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Me and You
Niccolo Ammaniti

$17.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Room meets Stand By Me, in a thrilling tale of the loss of innocence Buy or find out more


Days Like This

Days Like This
Alison Stewart

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Runner-up in the inaugural Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Lily is a prisoner in her own home. Forced to stay inside by The Committee and guarded by their increasingly distant parents, Lily and her brother Daniel are beginning to... Buy or find out more



Cinder
Marissa Meyer

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

A forbidden romance. A deadly plague. Earth's fate hinges on one girl . . . CINDER, a gifted mechanic in New Beijing, is also a cyborg. She's reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's sudden illness. But... Buy or find out more


Hunger Games Trilogy Slipcase
COLLINS SUZANNE

$80.95 – Multiple copy pack

The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, are available for the first time ever in a... Buy or find out more



Clockwork Prince

Clockwork Prince
Cassandra Clare

$24.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd

Second in the New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series set in Victorian London; Collector's First Edition contains the never-before-seen letter from Will to his parents. Love and lies can corrupt even the purest... Buy or find out more


Mockingbird  

Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine

$10.95 – Paperback / Penguin Putnam Inc

In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Anything in between is confusing. That's how Caitlin's older brother, Devon, always explained it. But now Devon's dead. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an 11-year-old girl... Buy or find out more



The Extinction Gambit
Michael Pryor

$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

Kingsley Ward is in dire trouble. Instead of thrilling the audience with his death-defying escapology, his first performance ends in disaster when his hidden wolfish nature bursts free. That same night, his father is abducted... Buy or find out more


Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising

Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising
Jason Henderson

$15.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A descendant of legendary vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, 14-year-old Alex is stuck at boarding school near Lake Geneva, Switzerland, when he finds himself drawn into a web of paranormal intrigue. Buy or find out more



Viii
H.M. Castor

$17.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

VIII is the story of Hal, a boy of extraordinary talents. Astonishing warrior skills. Sharp intelligence. And a fierce sense of honour and virtue. He believes he is destined for greatness. His father wishes he would disappear.... Buy or find out more


First Kill

First Kill
Heather Brewer

$14.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

The summer before ninth grade, when Joss sets off to meet his uncle and hunt down the beast that murdered his younger sister three years earlier, he learns he is destined to join the Slayer Society. Buy or find out more



Saga Of Larten Crepsley Ocean Of Blood

Saga Of Larten Crepsley Ocean Of Blood
Darren Shan

$14.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Before Larten Crepsley was a vampire general . . . Before he was Darren Shan's master. . . Before the War of Scars . . . Larten Crepsley was a teenager. Sucking all he can out of humanity, Larten stumbles into a violent,... Buy or find out more


Undead
Kirsty McKay

$17.00 – Paperback / Chicken House Ltd

When their ski-coach pulls up at a cafe, and everyone else gets off, new girl Bobby and rebel Smitty stay behind. They hardly know each other but that changes when through the falling snow, the see the others coming back.... Buy or find out more



Mastiff

Mastiff
Tamora Pierce

$24.99 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia

The Legend of Beka Cooper gives Tamora Pierce's fans exactly what they want--a smart and savvy heroine making a name for herself on the mean streets of Tortall's Lower City--while offering plenty of appeal for new readers as well.... Buy or find out more


Drink, Slay, Love

Drink, Slay, Love
Sarah Beth Durst

$17.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

After sixteen-year-old vampire Pearl Sange is stabbed through the heart by a were-unicorn, she develops non-vampire-like traits that lead her to save her high school classmates from the Vampire King of New England. Buy or find out more



The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

$34.99 – Hardback / Scholastic US

The astonishing bestseller, now in a deluxe, slipcased collector's edition featuring exclusive new Mockingjay artwork. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol... Buy or find out more


The Song of the Quarkbeast: A Last Dragonslayer Novel

The Song of the Quarkbeast: A Last Dragonslayer Novel
Jasper Fforde

$22.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division

The second in Jasper Fforde's Dragonslayer trilogy for younger readers, this is magical, hilarious and irreverent writing. As the background Wizidrical Power slowly builds after the Big Magic, King Snodd IV of Hereford... Buy or find out more



Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Laini Taylor

$25.00 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Following in the footsteps of Harry Potter and Twilight, we are delighted to introduce what we think will be the next phenomenon Buy or find out more


The Outcasts
John Flanagan

$17.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

In Skandia, there is only one way to become a warrior. Boys are chosen for teams called brotherbands and must endure three months of gruelling training in seamanship, weapons and battle tactics. It's brotherband against... Buy or find out more



The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater

$19.99 – Hardback / Scholastic US

From the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Shiver and Linger comes a brand-new, heartstopping novel. With her trademark lyricism, Stiefvater turns to a new world, where a pair are swept up in a daring, dangerous race... Buy or find out more


Twisted Heart

Twisted Heart
Eden Maguire

$17.00 – Paperback / Hachette Children's Books

'We will all rise,' Zoran warned while all around him burned. 'There will be other times, other places - a million other willing souls!' With a heart twisted by the lust for new lovers to destroy, new souls to connquer and a... Buy or find out more



Stork

Stork
Wendy Delsol

$17.95 – Paperback / Candlewick Press,U.S.

Family secrets. Lost memories. And the arrival of an ancient magical ability that will reveal everything. Sixteen-year-old Katla LeBlanc has just moved from Los Angeles to Minnesota. As if it weren't enough that her trendy... Buy or find out more


Last Breath

Last Breath
Rachel Caine

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

There is a question Claire has long been asking: why do vampires live so far out in a sunny desert when they're sensitive to sunlight? The reason doesn't have to do with sunlight but water – and an ancient enemy who has finally... Buy or find out more



Recon Team Angel One Assault

Recon Team Angel One Assault
Brian Falkner

$19.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Australia

It is 2030, and the world is at war with an alien race; The Bzadians. The battleground: Earth. Recon Team Angel, made up of teenagers from around the world, has been training for years. They have learned Bzadian languages. How to... Buy or find out more


Midwinterblood

Midwinterblood
Marcus Sedgwick

$23.00 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co

Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar even when you've never been there before, or felt that you've known someone even though you are meeting them for the... Buy or find out more



This Dark Endeavour

This Dark Endeavour
Kenneth Oppel

$24.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

The purest intentions can stir up the darkest obsessions. In this prequel to Mary Shelley’s gothic classic, Frankenstein, 16-year-old Victor Frankenstein begins a dark journey that will change his life forever. Victor’s... Buy or find out more


The Rosie Black Chronicles Book Two: Equinox

The Rosie Black Chronicles Book Two: Equinox
Lara Morgan

$22.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Australia

The second book in the hit series: The Rosie Black Chronicles by Lara Morgan. Rosie's dad is locked away, Pip has abandoned her and Riley isn't telling her the full story. Rosie is still working in secret to try and take down the... Buy or find out more



