Queen Narelle by Sally Murphy
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader 8-12
A beautiful and moving story of friendship, family and love from award-winning author, Sally Murphy. Narelle is the queen of her household, ruler of the family and, most importantly, Maddie’s wisest and best friend. So when things are not going right for Maddie, and school feels like a lonely and sad p ...Show more
Grace Notes by Karen Comer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Verse Novels
This song has a grace note, a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored, not played. Tonight, I add it in - just because. We can all do with an extra note of grace. Grace Dalfinch is a talented violinist who longs to play contemporary music in bars, but her mum forbids her. Jam ...Show more
Alone by Megan E. Freeman
$16.99 AUD
Category: Verse Novels | Series: Alone Ser.
Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town.When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a se ...Show more
Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella by Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy's harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II.With Nazis bombing London every night, it's time for thirteen-year- ...Show more
The Way of Dog: Shortlisted for the 2023 CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers by Zana Fraillon
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader 8-12
Be strong. Be fierce. Life is more than a concrete floor. Scruffity is born into the harsh, grey world of a puppy farm. Taken from his mamma and locked in a concrete cage, what he yearns for most is Family. To belong is The Way of Dog. But no one wants him. Just as his chances of adoption grow dangerous ...Show more
Footprints on the Moon by Lorraine Marwood
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Humans are about to leave footprints on the moon, but what sort of mark can one girl make here on earth? It's 1969 and life is changing fast. Sharnie Burley is starting high school and finding it tough to make new friends. As the world waits to see if humans will land on the moon, the Vietnam War rages ...Show more
Zoe, Max and the Bicycle Bus by Steven Herrick
$16.99 AUD
Category: Realistic Fiction
The sun is shining and today feels like an adventure, only one I can go on whenever I want because I have a bicycle and friends and a city just waiting to be explored.With their new teacher's help, the kids in Class 5D ride to school together in a bicycle bus. Olivia can fix a puncture in two minutes an ...Show more
Becoming Muhammad Ali by Kwame Alexander; James Patterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
From two heavy-hitters in children's literature comes a critically acclaimed biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali. *"This utterly delightful story about Ali's childhood is a smash hit." --School Library Journal (starred review) Five starred reviews Before he was a household name, Cassius C ...Show more
Bully on the Bus by Kathryn Apel
$14.95 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction / Early readers
An important story that will empower young children dealing with bullying that includes inventive ideas for overcoming itShe's big. She's smart. She's mean. She's the bully on the bus. She picks on me and I don't like it. But I don't know how to make her
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
Spangled Drongo, The by Steven Herrick
$16.95 AUD
Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Series: UQP Storybridge Ser.
Twelve-year-old Sam has soccer fever. He lives with eccentric Auntie Amshara and Ronaldo his dog. His best friend is Goose, Captain of the local soccer team...that is, until soccer crazed Jessica Bowles moves next door. Sam soon discovers that there's more to life than just soccer...In this gently comic ...Show more
Leave Taking by Lorraine Marwood
$14.95 AUD
Category: Middle Reader 8-12
Leave taking nounthe act of saying goodbye. What if you had just one week left to say goodbye to everything you've ever known? Toby and his mum and dad are leaving their family farm after the death of Toby's younger sister, Leah. Together, they sort through all their belongings and put things aside to s ...Show more
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