NOVEMBER

Catch Me If I Fall

Catch Me If I Fall

By Barry Jonsberg

'We've been worried about Aiden too, Ash,' said Mum. 'He's always been such a... predictable child. ... Read More

Here The Whole Time

Here The Whole Time

By Vitor Martins

Felipe doesn't believe someone like Caio could ever fall for someone like him. But over the next fif ... Read More

Glassheart

Glassheart

By Katharine Orton

An enchanting magical adventure set in the wild moors of Dartmoor – the second middle-grade novel fr ... Read More

The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow

The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow

By Zoe Sugg and Amy McCulloch

Illumen Hall is a boarding school of tradition and achievement. But tragedy strikes when the body of ... Read More

We Are Wolves

We Are Wolves

By Katrina Nannestad

THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING AUSTRALIAN WRITER KATRINA NANNESTAD Sometimes it's good to ... Read More

OCTOBER

Future Girl

Future Girl

By Asphyxia

Piper's mum wants her to be 'normal', to pass as hearing and get a good job. But when peak oil hits ... Read More

Before the Beginning

Before the Beginning

By Anna Morgan

Schoolies week: that strange in-between time when teenagers move from school into the adult world. I ... Read More

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

By Garth Nix

Eighteen-year-old art student Susan Arkshaw arrives in London in search of her father. But before sh ... Read More

This One Is Ours

This One Is Ours

By Kate O'Donnell

Sixteen-year-old Sofie is a dreamer, an artist and a romantic. So when she goes on exchange to Paris ... Read More

Watch Over Me

Watch Over Me

By Nina LaCour

Eighteen-year-old Mila has been in the foster system since her mother abandoned her. Now that she's ... Read More

Every Little Piece Of My Heart

Every Little Piece Of My Heart

By Non Pratt

When Sophie receives a parcel from her best friend, Freya, she expects it to contain the reason why ... Read More

All This Time

All This Time

By Rachael Lippincott

From the authors behind Five Feet Apart, a #1 New York Times bestseller and hit movie, comes a gripp ... Read More

Skydragon

Skydragon

By Anh Do
Illustrated by James Hart

Amber knew she'd been given an incredible power, but was it a freak accident, or was there something ... Read More

The Courtyard Children

The Courtyard Children

By Marija Poljak

Mileva Marinkovic was born into a family descended from resistance fighters and patriots, and from a ... Read More

The Inheritance Games

The Inheritance Games

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

She came from nothing. Avery has a plan - keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an ... Read More

SEPTEMBER

The Fire Star

The Fire Star

By A.L. Tait

A maid with a plan. A squire with a secret. A missing jewel. A kingdom in turmoil. Maven and Reeve h ... Read More

Of Boys and Boats

Of Boys and Boats

By Ian Trevaskis

It is 1956 – the year the Olympic Games came to Melbourne. Jack Spiller and his mates are caught up ... Read More

Indigo Owl

Indigo Owl

By Charlie Archbold

'It's a privilege to live here, but we have to work for it. As Earth was bleached and destroyed by c ... Read More

Fighting Words

Fighting Words

By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Della can't work out why her adored older sixteen-year-old sister Suki screams in her sleep. Suki ha ... Read More

The History of Mischief

The History of Mischief

By Rebecca Higgie

When Jessie and her older sister Kay find a book called The History of Mischief, hidden beneath the ... Read More

When This Bell Rings

When This Bell Rings

By Allison Rushby and Sarah Davis

This story within a story within a story celebrates the creative art of storytelling. In London's Be ... Read More

Rebel Gods

Rebel Gods

By Will Kostakis

With the Monuments gone, newbie gods Connor, Sally and Locky must stop the rebel gods from reducing ... Read More

You Were Made For Me

You Were Made For Me

By Jenna Guillaume

The day I created a boy started out like any other. Katie didn't mean to create a boy. A boy like a ... Read More

Spotlight

Spotlight

By Solli Raphael

Following on from the success of Limelight, this new collection of poetry illuminates the social int ... Read More