The Coming of the Whirlpool
Andrew McGahan

$22.99 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin

From the award-winning author of Praise and The White Earth comes a magnificent young adult series about destiny and desire, set in a brilliantly realised fantasy world. Buy or find out more


Silence

Silence
Becca Fitzpatrick

$25.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd

The stunning third book in the bestselling Hush, Hush sequence. Buy or find out more



Muse

Muse
Rebecca Lim

$20.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Continuing the MERCY series and an angel's inner struggle to reconcile earthly emotions with heavenly constraints. This third book sees Mercy awake in the body of nineteen-year-old Irina - spoilt, angry, insanely wilful, and one... Buy or find out more


Birthmarked

Birthmarked
Caragh M. O'Brien

$17.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd

N THE ENCLAVE, YOUR SCARS SET YOU APART, and the newly born will change the future. In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the walled Enclave and those,... Buy or find out more



Reckoning

Reckoning
Lili St. Crow

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

This is it. Sixteen-year-old orphan Dru Anderson has faced down suckers, zombies, and wulfen without flinching. And now that she's bloomed into a full-fledged svetocha, she doesn't even need a gun. But the Real World is... Buy or find out more


Beautiful Chaos

Beautiful Chaos
Margaret Stohl, Kami Garcia

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Ethan Wate is in love with a caster girl. When he looks at Lena, it's like there's no one else in the world. But Ethan is mortal, and on her seventeenth birthday Lena made a choice that changed everything. The girl Ethan loves has... Buy or find out more



Prized

Prized
Caragh M. O'Brien

$17.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd

Second in the gripping dystopian trilogy from Caragh O'Brien that began with BIRTHMARKED. Buy or find out more


The Scorch Trials

The Scorch Trials
James Dashner

$16.99 – Paperback / Chicken House Ltd

Thomas was sure that escape from the maze meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one knew what sort of life they were going back to. The earth is a wasteland. Buy or find out more



Shatter Me

Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi

$17.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

Set in a dystopian world, Shatter Me is the story of a 17-year-old girl imprisoned for possessing a fatal touch. As she watches everything crumble around her, she must choose between relinquishing her power or using it to save... Buy or find out more


Girl About Time

Girl About Time
Kerstin Gier

$17.00 – Paperback / Chicken House Ltd

Every family has secrets. But what do you do if you find out that you are the family secret That's what happens to Gwen when she finds herself unbelievably transported from out on the town to turn of the century London. It's... Buy or find out more



Destined: A House of Night Novel

Destined: A House of Night Novel
P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast

$24.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group

The next exciting instalment in the bestselling House of Night series. The latest instalment from the ever-scandalous House of Night sees Zoey and Stevie Rae trying to restore some order to their complex lives. But is... Buy or find out more


Goliath
Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson

$29.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia

Alek and Deryn are aboard the Leviathan when the ship is ordered to pick up an unusual passenger. This brilliant, maniacal inventor claims to have a weapon called Goliath. It can end the war. But whose side is the inventor... Buy or find out more



The Carrier of the Mark

The Carrier of the Mark
Leigh Fallon

$17.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

Bewitching debut teen fiction from Inkpop sensation -- dark magic, prophecies and irresistible romance collide in this beguiling read. Buy or find out more


The Rabbit Girl

The Rabbit Girl
Mary Arrigan

$16.95 – Paperback / Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd

What is the secret of Mallie's picture? The mystery unfolds as evacuees Tony and Alice escape the terrors of London's Blitz for the Lake District, where they befriend a fascinating and fearless old lady. Many years later, an... Buy or find out more



Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

In The Lost Hero, three demigods named Jason, Piper, and Leo made their first visit to Camp Half-Blood, where they inherited a blood-chilling quest: Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the... Buy or find out more


Fateful

Fateful
Claudia Gray

$25.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

New from the No.1 bestselling author of the EVERNIGHT series The RMS TITANIC might be the most luxurious ship in the world, but all passenger Tess Davies wants to do is escape her dreary existence as a maid. Trapped in a... Buy or find out more



Taken Away

Taken Away
Celine Kiernan

$17.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

A pacy, chilling ghost story from the creator of the internationally acclaimed Moorehawke Trilogy. Ages 13+. Buy or find out more


The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson

$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

Thrilling ghost-hunting teen mystery as modern-day London is plagued by a sudden outbreak of brutal murders that mimic the horrific crimes of Jack the Ripper. A gorgeously written, chilling, atmospheric thriller. The... Buy or find out more



Froi of the Exiles

Froi of the Exiles
Melina Marchetta

$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Gripping and intense, complex and richly imagined, Froi of the Exiles is a dazzling sequel to Finnikin of the Rock, from the internationally best-selling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca,... Buy or find out more


The Wicked Wood

The Wicked Wood
Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab

$27.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

In this companion to The Wilful Eye, six much-loved writers - Catherine Bateson, Victor Kelleher, Cate Kennedy, Maureen McCarthy, Nan McNab and Kate Thompson - give fresh voice to age-old stories of abandonment, desire and... Buy or find out more



Lola and the Boy Next Door

Lola and the Boy Next Door
Stephanie Perkins

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

For budding costume designer Lola Nolan, the more sparkly, more fun, more wild the outfit, the better. But even though Lola's style is right out there, she's a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And... Buy or find out more


DropZone: Terminal Velocity

DropZone: Terminal Velocity
Andy McNab

$17.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

The Raiders are a talented young skydiving team - with a secret. They are also a highly trained group of covert operatives, carrying out deniable missions for Britain's intelligence services. Under the demanding guidance of... Buy or find out more



Wyrmeweald: Returner's Wealth

Wyrmeweald: Returner's Wealth
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell

$17.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

Book One of a new three-part fantasy sequence by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell set in Wyrmeweald, a Wild-West world where dragon-like beasts roam supreme. Buy or find out more


When We Were Two

When We Were Two
Robert Newton

$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



Eight Keys

Eight Keys
Suzanne LaFleur

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Eleven-year-old Elise feels stuck. Her school locker-buddy squashes her lunch and laughs at her, every day. She doesn't want to go to school - and her best friend Franklin just makes things worse. One day Elise discovers an... Buy or find out more


Prisoner of the Inquisition

Prisoner of the Inquisition
Theresa Breslin

$17.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

Zarita, only daughter of the town magistrate, lives a life of wealth and privilege. Indulged by her parents, she is free to spend her days as she pleases, enjoying herself in the company of an eligible young nobleman, horse... Buy or find out more



Stay with Me

Stay with Me
Paul Griffin

$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Cece, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack... Buy or find out more


The Traitor and the Tunnel: A Mary Quinn Mystery
Y.S. Lee

$16.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd

Queen Victoria has a little problem: a series of petty thefts from Buckingham Palace. She calls the Agency for help, and they put Mary Quinn – on her first case as a full-fledged agent – on the case. Going undercover as a... Buy or find out more



Angel Arias
Marianne de Pierres

$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

In the sequel to Burn Bright, Naif is caught in the unrest on the island owned by the pirate, Ruzalia. To stop Ruzalia harming the rebels, and to uncover more answers to the mysteries of Ixion, she has to return to Grave. There... Buy or find out more


