2015 Secondary Fiction

OCTOBER

Inbetween Days

By Vikki Wakefield

At seventeen, Jacklin Bates is all grown up. She’s dropped out of school. She’s living with her runa ... Read More

Newt’s Emerald

By Garth Nix

After the Newington Emerald is stolen at the height of a conjured storm, eighteen-year-old Lady Trut ... Read More

Atmospheric

By Carole Wilkinson

This burning story of climate change is a new book in the award-winning non-fiction series for teens ... Read More

Zeroes

By Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan & Deborah Biancotti

Don't call them heroes. But these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart. Ethan aka S ... Read More

Anything That Isn’t This

By Chris Priestly

Seventeen-year-old Frank Palp lives in a grim little apartment, in a grim little building, in an exc ... Read More

The Boy At the Top of the Mountain

By John Boyne

When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix ... Read More

Sing a Rebel Song

By Pamela Rushby

It's 1891. Maggie McAllister and her family are caught up in one of the most dramatic events in Aust ... Read More

The River and the Book

By Alison Croggon and Katie Harnett

Combining magical realism and fable, this lyrical tale is the story of a landscape and community des ... Read More

SEPTEMBER

Cloudwish

By Fiona Wood

For Vân Uoc Phan, fantasies fell into two categories: nourishing, or pointless. Daydreaming about Bi ... Read More

The Flyaway Girls

By Julia Lawrinson

Telia makes her movements graceful as well as technically perfect. And when she finishes with a full ... Read More

The Cat at the Wall

By Deborah Ellis

On Israel's West Bank, a cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house that has just been commandeered b ... Read More

The Burning Elephant

By Christopher Raja

The Burning Elephant is set in Kolkata before and after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, which le ... Read More

The Rest of Us Just Live Here

By Patrick Ness

Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't th ... Read More

The Lost and The Found

By Cat Clarke

LOST. When six-year-old Laurel Logan was abducted, the only witness was her younger sister. Faith's ... Read More

Everything, Everything

By Nicola Yoon

Madeline Whittier is allergic to the outside world. So allergic, in fact, that she has never left th ... Read More

The Truth About Peacock Blue

By Roseanne Hawke

Everything changes for Aster the night her brother dies. Suddenly she's the only hope of the family, ... Read More

Goodbye Stranger

By Rebecca Stead

Back in grade five, Bridge, Tabitha and Emily made a pact. Never to fight, ever. Now, two years late ... Read More

AUGUST

The Beauty Is In The Walking

By James Moloney

In the bestselling tradition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Wonder. 'Somet ... Read More

The Cut Out

By Jack Heath

Fero isn't a spy. But he looks exactly like someone who is: Troy Maschenov - a ruthless enemy agent. ... Read More

Green Valentine

By Lili Wilkinson

Astrid Katy Smythe is beautiful, smart and popular. She's a straight-A student and a committed envir ... Read More

Sister Heart

By Sally Morgan

A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the dista ... Read More

Talk Under Water

By Kathryn Lomer

Will and Summer meet online and strike up a friendship based on coincidence. Summer lives in Will’s ... Read More

Sea Horse

By Bruce Pascoe

Written with gentle humour and a beautiful interpretation of landscape, this adventure story about J ... Read More

In The Skin of a Monster

By Kathryn Barker

Caught in a dreamscape, mistaken for a killer... will Alice find a way home? Three years ago, Alice' ... Read More

The Peony Lantern

By Frances Watts

When Kasumi leaves her remote village for the teeming city of Edo, her life is transformed. As a lad ... Read More

Voicing The Dead

By Gary Crew

You ask, 'Can the dead speak?' I answer, 'Is this blood that runs in my veins, or ink? I ask that yo ... Read More

JULY

Freedom Ride

By Sue Lawson

There’s no hiding from prejudice. Robbie knows bad things happen in Walgaree. But it's nothing to do ... Read More

Risk

By Fleur Ferris

Taylor and Sierra have been best friends for their whole lives. But Taylor's fed up. Why does Sierra ... Read More

Frankie and Joely

By Nova Weetman

Frankie and Joely are best friends. They love each other like no one else can. But when a summer bre ... Read More

Empire of the Waves

By Christopher Richardson

Pel Narine is on the edge of war, and Anni Tidechild's world is on the brink of change. Uncertain ab ... Read More

Seed

By Lisa Heathfield

Seed loves you. Seed will never let you go. Fifteen-year-old Pearl has lived her whole life protecte ... Read More

Ophelia: Queen of Denmark

By Jackie French

She is the girl who will be queen: Ophelia, daughter of Denmark’s lord chancellor and loved by Princ ... Read More

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

By Stephanie Oakes

The Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her ... Read More

Way Down Dark

By James P. Smythe

There's one truth on Australia. You fight or you die. Usually both. Imagine a nightmare from which t ... Read More

The IT Girl

By Katy Birchall

Hilariously funny and deliciously romantic 'clean teen' fiction for teens. Everybody wants to be a f ... Read More

Stone Rider

By David Hofmeyr

Adam Stone wants freedom and peace. He wants a chance to escape Blackwater, the dust-bowl desert tow ... Read More

