‘Nooooo,’ I yelled and then Mum ran into the room in panic.‘What is it, what is it?!’ she yelled, shaking me by the shoulder.‘Mum, Marcus took the Xbox,’ I cried.‘Good!’ Mum said, ‘Maybe now you can help out with the chores a bit more.’Dusty spends a lot of time playing games online, a ...Show more
The Power of Being Odd (The Odds, #3) by Matt Stanton
$16.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers | Series: The\Odds Ser.
Two worlds collide in this conclusion to The Odds trilogy Kip, Dad and the Odds are trapped inside Kip's imagination and now they have a choice - to remain safe in the world of her imagination OR to try and escape. While fully exploring the world of her imagination, Kip discovers that her two worlds are ...Show more
The Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is mor ...Show more
The Mud Puddlers by Pamela Rushby
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
What lies hidden in the mud? What might happen if you look at it too long? And what will happen if you let it go? Twelve-year-old Nina is not happy. Her scientist parents are spending a year in Antarctica. And Nina's being sent to London to stay with her Aunt Bee, an intertidal archaeologist, who lives ...Show more
Scar Town by Tristan Bancks
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A missing father. A drowned town. A buried secret. Three friends on a dangerous mission to uncover the truth.Seven years after Old Scarborough was drowned, a house is emerging from the water. Will and his friends Dar and Juno dare each other to explore it.But when they find bones - and a stash of cash - ...Show more
Flap Out (#11 Real Pigeons) by Andrew McDonald
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers | Series: Real Pigeons Ser.
Ever wonder why pigeons always act so weird? It's because they're out there chasing the bad guys and saving your butts! The Real Pigeons love flapping around the city and fighting crime. But when lunches start mysteriously DISAPPEARING from tummies, a LOOKALIKE pigeon makes evil plans and a dangerous D ...Show more
Saving Charli by Di Walker
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Who are you when your other half is gone? Twelve-year-old Charli knows no other way of being than as a twin. But when her twin sister, Freya, succumbs to a lifelong battle with illness, Charli, consumed by grief, retreats into a tent in her backyard. Closed off from her family and friends, Charli risks ...Show more
Meet Me at the Moon Tree by Shivaun Plozza
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A tender Australian story about searching for the impossible in the places where magic and science meet.For Carina Sugden, there is nothing more special than a moon tree - a tree grown from the seeds taken on the 1971 Apollo mission into space. Her father taught her everything she knows about them. But ...Show more
Being Jimmy Baxter by Fiona Lloyd
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A gently funny yet powerful coming-of-age middle grade novel about surviving the odds, unlikely friendships and the magical music of Elvis.It's not eggsactly easy being Jimmy Baxter 'cause- The real Jimmy's hiding inside Ned Kelly's giving him the evil eye Mum's stopped going to work and stays in bed Th ...Show more
Aggie Flea is Not a Liar! (Aggie Flea #1) by Tania Ingram
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Meet Aggie Flea—a girl with a big imagination ... that lands her in even bigger trouble! When a mysterious new neighbour arrives in the middle of the night, Aggie’s convinced he’s a vampire! Can she prove it? Or will everyone think she’s a liar?
The Unlikely Heroes Club by Kate Foster
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A fun, frolicking adventure about five kids with a mystery to solve! Eleven-year-old Oli is spending his school holidays at Heroes Club, where kids can build friendships and learn about their emotions, but Oli just wants to be home... where it's familiar, not-so-boring and he can play his favourite gam ...Show more
Scout and the Rescue Dogs by Dianne Wolfer
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Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A celebration of community, adventure, kindness and, above all, dogs! The summer holidays have finally arrived and Scout can’t wait for her adventure in the big rig with Dad. They’re on a mission to deliver donations of dog food to animal rescue shelters right across the state. There’ll be lots of mus ...Show more