Indigenous Australian young adult books
My Father’s Shadow
Jannali Jones has crafted a thrilling story for readers 16 and up which stays on the edge right to the end.
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Shauna’s Great Expectations
A fresh and compelling novel about an Aboriginal scholarship student and her surprising final year of school.
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Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
This groundbreaking anthology aims to enlighten, inspire and educate about the lives of Aboriginal people in Australia today.
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Catching Teller Crow
Winner of the Prize for Young Adult Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Told in two unforgettable voices, this gripping novel interweaves themes of grief, colonial history, violence,...
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Brontide
Brontide is a coming of age story about four boys and their lot in life. Recounted through storytelling sessions at their school over a period of five days, these boys chronicle their lives. They are at times demanding,...
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Sister Heart
A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life for herself and, in the face of tragedy, finds strength in new friendships.
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Two Ways Strong: Jaz’S Story
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Becoming Kirrali Lewis
Set within the explosive cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1980s, Becoming Kirrali Lewis chronicles the journey of a young Aboriginal teenager as she leaves her home town in rural Victoria to take on a law degree in...
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The Tribe Book 1: The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf
The Reckoning destroyed civilisation and humanity has had to rise from the ashes. But there are now people with abilities -- Flyers, Firestarters, Rumblers … and society is scared of them. The government calls them Illegals.
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The Tribe Book 2: The Disappearance of Ember Crow
The Tribe is settling back into life in the Firstwood. But Ashala Wolf is struggling to control her Sleepwalking ability -- it has become unpredictable and dangerous. Then Ember Crow goes missing and Ashala discovers her friend...
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Wraith
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Remembered By Heart: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing
You can't change the past, but you can live a different future.Bronwyn Bancroft These stories are powerful: sharing pain, humour, grief, hope and pride. Pride in family, community and survival. Pride in being Aboriginal.
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The Tribe Book 3: The Foretelling of Georgie Spider
A storm was stretching out across futures to swallow everything in nothing, and it was growing larger, which meant it was getting nearer...
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Songs that sound like Blood
Roxy May Redding's got music in her soul and songs in her blood. She lives in a hot dusty town and is dreaming big. She survives run-ins with the mean girls at...
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Calypso Summer
Calypso Summer is a story told by Calypso, a young Nukunu man, fresh out of high school in Rastafarian guise. After failing to secure employment in sports retail, his dream occupation, Calypso finds work at the Henley Beach Health...
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Sweet Guy
Michael Sweet thought his early teens were difficult, he's in for shock now, he's eighteen and ready to start. Life is about to dish up some surprises that help Michael meet his new challenges head on.
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Ruby Moonlight
Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how...
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Grace Beside Me
Written from teenager girl Fuzzy Mac's perspective, Grace Beside Me is a quirky, warmly rendered story of home and family life in a small town. The black&write! judges remarked on the authentic feel of the Indigenous home life of...
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Fog a Dox
Albert Cutts is a tree feller. A fella who cuts down trees. Fog is a fox cub raised by a dingo. Hes called a dox because people are suspicious of foxes and Albert Cutts owns the dingo and now the dox. Albert is a bushman and lives...
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Maybe Tomorrow
Boori Monty Pryor's career path has taken him from the Aboriginal fringe camps of his birth to the runway, the catwalk, the basketball court, the DJ console, and now to performance and story-telling around the country. Boori leads...
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Njunjul the Sun
A 16-year-old Aboriginal boy leaves his family and home for the big city, and as he struggles to make sense of his experience he realises that he must have the knowledge of his own people and culture in order to know who he is,...
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Too Flash
If you are black, overweight and incredibly self-conscious, life sucks, and it sucks even more when your single, white mum moves you to the city, where learning to fit in is even harder than before. This book is aimed at children...
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