The Lost Stories

The Lost Stories
John Flanagan

$17.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

Everyone knows the legends of the Rangers of Araluen. But no one has heard the whole story - until now. Has Halt told Will the truth about how Will became an orphan? Did Gilan track down Morgarath's lieutenant after the battle... Buy or find out more



Final Friends

Final Friends
Christopher Pike

$19.00 – Paperback / Hachette Children's Books

They just wanted to finish high school, but high school might finish them ...When Jessica Hart decides to throw a party in order to get to know some of the hot new guys at school, she could never have predicted that by the end... Buy or find out more


Ashes
Ilsa J. Bick

$17.00 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc

Alex has run away and is hiking through the wilderness with her dead parents' ashes, about to say goodbye to the life she no longer wants to live. But then the world suddenly changes. An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the... Buy or find out more



Glow
Amy Kathleen Ryan

$17.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia

What if you were bound for a new world, about to pledge your life to someone you'd been promised to since birth, and one unexpected violent attack made survival-not love-the issue? An extraordinary YA dystopian novel that plunges... Buy or find out more


Six Days

Six Days
Philip Webb

$17.00 – Paperback / Chicken House Ltd

Will they find the lost treasure before time runs out? A gripping adventure about a desperate race through the wastelands of future London to find a relic of extraordinary power. For Cass and Wilbur, life as scavengers... Buy or find out more



Ashes, Ashes

Ashes, Ashes
Jo Treggiari

$25.00 – Hardback / Scholastic US

Epidemics, floods, droughts-for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims,... Buy or find out more


David

David
Mary Hoffman

$19.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Michelangelo's statue of David is renowned all over the world. Thousands flock to Florence to admire the artistry behind this Renaissance masterpiece, and to admire the beauty of the human form captured in the marble. But the... Buy or find out more



The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles

The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles
Rosemary Sutcliff

$20.95 – Paperback / Oxford University Press

The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers are recognized as being three of the best novels about Roman Britain written for children. Written by Rosemary Sutcliff, one the most acclaimed children's... Buy or find out more


Far Rockaway

Far Rockaway
Charlie Fletcher

$29.00 – Hardback / Hachette Children's Books

Cat Manno and her grandfather Victor made a pact that one day, just for the hell of it, they'd take the subway and stay on the A-train until the very end of the line where the last narrow spit of land runs out into the ocean at... Buy or find out more



No Ordinary Love Song

No Ordinary Love Song
Alison Prince

$16.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd

Cal's long, dull summer is about to change...Cal would rather avoid reality. He hates school; his teachers are badgering him to decide on a career; his sister Jess has moved away from the Scottish island where they live, and... Buy or find out more


Shift
Em Bailey

$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



Beautiful Days

Beautiful Days
Anna Godbersen

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

In this must-have sequel to Bright Young Things, Cordelia and Letty are small-town girls no longer. Letty is ready at last to chase her Broadway dreams. Cordelia thought she lost her true love, but a chance meeting will change... Buy or find out more


Blood Song
Rhiannon Hart

$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

Read Rhiannon Hart's blog post about the story behind her debut Young Adult fantasy novel... Buy or find out more



The Fear

The Fear
Charlie Higson

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

HE DOESN'T KNOW IT, BUT DOGNUT IS ABOUT TO SET OFF A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT WILL AFFECT EVERY KID IN THE CITY. The sickness struck everyone over the age of fourteen. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, sisters and... Buy or find out more


Hades

Hades
Alexandra Adornetto

$24.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

She was sent to save him...but can she save herself? Buy or find out more



Crescendo

Crescendo
Becca Fitzpatrick

$16.99 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd

Nora should know better than to think her life can return to normal after falling in love with a fallen angel. And Nora's life isn't normal - her dad was murdered, and the facts about his death just don't add up. Now Nora's own... Buy or find out more


All These Things I've Done

All These Things I've Done
Gabrielle Zevin

$17.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

Sixteen year-old Anya becomes the head of a mafia family after her parents are both murdered by rival gangs. Although Anya is embrolied in the criminal world, she is determined to keep her brother and sister out of the mafia... Buy or find out more



The Power of Six

The Power of Six
Pittacus Lore

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

We are the last defence. I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened to John Smith. To the world he's a mystery, but to me ...he's one of us. Nine of us came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed... Buy or find out more


The Unforgotten Coat

The Unforgotten Coat
Frank Cottrell Boyce

$24.95 – Hardback / Walker Books Ltd

This is a stunning magical story of a summer of friendship with darker undertones of refugees. Two refugee brothers from Mongolia are determined to fit in with their Liverpool schoolmates, but bring so much of Mongolia to... Buy or find out more



CRYPT: The Gallows Curse

CRYPT: The Gallows Curse
Andrew Hammond

$15.00 – Paperback / Headline Publishing Group

A fantastic blend of teenage spies, horror and ghost-busting for fans of CHERUB and YOUNG BOND. Buy or find out more


Bloodlines
Richelle Mead

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Sydney protects vampire secrets - and human lives. Sydney belongs to a secret group who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the world of humans and vampires. But when Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, she... Buy or find out more



Invisible Hero The
Elizabeth Fensham

$19.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press

Philip has spent his whole life at school either being invisible or being called stupid. He's used to being the loner, the odd one out, the boy who lives with his nan. So when Philip's class is given a school assignment to write... Buy or find out more


Factotum

Factotum
D. M. Cornish

$25.00 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia

Rossamnd has exchanged Winstermill and the dangerous life of a lamplighter for Brandenbrass and an even more dangerous life as factotum to the aristocratic monsterslayer, Europe. But whispers and rumours about her new factotum... Buy or find out more



Hunting Lila

Hunting Lila
Sarah Alderson

$16.99 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd

17-year-old Lila has two secrets she's prepared to take to the grave. The first is that she can move things just by looking at them. The second is that she's been in love with her brother's best friend, Alex, since forever.... Buy or find out more


Crow Country

Crow Country
Kate Constable

$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 Apothecary
Maile Meloy

$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

A mysterious apothecary. A magic book. A missing scientist. An impossible plan. It’s 1952 and the Scott family has moved unexpectedly from Los Angeles to London. Janie feels uncomfortable in her strange... Buy or find out more


Have You Seen Ally Queen?

