Winner of the 2010 CBCA Book of the Year award for Older Readers.
So far, Marc E. Jarvis has lost a white football boot, a school tie and a best friend. But there's more in store for him when he completes Work Experience at a local car yard – where his world is truly rocked, shocked and shaken. Then Marc meets Electra. And nothing will ever be the same again . . .
CBCA Book of the Year Winners 2010
Jarvis 24
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Winner of the 2010 CBCA Book of the Year award for Older Readers.
So far, Marc E. Jarvis has lost a white football boot, a school tie and a best friend. But there's more in store for him when he completes Work Experience... Buy or find out more →
Darius Bell And The Glitter Pool
$15.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2010 CBCA Book of the Year award for Younger Readers.
The Bell family's ancestors were showered with honours, gifts and grants of land. In exchange, they have bestowed a Gift, once every 25 years, on the to... Buy or find out more →
The Hero Of Little Street
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2010 CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award.
Escaping from a gang of bullies, a Boy slips into a grand old gallery - the perfect hiding place, full of mystery and treasures. Enchanted by the magic of painting ... Buy or find out more →
Bear And Chook By The Sea
$16.99 – Paperback book / Lothian
Winner of the 2010 CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year Award.
Bear is a dreamer. Chook just wants the quiet life. But with a best friend like Bear, he's got absolutely no chance of getting it.
In a follow up to the del... Buy or find out more →
Australian Backyard Explorer
$29.95 – Paperback book / National Lib Of Aust
Winner of the 2010 CBCA Book of the Year Award for Non-Fiction.
Australian Backyard Explorer tells the stories of many intrepid individuals who explored the Australian continent in the first 120 years of European settlem... Buy or find out more →
CBCA Book of the Year 2010: Older Readers Shortlist
Loving Richard Feynman
$17.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Catherine is a science-loving fifteen-year-old. Richard helped build the atom bomb. Catherine's just trying to survive school.
When your life is falling apart around y... Buy or find out more →
The Winds Of Heaven
$22.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
When Fan was little she dreamed of magical countries in the far away blue hills. As she grew up she dreamed of love, and the boys came after her one by one by one.
Clementine thought her cousin Fan's house in the country... Buy or find out more →
Jarvis 24
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Winner of the 2010 CBCA Book of the Year award for Older Readers.
So far, Marc E. Jarvis has lost a white football boot, a school tie and a best friend. But there's more in store for him when he completes Work Experience... Buy or find out more →
A Small Free Kiss In The Dark
$16.95 – Paperback book / 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 t... Buy or find out more →
Stolen
$17.99 – Paperback book / Chicken House
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 Ty, her troubled young st... Buy or find out more →
Liar
$22.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Micah Wilkins admits she's a liar. But will murder be enough of a reason to stop lying? An extraordinary and original story that will have you grasping for the truth until the very last page.
Secrets, lies, murder and be... Buy or find out more →