Young Adult Contemporary

Sometimes when the sun shines, it scorches. Third time's the charm as Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui head back to the Hamptons. This summer the au pairs are doing it right:...

Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend called Lucas who gets her through the school day. At home her father cries in secret in the bathroom...

Schoolies week: that strange in-between time when teenagers move from school into the adult world. It's a week when anything is possible, and everything can change. Grace is questioning everything...

Two boys. One identity. He can change his life if he says yes... An explosive new mystery from the award-winning author Jenny Valentine, The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight is...

Everything changes for Aster the night her brother dies. Suddenly she's the only hope of the family, and instead of an early marriage to a boy from her small village...

In this gorgeous story from the blockbuster chapter-book series, Billie B Brown takes on a playground bully! In The Bully Buster , there's a bully at Billie's school being mean...

I picked up the book and thumbed through the pages. Names in alphabetical order, names with meanings, names I knew, names I'd never heard of. How to pick? Nothing that...

John Greenmeets 500 Days of SummermeetsNick Hornby. Darren hasn't had an easy year. His parents divorced, his brother left for college, and his best friend moved state. Also, he still...

Three unlikely allies team up for a night of rebellion, romance and revenge in a high-stakes dramedy from acclaimed young author Abby McDonald. They've spent years at the same high...

A wickedly funny tale about the granny from Hell by the creator of Alex Rider. Twelve-year-old Joe Warden isn't happy. He has rich, uncaring parents and is virtually a prisoner...

Chase through the streets of Elizabethan London in this historical adventure from the creator of Alex Rider. London is dirty, distant and dangerous ... but that's where orphan Tom Falconer...

What if every clue points in the wrong direction? Friday Barnes has been deported to Switzerland! With their in-school detective gone, Highcrest Academy has descended into chaos. Someone's fired all...

A beautiful foal has mysteriously disappeared from the palace stables. The girls have a plan of action, but Lottie is worried. What if they're not brave enough? Or can't keep...

The ghoulishly funny sequel to Groosham Grange by number one bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. Someone is trying to destroy David Eliot's school. A year ago, he'd have been happy to...

Kate Elliot isn't trying to fit in. Kate Elliot isn't trying to fit in. Everything about her - especially her goth make-up and clothes - screams different and the girls...

Welcome to New York, a city ruled by teens. After a mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson, the...

the first in a series of time-slip books that take the reader back to famous cricket matches of the past.toby Jones and his classmates go to the MCG archives on...

Follow Lina on her adventure in the final of four excitingstories about a passionate girl finding a place to belong. It's 1956 . . . and the Melbourne Olympicsis over...

Sally Rippin's heartwarming historical fiction for the Our Australian Girl series. It's 1956 . . . and Lina is working hard on the school newspaper. But mean Sarah Buttersworth isn't...

Fifteen year old Reason has learned the painful truth that she, her mother, grandmother and friends must make a choice, to use the magic that lives in her blood and...

Hilarious stories and advice about the ups and downs of growing up, from a hugely popular YouTube artist and storyteller.

'You're grounded, Ricky,' said Mum. 'Yes,' said Dad. 'In more ways than one.' Ricky is an ordinary boy, who can fly. He can really fly! But only when no one...

Teresa and her family survived the bombing of their home and went hungry during the long siege of their island during the war. Life in peace time is still hard....

Long before they became famous writers, Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) were childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama. This fictionalised account of their time...

She goes to school. She does her homework. And she swims. One of Nina's dreams is to swim very, very fast. When that dream comes true, Nina Hallet's world is...

Nine-year-old Hazel Bird is happiest on her own, photographing the tiny wild worlds in her neighbourhood bushland. But then she meets Cole, a boy with a hundred pockets and a...

From the author of CBCA-shortlisted Yellow comes a powerful exploration of family and identity set against the humid build-up to the wet season in Darwin. He's back. The monster. It's...

Delight Children with the Wonders of the Sea as illustrated by internationally renowned artist Christian Riese Lassen.

An unlikely high school newspaper editor learns what is most important in friendship, in journalism, and in life in this award-winning YA novel. Winner of the Whippoorwill Award A Junior...

When the queen orders Snow White to leave the palace she runs and hides in the woods. Find out what happens when she finds a cottage and makes seven new...

Longlisted for the National Book Award A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wants him to grow up tough...

It's Eloise's sixtieth birthday-though she's still not a day over six. Celebrate by joining Eloise on a Parisian adventure in this storybook that now comes with a CD narrated by...

No matter how you try to hide it, the truth will always come out . . . After a plane crash sees a group of seven teens washed up on...

Prepare to enter the magical world of the Spiderwick Chronicles, the bestselling series from Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black! Now reissued in beautiful hardback editions, perfect for fans of the...

See where it all began with the bestselling romance everyone's talking about - every movie you've ever loved in one epic love story. Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and...

A beautiful and sensitive exploration of the experience of child poverty from leading author/illustrator, Tom Percival, for fans of Boy at the Back of the Class and Julia and the...

Perfect for fans of Ace of Spades and The Taking of Jake Livingston , this young adult horror debut follows a group of teens as they visit an abandoned reform...

*NOW A HIT TV SERIES ON DISNEY JUNIOR* Fancy Nancy fans everywhere can let their creative side sparkle, dazzle, and shine! Fancy Nancy's Sticker-Doodle Book is the ultimate (that's fancy...

On Aliya's birthday, a glittering surprise gift arrives, promising her greatest wish-to know her late parents. She discovers they were time-travellers from a remarkable parallel Egypt. But when she is...

Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world and the mega-selling Dork Diaries series - now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide! When the animal shelter Brandon volunteers at (how...

Step into Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world this Christmas with the BRAND NEW ADVENTURE in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series - now with over 57 million copies in print worldwide! It's...