Have You Seen Ally Queen?
Deb Fitzpatrick

$19.95 – Paperback / Fremantle Press

Ally Queen, is fifteen, flat-chested and totally trapped in a tiny coastal town where the killer pythons are stale and there are only three types of people: bogans, surfies and spinach-munching hippies. How could her parents... Buy or find out more



Shooting Kabul

Shooting Kabul
N H Senzai

$13.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster

A powerful debut--this coming-of-age novel artfully captures one family's flight from Afghanistan and their new life in San Francisco. Buy or find out more


The Explosive Conclusion

The Explosive Conclusion
Lizzie Wilcock

$15.99 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia

Eight of us are marked with the infinity symbol. We are the chosen ones. We have to stop the human extinction. The chosen eight face a life-or-death mission, one that will force them on a perilous journey back through... Buy or find out more



Brimstone

Brimstone
Alan Skinner

$17.95 – Paperback / Sibling Press

Jenny Swift is chosen to be apprenticed to a great alchemist. Amid the politics and plotting of the court, she is faced with murder, intrigue and betrayal. It takes all her skill and intelligence to survive. The first book in the... Buy or find out more


Uncommon Criminals
Ally Carter

$16.99 – Paperback / Lothian Publishing Company

Kat Bishop: friend. Niece. Daughter. Thief. Or simply, the girl who robbed the greatest museum in the world ...Now she's been asked to steal the infamous Cleopatra Emerald so it can be returned to its rightful owners.Trouble is,... Buy or find out more



The Bridge
Jane Higgins

$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Winner of the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. The City is divided. The bridges gated. In Southside, the hostiles live in squalor and desperation, waiting for a chance to overrun the... Buy or find out more


Forever
Maggie Stiefvater

$25.00 – Hardback / Scholastic US

In SHIVER, Grace and Sam found each other. In LINGER, they foughtto be together. Now, in FOREVER, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. And love is harder... Buy or find out more



Clara In Washington
Penny Tangey

$19.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press

Clara is in Washington. Living in Washington D.C. is meant to be all politics, glamour and great conversations but what do you do when you don't have the words to join in, or the knowledge to ride the subway, or you're scared... Buy or find out more


A Straight Line to My Heart

A Straight Line to My Heart
Bill Condon

$17.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

School is over, not just for the year, but forever. Tiff and Kayla are free, which is what they've always wanted, but now summer is nearly at and end and that means life decisions. Tiff is hoping her job at the local paper will... Buy or find out more



Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs

$24.95 – Hardback / Quirk Books

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes... Buy or find out more


Dragon's Oath: A House of Night Novella

Dragon's Oath: A House of Night Novella
P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast

$15.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group

A House of Night Novella For the first time, the Cast duo will share the back stories of some of the House of Night's most crucial - and mysterious - characters. And it all begins with Dragon's Oath. Before Zoey... Buy or find out more



Outside In

Outside In
Maria V. Snyder

$20.00 – Paperback / Harlequin Enterprises (Australia) Pty Ltd

After leading a victorious rebellion against the Uppers, Trella is forced to continue her leadership role and must help her people face a threat from outside their cube. Buy or find out more


Texas Gothic
Rosemary Clement-Moore

$17.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

Amy Goodnight's family is far from normal. She comes from a line of witches, but tries her best to stay far outside the family business. Her summer gig? Ranch-sitting for her aunt with her wacky but beautiful sister. Only the... Buy or find out more



Whisper

Whisper
Chrissie Keighery

$16.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books

I'm always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in the gaps, but never getting all the details. It's like trying to do a jigsaw when I don't even know what the picture is, and I'm missing one of... Buy or find out more


Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil

Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil
Derek Landy

$14.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

Skulduggery Pleasant is back, and reunited with his original head. But all is not well in the magical world - for one thing, foreign powers are conspiring to take over the Irish Sanctuary, and for another thing, Valkyrie has... Buy or find out more



The Cardturner
Louis Sachar

$15.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

When Alton's ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good... Buy or find out more


Only Ever Always
Penni Russon

$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



The Wikkeling

The Wikkeling
Steven Arnston

$42.95 – Hardback / The Perseus Books Group

In the enormous city of the Addition, all children are SAFE, SECURE, and SUPERVISED, and are watched by cameras even while they sleep. Henrietta is unlikable at her competitive school until she meets Gary and Rose. They all... Buy or find out more


The Spook's Destiny: Book 8
Joseph Delaney

$24.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

The Spook, Tom and Alice travel to Ireland, fleeing from the war in the County. The only thing protecting Tom and Alice is the fragile and precious bloodjar. They must remain together and the jar intact - otherwise they are... Buy or find out more



Pride and Premiership

Pride and Premiership
Michelle Gayle

$16.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd

This is the diary of Remy Louise Bennet, age 17-1/2. Remy Louise Bennet has one goal in life - to be a WAG. And as every true wannabe WAG knows, there are rules. One: pretend you don't know he's a footballer. Two:... Buy or find out more


Hereafter

Hereafter
Tara Hudson

$20.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

A stranded spirit, a sudden love! Beautiful elegiac love story that crosses the divide between the living and the dead, in a powerful vision of longing and loss. A tender and poignant love story with a ghostly twist. ... Buy or find out more



Rage of Lions

Rage of Lions
Curtis Jobling

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Young werewolf Drew Ferran is the future king of Westland. He has the makings of a great warrior - but first he must master the blade and the beast. When Lady Gretchen is abducted by the Werelion Prince Lucas, Drew and his friends... Buy or find out more


Alaska

Alaska
Sue Saliba

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

When Mia follows her sister halfway across the world to Alaska, she discovers that love can be found in the most unexpected and beautiful of places. But can Mia find the courage to follow her heart in Alaska? And what if the one... Buy or find out more



Tiger's Curse
Colleen Houck

$16.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Would you risk it all to change your destiny? The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she’d be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the... Buy or find out more


POD

POD
Stephen Wallenfels

$20.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

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The Shattering
Karen Healey

$18.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

Keri, Janna and Sione have two things in common: they each have an older brother who committed suicide. And they each have a connection with Summerton. As the three teenagers delve deeper into the mystery they uncover secrets that... Buy or find out more


Act of Faith

Act of Faith
Kelly Gardiner

$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

England, 1640. Sixteen-year-old Isabella is forced to flee her home when her father's radical ideas lead him into a suicidal stand against Oliver Cromwell's army. Taking refuge in Amsterdam and desperate to find a means to... Buy or find out more



All I Ever Wanted
Vikki Wakefield

$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Read our Q&A with Vikki Wakefield about All I Ever Wanted. Mim knows what she wants, and where... Buy or find out more


Imaginary Girls

Imaginary Girls
Nova Ren Suma

$20.00 – Paperback / Murdoch Books

Chloe's older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can't be captured or caged. When a night with Ruby's friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers the dead body of her classmate London Hayes left... Buy or find out more



Momentum

Momentum
Saci Lloyd

$18.00 – Paperback / Hachette Children's Books

A hugely pacy and exciting thriller from the immensely talented Costa-shortlisted author Saci Lloyd Buy or find out more


The Paradise Trap

The Paradise Trap
Catherine Jinks

$15.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

When Marcus and his mother arrive at the Diamond Beach Caravan Park, it is one big disappointment. For a start, it's nothing like the Diamond Beach that Marcus's mother remembers from her childhood, and Marcus can think of a... Buy or find out more



Ship Breaker

Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacigalupi

$18.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group

Winner of the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Shortlisted for the National Book Award 2010. In the Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are... Buy or find out more


In the Sea There are Crocodiles

In the Sea There are Crocodiles
Fabio Geda

$24.95 – Hardback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs, don't use weapons, don't steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn't there. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is left alone in... Buy or find out more



Blink & Caution

Blink & Caution
Tim Wynne-Jones

$22.95 – Paperback / Candlewick Press,U.S.

