Award-winning Children's & YA Books
The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon
$29.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Life is cursed for the people of the village of Twee.The ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon haunts their every waking hour and they've had enough! But then one day, the brave and practical young Herbert Kettle has the most extraordinary... Buy or find out more→
A Corner of White
$27.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
The first in a rousing, funny, genre-busting trilogy from bestseller Jaclyn Moriarty! This is a tale of missing persons. Madeleine and her mother have run away from their former life, under mysterious circumstances, and... Buy or find out more→
This is Not My Hat
$24.95 – Hardback / Candlewick Press,U.S.
The eyes have it in Klassen's latest hat book (I Want My Hat Back, rev. 11/11). Klassen manages to tell almost the whole story through subtle eye movements and the tilt of seaweed and air bubbles. The wide-eyed little fish on... Buy or find out more→
Sea Hearts
$19.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
A mesmerising selkie novel from multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed Australian author, Margo Lanagan - one of the most exciting voices in speculative fiction. Buy or find out more→
The Runaway Hug
$14.99 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia
The Kate Greenaway Award winner Nick Bland's latest picture book THE RUNAWAY HUG (2011). Before go to bed, Lucy brushed her teeth, changed into her cute pajamas but she couldn't sleep. She forgot one important thing to get a hug... Buy or find out more→
In Darkness
$25.00 – Paperback
In darkness, I count my blessings like Manman taught me. One: I am alive. Two: there is no two. In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, a boy is trapped beneath the rubble of a ruined hospital, thirsty,... Buy or find out more→
In Darkness
$25.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Shorty is given a choice. But is he man enough to make it. An audacious and astounding novel that grips the heart and the imagination Buy or find out more→
Maggot Moon
$19.95 – Paperback / Hot Key Books
Friendship and trust inspire Standish to rise up againt an oppressive regime and expose the truth about a planned moon landing in this utterly original and spell-binding book. Buy or find out more→
Amazing Grace An Adventure At Sea
$29.95 – Hardback / National Library of Australia
This is an exciting tale of the courage of 16-year-old Grace Bussell, an ordinary teenage girl who is thrust into an extraordinary situation when a steamship runs aground near her home on the south-west coast of Australia in 1876.... Buy or find out more→
Only Ever Always
$16.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
A suspenseful story of parallel realities - two girls in two worlds with two different ways to survive. Claire lives in an ordinary world where everything is whole. But inside Claire is broken. Clara's world has always been... Buy or find out more→
Crow Country
$15.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
When Sadie moves back to her mother's home town in country Victoria, she finds herself drawn to the dried-up lake where eerie carved standing stones have recently been revealed. The wheeling crows seem to speak to her about an old... Buy or find out more→
The Teenage Years
$14.99 – Paperback / Hachette Children's Books
I will tell you all my secrets. But then of course I'm going to have to kill you... Buy or find out more→
My Big Shouting Day
$14.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK
Winner of the 2012 Roald Dahl Prize, 6 years and under "Yesterday I woke up and Bob was crawling around MY ROOM, licking MY JEWELLERY, so I shouted GET OUT OF MY ROOM! and that was the start of MY... Buy or find out more→
Ben and Duck
$15.99 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia
One day Ben decides to go to the park and feed the ducks. There he meets a particularly persuasive duck who follows him home. A delightfully illustrated and funny story about the development of a new relationship between Ben... Buy or find out more→
Where Things Come Back
$12.99 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster
Winner of the 2012 Michael L. Printz and William C. Morris Awards. In the remarkable, bizarre, and heart-wrenching summer before Cullen Witter’s senior year of high school, he is forced to... Buy or find out more→
Dead End in Norvelt
$23.95 – Hardback / Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Jack's summer has hit a dead end ...After being 'grounded for life', Jack is facing a summer of doing nothing. He might crash in his Dad's homemade plane, or catch the disease that makes you dance yourself to death, or fall foul... Buy or find out more→
A Ball for Daisy
$24.95 – Hardback / Random House USA Inc
Winner of the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal Here's a story about love and loss as only Chris Rashcka can tell it. Any child who has ever had a beloved toy break will relate to Daisy's anguish when her... Buy or find out more→
The Fault in Our Stars
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
John Green is the best-selling author of Looking for Alaska; An Abundance of Katherines; Paper Towns; Will Grayson, Will Grayson and can be found on the WWW at johngreenbooks.com. The reviewers say: 'A novel of life and death and... Buy or find out more→
Shift
$22.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
Olive, having recently suffered mental problems, is unsure whether to trust her instincts when a new student, rumored to have killed her parents, develops a parasitic relationship with Olive's former best friend, Jubilee Park High... Buy or find out more→
Shadow Girl
$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award: Prize for writing for young adults, 2012 The shadow girl never imagined she'd live on the streets. After her parents disappear, life with her aunt and... Buy or find out more→
The Runaway Hug
$24.99 – Hardback / Scholastic Australia
Winner of the CBCA Early Childhood Book Award 2012 Lucy shares the hug with everyone in her family. Along the way it becomes softer, sleepier, bigger, even peanut-buttery. But when the hug runs away,... Buy or find out more→
The Dead I Know
$19.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the CBCA Older Readers Award 2012 Aaron Rowe has dreams he can't explain, and memories he can't recover. But if he doesn't discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one... Buy or find out more→
A Bus Called Heaven
$27.95 – Hardback / Walker Books Ltd
Winner of the CBCA Picture Book Award 2012 A broken, old bus appears one morning, sad as a whale on a beach, right outside Stella's house. On the front of it, held up with packing tape, is a hand painted... Buy or find out more→
Blood Red Road
$18.99 – Paperback / Scholastic
In a lawless future land, where life is cheap and survival is hard, Saba has been brought up in isolated Silverlake. She never sees the dangers of the destructive society outside. When her twin brother is snatched by mysterious... Buy or find out more→
When We Were Two
$17.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Winner of the 2012 PM's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction Dan had to go, He felt he had no choice, but leaving home was never going to be easy . . . Dan and his brother... Buy or find out more→
Goodnight, Mice!
$24.99 – Hardback / ABC Books
It's time to say goodnight -- but the four cheeky mice skittering, scampering and scurrying to bed don't seem very sleepy!This warm, affectionate story is the perfect bedtime book for the whole family to share. Ages 2+. Buy or find out more→
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
$15.99 – Paperback / Scholastic
When my teacher, Mr Fullerman, doesn't have his beady eyes on me, I like to draw pictures and write stories about stuff, like when we had the worst holiday ever (camping sucks), and when my parents came to school for parents'... Buy or find out more→
Cats Ahoy!
$15.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
*Winner of the 2011 Roald Dahl Funny Prize (children 6 and under)** When Alfonso the cat hears there’s a boat coming into harbour carrying its largest ever catch, he hatches a plan. It’s brave! It’s bold! And it involves... Buy or find out more→
Fearless
$14.99 – Paperback / ABC Books
Sometimes babies get the wrong name. It's the same with dogs. So when the Claybourne-Willments, who should have been called the Smiths, got Fearless as a little puppy, it seemed a good name for him. Except Fearless wasn't. How... Buy or find out more→
The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow!
