Young Adult

WINNER: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2012 'Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this...

Imagine an Australian children's classic. Imagine yourself deep in the jungle, under the sea, in a land of ice and snow, on a farm, in the moonlit bush, on an...

Award-winning author Susan Cooper brings the vivid, magical world of Shakespeare's London to life in this rich and powerful novel. I lay very still, with all my senses telling me...

Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! It's Christmas Day and it's the perfect weather for a family swim! Bartlebee is Bluey's new toy - how will he cope...

Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! It's Christmas Eve and Bluey, Bingo and Muffin decide to play a game called Verandah Santa! What will Santa bring them? A...

Embrace your body - you've only got one! Based on the #1 hit children's song, this picture book encourages everyone to love who they are, inside and out. Taryn Brumfitt...

From one of Australia's best-loved authors, Tim Winton, comes this achingly beautiful story about family, belonging and living a life in tune with the environment. The final volume in the...

Explore a day on the farm with The Very Hungry Caterpillar! Explore a day on the farm with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this interactive flip-the-tab board book, perfect for...

Join Spot and his friends as they go on an adventure in the park in this fun lift-the-flap tale. Join Spot and his friends as they go on an adventure...

Early one morning a little spider begins to spin her web on a fencepost. In this multi-sensory book, children can feel the pictures aswell as see them, while they hear...

Boy is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood, including tales of sweet-shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plot - the inspiration for some of...

Enter the World of Graeme Base's Magical Forest Enter the world of Graeme Base's forest, filled with wild and wonderful animals, Uno's unique family and friends - and the elusive...

Kip, Annie, Grace, David, Ted. Five different people, one terrible night. There's a storm at Point Nepean, and the ocean has swept into the bay. Kip is in the wrong...

One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance...

As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years that have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small town and distant parents ensure that he is...

Blueback is an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors. Blueback is an achingly...

This gutsy novel, set in a small coastal town in South Australia is a rites-of-passage story about two boys confronting the depth of racism that exists all around them. 'Deadly,...

Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth to her, and now her dad has sent her away for the summer, to live...

Dive into an enigmatic world crafted by Graeme Base, the acclaimed author and illustrator of Animalia, where you're not just a reader but a detective too. The Grand Celebration Horace...

A wild chase that takes the Queen, the King, the Admiral, the Captain, the General, the Sergeant and even the little dog through the night.Pamela Allen is a phenomenon in...

Harry, the black and white dog with a nose for mischeif, is back! Harry and the family have gone to the beach but it's too sunny and he's one hot...

Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! It's sleepytime at the Heeler house. Come on a dream-filled adventure with Bingo and Bluey. A gorgeous hardback book for kids of...

From the award-winning author of Nona & Me comes a stunning new novel about two teenagers separated by cultural differences, their parents' expectations and twenty kilometres of barbed-wire fence. Winner,...

A warm, heartfelt story based on an actual journey undertaken by the much-loved, award-winning author and illustrator, Alison Lester. CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL 2005 PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR The year...

In 2018, seventeen-year-old Sunny and Toby are on the run after zombies have destroyed most of the adults in their world. Cut to 2034 when Sunny is being held in...

The New York Times #1 bestselling novel What if Rumpelstiltskin isn't the villain of the story? By the following winter solstice, the miller would become the father of a baby...

From Chelsea Ichaso, author of Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets, comes a propulsive new thriller! Twenty years ago, a shocking murder closed down Fairport Village. This year, the ruins will...

Tell the world who you are. An exploration of identity and belonging from award-winning poet Solli Raphael. Following on from the success of Limelight and Spotlight, this new book from...

Their love was written in the stars, but how is Lia to move on when death trumps fate? Everything I Promised You is an emotionally raw and romantic YA novel...

From the award-winning Indigenous author-illustrator Ambelin Kwaymullina comes an uplifting tale about self-worth and the importance of helping others while honouring your unique strengths. There was once a crow who...

In her award-winning debut novel for young adults, Rebecca Higgie takes us into the secret lives of history's mischief-makers - the philosophers and tyrants, the shapeshifters and dragons. Narrator Jessie...

When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of...

She said we didn't know what the world out there had become. We had been alone there so long on that tiny island, in that tiny church. But in the...

An international bestseller and a truly unforgettable and life-changing story. The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about...

Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Join Bluey and Bingo in six special stories with their family and friends. Go swimming in Uncle Stripe's pool, explore the creek,...

Zoe Foster Blake's beloved character Fart is back. Together with his new friend Burp, they're off on an adventure to use their bad pongs for good! Move over Superman and...

'Lynette Noni is a masterful storyteller. A must-read for any fantasy lover!' SARAH J. MAAS, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author From bestselling Australian author Lynette Noni comes a dark,...

A timely and uplifting picture book for 5+, reflecting on what's important for each of us to remember, from the creative team that brought us All Through the Year and...

This heartwarming story by award-winning and bestselling author Monica McInerney will delight readers young and old. Marcie Gill hasn't had a great start to the Christmas holidays. Her parents aren't...

A powerful story of love and loss, secrets and revelations - and making sense of a past that once seemed perfect. A powerful story of love and loss, secrets and...

The next powerful episode in the life of Felix, hero of Morris Gleitzman's multi-award-winning Once, Then, Now, After and Soon. Longlisted - Australian Book Industry Awards 2018 Shortlisted - Speech...

Soon continues the incredibly moving story of Felix, a Jewish boy still struggling to survive in the wake of the liberation of Poland after the end of World War Two....

Another compelling chapter in the life of Felix, hero of the award-winning series of books that began with Once and Then. Shortlisted - Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010 Shortlisted -...

A timely story of queer love and survival set against the backdrop of a climate change apocalypse, this book is Station Eleven and The Last of Us meets All that's...

The groundbreaking novel inspired by the Broadway hit, and written by the show's creators. Soon to be a major film! High school senior Evan Hansen has been given the chance...

From the author of the literary hit, Deadly Unna?, comes a fast-paced rite-of-passage set amid the mythical surf and island culture of Bali, and up to its neck in the...

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (author of Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns) is a teen romance with a twist, exploring the tragic business of being alive...

The original teenage rebel story. Greasers, Rockers, different place, different name - but wherever they are, they're outsiders; the rough, tough, long-haired boys from the other side of town, with...