Two street kids get tangled in a plot over their heads-and risk an unexpected connection-in this heart-pounding thriller by Tim Wynne-Jones. Buy or find out more


Scrivener's Moon

Scrivener's Moon
Philip Reeve

$30.00 – Hardback / Scholastic

The mammoth warriors are gathering for war. In a future land once known as Britain, nomad tribes are preparing to fight a terrifying enemy-the first-ever mobile city. Before London can launch itself, young engineer Fever Crumb... Buy or find out more



Trapped
Michael Northrop

$28.00 – Hardback / Scholastic US

The day the blizzard started, no-one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not only a matter of keeping warm, but also of staying alive . . . Scotty and his friends Pete... Buy or find out more


Reckless

Reckless
Cornelia Funke

$17.99 – Paperback / Chicken House Ltd

Through a mirror is a dangerous world. For years, Jacob Reckless has enjoyed its secrets and treasures. Not any more. His younger brother has followed him. Now dark magic will turn the boy to beast, break the heart of the girl he... Buy or find out more



Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel

Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel
Michael Gerard Bauer

$19.99 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia

Ishmael has made it to the Senior School and things are really looking up. His nemesis and chief tormentor Barry Bagsley has finally decided to leave him alone, while his dream girl and chief goddess Kelly Faulkner has finally... Buy or find out more


Dark Parallel

Dark Parallel
M. G. Harris

$20.00 – Paperback / Scholastic

Explosive and compelling-the fourth part of the best-selling JOSHUA FILES sequence. Josh and Ixchel have travelled back in time, but it might not be so easy to get home again. They've landed in the Mayan era, when the... Buy or find out more



Linger

Linger
Maggie Stiefvater

$19.99 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia

For use in schools and libraries only. In the breathtaking sequel to the New York Times' best-seller Shiver, Grace defies her parents to retain a relationship with Sam as he grapples with his werewolf heritage, an uncertain... Buy or find out more


Belle's Song

Belle's Song
K. M. Grant

$17.00 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc

When Belle meets Luke, son of an alchemist and Scribe to the famous poet Chaucer, she is determined to travel with him to Canterbury on a pilgrimage. She hopes for a miracle: that her father will walk again. She also hopes to... Buy or find out more



Thirteen Days to Midnight

Thirteen Days to Midnight
Patrick Carman

$17.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown & Company

You are indestructible. These are the words that transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding that changes everything. After all, there's something addictive about testing the limits of fear, experiencing the thrill of... Buy or find out more


Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet
R. J. Anderson

$17.00 – Paperback / Hachette Children's Books

EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IS WRONG Buy or find out more



Tiger's Quest

Tiger's Quest
Colleen Houck

$16.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Kelsey Hayes is no ordinary college freshman. In fact, the eighteen-year-old girl has just returned from India, where she risked her life—and her heart—to rescue a handsome Indian prince from a terrible curse. Back home in... Buy or find out more


Passion: Book 3 of the Fallen Series

Passion: Book 3 of the Fallen Series
Lauren Kate

$24.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

"Every single lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have chosen me. Forever." Luce would die for Daniel. And she has. Over and over again. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully... Buy or find out more



Darke

Darke
Angie Sage

$28.00 – Hardback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

In the Darkely fantastic penultimate book of this internationally bestselling series, Septimus and his friends find themselves attempting the impossible as Septimus begins his initiation into Darke Week. Septimus is on... Buy or find out more


Withering Tights

Withering Tights
Louise Rennison

$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



Rockoholic

Rockoholic
C.J. Skuse

$17.00 – Paperback / Chicken House Ltd

Jody loves Jackson Gatlin. At his only UK rock concert, she’s right at the front. But when she's caught in the crush and carried back stage she has more than concussion to contend with. Throw in a menacing manager, a... Buy or find out more


Black Painted Fingernails

Black Painted Fingernails
Steven Herrick

$20.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

How about we toss a coin? Heads, it's west and a lift. Tails, it's still west, but no lift.' James is heading into the country on his first teacher-training round when a mysterious girl asks him for a ride. Sophie has... Buy or find out more



Rot & Ruin

Rot & Ruin
Jonathan Maberry

$17.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd

In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with... Buy or find out more


Life: An Exploded Diagram

Life: An Exploded Diagram
Mal Peet

$18.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd

This is a brilliant coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Cold War and events leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Clem Ackroyd lives with his parents and grandmother in a claustrophobic home too small to... Buy or find out more



Little Sister
Aimee Said

$16.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Australia

Al Miller wishes she was an only child. Al Miller is counting down the days until her over-achieving older sister Larrie finishes Year Twelve and leaves Whitlam High School for ever. Then, Al is certain, people will... Buy or find out more


The Cursed Ones
Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguie

$17.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd

The Cursed Ones, or vampires, have made their presence known to mankind. They promised to help bring peace to the world but then declared war on humanity. The identity of their leader is unknown. Most people are too afraid or... Buy or find out more



Trash
Andy Mulligan

$17.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small... Buy or find out more


What Happened to Goodbye
Sarah Dessen

$17.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

Mclean never lets herself get too attached . . . After the scandal of her mother's affair, Mclean and her dad chose life on the road. But since losing her family and home, Mclean has lost herself too; she's been Eliza,... Buy or find out more



Beauty Queens

Beauty Queens
Libba Bray

$22.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

Teen beauty queens. A lost island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives deep in the heart of every girl, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into... Buy or find out more


Forgotten
Cat Patrick

$22.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books

I remember forwards. I remember forwards, and forget backwards. My memories, bad, boring, or good, haven't happened yet. So I will remember standing in the fresh-cut grass with the black-clad figures surrounded by stone until I... Buy or find out more



Silvermay
James Moloney

$24.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Sixteen-year-old Silvermay Hawker feels drawn to the newcomer in her village - a young man of solemn good looks named Tamlyn. But only heartache can come of this, because Tamlyn is devoted to Nerigold and to little Lucien, her... Buy or find out more


Blood Red Road

Blood Red Road
Moira Young

$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



Falling Apart

Falling Apart
Jacqueline Wilson

$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Aimed at young children and teenagers, this book provides an honest and thought-provoking look at relationships between couples and within families, and what can happen when it all goes wrong. Buy or find out more


Starcrossed

Starcrossed
Josephine Angelini

$17.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

When shy, awkward Helen Hamilton sees Lucas Delos for the first time she thinks two things: the first, that he is the most ridiculously beautiful boy she has seen in her life; the second, that she wants to kill him with her bare... Buy or find out more



The Midnight Palace
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Lucia Graves

$16.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

From the author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, the haunting story of a secret society and a labyrinthine railway station with a dark past Buy or find out more


