My Brother Ben

By

Peter Carnavas

Beautifully written My Brother Ben from award winning Peter Carnavas is a wonderful, heart-warming story about brotherly love, birds and growing up which is an absolute delight to read from...
Teen, Teen Fiction
Fair Game

By

Alex Blackwell with Megan Maurice.

Women’s cricket in Australia has been strong for a very long time, with much of its very recent history happening totally out of the public eye. There have always been...
Teen Non-Fiction, Teen-Biographies, Teen-Sport, Young Adult
The Aging Machine: A Young Adult Adventure Story

By

Paul R. Schreyer

Young adults who love a thrilling read, who ponder possibilities and follow fast action, will love The Aging Machine. The whole concept of an aging machine is quite foreign to...
Teen, Teen Fiction, Young Adult
Neon Gods

By

Katee Robert

When you a take the Gods from Olympus and place them very firmly in the 21 century, and have an excellent and witty way with words, you have a hot...
Fiction, Young Adult
Believe In Me

By

Lucy Neave

Believe in Me is a profound, deeply personal journey into the mother daughter relationship as Bet tries to understand her mother, her past and then to be able to continue...
Fiction, Young Adult
Heroes of the Secret Underground

By

Susanne Gervay

It is important in these times that the history of struggles and terror during the wars is not forgotten. For young people whose families were not involved in the day-to-day...
Childrens, Teen
Are You There, Buddha?

By

Pip Harry

Many years ago, a fresh and hugely popular book, “Are you there, God, it’s me Margaret?”, came on the market. Young girls who had not grasped what growing up really...
Childrens, Teen
Underground

By

Mirranda Burton

Marsupial Outlaws and Other Rebels of Australia's War in Vietnam Graphic novels are a fascinating way of getting a story across to a wide range of readers, as the ‘comic...
Childrens, Teen
The Queen Bee and Me

By

Gillian McDunn

The Queen Bee and Me is a novel for Middle School girls which is simply written but encompasses many concepts and themes. As an adult reader I thoroughly enjoyed the...
Childrens, Teen
Pranklab: Practical science pranks you and your victim can learn from

By

Chris Ferrie, Byrne LaGinestra, Wade David Fairclough.

In the middle of Covid lockdown in Australia to a large degree, Prank Lab is perhaps not the perfect book to introduce into households full of children looking for something...
Childrens, Teen