Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Future Girl by Asphyxia
Rainfish by Andrew Paterson
Across the Sea (Wolf Girl, Book 5) by Anh Do
Pig the Monster by Aaron Blabey
Megamonster by David Walliams
Ninja Dogs (Ninja Kid #8) by Anh Do
The Story of Australia by Don Watson
Welcome to Consent by Yumi Stynes & Dr. Melissa Kang
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Swallow’s Flight by Hilary McKay
Our best-seller from the past week is Future Girl by Asphyxia. This novel for young adults recent won the Readings Young Adult Prize and was described by our staff judges as uniquely ‘occupying a space between graphic novel and novel’ while telling an ‘enlightening and powerful’ coming-of-age story set in a dystopian version of our world. You can read more about Future Girl here.
Other books making an appearance on our bestseller list this week include the winner of the 2020 Text Prize that is an annual award seeking to discover, publish, and promote an unpublished manuscript written for young readers, the latest historical middle grade novel from a multi award-winning children’s author, and not one, but two books from Australia’s celebrated and multi-talented Anh Do; Ninja Dogs is here to make kids laugh while Across the Sea is sure to keep young readers on the edge of their seat with adventure.