Where We Begin

Where We Begin

By Christie Nieman

Seventeen-year-old Anna is running into the night. Fleeing her boyfriend, her mother, and everything ... Read More

Smiling Mind 1 - The Thank-you Present

Smiling Mind 1 - The Thank-you Present

By Jane Martino

Evie and Lola can't wait for their birthdays, because birthdays mean presents!Evie and Lola LOVE get ... Read More

AUGUST

Tribal Lores

Tribal Lores

By Archimede Fusillo

A moving and explosive tale about what happens when tradition and the need to belong collide. Franki ... Read More

The F Team

The F Team

By Rawah Arja

Meet Tariq Nader, leader of ‘The Wolf Pack’ at Punchbowl High, who has been commanded by the new pri ... Read More

Remind Me Why I’m Here

Remind Me Why I’m Here

By Kat Colmer

When 18 year-old Maya leaves Chicago for a six week Australian home stay, she assumes she’s heading ... Read More

Rise of the Remarkables

Rise of the Remarkables

By Gareth Ward

Drawn into a world of prejudice, deceit and danger, Wrench must master her powers, knowing they offe ... Read More

The Great Godden

The Great Godden

By Meg Rosoff

This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer – the summer when everything changes. In a holida ... Read More

The Erasure Initiative

The Erasure Initiative

By Lili Wilkinson

I wake up, and for a few precious seconds I don't realise there's anything wrong. The rumble of tyre ... Read More

JULY

When Rain Turns to Snow

When Rain Turns to Snow

By Jane Godwin

A runaway, a baby and a whole lot of questions... Lissa is home on her own after school one afternoo ... Read More

Metal Fish, Falling Snow

Metal Fish, Falling Snow

By Cath Moore

Dylan and her adored French mother dream of one day sailing across the ocean to France. Paris, Dylan ... Read More

Stars Like Us

Stars Like Us

By Frances Chapman

From the winner of the Ampersand Prize comes this smart, swoony LGBTQ YA novel about a teenage band ... Read More

The Lost Soul Atlas

The Lost Soul Atlas

By Zana Fraillon

Loyalty is tested, and a cruel twist of fate leads to an act of ultimate betrayal in this epic story ... Read More

The Last Paper Crane

The Last Paper Crane

By Kerry Drewery
Illustrated by Natsko Seki

A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about ... Read More

JUNE

The Schoolmaster's Daughter

The Schoolmaster's Daughter

By Jackie French

Drawing on her own family history, this is a story from Jackie French about education in Colonial Au ... Read More

The End of the World is Bigger Than Love

The End of the World is Bigger Than Love

By Davina Bell

She said we didn't know what the world out there had become. We had been alone there so long on that ... Read More

The Dark Tide

The Dark Tide

By Alicia Jasinska

Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent ... Read More

Again Again

Again Again

By E. Lockhart

If you could live your life again and again, what would you do differently? After a near-fatal famil ... Read More

MAY

The Year the Maps Changed

The Year the Maps Changed

By Danielle Binks

One extraordinary year will change them all... Sorrento, Victoria, 1999. Fred's family is a mess. He ... Read More

The Tell

The Tell

By Martin Chatterton

The world turns on moments like these. Crossroad moments; a toss of the coin… I see half my face in ... Read More

When It Drops

When It Drops

By Alex Dyson

Caleb Clifford has earbuds, not real buds. And he prefers it that way. 1. They always give him what ... Read More

Please Don't Hug Me

Please Don't Hug Me

By Kay Kerr

Erin is looking forward to schoolies, at least she thinks she is. But her plans are going awry. She' ... Read More

The Verindon Alliance

The Verindon Alliance

By Lynne Stringer

As Princess Vashta of the Vendel finishes her combat training, she hopes she will lead their forces ... Read More

Goldfields Girl

Goldfields Girl

By Elaine Forrestal

It's 1892. Amid a fevered gold rush, fourteen-year-old Clara Saunders is in search of adventure in t ... Read More

Worse Things

Worse Things

By Sally Murphy

Worse Things is a story about connections, the ways they are made, and what happens when they are lo ... Read More