JUNE

Becoming Kirrali Lewis

By Jane Harrison

Through a pair of ornate wrought-iron gates was one of the oldest universities in the country. Our p ... Read More

Pieces of Sky

By Trinity Doyle

Lucy's life was going as smoothly as any teenager's could. She was the state backstroke champion, an ... Read More

I'll Give You the Sun

By Jandy Nelson

From the critically acclaimed author of The Sky Is Everywhere, a radiant novel that will leave you l ... Read More

Hunter's Moon

By Sophie Masson

Bianca Dalmatin wants for nothing. As the heir to a department store empire and stepdaughter of the ... Read More

Troll Mountain

By Matthew Reilly

A young hero. Barbaric monsters. An impossible quest. In a remote valley, a tribe of humans is being ... Read More

Lullaby

By Bernard Beckett

I remember the machine by his bed. It made a sound like sighing. Numbers twitched, unable to settle. ... Read More

MAY

Footy Dreaming

By Michael Hyde

Ben and Noah play on opposing teams in a footy-obsessed town. They each dream of playing on the G - ... Read More

One True Thing

By Nicole Hayes

When is a secret not a secret? When your whole life is public. Frankie is used to being a politician ... Read More

Summoner: Book 1: The Novice

By Taran Matharu

Fletcher was nothing more than a humble blacksmith's apprentice, when a chance encounter leads to th ... Read More

A Single Stone

By Meg McKinlay

Middle grade fiction with dystopian elements. Challenging and thought-provoking; affecting and beaut ... Read More

Carousel

By Brendan Ritchie

Nox is an arts graduate wondering what to do with his life. Taylor and Lizzy are famous indie musici ... Read More

My Family for the War

By Anne C. Voorhoeve

Escaping Nazi Germany on the kindertransport changes one girl's life forever. At the start of World ... Read More

You're the Kind of Girl I Write Songs About

By Daniel Herborn

Funny, sweet and beautifully depicted, You’re The Kind of Girl I Write Songs About is a startlingly ... Read More

APRIL

The Pause

By John Larkin

One moment. One pause. One whole new life. Declan seems to have it all: a family that loves him, fri ... Read More

Prince of Afghanistan

By Louis Nowra

Black parachutes fall from the sky: young soldiers - and a dog - on a rescue mission in a remote par ... Read More

The Guy, the Girl, the Artist and His Ex

By Gabrielle Williams

A rock chick. An artist with attitude. A girl with a past. A party animal. Four lives collide when o ... Read More

Lifespan of Starlight

By Thalia Kalkipsakis

The first in a thrilling new trilogy of epic proportions from best-selling children's author Thalia ... Read More

Daisy Malone and the Blue Glowing Stone

By James O’Loghlin

Someone has to save the world and that someone is Daisy Malone. It's Daisy's 12th birthday but she's ... Read More

The Catalyst

By Helena Coggan

Rose Elmsworth has a secret. For eighteen years, the world has been divided into the magically Gifte ... Read More

Dropping In

By Geoff Havel

Sticks and Ranga live on the same street, go to the same school and love the same things - skateboar ... Read More

MARCH

The Fire Sermon

By Francesca Haig

When Zach and I were born our parents must have counted and recounted: limbs, fingers, toes. We were ... Read More

The Hush

By Skye Melki-Wegner

Chester is on the road, searching every town for clues about his father's disappearance. But when he ... Read More

Zafir: Through My Eyes

By Prue Masson

Zafir has a comfortable life in Homs, Syria, until his father, a doctor, is arrested for helping a p ... Read More

Seeker

By Arwen Elys Dayton

Quin Kincaid has been put through years of brutal training for what she thinks is the noble purpose ... Read More

Eventual Poppy Day

By Libby Hathorn

Painstakingly researched and extremely well written, this is a novel that moves deftly and easily fr ... Read More

Mind Games

By Teri Terry

Fans of the award-winning SLATED trilogy won't want to miss this gripping new psychological thriller ... Read More

FEBRUARY

All the Bright Places

By Jennifer Niven

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But e ... Read More

The Flywheel

By Erin Gough

Seventeen-year-old Delilah's crazy life is about to get crazier. Ever since her father took off over ... Read More

A Small Madness

By Dianne Touchell

Rose didn't tell anyone about it. She wondered if it showed. She looked at herself in the mirror and ... Read More

Trust Me, I’m Lying

By Mary Elizabeth Summer

Julep Dupree tells lies. A lot of them. She's a con artist, a master of disguise, and a sophomore at ... Read More

Unwanted

By Amanda Holohan

All her life, Bea has wanted nothing more than to become a sniper on the wall and earn the coveted i ... Read More

Moon at Nine

By Deborah Ellis

Fifteen-year-old Farrin has many secrets. Although she goes to a school for gifted girls in Tehran, ... Read More

For the Forest of a Bird

By Sue Saliba

A novel about love and the things you can and can't change, from the winner of the Victorian Premier ... Read More

1915 Do You Dare? Jimmy’s War

By Sherryl Clark

Do you dare . . . Leave school to support your family? Save your big brother? Stand up to the local ... Read More