Searching for Cicadas (Nature Storybooks) (PB) by Lesley Gibbes
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Series: Nature Storybooks Ser.
This lovely story about a child and their grandfather searching for cicadas is part of the award-winning narrative nonfiction Nature Storybooks series. In the summertime, Grandpa and I go cicada-watching. We put our camping gear into my wagon and walk down to the local reserve. Last year we saw five Gre ...Show more
Bat vs Poss: A story about sharing and making friends by Alexa Moses
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020
Meek lives with her three sisters, a gaggle of birds, lizards and other creatures next to a tumbledown terrace house. Everyone shares the space, and life is pretty sweet until the day a rude and messy fruit bat named Squabbles moves in - and demands everyone else move OUT. Will Meek be able to get rid o ...Show more
Tricky's Bad Day (HB) Winner CBCA Early Childhood 2019 by Alison Lester
$20.00 AUD
Category: Picture Story Books
Poor Tricky! Nothing is going right for him. Milk spills, pyjama buttons won't work, his little sister wrecks their game, and when he tries to help out, everything gets worse. Tricky's having a very bad day! Then Dad has an idea. Outside it's wild, but there's a lot to explore... From Australia's favour ...Show more
This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield
$19.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: very good
CBCA WINNER 2020:Book of the Year: Older Readers Sixteen-year-old Nate McKee is doing his best to be invisible. He's worried about a lot of things--how his dad treats Nance and his twin half-brothers; the hydro crop growing in his bedroom; the way his friend Merrick always drags him into fights. And he ...Show more
How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Series: Macmillan Children's Books Story Collections
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Writing for Young Adults 2020. Biz knows how to float. She has her posse, her mum and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn't be here - because he died when she was seven - but is ...Show more
Boy Who Steals Houses by C.G. Drews
$16.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Teen
Can two broken boys find their perfect home? By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, this is a gorgeously told, powerful story. Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he's ever known. Now Sam's trying to build a new life for them. He surv ...Show more
Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller
$19.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Teen
Remember daughter, the world is a lot bigger than anyone knows. There are things that science may never explain. Maybe some things that shouldn't be explained. Stacey and Laney are twins - mirror images of each other - and yet they're as different as the sun and moon. Stacey works hard at school, determ ...Show more
When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Teen
Edgar Award nominee stuns in this heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school where two girls of different castes bond over a shared copy of Jane Eyre. Adele Joubert loves being one of the popular girls at Keziah Christian Academy. She knows the upcoming semester at school is going to be great ...Show more
Paperboy (HB) by Danny Parker; Bethany Macdonald (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: New Illustrator
Paperboy is a journey through the salient moments of a young boy's life the fears, the trials, the tragedies and the small triumphs with each moment contemplated in terms of paper. Tissue paper that tears too readily, fly paper to which nasty things adhere, folded paper with which to create hope. Paperb ...Show more
Baby Business by Jasmine Seymour
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: New Illustrator
Baby Business tells the story of the baby smoking ceremony that welcomes baby to country. The smoke is a blessing -- it will protect the baby and remind them that they belong. This beautiful ritual is recounted in a way young children will completely relate to. Jasmine Seymour is a Darug woman and a des ...Show more
Fly by Jess McGeachin
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: New Illustrator
Lucy had always been good at fixing things, and Dad needed a bit of help. It was just the two of them after all. So when Lucy finds a bird with a broken wing, she's sure she can fix him too. But not everything that's broken can be fixed.
Little Bird's Day by Sally Morgan
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: New Illustrator
A simple, universal story of a day in the life of Little Bird as she sings the world alive, flies with Cloud, travels with Wind, nestles with Moon and dreams of flying among the stars. Sally’s beautiful words and Johnny’s sensitive artwork combine to make this a beautiful, distinctive publication with g ...Show more