A strange boy suddenly appears in a lonely old woman’s lounge room. As she serves him tea, Hartnett observes that the milk turns the tea ‘a pressed-rose brown’ and immediately we are in a world where language makes exhilarating leaps with apparently no effort at all. Conversation with the boy sends the woman back to a troubled childhood and another ghost of a boy, whom she once thought the most beautiful thing in the world. This deceptively simple fable about love is full of wisdom and beauty for young adults who enjoy literary fiction. Age 12+
CBCA 2008 Winners
The Ghost's Child
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
A strange boy suddenly appears in a lonely old woman’s lounge room. As she serves him tea, Hartnett observes that the milk turns the tea ‘a pressed-rose brown’ and immediately we are in a world where language makes exhil... Buy or find out more →
Dragon Moon
$19.99 – Paperback book / Black Dog Books Kids
In the finale of the Dragonkeeper trilogy, Ping leaves Beibai Palace to return Danzis son to a place where dragons are safe from humans. But their journey isnt easy and they cross paths with old and new enemies. This nov... Buy or find out more →
Requiem For A Beast
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Lothian
Requiem for a Beast is a multi modal work, consisting of the formats of graphic novel, picture book, novella, and musical work.
There are two main narratives within the book; one, is the story of a young stockman as he p... Buy or find out more →
Parsley Rabbit's Book About Books
$0.00 – Hardcover book / Abc Books
Celebrate the joy of reading and begin a lifelong love of books with the delightful Parsley Rabbit and his pesky little brother, Basil. Lively and entertaining, it features a remarkably clever and handsome rabbit and is ... Buy or find out more →
CBCA Shortlist 2008 - Older Readers
Pharaoh
$15.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The people call Prince Narmer 'the Golden One' – a boy with the brightest future ahead of him. Handsome and talented, he is destined to be King of Thinis, the greatest town in Egypt and, for Narmer, the centre of the wor... Buy or find out more →
The Ghost's Child
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
A strange boy suddenly appears in a lonely old woman’s lounge room. As she serves him tea, Hartnett observes that the milk turns the tea ‘a pressed-rose brown’ and immediately we are in a world where language makes exhil... Buy or find out more →
Marty's Shadow
$17.99 – Paperback book / Omnibus Books
He liked trees. Trees are tough and strong. They've been around much longer than people. This one had, that's for sure. He'd seen an old yellowy photograph of the school from the days of carts and horses, with women in l... Buy or find out more →
Love Like Water
$19.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Like Alex Miller’s awardwinning Journey to the Stone Country, Meme McDonald’s new book explores the relationship between a European woman and an Aboriginal man, and is about place and identity. It’s an exuberant, joyou... Buy or find out more →
Black Water
$18.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
The wind, blasting up over the horizon from the south, carried with it the coldness of polar ice, and wielded it like a sword. Already the waves at the Heads would be heavy and huge, Farren knew, the gale rising so fierc... Buy or find out more →
Leaving Barrumbi
$17.99 – Paperback book / Omnibus Books
The nine-hour trip to his new school is just the beginning of the worst time in Dale Murphy's life. He's only ever lived with Aboriginal kids—his is the only white family at the community—but once he starts at the Leichh... Buy or find out more →