Lamont Standing Order - 2021 Secondary Fiction Lower Sec Add On

OCTOBER

My Brother Ben

By Peter Carnavas

Luke and his big brother Ben spend the summer on the banks of Cabbage Tree Creek. Quiet Luke sketche ... Read More

The Break

By Phillip Gwynne

From the author of the literary hit, Deadly Unna?, comes a fast-paced rite-of-passage set amid the m ... Read More

How to Repaint a Life

By Steven Herrick

A powerful prose novel from one of Australia's most awarded authors. Isaac is running from his old l ... Read More

self/less

By Aviva

A world where self-expression is banned. A world where survival is everything. A girl who will be he ... Read More

The Gilded Cage

By Lynette Noni

#1 bestselling Australian YA author Lynette Noni is back with the second book in the breathtaking Pr ... Read More

If Not Us

By Mark Smith

From the author of The Road to Winter trilogy comes an empowering standalone novel about the courage ... Read More

Within the Ward

By Emily Larkin

Here, Paige is immersed in a dream reality called ‘the Journey’. If patients finish the Journey, the ... Read More

Dark Rise

By C S Pacat

THE DARK WILL RISE. WHO WILL FALL? WHO WILL STAND? The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes ... Read More

The Great Dream Robbery

By Greg James and Chris Smith

A brand-new adventure beyond your wildest dreams, from the bestselling authors of KID NORMAL. Unlike ... Read More

Seven Wherewithal Way

By Samantha-Ellen Bound

Ferdinand fell out of the sky on the hottest day of the year, while Celeste and Esmerelda Barden wer ... Read More

SEPTEMBER

Always

By Morris Gleitzman

The much-anticipated final journey in the story of Felix, hero of Morris Gleitzman's multi-award-win ... Read More

The Song of Lewis Carmichael

By Sofie Laguna
Illustrated by Marc McBride

Matthew stood on the snowy peak and stared out at the world spread before him. Every picture in his ... Read More

Evacuation Road

By HM Waugh

Eva is far from home when everything goes wrong. And then it gets even worse. Her evacuation bus lea ... Read More

It's Not You, It's Me

By Gabrielle Williams

Holly Fitzgerald has inexplicably woken up inside the body of an LA teenager called Trinity Byrne in ... Read More

Banjo Tully

By Justin D’Ath

Banjo Tully hasn’t ever given much thought to climate change. But when he meets self-described ‘cons ... Read More

Anything But Fine

By Tobias Madden

A heartfelt and hilarious Australian YA debut from a rising star. Luca is ready to audition for the ... Read More

Road Tripping with Pearl Nash

By Poppy Nwosu

The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friends ... Read More

Take Me With You When You Go

By David Levithan and Jennifer Niven

From the authors of All the Bright Places and Every Day comes a story of hope, family, and finding y ... Read More

The What on Earth Institute of Wonder

By Lisa Nicol

A mind-boggling expedition into the secrets of the Animal Kingdom with only an invisible map of the ... Read More

Wednesday Weeks and the Crown of Destiny

By Cristy Burne and Denis Knight

Wednesday Weeks is just starting to get the hang of this whole magic thing. But Gorgomoth the Unclea ... Read More

The School between Winter and Fairyland

By Heather Fawcett

Twelve-year-old Autumn is a beastkeeper at Inglenook School for Magicians, which she secretly dreams ... Read More

Mel and Shell

By Julia Lawrinson

Mel and Shell is the latest book for middle readers from award-winning author Julia Lawrinson. Shell ... Read More

AUGUST

Half My Luck

By Samera Kamaleddine

From the winner of the inaugural Matilda Prize comes a heartwarming coming-of-age story about growin ... Read More

The Inheritance

By Armin Greder

'All this will soon be yours, respect what I have built and make it prosper.' These are the last wor ... Read More

Underground

By Mirranda Burton

Why would a wombat be registered for war? It's 1965, and an old Tattersalls barrel starts rolling ma ... Read More

Sugar Town Queens

By Malla Nunn

Fifteen-year-old Amandla's mother has always been strange. For starters, she's a white woman living ... Read More

The Thaumagician's Revenge

By Gareth Ward

The next crackingly paced, steampunk thrill ride from award-winning master of the genre, Gareth Ward ... Read More

Trouble is my Business

By Lisa Walker

Olivia Grace, recently retired teen PI, has her priorities sorted. Pass first-year law, look after h ... Read More

Muddy People

By Sara El Sayed

A hilarious, heartwarming memoir of growing up and becoming yourself in an Egyptian Muslim family. S ... Read More

