Secondary Fiction 2022

OCTOBER

The Crossing

By Ernie Rijs

Tim is nearing the end of his final year of secondary school and all he wants is for it to finish. A ... Read More

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow

By Zoulfa Katouh

Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up an ... Read More

Dust Makers

By Penny Jaye and Rochelle Stephens

Dust Makers is a collection of short stories about our impact on the world around us. With a focus o ... Read More

Unnecessary Drama

By Nina Kenwood

Fall in love with this feel-good romance about the first messy, chaotic steps into adulthood, from t ... Read More

The Stand In

By A J Rushby

When new girl Millie shows up at Lena’s boarding school, she arrives with a question. Why is Lena pr ... Read More

The Killing Code

By Ellie Marney

A young codebreaker at Arlington Hall - the secret WWII Signals Intelligence unit in Washington DC - ... Read More

Serendib: White Plague

By Patricia Weerakoon

In 2030 a virus is hijacked and mutated into a biological weapon. A lab leak results in a deadly enc ... Read More

SEPTEMBER

The Upwelling

By Lystra Rose

Three misfits. Two warring spirits. One chance to save the world. Kirra is the great-granddaughter o ... Read More

Where You Left Us

By Rhiannon Wilde

An evocative YA mash-up that's like Wuthering Heights meets Sherlock Holmes, with Taylor Swift's eve ... Read More

Triple Threat

By Katy Warner

At the prestigious performing arts school Arcadia Grammar, the theatre kids and the musical theatre ... Read More

The Butterfly Assassin

By Finn Longman

Innocent by day, killer by night: a dark, twisting thriller about a teen assassin’s attempt to live ... Read More

Relentless

By Aviva

In a city of lies, can Teddy trust him? Teddy needs to act fast to save Clan Ember from Link's tyran ... Read More

Prometheus High 2

By Stuart Wilson

All aboard the airship Atet and full steam towards the ancient pyramids of Giza in the second hugely ... Read More

Nothing More to Tell

By Karen M. McManus

From the author of the international bestseller One of Us Is Lying comes a brand new unputdownable Y ... Read More

Dancing Barefoot

By Alice Boyle

Winner of the 2021 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing. Evie Vanhoutte is a teachers' ... Read More

All the Best Liars

By Amelia Kahaney

A dark, modern psychological thriller of obsession, manipulation and the intensity of friendship. Ti ... Read More

A Magic Steeped In Poison

By Judy I. Lin

In this enchanting debut YA fantasy, a young tea-maker travels to the capital city to take part in a ... Read More

The First Thing About You

By Chaz Hayden

Fans of John Green, Sara Barnard and Adam Silvera will love this contemporary YA that is packed with ... Read More

AUGUST

A Little Spark

By Barry Jonsberg

I don't tell Mum and Sam anything about my weekends with Dad. It would be giving them tickets into t ... Read More

Dreaming by Starlight

By Siobhan Curham

Friends make dreams come true. Jazz, short for Jasmine, and her parents have just moved to Brighton ... Read More

Wish Me Gone

By D.J Blackmore

Up close, the heritage listed house is nothing but a beautiful disaster, but while there are acres o ... Read More

Wanderer

By VICTOR KELLEHER

In a dangerous world where predators roam both land and sea, an orphaned young boatman, Dane, wander ... Read More

This Rebel Heart

By Katherine Locke

The Fountains of Silence meets Spinning Silver in this rollicking tale set amid the 1956 Hungarian r ... Read More

The Hidden Girl

By Louise Bassett

Mel has everything to lose – but how can she stand back when she knows something’s not right? Within ... Read More

Speck of the Stars

By Henry Boffin

Raised by utility robots on board the Grand Orbital Library, twelve-year-old orphan Speck’s days are ... Read More

Scorpion Falls

By Martin Chatterton

Loner Theo Sumner is a 14-year-old living in the isolated Queensland mining town of Scorpion Falls. ... Read More

Sadie Starr's Guide to Starting Over

By Miranda Luby

Sadie Starr attempts to leave her old self behind, but life at her new school proves starting over i ... Read More

Against All Odds

By Richard Harris and Craig Challen

A young readers' edition of the incredible true story of the Tham Luang Thai cave rescue of the Wild ... Read More

JULY

Cop and Robber

By Tristan Bancks

A new nailbiter from the bestselling author of Two Wolves. If your mum was a cop and your dad was a ... Read More

The Snow Laundry

By Mette Jakobsen

With the intensity of The Handmaid's Tale, the drama of Divergent and the political intrigue of The ... Read More

Completely Normal (and Other Lies)

By Biffy James

Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all. Stella Wilde is secretly ... Read More

Sixty-Seven Days

By Yvonne Weldon

'We don't say any words - everything has been said through two sets of eyes, two entangled souls and ... Read More

