Show Us Who You Are by Elle McNicoll
$16.99 AUD
Category: Realistic Fiction
The second book from the author of A Kind Of Spark, with Neurodivergent characters you'll root for and a moving friendship at its heart. When Cora's brother drags her along to his boss's house, she doesn't expect to strike up a friendship with Adrien, son of the intimidating CEO of Pomegranate Technolog ...Show more
Hazard by Frances O'Roark Dowell
$17.99 AUD
Category: Advanced Reader 10+
A kid filled with rage, suspended from the football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, and his father, newly home from the war in Afghanistan, reckon with the injuries they've caused to others and themselves in this unflinching middle grade novel in verse about love and forgiveness. Hazard's a military k ...Show more
Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth by Anna Fienberg
$17.99 AUD
Category: Advanced Reader 10+
Frances is in a new house in a new neighbourhood and going to a new school, but no amount of new can make her forget the old, sad secret dragging at her heart. Not the pictures of bacteria that she draws with painstaking precision, not even Picasso, the puppy with the long soft ears and the cute black c ...Show more
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
$14.99 AUD
Category: Realistic Fiction | Series: book addresses dyslexia | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
An emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who's ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn't fit in. "Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid." Ally has bee ...Show more
Rebound by Kwame Alexander
$17.99 AUD
Category: Realistic Fiction
'Hoop kings SOARin kicks with wings.Game so sweetit's like bee stings.'It's 1988. Charlie Bell is still mourning his father, and struggling to figure out how he feels for his best (girl) friend, CJ. When he gets into trouble one too many times, he's packed off to stay with his grandparents for the summe ...Show more
47 Degrees by Justin D'Ath
$17.99 AUD
Category: Realistic Fiction | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Zeelie wonders if they're in danger. When temperatures soar to 47 degrees one hot summer day, 12-year-old Zeelie hopes the nearby bushfires everyone's talking about aren't heading towards her family's new home. What will they do if the wind changes direction? What about their belongings and their belove ...Show more
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
$14.99 AUD
Category: Realistic Fiction
In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his loud family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sist ...Show more
Red Day by Sandy Fussell
$17.99 AUD
Category: Advanced Reader 10+
Heartfelt contemporary storytelling at its best, with vivid historical flashbacks. Set in a modern-day small town among the remnants of a Japanese POW camp, this is the story of Charlie. Charlie has synaesthesia and hence sees and hears differently: people have auras; days of the week are coloured; nu ...Show more
Now (#6 Felix & Zelda) by Morris Gleitzman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Advanced Reader 10+ | Series: Felix & Zelda | Reading Level: very good
Once I didn't know about my grandfather Felix's scary childhood.Then I found out what the Nazis did to his best friend Zelda.Now I understand why Felix does the things he does.At least he's got me.My name is Zelda too.This is our story. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize 2010.Shortlis ...Show more
The January Stars by Kate Constable
$16.99 AUD
Category: Advanced Reader 10+
This thoroughly enjoyable novel about two sisters determined to help their grandfather will delight middle fiction readers of all ages. From the author of the bestselling and much-loved novels Crow Country & Cicada Summer. When twelve-year old Clancy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Tash, visit the ...Show more
Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker
$14.99 AUD
Category: Advanced Reader 10+ | Reading Level: very good
From the author of the highly acclaimed, New York Times bestselling novel Pax comes a gorgeous and moving middle grade novel that is an ode to introverts, dreamers, and misfits everywhere. Ware can't wait to spend summer "off in his own world"--dreaming of knights in the Middle Ages and generally being ...Show more
Be Kind (Be Your Best Self Every Day) by TEEN BREATHE
$24.99 AUD
Category: Advanced Reader 10+ | Series: Be Your Best Self Every Day
Be Kind is a guide to help teenagers treat others and themselves with respect, compassion and care. It covers a range of topics, from identifying your strengths to accepting your flaws, from letting go of negative thoughts to embracing failure, from forgiving others to knowing how to compliment them, an ...Show more