APRIL

Deep Water

Deep Water

By Sarah Epstein

HENRY WEAVER IS MISSING. Three months ago, thirteen-year-old Henry disappeared from The Shallows dur ... Read More

Taking Down Evelyn Tait

Taking Down Evelyn Tait

By Poppy Nwosu

'The door creaks open and standing in the entrance is my absolute worst nightmare. Perfect hair, per ... Read More

How to Grow a Family Tree

How to Grow a Family Tree

By Eliza Henry Jones

From the author of P is for Pearl comes a heart-warming book about family, friendship and what home ... Read More

The January Stars

The January Stars

By Kate Constable

When twelve-year old Clancy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Tash, visit their Pa at his aged-care ... Read More

The Book Of Chance

The Book Of Chance

By Sue Whiting

Chance is a black-and-white thinker until she realises that sometimes there are shades of grey. Chan ... Read More

Wink

Wink

By Rob Harrell

Surviving school with one eye open. Ross Maloy just wants to fit in. But after he is diagnosed with ... Read More

Girls Change the Game

Girls Change the Game

By Gabrielle Gloury and Michael Hyde

The first Scorpions Under 14 Girls team from the Westpark Football Club has just been announced and ... Read More

Beyond Belief

Beyond Belief

By Dee White

Inspired by the true story of Muslims who saved the lives of Jewish children in the Second World War ... Read More

Peta Lyre's Rating Normal

Peta Lyre's Rating Normal

By Anna Whateley

'I'm Peta Lyre,' I mumble. Look people in the eye if you can, at least when you greet them. I try, b ... Read More

MARCH

Red Day

Red Day

By Sandy Fussell

Set in a modern-day small town among the remnants of a Japanese POW camp, this is the story of Charl ... Read More

Haywire

Haywire

By Claire Saxby

In 1939, 14-year-old Tom lives in Hay where his family runs the local bakery. Max Gruber is nearly f ... Read More

The Republic of Birds

The Republic of Birds

By Jessica Miller

Olga loves the stories of the old cartographers and pores over their ancient books and maps, trying ... Read More

The Vanishing Deep

The Vanishing Deep

By Astrid Scholte

Two sisters. One dangerous secret. Twenty-four hours to uncover the truth. Seventeen-year-old Tempes ... Read More

E-Boy

E-Boy

By Anh Do Illustrated by Chris Wahl

Ethan is supposed to be doing regular teenage things - like playing sports and hanging out with frie ... Read More

A Trio of Sophies

A Trio of Sophies

By Eileen Merriman

A missing girl, a secret diary and unsettling revelations . . . Today is the first of September, the ... Read More

Given

Given

By Nandi Taylor

Yenni is a fierce warrior princess, but her father is sick with a wasting illness - and she must fin ... Read More

FEBRUARY

Emergency Rescue Angel

Emergency Rescue Angel

By Cate Whittle

Life has returned to routine for Mitch. Mostly. He’s had to find a new kind of normal after his dad ... Read More

Break The Fall

Break The Fall

By Jennifer Iacopelli

A fiercely told survivorship novel about one girl's determination to push her body to win gold at th ... Read More

Orphans of the Tide

Orphans of the Tide

By Struan Murray

The City - mankind's last refuge in a drowned world, where Whale Lords reign and the Inquisition kee ... Read More

The Girl with the Gold Bikini

The Girl with the Gold Bikini

By Lisa Walker

'Whenever I see a girl with a gold bikini, I think of Princess Leia. Here on the Gold Coast, gold bi ... Read More

A New Kind of Everything

A New Kind of Everything

By Richard Yaxley

After their father’s reckless death, the Gallagher family must find new directions. Dinny’s mum find ... Read More

Somebody Give This Heart A Pen

Somebody Give This Heart A Pen

By Sophia Thakur

From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a powerful first collection of poems exploring i ... Read More

The Long Distance Playlist

The Long Distance Playlist

By Tara Eglington

Told primarily in instant messenger conversations, Skype, emails and texts, this is Jaclyn Moriarty' ... Read More