Title: Weaving Us Together Author: Lay Maloney Genre: Contemporary Publisher: Lothian Children’s Books/Hachette Published: 30th July 20025 Format: Paperback Pages: 297 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: A sharp and insightful coming-of-age story about all the ways we find home from an exciting debut author and 2022 black&write! Fellow. When I look back, I realise everything I needed… Continue reading Weaving Us Together by Lay Maloney
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Edie Tells a Lie by Ingrid Laguna
Title: Edie Tells a Lie Author: Ingrid Laguna Genre: Contemporary Middle Grade Publisher: Text Publishing Published: 1st July 2025 Format: Paperback Pages: 176 Price: $16.99 Synopsis: Edie lives with her mum—it’s just the two of them. Her best friend, Bowie, lives right next door, until Bowie moves to the country. Edie feels alone and forgotten,… Continue reading Edie Tells a Lie by Ingrid Laguna
How To Be Normal by Ange Crawford
Title: How To Be Normal Author: Ange Crawford Genre: Contemporary Publisher: Walker Books Published: 5th March 2025 Format: Paperback Pages: 336 Price: $21.99 Synopsis: Winner of the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize. With themes including coercive control, coming of age, and finding yourself, this debut authentically deals with timely issues with insight, sympathy and well-crafted… Continue reading How To Be Normal by Ange Crawford
Spirit of the Crocodile by Aaron Fa’aso and Michelle Scott Tucker with Lyn White
Title: Spirit of the Crocodile Author: Aaron Fa’aso and Michelle Scott Tucker with Lyn White Genre: Contemporary Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 4th March 2025 Format: Paperback Pages: 256 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: An inspiring story of courage, resilience and hope, set in the Torres Strait Islander community as climate change threatens culture, tradition and connection… Continue reading Spirit of the Crocodile by Aaron Fa’aso and Michelle Scott Tucker with Lyn White
Legend of the Lighthouse Moon by Helen Edwards
Title: Legend of the Lighthouse Moon Author: Helen Edwards Genre: Historical Fiction, Fantasy Publisher: Riveted Press Published: 2nd October 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 224 Price: $17.99 Synopsis: It’s the 1970s and on Kangaroo Island, Mona McKenna and her brother Albert live with their grandparents at Cape Willoughby Lighthouse. For five long years they have… Continue reading Legend of the Lighthouse Moon by Helen Edwards
Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger by Jackie French
Title: Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger Author: Jackie French Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Australia Published: 4th December 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 320 Price: $17.99 Synopsis: The year is 1859 and the goldfields are filled with diggers -- and danger! Orphaned twelve-year-old Tigg is the Bandicoot Bushranger, the youngest bushranger on the Ballarat goldfields in… Continue reading Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger by Jackie French
The Best Witch in Paris by Lauren Crozier
Title: The Best Witch in Paris Author: Lauren Crozier Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Text Publishing Published: 3rd September 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 304 Price: $17.99 Synopsis: Winner, Text Prize for Young adult and Children’s Writing, 2023 Luna rides a battered old broom that keeps crashing itself into the school pond. She has a witch’s hat and… Continue reading The Best Witch in Paris by Lauren Crozier
The Book of Chance by Sue Whiting
Title: The Book of Chance Author: Sue Whiting Genre: Mystery Publisher: Walker Books Published: 1st April 2020 Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Price: $18.99 Synopsis: Chance is a black-and-white thinker until she realises that sometimes there are shades of grey.Chance is in Year 7 and thinks she has it all - a loving mother, dog Tiges,… Continue reading The Book of Chance by Sue Whiting
Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven
Title: Every Exquisite Thing Author: Laura Steven Genre: Thriller/YA Publisher: Farshore Books/Electric Monkey/Harper Collins Australia Published: 4th October 2023 Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls…Penny Paxton is the daughter of an… Continue reading Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven
We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis
Title: We Could Be Something Author: Will Kostakis Genre: Fiction Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 2nd May 2023 Format: Paperback Pages: 416 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: A wonderful emotional rollercoaster of a novel about two young men, each on a journey of discovery. It's part coming-out story, part falling-in-love story, part relationship breakdown story, part extended… Continue reading We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis
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