Young Adult Contemporary

Meet the Diamond Brothers, the world's worst private-detective agency, in this Chandler-esque spoof series from the creator of Alex Rider. eBook available. Tim is broke. So when a mysterious stranger...

Wisdom stories for 8-12 year old boys and girls. Flying and spurting flames are banned for Raz, the shape-shifting dragon, when he travels to Earth with his parents and sister,...

A simplified and shortened retelling of the Chaucer classic which remains faithful to the original Middle English text in the treatment of the story.

Jack, an apprentice bard and just beginning to learn the secrets of his mysterious master when he and his little sister are captured by Viking chief, Olaf One-Brow, and taken...

Enchanting, timeless and surprising - this extraordinary novel will touch the hearts (and ears) of children and adults alike. Enchanting, timeless and surprising - this extraordinary novel will touch the...

You want to ask a boy out on a date but what if he says no? Your best friend suddenly isn't talking to you. Your clothes don't fit. Your family...

In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet , Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past...

Welcome to the bone-chilling, pulse-pounding world of Piggy, the survival-horror game that will keep you up at night. After the outbreak of a zombie-like disease that's turned the world upside...

Confession: Hayley's in another sticky situation . . . Hayley and her little sister, Chloe, have just moved into their grandmother's house with their mom, who recently divorced their dad...

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Perfect for fans of Illegal and When Stars Are Scattered , this poignant and moving graphic novel in verse captures the dangers and...

A moving story combining war and football: the game with the ability to link nations and generations 'Told with all the author's open-hearted clarity, and richly illustrated' Philip Pullman Billy's...

'A poignant read bursting with heartache, grief and small-town family secrets that will draw you in until the final page' -- Gabrielle Tozer, award-winning author of The Intern , Faking...

Fact: Ember and Ness are best friends. There's nothing more to say about it. It is what it is. It is what will always be. Ember and Ness. Then Ness...

TAYSHAS 2014 Reading list Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of 2013 It is the summer after Frenchie Garcia's senior year, and she can't come to grips with the death of...

A follow-up to 'Blue Moon'. Mia is 16 now and still living with dad. Not only is she having to work out the emotional and practical implications of being a...

America's most famous pop star flees the spotlight to recover from her latest break-up in Maine - only to fall for a local boy and be faced with an impossible...

In this second title in the early chapter book series about everyone's favorite young entrepreneur, Wednesday Wilson is only trying to help her brother when her latest business idea strikes!...

Wyatt and I have made a deal - if I help him get his ninja clan back then he'll leave me alone forever. So this week, Wyatt and I are...

We stared at each other, the fat boy and the boy with ice for eyes. And I waited. 'So what have you got to say for yourself, fat boy?' Michael...

Davis Delaware is not from Delaware. But try telling that to everyone at his new school. When you move in the middle of ninth grade, people are going to think...

Zare Leonis seems destined to become a poster boy for the Empire. His sister, Dhara, has been accepted into the esteemed Imperial Academy on Lothal, and Zare is confident he'll...

"Bad truck, bad guy; bad wave, bad bye . . ." A boy and his family are packing up their old home, and the morning feels scary and sad. But...

Proclaimed "the most adorable of dinos" by The New York Times, Bob is grander and greener than ever in a definitive new edition of modern picture book classic. This deluxe...

I'm Artie. I'm eleven years old. I do not believe in ghosts, or monsters. I do believe in science. I also believe that my step-sister Willow is kinda terrifying. Willow...

This madcap comedy-adventure series is completely hectic - and also heart-warming, ridiculously funny and wildly addictive! What do you get when you mix a strand of hair, some gingerbread mixture...

Teen starlet Emma Crawford loves playing matchmaker almost as much as she loves the spotlight, but when Emma comes in close contact with the darker side of Hollywood, she starts...

Teen starlet Emma Crawford loves playing matchmaker almost as much as she loves the spotlight, but when Emma comes in close contact with the darker side of Hollywood, she starts...

Leo Lennox has made a mistake. A massive, world-altering mistake. Now, the secret his shape-shifter ancestors have kept hidden for thousands of years is in danger of being discovered -...

HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2003 No one, living or dead, was ever more polite than Horrendo. In all his eleven years he'd never said a...

It's a new term at St Rita's School for Spirited Girls, and there are new mysteries for Emily, Daphne and George to solve! Who has stolen a painting from Pilkington...

Heartfelt contemporary storytelling at its best, with vivid historical flashbacks Set in a modern-day small town among the remnants of a Japanese POW camp, this is the story of Charlie....

From Ampersand Prize-winning author Erin Gough comes this ferociously funny romp through an elite private school, and a brilliant feminist hoax that could change - or ruin - everything. Harriet...

Each book includes Notes for Parents in which a child psychologist offers some helpful insights.

Laurence Augustine Rainbow is born into an ordinary family, and seems set for an ordinary life. But as the world changes around him, so does the happiness of his own...

Imagine if you were able to change history. By altering one tiny thing you could start a chain of catastrophic events. Ethan is one of the Named, fated to stop...

Splash, Bubbles, and their friends from The Jim Henson Company's Splash and Bubbles on PBS Kids celebrate all the wonderful things friends do in this extra-special novelty book with tactile...

Moses Aaron, one of Australia's best-known storytellers, has written a powerful new book with a life-affirming message. Joe Hagarsson is seventeen and feels abandoned by his parents. Falling under the...

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...

Monster proves he's not that great in the great outdoors in this heartwarming tale of camping and friendship by New York Times bestselling author Deborah Underwood. It takes a little...

From New York Times bestselling YA author Rebecca Mix comes the first book in a breathtaking middle grade fantasy duology about a young fairy who has always lived in her...

Everyone has secrets. It's what you do with them that matters. Everyone has secrets. It's what you do with them that matters. Steven Byrd is highly intelligent. He's just not...

The start to an exciting new middle grade mystery series from Youtube sensation Hayley LeBlanc! When Hayley is cast as the lead in a Nancy Drew like kids TV show,...

Pattern is only thirteen, but is already rising through the ranks at Mrs Minchin's Academy of Domestic Servitude and seems destined for a life below stairs. But fate intervenes when...

As soon as Cookiesaurus Rex comes out of the oven, he declares that he is King of All Cookies. He should be frosted before all of the standard-shaped cookies, in...