Books »Young Adult
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The Mimosa Tree
by Antonella Preto
It’s the summer of 1987 and Mira is beginning her first year at uni. She’s got a radical new haircut, and an all-black wardrobe — she should be having the time of her life.
But it’s hard to get excited about anything when you’re being smothered by your crazy Italian family, enrolled in a course you’re not interested in, and expecting…Read more »
Price $19.99
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Creepy & Maud
by Dianne Touchell
Hilarious and heartbreaking, Creepy & Maud charts the relationship between two social misfits, played out in the space between their windows.
Creepy is a boy who watches from the shadows keenly observing and caustically commentating on human folly.
Maud is less certain. A confused girl with a condition that embarrasses her parents and assures…Read more »
Being Reprinted
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Have you seen Ally Queen?
by Deb Fitzpatrick
Ally Queen, aged fifteen, is the new kid in a very small town. Uprooted from her comfortable city life and dumped in ‘hicksville’ she’s trying to find her place amongst the bogans, the surfies and the spinach-munching hippies.
Life is tough when your closest friend is miles away and deep and meaningful conversations are restricted to the length…Read more »
Price $19.95
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Have you seen Ally Queen? ebook
by Deb Fitzpatrick
Ally Queen, aged fifteen, is the new kid in a very small town. Uprooted from her comfortable city life and dumped in ‘hicksville’ she’s trying to find her place amongst the bogans, the surfies and the spinach-munching hippies.
Life is tough when your closest friend is miles away and deep and meaningful conversations are restricted to the length…Read more »
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Dress Rehearsal
by Zoe Thurner
‘This term we’ve had a bank robbery, an abduction and this crazy show. You kids are running wild, Lara. It’s too much.’
Lara Pearlman has an appetite for life.
She loves acting, vintage clothes and her best friend Oggy. She flirts with Nathan but really likes Blake. She devours muffins with cream and chocolates by the box. Lara’s mum…Read more »
Price $19.95
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Dress Rehearsal ebook
by Zoe Thurner
‘This term we’ve had a bank robbery, an abduction and this crazy show. You kids are running wild, Lara. It’s too much.’
Lara Pearlman has an appetite for life.
She loves acting, vintage clothes and her best friend Oggy. She flirts with Nathan but really likes Blake. She devours muffins with cream and chocolates by the box. Lara’s…Read more »
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Spinner: A Novel
by Ron Elliott
A simple boy with an amazing gift.
A promise to a dying man.
And a nation that wants to believe.Can a twelve year old boy be the hero his country needs?
David Donald is a 12-year-old boy with an amazing bowling arm. He’s a spinner who becomes the stuff of legend. His guardian, Uncle Michael, is also a spinner — a great Australian…Read more »
Price $24.95
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Wavelength
by A.J. Betts
Oliver’s world has shrunk. It’s all about Year 12 finals. It’s about that magic 80% average he needs to get into uni, get his dream job and get cashed up. If only he can find a quiet place to study – away from the chaos and mess of living with two small kids and his Mum’s booming muffin business.
A study break in a small coastal town seems…Read more »
Price $17.95
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Wavelength ebook
by A.J. Betts
Oliver’s world has shrunk. It’s all about Year 12 finals. It’s about that magic 80% average he needs to get into uni, get his dream job and get cashed up. If only he can find a quiet place to study – away from the chaos and mess of living with two small kids and his Mum’s booming muffin business.
A study break in a small coastal town seems…Read more »
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90 Packets of Instant Noodles ebook
by Deb Fitzpatrick
Joel and Craggs are in it together. They drink together, they nick stuff together and, when Craggs turns violent, they face the consequences together too. That’s until Joel’s dad makes a deal with the cops. Craggs is off to juvenile detention and Joel to solitary confinement. Ninety days of fending for himself in a remote bush shack, till one day the…Read more »
From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things