$12.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
This is the latest book of nonsense verse, mayhem and madness to come from the award-winning and immensely popular duo. Buy or find out more→
Battle For Rondo Book Three
$22.99 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia
Peril awaits Leo and Mimi on their return to the fantastic world of Rondo. With the help of Rondo's seven best witches and wizards, their friends have made plans to combat the attacks of the Blue Queen. But it soon becomes clear... Buy or find out more→
Boy Overboard
$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Jamal and Bibi have a dream. To lead Australia to soccer glory in the next World Cup. They know it won't be easy. They'll have to beat some really good teams, plus landmines, pirates, storms and assassins. But they are sure they... Buy or find out more→
Dog Loves Books
$14.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK
Winner of the 2010 Roald Dahl Funny Prize (younger children category) Dog loves books! Dog loves books about dinosaurs and Dog loves books about aliens: in fact Dog loves all books! Dog has his very own... Buy or find out more→
Graffiti Moon
$16.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist. Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose. Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing eggs at her probably wasn't the best way to show it. Jazz and Leo are slowly... Buy or find out more→
The Wrong Book
$15.99 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia
Winner of the 2011 YABBA (Young Australian Book Award) Nicholas Ickle is trying to tell a story, but he keeps getting interrupted by characters from other stories - a pirate, a queen, even some monsters!... Buy or find out more→
Withering Tights
$14.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The misadventures of Tallulah Casey! Hilarious new series from Queen of Teen -- laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatic antics of Talullah and her bonkers mates. Boys, snogging and bad acting guaranteed! Buy or find out more→
The Very Bad Book
$12.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
In a very bad wood, there was a very bad house. And in that very bad house, there was a very bad room. And in that very bad room, there was a very bad cupboard. And in that very bad cupboard, there was a very bad shelf. And on... Buy or find out more→
The Tomorrow Book
$14.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope - and practical solutions. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people... Buy or find out more→
Town
$19.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
Winner of the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature 2009 From a town near you comes thirteen linked stories, spanning a year in the lives of thirteen young people. You'll live their... Buy or find out more→
A Brief History of Montmaray
$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Winner of the Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult Literature 2010 On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in her island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last... Buy or find out more→
Tomorrow All Will be Beautiful
$17.95 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
This intense journey through the private world of girls and women, tell of friendship, love, family, troubled and fun time. With its charming scrap-book illustrated design, this book is perfect for teenage girls - and their mums!... Buy or find out more→
The Red Shoe
$19.95 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Six-year-old Matilda lives in 1950s Sydney with her parents and two sisters. Filtering through her eyes is the mad and marvellous world of that era and, punctuated by the headlines of the time, the lives of the three girls are... Buy or find out more→
Maudie and Bear
$29.95 – Hardback / Little Hare
Winner of the CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year 2011 Maudie's world revolves around Maudie. Bear's world also revolves around Maudie - he is as patient and solid as a rock. Maudie is so confident of... Buy or find out more→
Star Jumps
$15.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Australia
A poignant verse novel depicting the joys and heartbreaks of a farming family as they struggle to cope with the devastating effects of long-term drought. Told through the eyes of Ruby, day-to-day farm life involves playing in... Buy or find out more→
Return Of The Word Spy
$24.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Our favourite word sleuth is back! Learn all about language families, how we learn to speak, grammar and other wordy wonders with the wonderfully entertaining, delightfully quirky and always enlightening Word Spy. Buy or find out more→
Midnight Zoo
$24.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Two gypsy boys are fleeing through a war-ravaged countryside carrying a secret bundle. The boys stumble across a town that has been reduced to smoking rubble, and a zoo that is still intact. When the boys take shelter in the zoo,... Buy or find out more→
The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country
$39.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction. A story of whitefella–blackfella friendship that offers hope for the future Two years after artist Rod Moss arrived in Alice Springs... Buy or find out more→
Notes from the Teenage Underground
$16.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Taking their anti-social edge one step further, seventeen-year-old Gem and her friends decide to go underground. But in the back of her mind, Gem's worried, and as the weeks draw closer to Christmas appearances start to deceive... Buy or find out more→
Shake a Leg
$24.99 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
From pizza shop to bora ground, here is a joyous celebration of food, dance and cultural understanding. When three young boys go to a pizza parlour and meet an Aboriginal chef who can speak Italian and make a deadly pizza, they're... Buy or find out more→
Mirror
$39.95 – Hardback / Walker Books Ltd
A two-in-one picture book that comprises two stories designed to be read simultaneously - one from the left, the other from the right. It lets you experience the lives of two little boys - one from an urban family in Sydney,... Buy or find out more→
One Small Island
$29.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Macquarie Island lies in the Southern Ocean, between Antarctica and New Zealand. A speck of green in the vast, windswept sea, it is a haven for many creatures that live above and below the waves. This title tells the story of this... Buy or find out more→
Now
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
The much-anticipated sequel to 'Then', from one of Australia's most loved authors. Buy or find out more→
Hamlet
$55.00 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
In this sumptuous staging of Shakespeare's enigmatic play on the page, Nicki Greenberg has created an extraordinary visual feast that sweeps up all in its path as the drama intensifies both on stage and off. Buy or find out more→
The Red Wind
$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Brothers Zluty and Bily live happily in their house in the desert. Every year Zluty journeys to the great forest while Bily stays to tend their home. Every year Zluty returns with exciting tales of his adventures. But then a... Buy or find out more→