Books »Young Adult
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Skating the Edge
by Julia Lawrinson
Caitlin thinks she’s got it bad. Compared to her brilliant, skateboarding brother she feels as if she doesn’t exist. Then she meets Anna, beautiful Anna, who everyone loves. But Caitlin finds out too late that there is more to Anna than meets the eye. Read more »
Price $14.95
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Escaping Paradise
by Warren Flynn
A tropical holiday turns into a nightmare for Nicki when she is kidnapped by freedom fighters and held to ransom. But, it’s not her the kidnappers want. They think she’s the daughter of an oil magnate, whose money can pay for the weapons they need. When they discover she isn’t, things can only go from bad to worse. Read more »
Price $14.95
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Obsession
by Julia Lawrinson
Charlie is fifteen. She’s just moved to a new school and nothing is going right. She’s hanging around with a girl she can’t stand, her mother is a grief-stricken, wine-sodden mess, and she has no one to talk to except the pages of her diary. Everything seems hopeless. And then she meets Kate. Kate is sixteen, she’s a singer, and she’s wonderful. She’s…Read more »
Price $14.95
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Choices
by Dianne Wolfer
‘Young adult fiction that manages to deal with a sensitive issue yet doesn’t thrust too much teenage anguish upon us…A story about change, agency and responsibility, with a pleasant mix of stylistic neatness and thematic uncertainty.’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘This novel is written in a manner that is both honest and touching, as it does not…Read more »
Price $17.95
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Hidden, The
by Ron Bunney
Thrown out of home by his penny-pinching step-mother, Matt flees Fremantle aboard a boat, only to be bullied and brutalised by the bosun. Called a ‘half-caste bastard’, Jess is part of neither the white world of her father, nor the black world of her dead mother’s people. Lost and alone, she is haunted and hunted. Both are on the run and in hiding…Read more »
Price $14.95
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Juice
by Katy Watson-Kell
‘Watson’s style is to reveal Juice’s selfishness to us, the readers, and to the other characters in her snappy novel, but to keep Juice blissfully in the dark – until the final race. And, if you’re not reading it to find out whether or not she beats the record time, you’ll be madly turning the pages to find out if she does, finally grow up.’…Read more »
Price $14.95
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Watersky
by Terry Whitebeach
The first time I saw Jana I thought she was a crazy arrogant bitch. I’m outa here, I told myself, but for some reason it didn’t work out that way…
In fact, from the time Brodie McPherson meets Jana he can’t seem to escape her. Everything in his life changes. Some things for the better, and some things for the worse, the very worst. Manslaughter…Read more »
Price $13.95
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Watersky ebook
by Terry Whitebeach
The first time I saw Jana I thought she was a crazy arrogant bitch. I’m outa here, I told myself, but for some reason it didn’t work out that way …
In fact, from the time Brodie McPherson meets Jana he can’t seem to escape her. Everything in his life changes. Some things for the better, and some things for the worse, the very worst. Manslaughter…Read more »
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Different Voices
by Warren Flynn
Kim had to save the forest and the lake before they were gone forever. She’d lost too much already. At times it felt like she was drowning, and there was no one to hold on to, not even Gary.
‘… the hopes, the dreams and the aspirations that bring people to Australia are shared in this book ..Read more »Price $13.95
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River Child
by Carolyn Logan
Sarah is sixteen. After the death of her parents, on the ship coming to Australia, she finds herself alone with her baby brother in a strange but fascinating new land. Determined to make a new life, Sarah quickly falls in love with her home on the edge of the wilderness. Here, beside the river, she finds herself drawn towards the unknown, and into a…Read more »
Price $12.95
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