Comet Box

Comet Box
Adrian Stirling

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

It's 1986 and Halley's Comet is hurtling towards the Earth. When Andrew is asked to write down his greatest wish for the Comet Box, he can think of only one thing - that his runaway sister Amelia will finally come home. When... Buy or find out more



Winter's Shadow

Winter's Shadow
M.J. Hearle

$20.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia

Blake Duchamp... He's all that Winter Adams can think of. Ever since their fateful meeting at Pilgrim's Lament. Ever since he looked at her with those emerald eyes. Ever since he saved her life. But Blake isn't... Buy or find out more


A Monster Calls
Siobhan Dowd, Patrick Ness

$27.95 – Hardback / Walker Books Ltd

Winner of the 2012 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the... Buy or find out more



Huntress

Huntress
Malinda Lo

$19.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group

Nature is out of balance in the human world. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The people's survival hangs in the balance. To solve the... Buy or find out more


Dancing Jax

Dancing Jax
Robin Jarvis

$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

A brilliant supernatural thriller with a modern twist, and a triumphant return from one of Britain's best-loved writers. Buy or find out more



Bite Club

Bite Club
Rachel Caine

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Claire Danvers has come to realise that the undead just want to get on with their lives. But there's a new extreme sport being broadcast over the Internet: bare-knuckle fights pitting captured vampires against one another - - or,... Buy or find out more


Die for Me
Amy Plum

$18.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group

An enthralling and unique paranormal romance, Die for Me introduces a new version of the undead with revenants, beings who are fated to sacrifice themselves over and over again to save others' lives. My life had always... Buy or find out more



Ballad

Ballad
Maggie Stiefvater

$19.99 – Paperback / Scholastic

In this sequel to LAMENT, faeries follow James and Dee to Thornking-Ash boarding school, where James struggles with his feelings for Dee and for a dangerous faerie muse called Nuala. When Halloween plunges both Dee and Nuala... Buy or find out more


The Wilful Eye
Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab

$27.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

Six of the world's most exciting and best-loved writers have chosen fairytales as inspiration for this spellbinding and subversive short-story collection. Six writers - Margo Lanagan, Rosie Borella, Isobelle... Buy or find out more



Liberator
Richard Harland

$20.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

The battle continues as the Filthies take over the juggernaut Worldshaker and rename it Liberator . A world of deception and betrayal ensues as the revolution turns radical. Buy or find out more


My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher

$25.00 – Hardback / Orion Publishing Co

Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a 'Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are... Buy or find out more



Marcelo in the Real World
Francisco X Stork

$16.99 – Paperback / Scholastic US

Reminiscent of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in the intensity and purity of its voice, this extraordinary novel challenges the boundaries of autism. It is a love story, a legal drama, and a celebration of the... Buy or find out more


A Pocketful of Eyes
Lili Wilkinson

$17.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

Bee is in her element working in the taxidermy department at the Museum of Natural History, but her summer job turns out to be full of surprises: A dead body in the Red Rotunda. A mysterious Museum benefactor. A large stuffed... Buy or find out more



Pig Boy
J.C. Burke

$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

Winner of the Ned Kelly: Best Crime Fiction Award 2012 An unmissable novel from the award-winning author of THE STORY OF TOM BRENNAN On Damon Styles's eighteenth birthday, he is expelled... Buy or find out more


Underground

Underground
Chris Morphew

$16.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books

The end is coming and Luke is running out of hiding places. He and his friends are trapped, paralysed and lost to the outside world. And the only escape is at the hands of Calvin and his men. There are 49 days until the end of... Buy or find out more



Summer and the City

Summer and the City
Candace Bushnell

$25.00 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers

Meet teenage Carrie Bradshaw as she hits the bright lights, big city of New York for the very first time! Find out how Carrie transforms from country girl to super-cool fashionista in the second explosive CARRIE DIARIES novel from... Buy or find out more


The Dead I Know

The Dead I Know
Scot Gardner

$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



The Ivory Rose

The Ivory Rose
Belinda Murrell

$15.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

Jemma has just landed her first job, babysitting Sammy. It's in Rosethorne, one of the famous witches' houses near where she lives. Sammy says the house is haunted by a sad little girl, but Jemma doesn't know what to believe.... Buy or find out more


Troubletwisters
Garth Nix, Sean Williams

$9.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

When their home mysteriously explodes around their ears, twins Jack and Jaide are sent to stay with a grandmother they have never met. It soon becomes apparent that Grandma X is more than a little eccentric, and there are very... Buy or find out more



Long Reach

Long Reach
Peter Cocks

$18.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd

Seventeen-year-old Eddie Savage is shocked to learn that the body of his brother, Steve, has just been washed up in the Thames. But he soon discovers something even more disturbing: that Steve had actually been working undercover... Buy or find out more


Thirteen Days to Midnight

Thirteen Days to Midnight
Patrick Carman

$29.00 – Hardback / Little, Brown & Company

You are indestructible. These are the words that transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding... and it changes everything. After all, there's something addictive about testing the limits of fear, experiencing the thrill of... Buy or find out more



Secrets and Shadows

Secrets and Shadows
Shannon Delany

$17.00 – Paperback / Griffin Publishing

Nothing' s simple when you run with werewolves. Jess Gillmansen thinks she' s seen it all but her eyes are about to be opened to even more danger and a reality far more paranormal than she' s suspected. With Jess' s realization... Buy or find out more


City of Fallen Angels

City of Fallen Angels
Cassandra Clare

$19.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd

The fourth book in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series follows Simon into the heart of the Downworld. Buy or find out more



Birth Of A Killer The Saga Of Larten Crepsley Book One
Darren Shan

$14.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Following the massive success of the Demonata series, Darren Shan is back where it all started -- telling the life story of the vampire Larten Crepsley. Spanning centuries and continents, taking in sea voyages, murder, war and... Buy or find out more


Maximum Ride: Angel

Maximum Ride: Angel
James Patterson

$24.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone

Max Ride and her best friends have always had one another's backs. No matter what. Living on the edge as fugitives, they never had a choice. But now they're up against a mysterious and deadly force that's racing across the globe -... Buy or find out more



Department 19
Will Hill

$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

"My master is the second oldest vampire in the world," she said. "He′s more powerful than you can imagine." "Like how powerful?" "Like a God. Like that powerful." "I don′t believe in God." She smiled... Buy or find out more


The Golden Day
Ursula Dubosarsky

$19.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

A beautiful, haunting novel from the author of the multi-awarding winning The Red Shoe. Set in 1967, and imbued with the atmosphere and psychological intrigue of Picnic at Hanging Rock. There were only... Buy or find out more



Emerald Atlas:The Books of Beginning 1
John Stephens

$24.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a... Buy or find out more


Darkest Mercy

Darkest Mercy
Melissa Marr

$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

The final breathtaking instalment in the darkly seductive 'Wicked Lovely' story about the collision of mortal and faery worlds! Buy or find out more