The Monster of Her Age

By Danielle Binks

How do you ruin someone's childhood? Ellie Marsden was born into the legendary Lovinger acting dynas ... Read More

The Boyband Murder Mystery

By Ava Eldred

A page-turning murder mystery from an exciting new voice in YA fiction. 'I have long believed that l ... Read More

The Opposite of Disappearing

By Laura Norris and R A Stephens

‘The centre of the room houses her favourite thing in the space: a dragonfly encased in amber. She l ... Read More

Ground Zero

By Alan Gratz

It's September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad... at the ... Read More

Girls in Boys' Cars

By Felicity Castagna

Rosa was never really trying to hurt anyone, no matter what they said in court. But she's ended up i ... Read More

Coastwatcher

By David Hill

A tense, exciting war adventure inspired by the coastwatchers of Operation Pacific, from award-winni ... Read More

The Wolf's Howl

By A.L. Tait

Bestselling author A. L. Tait is back with the next Maven and Reeve Mystery.A secret mission. A miss ... Read More

Exit Through the Gift Shop

By Maryam Master

Anahita Rosalind Ghorban-Galaszczuk (yes, that really is her name but you can call her Ana) is disco ... Read More

The Summer I Robbed A Bank

By David O'Doherty

Millions meets Gangsta Granny. There's a feeling of relief that comes just after you've robbed a ban ... Read More

JULY

A Weekend with Oscar

By Robyn Bavati

A moving #LoveOzYA novel about loss, first love and being there for your family, no matter what. Six ... Read More

Are You There, Buddha?

By Pip Harry

Bridget 'Bee' Ballentine is 12 and starting her first year of high school in the beach suburb Cresce ... Read More

Rainfish

By Andrew Paterson

Winner of the 2020 Text Prize. A humorous and poignant middle-grade story about a young boy grapplin ... Read More

Skin Deep

By Hayley Lawrence

Scarlett was gifted with beauty. But beauty can be taken in a day, in a single moment, by one car fi ... Read More

When Days Tilt

By Karen Ginnane

Magic, mystery and darkness - a gripping fantasy adventure for lovers of Philip Pullman's Northern L ... Read More

Everything I Thought I Knew

By Shannon Takaoka

A teenage girl wonders if she’s inherited more than just a heart from her donor in this compulsively ... Read More

The Memory Thief

By Leonie Agnew
Illustrated by Kieran Rynhart

A magical, spine-tingling novel about a girl who wants to escape her memories and a troll who is des ... Read More

Storm Warning

By Lauren Boyle
Illustrated by Alyssa Mason

Storm Warning is an adventure story for our times. It is a wake-up call to pay attention to what Ear ... Read More

JUNE

The Right Way to Rock

By Nat Amoore

The rockin' story of two new friends, one arts fiasco and a whole lot of music.Without music, the wo ... Read More

The Boy Who Stepped Through Time

By Anna Ciddor

When Perry steps into a crumbling ruin while on holiday in France, he is not expecting to be transpo ... Read More

100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze

By Clayton Zane Comber

Xander Maze is a list-maker. But can his list of 100 Remarkable Feats really save his nanna? Xander ... Read More

One Hundred Days

By Alice Pung

From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a mother-daughter drama exploring the faultlin ... Read More

Echo in the Memory

By Cameron Nunn

What if memories never die? An evocative Australian YA novel about family, place, and how history ha ... Read More

Instructions for Dancing

By Nicola Yoon

A stand-out new YA romance from the number 1 bestselling author of Everything, Everything - this is ... Read More

Lucky List

By Rachael Lippincott

From the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Five Feet Apart comes a gripping new romance, pe ... Read More

The Lanternist

By Stephen Orr
Illustrated by Timothy Ide

The slide clunks into the lantern, and Phantoms come alive on the wall. The father-and-son Magic Lan ... Read More

MAY

Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows

By Denis Knight and Cristy Burne

In a world of magic, can science save the day? Wednesday Weeks never wanted to be a sorcerer's appre ... Read More

A Glasshouse of Stars

By Shirley Marr

Meixing Lim and her family have arrived at the New House in the New Land, inherited from First Uncle ... Read More

Elsewhere Girls

By Emily Gale and Nova Weetman

An exciting collaboration from two of Australia's favourite middle-grade authors. It's midnight and ... Read More

Night Ride into Danger

By Jackie French

Six mysterious passengers and seven dark secrets. Who can be trusted? It's a dark and dangerous jour ... Read More

