Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Bindi by Kirli Saunders, illustrated by Dub Leffler
Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim
The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor
As Fast As I Can by Penny Tangey
Dangerous Gift (Wings of Fire #14) by Tui T. Sutherland
Claudia and the New Girl (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #9) based on the novels by Ann M. Martin
The Wolves of Greycoat Hall by Lucinda Gifford
Sing Me the Summer by Jane Godwin and Alison Lester
Penguin Bloom (Young Readers Edition) by Chris Kunz, based on the screenplay by Shaun Grant & Harry Cripps
The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks
Our bestseller from the past week is Bindi, a verse novel for upper primary about 11-year-old Bindi’s unordinary year; this story has been shortlisted last week for the Readings Children’s Book Prize 2021.
A number of other shortlist titles are making an appearance on our bestseller list this week including a perilous race against time in a magical Melbourne bookshop, a story about reaching for the stars in the form of an Olympic dream, and a historical middle-grade novel set on the Mornington Peninsula during the time of the Australian government’s ‘safe haven’ project.