Entice

Entice
Jessica Shirvington

$24.99 – Paperback / Lothian Publishing Company

Violet Eden thought she knew all the secrets ... she was wrong. I now had little doubt. I felt the intensity in that one burst of emotion from him, felt his desperate need to eliminate me. Any small glimmer of hope that might... Buy or find out more


Eona

Eona
Alison Goodman

$16.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Alison Goodman's most recent book, The Two Pearls of Wisdom, also published as Eon, has received numerous awards, including winning the Aurealis Award. This sequel continues that story. Eon is now Eona, the Mirror Dragoneye, on... Buy or find out more



Cryer's Cross

Cryer's Cross
Lisa McMann

$20.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers

Save me. I'm alive. I need you. When teens start going missing, Kendall's carefully ordered world begins to fall apart! Thrilling YA paranormal mystery from accomplished US writer. An eerie, gripping, totally addictive,... Buy or find out more


Tyranny

Tyranny
Lesley Fairfield

$16.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd

A stark portrayal of a young woman’s battle with Anorexia, Tyranny brings to life author Lesley Fairfield’s own experiences with the disease in a powerful story of hope and survival. Buy or find out more



Thyla

Thyla
Kate Gordon

$17.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

THYLA is a story of Tasmania: of darkness, of convicts, of devils and tigers, and of promises that stay true through the centuries. It is the story of what happened to Cat, and what Tessa really is. My name is Tessa. I... Buy or find out more


Yellowcake

Yellowcake
Margo Lanagan

$19.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

Yellowcake brings together another ten short stories from this extraordinarily talented writer - each of them fiercely original and quietly heartbreaking. Buy or find out more



Defiance

Defiance
Lili St. Crow

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Dru Anderson has always been a good listener. She listened to her dad, but had to gun him down when he turned zombie. She listened to the Order, but got nothing but lied to in return. She listened to Christophe, but still lost the... Buy or find out more


Liar

Liar
Justine Larbalestier

$16.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

Micah freely admits that she's a compulsive liar. Over the years she's duped her classmates, her teachers, and her parents. But when her boyfriend dies under brutal circumstances, the shock might be enough to set her straight. Or... Buy or find out more



Scorpia Rising Alex Rider Book Nine

Scorpia Rising Alex Rider Book Nine
Anthony Horowitz

$18.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd

A dark and shocking conclusion to the bestselling Alex Rider missions. This gripping final mission brings together Alex Rider's old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never... Buy or find out more


The Demon Collector
Jon Mayhew

$20.00 – Hardback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Jonathon Stroud meets Joseph Delaney (with a bit of Dickens). A darkly humorous, hugely imaginative and utterly gripping story of a time when demons roamed London's underworld Buy or find out more



Father's Day

Father's Day
Anne Brooksbank

$17.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

WHAT IF YOUR PARENTS HAD BEEN KEEPING A SECRET FROM YOU YOUR WHOLE LIFE? Sam is in his first year of high school and has been saving his paper-round money for months to buy the one thing he yearns for – a boat. Suddenly... Buy or find out more


Rosebush
Michele Jaffe

$19.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group

Jane is found, near death, in a rosebush – a victim of hit and run. But as she’s convalescing she realizes that her friends’ stories and her memories of what happened that night aren’t adding up. And now only thing she... Buy or find out more



Twilight Robbery

Twilight Robbery
Frances Hardinge

$17.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

The city at night is a dangerous place... Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are in trouble again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, the strange gateway town where visitors may neither... Buy or find out more


Entangled

Entangled
Cat Clarke

$16.99 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc

The same questions whirl round and round in my head: What does he want from me? How could I have let this happen? AM I GOING TO DIE? 17-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with table, pens and paper – and no clue how she... Buy or find out more



The Valley of Blood and Gold

The Valley of Blood and Gold
Tony Palmer

$17.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Torn between his strict Irish family and that of the English Ward's, Fintan tries to make sense of a new world that bears old scars. While his Aunt Niamh clings to life in another country, Fintan finds other ways of being with his... Buy or find out more


Twelfth Grade Kills

Twelfth Grade Kills
Heather Brewer

$14.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Time is running out for half vampire, half human Vlad Tod. The Elysian Council has given him only weeks to live, and that's if the Slayer Society doesn't get him first. Then there's the issue of Vlad's father, who may or may not... Buy or find out more



Triple Ripple: A Fabulous Fairytale
Brigid Lowry

$17.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

Triple Ripple is a tale within a tale within a tale, where the boundaries slip and a writer's magic interweaves into the lives of a royal maid and a princess, a modern teenager and the author herself. The Writer begins with a... Buy or find out more


Hannah

Hannah
Kathryn Lasky

$15.00 – Paperback / Scholastic US

The first book in a magical new series by a Newbery Honor winner about three mermaid sisters separated at birth. Hannah has spent her early days in an orphanage and is now a scullery maid in the house of rich, powerful family. She... Buy or find out more



The Body Finder

The Body Finder
Kimberly Derting

$15.00 – Paperback / Headline Publishing Group

Exciting new YA - A fantastic blend of paranormal, romance and thriller. Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new... Buy or find out more


A Riley Bloom Novel: Shimmer

A Riley Bloom Novel: Shimmer
Alyson Noel

$15.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan

From the author of the bestselling Evermore – the second book in the brilliant, moving and uplifting new series about one girl's adventures in the afterlife. Having solved the matter of the Radiant Boy, Riley,... Buy or find out more



Ashes in the Air

Ashes in the Air
Ali Alizadeh

$24.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press

Alizadeh finds grace, wit and fire in this latest volume of poetry which explores themes such as fatherhood and migration. It ranges from the Tehran of Alizadeh’s childhood to the Australian coast of his teenage years. From the... Buy or find out more


Angel Creek
Sally Rippin

$16.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

In her new falling-down home, in her new street, in her new suburb, Jelly waits for high school to begin. She can only feel happy up in the branches of the old apricot tree and by the creek at the back of the house. One night,... Buy or find out more



Prom and Prejudice

Prom and Prejudice
Elizabeth Eulberg

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Scholarship student Lizzie Bennett can neither afford nor is interested in designer dresses, but her friend Jane is; especially as her crush, Charles Bingley, is returning from a semester in the UK. Lizzie is happy about her... Buy or find out more


Afterlife

Afterlife
Claudia Gray

$20.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

In AFTERLIFE, having become what they feared most, Bianca and Lucas face a scary new reality. They return to Evernight Academy, Lucas as a vampire and Bianca as a wraith. But Lucas is haunted by demons,both personal and... Buy or find out more



Crusade

Crusade
Linda Press Wulf

$16.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Robert: Left on the steps of a church as a baby, Robert was often hungry but never stole food like the other orphans in town. Introverted and extraordinarily intelligent, he knew all the Latin prayers and hymns by heart by the... Buy or find out more


