CBCA Older Readers Notables 2018

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Ballad For A Mad Girl

Vikki Wakefield

A ghost thriller with a literary angle, and a story about survival and the different ways we deal with grief.

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Remind Me How This Ends

Gabrielle Tozer

A boy-meets-girl-again story from the award-winning author of The Intern and Faking It. Milo was a discoloured memory with blurred edges and a washed-out palette. Yet five minutes with…

$19.99

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Wilder Country

Mark Smith

A devastating virus has left few alive. Finn, Kas and Willow must evade capture by Ramage’s dangerous gang, and try to protect the valley. Finn knows it’s really the girls…

$19.99

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Gap Year in Ghost Town

Michael Pryor

Anton Marin and his father are on high alert after a spike in ghost manifestations. Anton wants to help the ghosts. Rani Cross wants to slice and dice them. And…

$22.99

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Frogkisser!

Garth Nix

A rollicking fantasy-adventure by the master of children’s speculative fiction.

$22.99

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A Shadow’s Breath

Nicole Hayes

Then, things were looking up for Tessa. Her mum was finally getting her life back on track. Tessa had started seeing Nick. She was making new friends. She’d even begun…

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Because of You

Pip Harry

Meet Tiny and Nola. Two very different girls with two very different stories who are just trying to find a place to belong. A powerful and compelling novel about friendship…

$19.95

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Third Witch

Jackie French

A searing story of passion, betrayal, battles and love, this is Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ stripped of superstition, and its power and beauty refined into fewer words where good balances the evil…

$20.99

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My Lovely Frankie

Judith Clarke

A masterful, moving story about a teenage boy caught between faith and love, by one of Australia’s finest YA writers.

$29.99

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The Dream Walker

Victoria Carless

Sixteen-year-old Lucy Hart has been counting the days till she can get the hell out of Digger’s Landing - a small Queensland fishing hamlet home to fifteen families, a posse…

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The Things We Promise

J. C. Burke

Gemma’s older brother Billy made her a promise that he would ensure she looked fabulous for her first school formal. But his circumstances change dramatically and Billy’s promise becomes the…

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Night Swimming

Steph Bowe

Night Swimming is a love story with a twist, and a whole lot of heart. Imagine being the only two seventeen-year-olds in a small town. That’s life for Kirby Arrow-named…

$19.99

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Mallee Boys

Charlie Archbold

Sandy Douglas knows that life at fifteen is hard, but it’s even harder when your mother died a year ago and nothing’s gone right since. His brother Red, on the…

$24.99

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The Tides Between

Elizabeth Jane Corbett

In 1841, fifteen-year-old Bridie Stewart and her family leave their grim existence in Covent Garden and travel to a prosperous new life in Port Phillip. Bridie’s mother and stepfather expect…

$31.99

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Take Three Girls

Cath Crowley,Simmone Howell,Fiona Wood

Rumour is the new truth: feminism, identity and belonging are explored in a spectacular collaboration between three award-winning YA authors.

$19.99

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Sparrow

Scot Gardner

An exceptional and compelling novel from one of Australia’s most acclaimed and much-loved authors.

$19.99

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Mr Romanov’s Garden in the Sky

Robert Newton

Living in the commission, Lexie is left to fend for herself. Her mother is mostly absent, out searching for something to help her forget the tragic death of Lexie’s dad…

$17.99

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The Ones That Disappeared

Zana Fraillon

Around the world, millions of people - including many children - are victims of human trafficking. These modern-day slaves often go unseen even in our own cities and towns, their…

$19.99

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In The Dark Spaces

Cally Black

The latest winner of the Ampersand Prize is a genre-smashing hostage drama about 14-year-old Tamara, who’s faced with an impossible choice when she falls for her kidnappers.

$21.99

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The Undercurrent

Paula Weston

A futuristic thriller with non-stop action and brilliant world-building. Features science fiction elements, an environmental message, romance, espionage and paranormal abilities.

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Beautiful Mess

Claire Christian

Beautiful Mess is a raw, funny and truthful take on grief, loss and first love from the 2016 winner of the Text Prize for Children’s and YA Writing.

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My Life as a Hashtag

Gabrielle Williams

I’d been warned - in French, no less. By a tram-riding, mermaid-swaying, wolf-eaten, peace-sign flipping friend. I knew she wouldn’t be happy if I stayed out here by the……

$19.99

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