$16.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin / ISBN:9781741756586
A Small Free Kiss In The Dark
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 margins and the power of empathy and imagination to triumph over adversity.
Skip's an outsider, a quiet observer. He draws pictures to make sense of the world. He's never fitted in. So he takes to the streets. Life there may be hard, but it's better than the one he's left, especially when he teams up with old Billy. Then come the bombs which leave little Max in his care, and also Tia, the sad dancer, with her sweet baby, Sixpence. Scavenging for food, living on love and imagination...how long can Skip's fragile new family hold out as war grips the city?
NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2010: Young People's Literature Shortlist
When The Hipchicks Went To War
$18.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
The sixties are in full swing and going to a war is the last thing on Kathy’s mind. For sixteen-year-old Kathy, it’s all about miniskirts, the Beatles, discos and her fab new boots! The world is rapidly changing, her bro... 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 →
Vulture's Gate
$15.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
It is 40 years into the future and the world is in turmoil. A plague has destroyed humans' ability to conceive females, or so Callum thinks until he meets Bo. A page-turning adventure unfolds as the pair rely on each oth... 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 →
Worldshaker
$17.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Col's safe, civilized world on the Upper Decks of the Worldshaker, a huge ship that has been sailing since 1845, is changed forever when a Filthy from Below finds her way into his cabin. Col twisted over in bed, lifted t... Buy or find out more →
Hollywood Ending
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Set in a glamorous and seedy Los Angeles, Hollywood Ending is a story that will make your heart skip a beat.
Pink-haired Hilda and endearing punk Benji are two seventeen year olds with an obsessive hobby — they haunt the... 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 →
