Books by Themes > Award Winners > CBCA Notables 2022 > Younger Readers
Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers from the middle to upper primary years (ages 7-12).
Note: Some of the titles in this category may only be suitable for readers who are in the upper primary years as they contain mture themes, including violence. Parental guidance is recommended.
My Brother Ben by Peter Carnavas
$14.99 AUD
Category: Realistic Fiction
Luke and his big brother Ben spend the summer on the banks of Cabbage Tree Creek. Quiet Luke sketches birds, while Ben leaps off the Jumping Tree. The boys couldn't be more different but they share the same dream- winning a boat so they can explore the creek properly. Then Ben starts high school and the ...Show more
Seven Wherewithal Way (#1) by Samantha-Ellen Bound
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy
Ferdinand fell out of the sky on the hottest day of the year, while Celeste and Esmerelda Barden were on the front porch eating ice-cream. Celeste is having the worst summer ever. Her parents are off on an adventure and she's stuck at Gran's house with her annoying little sister, Esme, and strict instr ...Show more
Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy
From the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Lenny's Book of Everything comes a magical tale about a girl who saves a dragon and rescues her family. How to save a dragon: 1) Assemble equipment. Water, Weet-Bix, sugar, syringe, sticky tape, scissors. 2) Believe in everything. Pip never wants to ...Show more
Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief: CBCA Honour Book 2022 by Katrina Nannestad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Advanced Reader 10+
Readers Cup 2023 Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards for Childrens Literature Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ... Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her rou ...Show more
Mim and the Baffling Bully (The Travelling Bookshop, #1): CBCA Notable Book 2022 by Katrina Nannestad
$15.99 AUD
Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: The Travelling Bookshop
The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arriv ...Show more
Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows (#1) by Denis Knight, Cristy Burne
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy | Series: Wednesday Weeks | Reading Level: near fine
In a world of magic, can science save the day? Wednesday Weeks never wanted to be a sorcerer's apprentice. She'd rather study science than magic. But when her cloak-wearing, staff-wielding grandpa is captured by a power-hungry goblin king, Wednesday must find a way to embrace her magical heritage and re ...Show more
Elsewhere Girls by Emily Gale, Nova Weetman
$16.99 AUD
Category: Realistic Fiction
It's midnight and I'm alone in the kitchen eating a cold potato scallop. Coach O'Call would say something like, 'That's not what I expect from a scholarship girl!' because I have to be up for squad training in five hours and I'm not supposed to go near potato scallops, and--oh, yeah--it's my fifth. Cat ...Show more
A Glasshouse of Stars: Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Younger Readers 2022 by Shirley Marr
$16.99 AUD
Category: Realistic Fiction
An exquisite, heartbreakingly beautiful gem of a novel for anyone who loved Wonder, Lenny's Book of Everything, A Monster Calls or When You Reach Me.'Heart-twisting and hopeful, bursting with big feelings and gentle magic. This is a special book from a powerful, compassionate new voice in children's lit ...Show more
Pawcasso by Remy Lai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Remy Lai
A delightful graphic novel about friendship and belonging, starring the world's most adorable dog, perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Guts. Every Saturday, Pawcasso trots into town with a basket, a shopping list, and cash in paw to buy groceries for his family. One day, he passes by Jo's house, wher ...Show more
The Detective's Guide to Ocean Travel by Nicki Greenberg
$17.99 AUD
Category: Mystery and Adventure | Series: The Detective's Guide
The first middle-grade novel from award-winning author Nicki Greenberg, this book is a classic whodunnit mystery set aboard a grand ocean liner in the 1920s. For as long as she can remember, Pepper Stark has wanted one thing: to join her father, the Captain, aboard the magnificent RMS Aquitania on a voy ...Show more
Night Ride into Danger (PB) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From one of Australia's best-loved storytellers comes an exciting mystery adventure story set in 1874 about the Cobb & Co. It's a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb and Co night mail coach, but when his coach-driver father is injured, young Jem Donovan must take the reins.Surely a boy like Jem ...Show more
Huda and Me by H. Hayek
$15.99 AUD
Category: Realistic Fiction
Huda's sitting in the airport lounge, fiddling with our tickets. I can tell she's excited because she has a little smile on her face and she keeps glancing at her pink digital watch. I can't believe we're doing this. I can't believe we're running away from home. Well, we're not really running away. We'l ...Show more