As part of this month’s meeting with the Readings Teen Advisory Board we chatted about ‘literary anxieties’ and how to deal with them. Here’s what they said. I have this book I really, truly, utterly love, but I’m embarrassed to tell people because a lot of others look down on it… What should I do?

‘Go online and find that one niche page on Reddit/Tumblr where all of the people in the same bo…

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One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus Bluey: Time to Play! Bluey: The Beach Dog Man: Fetch-22 by Dav Pilkey Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Bluey: Fruit Bat Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors by Davina Bell & Jenny Løvlie The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams Guts by Raina Telgemeier

It’s been a while since Bluey has been knocked off the top…

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In our Teen Advisory Board’s last meeting for 2019, the hilarious Will Kostakis visited the teens to talk about his career as an author. First up was his journey to publication at age nineteen. He had the teens in hysterics as he showed them his author photo of a precocious young author and his many stories of growing up as a young gay man with strong Greek family ties.

He talked about how it wa…

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Bluey: The Beach Bluey: Time to Play! One Of Us Is Next by Karen McManus Bluey: Fruit Bat Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 14) by Jeff Kinney Guts by Raina Telgemeier All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors by Davina Bell & Jenny Løvlie One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Our kids & YA bestsellers ar…

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It’s crucial to get your summer reading just right – so we’ve selected your next YA read based on your zodiac sign. Naturally, our choices are all one thousand percent correct and we will hear no criticism…

What to read if you’re an Aries… Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Aries, you are passionate, competitive and the first to leap into action, so we think you’ll love the tenacity of Hetty, Ree…

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Bluey: Time to Play! Bluey: The Beach Bluey: Fruit Bat Dog Man: Fetch-22 by Dav Pilkey The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams Guts by Raina Telgemeier All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors by Davina Bell & Jenny Løvlie Eddie Woo’s Magical Maths by Eddie Woo Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty & David Roberts Explore Your World by Tim Flannery & Sam Caldwell

Our bestselling…

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Bluey: Time to Play! (Sticker Activity Book) Bluey: The Beach (A Lift-the-Flap Book) Dog Man: Fetch-22 by Dav Pilkey All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors by Davina Bell & Jenny Lovlie The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams Explore Your World by Tim Flannery & Sam Caldwell Bluey: Fruit Bat (A Glow-in-the-Dark Book) Eddie Woo’s Magical Maths by Eddie Woo Young Dark Emu: A Truer H…

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The annual YA Showcase at State Library Victoria is a must-attend event, as a host of publishers give a tantalising peek at what’s being published for teen readers in the following year. Here are some of the biggest and buzziest books from last night’s 2020 YA Showcase (and also a few other upcoming titles we’re excited about). Contemporary & coming-of-age Break the Fall by Jennifer Iacop…

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Animalphabet by Julia Donaldson & Sharon King-Chai Bluey: Time to Play! (Sticker Activity Book) Bluey: The Beach (A Lift-the-Flap Book) Star Wars Galactic Atlas Bluey: Fruit Bat (A Glow-in-the-Dark Book) Eddie Woo’s Magical Maths by Eddie Woo The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors by Davina Bell…

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In their last meeting of the year, our Teen Advisory Board shared their thoughts about comfort reading, and recommended the most memorable books they read this year. What is your favourite kind of book to read when you want comfort?

‘I read books that will make me even sadder so that I can truly fall into a pit of despair. Then I read a romance book to pull me out of it’ - Sasha Copic

‘I rer…

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