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Anna enjoys well-written character-driven fiction both contemporary and historical from a range of diverse perspectives. She is also something of an aficionado on kids and teen fiction!
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
18.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more
Millie Mak the Maker (Millie Mak #1) by Alice Pung
24.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Millie Mak the Maker Ser.
An inspiring series for young and old makers by the award-winning author-illustrator team Alice Pung and Sher Rill Ng. Nine-year-old Millie Mak has discovered she has a superpower! Millie has been taught how to sew by her two grannies. And using recycled materials, Millie has learnt how to take everyda ...Show more
Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky by Rebecca Lim
17.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
After their family encounters terrible hardship in rural China, siblings Fu and Pei must draw on all their resilience and courage as they embark on a dangerous journey towards a better life. A compelling and poignant children's novel from the CBCA award-winning author of Tiger Daughter. What if you wer ...Show more
The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between on ...Show more
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
16.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
An epic, emotional, breathtaking story of love and loss set amid the Syrian revolution. Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up and never let you go. This brand new paperback edition contains exclusive bonus short story Joy. Set in the world of L ...Show more
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
19.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
'Utterly unique, thought-provoking, and wonderfully written...a thrilling ride that hooked me from start to finish.' - Gloria Chao, author of American Panda and Rent a Boyfriend In this genre-bending YA debut, a Chinese American girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers by discovering and sell ...Show more
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
'Vita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.' Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing J ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and figh ...Show more
We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis
19.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
A wonderful emotional rollercoaster of a novel about two young men, each on a journey of discovery. It's part coming-out story, part falling-in-love story, part relationship breakdown story, part extended Greek family story. It's warm and funny, a little bit heartbreaking, and completely satisfying. Sev ...Show more
Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls by Anne Casey-Hardy
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Excitable girls rush out to meet life; what could go wrong? A masterful debut about the terrifying thrills of innocence from a voice of experience. Two fourteen year-old girls steal a baby from a shopping centre to play single mothers for the day. A gangster’s girlfriend wonders what to do with the pa ...Show more
The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world.
The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta, Melina Marchetta
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'You look the type to break your father's heart.''Yeah, but he broke mine first.' When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years lat ...Show more