CBCA Book of the Year 2010: Older Readers Shortlist
Loving Richard Feynman
$17.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Catherine is a science-loving fifteen-year-old. Richard helped build the atom bomb. Catherine is just trying to survive school. When your life is falling apart around you, is... Buy or find out more→
The Winds of Heaven
$23.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
When Fan was little she dreamed of magical countries in the faraway blue hills. Clementine thought her cousin Fan's house in the country had a special smell: of sun and dust and kerosene and the wild honey they ate for breakfast... Buy or find out more→
Jarvis 24
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Awkward, funny and poignant, Jarvis 24 places the reader in the mind of 16-year-old Marc Jarvis, who tries to step outside the boundaries of his private school life by taking on work experience for two weeks in a car yard. Buy or find out more→
A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
$16.95 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Two young boys, an old tramp, a beautiful lost dancer and her baby - rag-tag survivors of a sudden war - form a fragile family holding together in the remnants of a fun fair. This is a vivid, poetic story about life in the... Buy or find out more→
Stolen
$17.99 – Paperback / Chicken House Ltd
Winner of the 2010 Gold Inky Award. A 2011 Printz Honor Book. Told in a moving letter to her captor, sixteen-year-old Gemma relives her kidnapping from Bangkok airport while on holiday. Taken by... Buy or find out more→
Liar
$23.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Micah Wilkins is a liar. But when her boyfriend, Zach, dies under brutal circumstances, the shock might be enough to set her straight. Or maybe not. Especially when lying comes as naturally to her as breathing. Was Micah dating... Buy or find out more→