Recommended First Nations books for teens
The Boy from the Mish
A funny and heart-warming queer Indigenous YA novel, set in a rural Australian community, about seventeen-year-old Jackson finding the courage to explore who he is, even if it scares him.
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My Place (Younger Readers)
Sally's rich, zesty and moving work is perhaps the best loved biography of Aboriginal Australia ever written. My Place for Younger Readers is an abridged edition that retains all the charm and power of the original.
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Welcome to Country (Youth Edition)
An extended, education-focused edition of this bestselling book, which received the 2019 Indie Book Award for Best Illustrated Non-fiction and was shortlisted for General Non-fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 ABIA.
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Ghost Bird
An intriguing and gripping young adult novel by the winner of the David Unaipon award.
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Girls Can Fly
Girls Can Fly is an inspirational, young teen book from award-winning Aboriginal writer and artist Sally Morgan and her equally talented daughter Ambelin.
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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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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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The Little Red Yellow Black Book
An introduction to Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; their history and their cultures. Conveniently pocket-sized, its attractive design, lucid writing and beautiful illustrations provide a wide-ranging but...
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Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Second Edition
The second edition of the bestselling Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, a unique tool for exploring and understanding the lives and cultures of Australia's First Peoples.
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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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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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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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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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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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Meet Me at the Intersection
Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability. The focus of the anthology is on Australian life as seen...
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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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Wraith
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Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance: A True Story
The true story of the Aboriginal resistance fighter, Jandamarra, whose legend is etched into the Australian landscape.
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Ubby’s Underdogs: Return of the Dragons
The long-awaited, final book in the Ubby's Underdogs trilogy.
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Two Ways Strong: Jaz’s Story
Going to boarding school can be a difficult transition for many students, but for Indigenous students from remote communities, it can be quite a culture shock. In Two Ways Strong, Indigenous students from Concordia Lutheran...
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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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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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Ubby’s Underdogs: The Legend of the Phoenix Dragon
It is the late 1940s and Broome, a small pearling town in the heart of an ancient land, is recovering from WWII. Ubby, a smart, street-wise Aboriginal girl, is the leader of a small rag-tag gang known as the 'Underdogs'. She meets...
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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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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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Ubby’s Underdogs: Heroes Beginning
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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 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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Flytrap
Nancy is worried. She's told her teacher she has a Venus Flytrap, but she doesn't, and now Miss Susan wants her to bring it in to show the class. It wasn't really a lie, it was more like...a wish. Now she needs to work out...
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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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