CBCA Older Readers Notables 2023

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Where You Left Us

Rhiannon Wilde

A story about healing, home and how to pick up the pieces when you feel left behind.

$19.99

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What We All Saw

Mike Lucas

Witches only exist in stories. Everyone knows that. But what if the stories are real?   

$19.99

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We Who Hunt the Hollow

Kate Murray

A firecracker urban fantasy about the youngest daughter of a family of women warriors, and the power she wishes she had …  

$22.99

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The Wearing of the Green

Claire Saxby

A powerful historical novel exploring themes of racism, classism and gender expectations present in a growing nation.   

$18.99

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Unnecessary Drama

Nina Kenwood

From the author of the much-loved It Sounded Better In My Head comes a deliciously entertaining new rom-com, set in a run-down student share house in Melbourne.

$24.99

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Triple Threat

Katy Warner

A contemporary young adult novel about musical theatre, first romance and standing up for yourself from the brilliant Australian YA author Katy Warner.

$21.99

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Slipping the Noose

Meg Caddy

This rollicking historical novel from Australian writer Meg Caddy takes us into the world of real-life pirate Anne Bonny, picking up her story where history left off.

$19.99

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Scorpion Falls

Martin Chatterton

In this atmospheric chiller, teenager Theo Sumner finds himself drawn into the increasingly strange events taking place in and under his hometown of Scorpion Falls, an eerie mining town in…

$18.99

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The Not So Chosen One

Kate Emery

A sharp, hilarious novel set at a high school for students with magical talent

$19.99

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Neverlanders

Tom Taylor, Jon Sommariva (illus.)

When Bee and her group of fellow runaways meets a Lost Boy who takes them to Neverland, they discover that the land is actually a war zone under seige by…

$22.99

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The Museum of Broken Things

Lauren Draper

A humorous, beautifully observed YA novel about overcoming grief amid the vulnerability of high school relationships.   

$19.99

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A Little Spark

Barry Jonsberg

From the bestselling multi-award-winning author of My Life as an Alphabet and A Song Only I Can Hear comes another wonderful middle fiction novel that is warm, upbeat, intriguing and…

$17.99

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Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending

Jodi McAlister

Jodi McAlister’s sparkling campus novel is a rom-com about friendship, authenticity, and all the ways we perform ourselves … and the preciousness of those moments when all artifice falls away.

$24.99

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The Killing Code

Ellie Marney

A young codebreaker at Arlington Hall - the secret WWII Signals Intelligence unit in Washington DC - joins forces with other female codebreakers to hunt a murderer who is killing…

$24.99

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Invisibly Grace

Avery McDougall

Set in a fictional suburb of Launceston about a young woman with an autoimmune disease. Grace’s family is new to the state and she tries to hide her invisible illness…

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Interned

Pamela Rushby

Based on true events, Interned is a moving, well-researched and evocative historical fiction novel that highlights an often forgotten moment in Australian history.   

$17.99

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The Greatest Thing

Sarah Winifred Searle

This tender YA comic is perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier’s Drama and Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham’s Real Friends who are ready to graduate to their first teen graphic…

$19.99

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Completely Normal (and Other Lies)

Biffy James

Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all.

$21.99

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Ask No Questions

Eva Collins

In her verse novel, Ask No Questions, Eva Collins writes spare affecting lines about her own experience as a teenager when her parents decided to emigrate from Poland to…

$25.00

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