Young Adult

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Wet. It's the first word that comes to wind before I scream. Soaked. Waterlogged. Facedown. Oh, shit. It isn't a fish; it's a person. A girl. Her hair is long...

What happens when you can't live with before? What happens when you're not the cool kid at school anymore? CJ has been banished to the country to live with his...

Adorkable (ah-dor-kuh-bul): Descriptive term meaning to be equal parts dorky and adorable. For reference, see Sally Spitz. Seventeen-year-old Sally Spitz is done with dating. Or at least, she's done with...

Shortlisted for the Peters Book of the Year. When Digby first shows up on her doorstep, Zoe Webster is not impressed. He's rude, he's smart, and he doesn't take 'no'...

What if some Secret Agents had their HQ in the Jungle? What if some Giant Slugs lived nearby in a huge pool of revolting goo? Would they all play sneaky...

"Shadows" is a gritty, uncompromising book and also, unusually, a boy's love story. It focuses on Jamie, a fifteen-year-old squash prodigy and his relationship with his overbearing father, who is...

Dumped in the River Charon, hunted by an accursed river creature and betrayed by the wicked Matron Pluckrose, Tensy Farlow is in mortal danger. Dumped in the River Charon, hunted...

A recently transitioned girl tries to figure out who she is-while trying to manage who everyone else wants her to be-in this funny, unexpected, and affecting new graphic novel from...

Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018 A raw, powerful, but ultimately uplifting debut novel perfect for fans of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERI.V. Marie's thrilling dark academia debut set at a magical boarding school in purgatory where some fates are worse than death ... For fans of...

The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe - and the follow-up to the number-one bestseller, Kingdom of the Wicked... War has finally come....

For fans of dungeon crawls and dice rolls-and anyone wanting to know more about them- Side Quest is a stand-alone graphic novel history of roleplaying games (RPGs), from ancient games...

The must-read middle-grade novel from the author of the super-spooky Dread Wood series. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine's Goosebumps and Stranger Things. "Jennifer Killick has become the go-to horror...

Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Young Adult, 2025 Shortlisted, NSW Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 2025 Shortlisted, Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel, 2024 Longlisted,...

There's a double agent working at GIB! Zac Power must go undercover to stop the theft of all the GIB's most valuable secrets and gadgets! Can he find the double...

Welcome to a world in the shadow of our own, a fairy-tale land where the dangers are real . . . In this second book in the Omte Origins trilogy,...

Life has its ups and downs, doesn't it? And Martha and her friends are really sick of going up, and down, and up, and down. After a traumatic event that...

As a young child Eponine never knew kindness, except once from her family's kitchen slave, Cosette. When at sixteen the girls' paths cross again and their circumstances are reversed, Eponine...

Poison boy Dalton Fly, a lowly food taster to the rich, has a lucky escape after drinking laced wine. But his mate is less fortunate, and Dalton wants answers. Who...

The world-renowned Gut Bucket Corporation has passed into new hands. Triple-tiered toad burgers, drenched in lime-green tadpole dressing, are all the rage, and the reclusive fast food industrialist Marcellus Guzzle...

It's a case of monstrous cuteness as the Princess in Black encounters her biggest challenge yet: a field overrun by adorable bunnies. Princess Magnolia and her unicorn, Frimplepants, are on...

They are each other's fiercest love, greatest danger, and only hope. 'Devastating and delicious' Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Cruel Prince Returning to the dark and...

Three classic adventure tales in one from the bestselling author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency Imagine living in the heart of Africa. Imagine living in a place where the...

Real, compulsive and intense: Cat Clarke is the queen of emotional suspense. For f ans of Paula Hawkins, Gillian Flynn, Megan Abbott and Jandy Nelson. Seventeen-year-old Grace wakes up in...

WINNER: 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Children's Fiction WINNER: 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Children's Literature HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2017 There are two...

Cecily longs to learn the new art of photography and is determined that her widowed father will come to love it too, especially when she realises that her new friend...

A story about one child's abuse in an institution.

A mysterious labyrinth. A desperate king. A rebellious princess. Being stuck in a crumbling old villa in Crete with her annoying, history-obsessed little brother Remy isn't exactly Netta's idea of...

Perfect for fans of Sex Education, When Dimple Met Rishi and Never Have I Ever, this YA debut is an ode to romcoms, musicals and being British Indian. Featuring an...

'A little babushka is made when you're young and something happens to you that leaves a scar ' Cerys Williams has swapped her village in the Welsh Valleys for art...

Secrets and sabotage plunge Harper into danger in her second year at the Wondria, a magical travelling theatre school. Perfect for fans of Nevermoor and The Greatest Showman.Harper can't wait...

Letters from a longed-for pet provide comfort and entertainment for a lonely boy in a heartfelt and gently humorous tale from bestselling author Piers Torday. Jamie is in hospital waiting...

To the outside world, Elizabeth Best is a model student. She's a cheerleader, gets straight As and holds down an after-school job. But what the outside world doesn't know is...

Don't miss the last episode of international bestseller Robert Muchamore's ROCK WAR series! The Rock War TV show has come to a dramatic finale, but its contestants still have everything...

This is the story of THAT SUMMER ... the one when everything changes. Emerald has grown up in a privileged world - the beloved daughter of a wealthy family, friends...

Jo lives in a village on the French/Spanish border in the Pyrenees mountains during the German occupation of France in the Second World War. Early on the meets Benjamin, a...

A tough, funny, touching story of the echoes left behind by tragedy and the bonds carried forward by healing. Since the death of his sister, Evie, Munro Maddux has been...

Imaginative, magical, wildly funny, and with a truly unique world, The Spick and the Span is an extraordinary, exciting fantasy middle grade adventure - perfect for fans of Jessica Townsend's...

Skye and Harry discover Gran isn't quite as strict as Dad makes out in this funny family story from multi-award-winning author Anne Fine. Skye and Harry are dreading going to...

Before the Elf on the Shelf, there was a young boy called Nicholas who had to find the courage to save the enchanted world of the elves, One True North....

From the best-loved author of Pages & Co comes the thrilling second book in the Chronicles of Whetherwhy series - a magical quest to the very edges of Whetherwhy At...

After her mother's death, Sky is forced to leave her city life behind and move in with her aunt and uncle in a small Australian town. But the city isn't...

The only extraordinary thing about Digger Field is that there is nothing extraordinary about him at all. But this summer that's all going to change. Digger's got a plan that...

The gripping second volume of Stephen Lawhead's extraordinary retelling of the Robin Hood legend. From his gaol cell, outlaw Will Scatlocke waits to be hanged. Before he swings, Will -...

It is the summer of 1911. Victoria doesn't care much for her new stepmother, or her stepbrother Jacob. But when Victoria is struck down with a serious illness, both her...

The nine-hour trip to his new school is just the beginning of the worst time in Dale Murphy's life. He's only ever lived with Aboriginal kids-his is the only white...