Queen of the Tiles

By Hanna Alkaf

They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen gir ... Read More

JUNE

When Only One

By Meg Gatland-Veness

'There's someone in the school. They're holding something in their hands. Something terrifying.' 198 ... Read More

My Spare Heart

By Jared Thomas

I mean, Mum didn't drink that much. All of my friends' parents loved their champagne or whatever. Ev ... Read More

What We All Saw

By Mike Lucas

Witches only exist in stories. Everyone knows that. But what if the stories are real? FOUR FRIENDS. ... Read More

The Museum of Broken Things

By Lauren Draper

A humorous, beautifully observed YA novel about overcoming grief amid the vulnerability of high scho ... Read More

Finding Jupiter

By Kelis Rowe

What if Romeo & Juliet took place in Memphis in 2022? Ray has no time for romance. She's queen o ... Read More

The Blood Traitor

By Lynette Noni

The eagerly awaited finale of the Prison Healer trilogy, from Australia's #1-bestselling YA author L ... Read More

Demon's Land

By SARAH FERGUSON

Jude loved photography. It captured the truth. It shone a light on what was hidden. It proved that e ... Read More

MAY

Seven Days

By Fleur Ferris

A fast-paced, action-packed story of how the past catches up to us, from bestselling and award-winni ... Read More

The Cult of Romance

By Sarah Ayoub

When your bestie is marrying a guy she barely knows, can you save her from the cult before it's too ... Read More

Skandar and the Unicorn Thief

By A.F. Steadman

The first book in the hotly anticipated new fantasy adventure series from A. F. Steadman. If you lik ... Read More

Grace back on Court

By Maddy Proud

Netball nerd Grace Parker leads a busy life. Not only are there the usual challenges of high school, ... Read More

The Bravest Word

By Kate Foster

A rescue story of love and trust between a boy and a dog from the talented author of Paws. Do you he ... Read More

Ghosted

By Emily Barr

You'll never meet that perfect stranger again, right? But what if you do? Again and again… A love st ... Read More

Mars Awakens

By H.M. Waugh

Kids from rival Martian colonies must come together to fight for survival in this thrilling middle-g ... Read More

Family of Liars

By E. Lockhart

Prequel to WE WERE LIARS, the #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and award-winning YA novel that TikTok ca ... Read More

Gus and the Starlight

By Victoria Carless

A spine-tingling and heart-warming story about friendship and finding your special place in the worl ... Read More

APRIL

Tracks of the Missing

By Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler

‘There must be payback.’ ‘There must, you are right,’ Grandfather agrees. ‘What can you offer in exc ... Read More

Growing Up in Country Australia

By Rick Morton

Growing Up in Country Australia is a fresh, modern look at country Australia. There are stories of j ... Read More

Sugar

By Carly Nugent

A realist YA novel, by the author of The Peacock Detectives, about family, loss and coming to terms ... Read More

Prometheus High - How to Make a Monster

By Stuart Wilson

A hugely inventive, action-packed, fun and quirky - and occasionally dark - adventure for fans of Sk ... Read More

We Who Hunt the Hollow

By Kate Murray

A firecracker urban fantasy about the youngest daughter of a family of women warriors, and the power ... Read More

MARCH

Growing Up in Flames

By Zach Jones

This contemporary YA novel is perfect for fans of Mark Smith and Vikki Wakefield, and tackles grief, ... Read More

Radha and Jai's Recipe for Romance

By Nisha Sharma

Radha was on the verge of winning the world’s biggest kathak dancing competition when a family betra ... Read More

Those Kids from Fawn Creek

By Erin Entrada Kelly

From Newbery medallist Erin Entrada Kelly comes a contemporary school story about friendship, family ... Read More

League of Liars

By Astrid Scholte

Shadows are dangerous. Edem is illegal. And liars are cowards. Ever since his mother was killed in a ... Read More

The Words We Keep

By Erin Stewart

A beautifully realistic, relatable story about mental health and the healing powers of friendship an ... Read More

Children of the Wild

By Michael Grey

To Matthew, the village he lives in, his friends, their families and the jungle which surrounds it i ... Read More

FEBRUARY

The Other Side of Tomorrow

By Hayley Lawrence

What if you thought you had forever... To live your life. To tell your story. But what if forever wa ... Read More

Fish Out of Water

By Kate Hendrick

Finn the Swimmer. Finn the Winner. Finn who works hard and pushes through and never gives up. Or jus ... Read More

Only a Monster

By Vanessa Len

Don't forget the rule. No one can know what you are. What we are. You must never tell anyone about m ... Read More

Luminous

By Mara Rutherford

Her sister has been taken, and the only boy she’s ever loved has disappeared. To get them back, she’ ... Read More

At the End of Everything

By Marieke Nijkamp

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends comes an emotional and timely ... Read More

I Must Betray You

By Ruta Sepetys

Trapped by an evil dictatorship, will Cristian be forced to betray his family or will he risk everyt ... Read More