Chasing Odysseus

Chasing Odysseus
Sulari Gentill

$19.99 – Paperback / Pantera Press

Hero and her three brothers - Mac, Cad and Lycon - go on this exciting and dangerous quest to prove their murdered father's honour, the betrayal by King Odysseus and the loyalty of their own people to the conquered city of Troy. Buy or find out more



0.4

0.4
Mike Lancaster

$16.95 – Paperback / Egmont UK Ltd

It's a brave new world. 'My name is Kyle Straker. And I don't exist anymore.' So begins the story of Kyle Straker, recorded on to old audio tapes. You might think these tapes are a hoax. But perhaps they contain the history of... Buy or find out more


Entice

Entice
Carrie Jones

$16.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The third book following New York Times bestsellers Need and Captivate. Zara needs to rescue her soulmate and win a war but there's one small problem: she's been pixie-kissed and is now a pixie queen. Zara and Nick are... Buy or find out more



Forge

Forge
Laurie Halse Anderson

$15.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Sensational sequel to the Carnegie Medal shortlisted Chains Powerful, character-driven, action-packed, historical adventure story Buy or find out more


I am Number Four

I am Number Four
Pittacus Lore

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

We are here to keep our race alive, which was almost entirely obliterated. We're just trying to survive. Six are left. But we are hunted, and the hunters won't stop until they've killed us all. They caught Number One in Malaysia.... Buy or find out more



The Iron Witch

The Iron Witch
Karen Mahoney

$5.00 – Paperback / Random House Australia

‘Utterly enthralling. Karen Mahoney is a brilliant storyteller.’ Richelle Mead, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of the VAMPIRE ACADEMY series FREAK. That's what her classmates call seventeen-year-old Donna... Buy or find out more


Burn Bright
Marianne de Pierres

$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

Into a world of wild pleasures and deadly secrets comes a girl whose innocence may be her greatest strength . . . Description of book Retra doesn't want to go to Ixion, the island of ever-night. Retra is a Seal -... Buy or find out more



Being Here

Being Here
Barry Jonsberg

$20.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

The bittersweet story of a girl and a boy, and a secret that was too real to hide. From the bestselling author of The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull. The boy sat in the branches of the fifth tree on... Buy or find out more


The Unidentified

The Unidentified
Rae Mariz

$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

A dystopian novel from an exciting new voice about a girl in the Game, a school set in a shopping mall where students are observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research. Buy or find out more



You Against Me

You Against Me
Jenny Downham

$29.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd

When eighteen-year-old Mikey's younger sister claims to have been raped and he seeks to avenge the crime, he meets Ellie, the sister of the accused, and befriends her, complicating the situation considerably for all of them. Buy or find out more


Across the Universe

Across the Universe
Beth Revis

$16.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd

AMY has left the life she loves for a world 300 years away Trapped in space and frozen in time, Amy is bound for a new planet. But fifty years before she's due to arrive, she is violently woken, the victim of an... Buy or find out more



Anna and the French Kiss

Anna and the French Kiss
Stephanie Perkins

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets tienne St. Claire: perfect, Parisian, and utterly irresistible. The... Buy or find out more


Genesis
Bernard Beckett

$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co

Anax is about to face her examination for the Academy, the institution which safeguards her society. The subject is close to her heart: Adam, a man whose struggle transformed the course of her country. But the examination will... Buy or find out more



Wolfborn

Wolfborn
Sue Bursztynski

$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

Sixteen-year-old Etienne, son of a knight in the kingdom of Armorique, goes to do his knightly training in the castle of his father's lord, Geraint of Lucanne. Geraint is brave and kind, a good teacher and master - but he has a... Buy or find out more


December Conspiracy 365 Book Twelve

December Conspiracy 365 Book Twelve
Gabrielle Lord

$14.99 – Paperback / Scholastic Australia

It's December, the final month in the deadly 365 day countdown. Will Cal find out what really happened to his dad? Will he reach the Ormond Singularity before the stroke of midnight? One thing's for sure, people will lose their... Buy or find out more



The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove

The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove
Lauren Kate

$17.95 – Paperback / Random House Children's Publishers UK

Lauren Kate's irresistible first novel, THE BETRAYAL OF NATALIE HARGROVE, features the most ruthlessly ambitious heroine since Lady Macbeth. Natalie is utterly determined to cement her position at the top of the high school... Buy or find out more


Unbelievable

Unbelievable
Sara Shepard

$18.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group

Fourth Pretty Little Liars novel about four best friends and the secrets they are trying to hide from each other... In Rosewood, where the air smells like apples and Chanel No. 5, nothing is as it seems. Five best... Buy or find out more



Low Red Moon

Low Red Moon
Ivy Devlin

$16.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The only thing Avery Hood can remember about the night her parents died is that she saw silver - deadly silver, moving inhumanly fast. Then Avery meets the new boy in school - Ben, mysterious and beautiful, with whom she feels a... Buy or find out more


Zombies Vs Unicorns

Zombies Vs Unicorns
Justine Larbalestier, Holly Black

$19.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

Edited by Holly Black (Team Unicorn) and Justine Larbalestier (Team Zombie). Zombies Vs Unicorns is a unique short story feud that pits horned beasts against the shuffling undead. It's a question as old as time itself:... Buy or find out more



Mockingjay

Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins

$18.99 – Paperback / Scholastic

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge... Buy or find out more


Behemoth

Behemoth
Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson

$29.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia

His Majesty's Airship Leviathan travels to Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire. Deryn and Alek find themselves at odds with their mentors and with each other, as their duties collide with the politics of war and peace. Will... Buy or find out more



Life, After

Life, After
Sarah Darer Littman

$30.00 – Hardback / Scholastic US

Dani's life is changed forever when a terrorist attack in Buenos Aires kills her beloved aunt and unborn cousin. Since then, her seemingly perfect life is Argentina has crumbled quickly. The political upheaval, economic... Buy or find out more


Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Lish McBride

$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia

Sam leads a pretty normal life. He may not have the most exciting job in the world, but he's doing all right - until a fast food prank brings him to the attention of Douglas, a creepy guy with an intense violent streak. Buy or find out more



Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
Rachel Cohn, David Levithan

$19.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin

It's Christmas-time in New York, and world-weary Dash has managed to persuade each of his parents that he is staying with the other, thus sending them both off with their new 'paramours' and leaving him happily shuffling back and... Buy or find out more


Bones of Faerie

Bones of Faerie
Janni Lee Simner

$18.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia

The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza's world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with... Buy or find out more



Lament
Maggie Stiefvater

$19.99 – Paperback / Scholastic

Sixteen-year-old Dee is a cloverhand - someone who can see faeries. So when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to beautiful, mysterious Luke, Dee knows that he wants something more dangerous than a summer romance. But Dee... Buy or find out more


Reckless

Reckless
Cornelia Funke

$30.00 – Hardback / Chicken House Ltd

For the first time in his life, Jacob Reckless is afraid. For years he's stolen across to another world. A dark enchanted place he's loved for its treasure, secrets and dangers. Until now. Will, his younger brother, has followed... Buy or find out more



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