Young adult
Green Valentine by Lili Wilkinson
Lili Wilkinson, you’ve done it again! Not only have you created a brilliant love story that is unique and sexy, you have brought to YA fiction global environmental issues as well as the importance (and fun) that gardening brings to…
Talk Under Water by Kathryn Lomer
Advancements in communication technology and the explosion of social media platforms have dramatically changed the way young people connect with one another. Maintaining online connections can be to the detriment of face-to-face communication and other diverse social experiences.
Will and…
Remix by Non Pratt
Remix follows two girls, Ruby and Kaz, throughout the course of a weekend at a music festival. They go to escape reality and have some fun, but their trials follow them in the form of ex-boyfriends, family dramas and the…
The Last Summer of Us by Maggie Harcourt
It seems that YA fiction is loving a road trip story at the moment as I swear I have read about five in the last six months. And I’m not complaining either as they are fun, full of adventure and…
Famous Last Words by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
This extremely enjoyable story introduces us to 16-year-old Sam’s summer internship at the local newspaper. Her chief duty is compiling and writing obituaries and even though she anticipated more glamorous tasks she learns that writing about dead people is actually…
Frankie and Joely by Nova Weetman
This is a novel that, in the current market, might be called ‘quiet’. For me it was as much of a page-turner as anything you’ll find on the YA shelves because it’s a generous, intense study of that most important…
The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak by Brian Katcher
Straight-A student Ana is always busy with extracurricular activities that she hopes will help her get a scholarship to a college of her choice, although, that’s if her overprotective parents even let her choose her own college. On the other…
Freedom Ride by Sue Lawson
Student activists have long been the agents of social change. Following the ‘Freedom Rides’ held in the USA in 1961 to protest against discriminatory segregation of Black Americans, a group of Sydney students embarked on a protest of their own…
The Meaning of Maggie by Megan J Sovern
Maggie is overachieving, precocious and very funny. She has been given a beautiful leather-bound journal for her 12th birthday. Naturally, she decides to start documenting her life for when she becomes President of the United States of America.
Maggie begins…
Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas
Written entirely in letters, from the point of view of two teenage boys, one in the States and one in Germany, Because You’ll Never Meet Me tells the story of two people who can never meet. Moritz has a pacemaker…
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