Young Adult Contemporary

This is a moving love story between two girls in high school. Written in Peters's trademark breezy, humorous style with a layer of deep feeling just beneath the surface, this...

Chronicles of a crazy canine ! the Search for Selby Society is hot on his trail and eager to tell the world his secret. And, as if that isn't bad...

A change is as good as a holiday but for Selby, the two go hand in hand. to coincide with the summer school holidays, HarperCollins will re-release four Selby favourites...

A change is as good as a holiday t for Selby, the two go hand in hand. to coincide with the summer school holidays, HarperCollins will re-release four Selby favourites...

An electrifying novel from the Carnegie medal-winning Kevin Brooks. Now a Netflix movie starring Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones). Before the attack, sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was just an ordinary boy....

Four kids on a quest to find the legendary Mines of King Solomon and their parents. Bick, Beck, Storm and Tommy are navigating their way down the Nile, from hot...

Color Me In meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in Everything Within and In Between , a deeply honest coming-of-age story about reclaiming a heritage buried under assimilation,...

YouTube star Connie Glynn is back with the sparkling follow-up to Undercover Princess, which Kirkus described as "Cinderella meets Mean Girls while at Hogwarts." Lottie Pumpkin never expected to become...

Glimpse is a high action, standalone young adult dystopian novel, from Text prize-winning fantasy author Jane Higgins. The city authorities have abandoned the D-Zone as damaged beyond repair. It's a...

Being fourteen is hard but it's even harder when your parents uproot you from a cosy little country town to a huge urban high school.Already unsettled and anxious about the...

I cannot mourn, for I have lived a life of mountain air and cherry blossoms, steel, and honour. An achingly beautiful story of courage, loss and friendship. And these are...

Memories of Mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life,...

Emily believes in destiny. She's waiting for the moment her real life begins. Sam wishes he could escape. He's spent his life being dragged from place to place by his...

A delightful story for young readers from former Children's Laureate and author of the international phenomenon War Horse . At first Peter isn't too keen on his teacher's plan to...

George and Tom, who worked on the farm called 'Reachfar', were Janet's greatest friends. 'Herself' was what they called Janet's Granny when she spoke in a special voice. When it...

'Open your eyes. We will not hurt you.' The boy quietens; his eyes open. 'Where are you from?' The boy stares at them both; then says, 'Who will you tell?'...

In this queer contemporary YA mystery, a nonbinary autistic teen realizes they must not only solve a 30-year-old mystery but also face the demons lurking in their past in order...

A book about life, loss, and the secrets families keep, reminiscent of Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons , by National Book Award nominee Lisa Graff. CJ's Aunt Nic is a...

"Clever and suspenseful, a surefire delight." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Once a pencil draws a little boy, there's no telling what will come next - a dog, a cat,...

Marmalade - named after his bright orange hair - is one of the best dancers at Rockley Park, the school for up-and-coming stars. But he's also the class clown, and...

Rose is a talented gymnast who thinks ballet is for wimps. But when she receives ballet lessons for her birthday, she starts to change her mind. A big decision looms,...

Poppy desperately wants to be entered for the ballet exam. But when a new girl arrives in class, she's distracted and makes a mess of her dance routine. Poppy is...

Two very young friends learn about cooperation and forgiveness in Kim Lewis's reassuring new story.

The adventures of Peter Rabbit are told here in a lively rebus version which makes learning to read fun. Young children can lift the picture flaps scattered in the story...

In Stripey's all-new adventure he discovers that his friends are amazing at camouflage. How do they manage it? Join Stripey on his quest to become invisible. This is the third...

A striking story about a mixed race girl discovering her roots. Lyra is told that she is an African princess, just like her aunts and cousins. But when she tells...

A story of a young boy's adventures working as a paperboy on the busy trams, travelling to Bondi Beach. Keiran wants nothing more than to be a paperboy on the...

Lucy has her life all planned out: perfect job, ideal man and ideal home, and birth of perfect daughter. What does not fit so neatly into her organised life is...

What will happen when the sheep go trick-or-treating? Could there be wolves lurking in the woods, hoping to catch the sheep as they head home? This lively, funny story is...

The Tower Room: Loosely based on Rapunzel, this is the story of a sudden, unexpected, passionate relationship and the unforessen yet inevitable results of defying convention. When Megan glimpses Simon...

Having barely made it out of Orphancorp alive, Mirii is on a mission to find the most important babe in her life, Vu. Vu has been taken to 'Psynode', a...

Daisy has died five times. She's a test subject for a government super drug called Revive, which brings people back from the dead. Each time she is revived, Daisy has...

Avantia needs a hero. Under the spell of an evil wizard, the magical beasts that once protected the land are destroying it. Tagus the horse-man is terrorising the people and...

What is magic? What is illusion? What is real? Step into the extraordinary world of Sam Khaan, who has just discovered a witch doctor's notebook in her attic. Convinced that...

There is the secret of Birdy's grandmother's cat. How the boys tortured it and Birdy had to drown it in the river. There's the secret of Mrs. Cope, the popular...

Beautifully illustrated by award-winning Lucia Masciullo, this bold and affirming picture book shouts from the rooftops that you should be you. A is for Attitude. May you have bucketloads of...

DEREK DILBERT DOOL returns in another SUPERCOOL adventure! Thankfully, so do his friends Booger and Big Denise. After accidentally going viral, Derek is now on a mission to DELIBERATELY go...