Common Wealth

By Gregg Dreise

All that I’m wishing, Is that you take a moment to listen... A slam poetry persuasive and powerful v ... Read More

The Other Side of Perfect

By Mariko Turk

Alina Keeler was destined to dance, but one terrifying fall shatters her leg - and her dreams of a b ... Read More

Can't Say it Went to Plan

By Gabrielle Tozer

From the award-winning author of The Intern, Faking It and Remind Me How This Ends. School's out. Fo ... Read More

The Ones We're Meant to Find

By Joan He

A clever, thrilling YA about two sisters searching for each other and for truth, against a backdrop ... Read More

Oddity

By Eli Brown

The daughter of a murdered physician vows to protect the magical Oddity he left behind – if only she ... Read More

Shackleton's Endurance

By Joanna Grochowicz

Adrift on the Antarctic pack ice with no means of escape and no hope of rescue, Ernest Shackleton an ... Read More

APRIL

Heroes of the Secret Underground

By Susanne Gervay

A timely and powerful time-slip story inspired by the author's family in Budapest during the Holocau ... Read More

Paws

By Kate Foster

At home, Alex's best friend is Kevin the cockapoo, although what he wants most of all is a friend at ... Read More

Huda and Me

By H. Hayek

A cheeky, fun and fast-moving tale of two Lebanese-Australian kids who decide to escape their horrib ... Read More

The True Colour of a Little White Lie

By Gabriel Bergmoser

From the super-talented young author of the best-selling The Hunted comes a book that reminds you ju ... Read More

Dirt Circus League

By Maree Kimberley

Take a trip into a dystopian Far North Queensland with this wildly exciting YA novel by Brisbane aut ... Read More

When We Are Invisible

By Claire Zorn

The sequel to Claire Zorn's acclaimed debut The Sky So Heavy. A heart-stopping dystopian YA set in t ... Read More

A Million Things

By Emily Spurr

Rae is ten years old, and she's tough. She's had to be - life with her mother has taught her the wor ... Read More

Off the Map

By Scot Gardner

Our home town. Sometimes it feels like the centre of the universe, sometimes it's the bum-end of now ... Read More

Sunburnt Veils

By Sara Haghdoosti

Sunburnt Veils is a smart, funny, character-based exploration of Islamophobia through a heroine who' ... Read More

The Prison Healer

By Lynette Noni

Here at Zalindov, the only person you can trust is yourself. Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spe ... Read More

Every Thing We Keep

By Di Walker

Trailing her orange suitcase, and a heart full of worry, thirteen-year-old Agatha is about to go hom ... Read More

Holocaust

By Adrian Barbu

Adolf Hitler’s regime has enveloped Europe, and now David, along with all Jews in the Nazi’s reach, ... Read More

MARCH

The Golden Tower

By Belinda Murrell

In her wildest dreams, Sophie never thought she might be kidnapped by a cat and taken to a world of ... Read More

The Detective's Guide to Ocean Travel

By Nicki Greenberg

The first middle-grade novel from award-winning author Nicki Greenberg, this book is a classic whodu ... Read More

Six Seconds The Newcastle Earthquake

By Alan Sunderland

I could hardly see. There was dust and smoke everywhere. I was falling, sliding down into a gap that ... Read More

The Edge of Thirteen

By Nova Weetman

Clem Timmins can't wait to see her best friends after being apart all summer holidays. But when they ... Read More

The Gaps

By Leanne Hall

When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten cla ... Read More

Waking Romeo

By Kathryn Barker

YEAR: 2083. LOCATION: LONDON. MISSION: WAKE ROMEO. It's the end of the world. Literally. Time travel ... Read More

Crossed Spaces

By Lynne Stringer and RA Stephens

A handsome clockmaker fixes a broken time machine to help a cursed lady. A young scientist betrays h ... Read More

Harmony

By Richard Yaxley

In 1914, Tom Stott falls in love with Gracie O’Donnell, but their love is thwarted by circumstance a ... Read More

Violet Black

By Eileen Merriman

Set in the near future, this first book in a fast-paced trilogy will hook you in from the first page ... Read More

Tell Me Why

By Archie Roach

‘There are many Australian stories, and mine is just one about what happened to me and other First P ... Read More

FEBRUARY

Amari and the Night Brothers

By B.B. Alston

A 12-year-old girl from the housing projects discovers her brother was more than he seemed… And so i ... Read More

Footprints on the Moon

By Lorraine Marwood

Humans are about to leave footprints on the moon, but what sort of mark can one girl make here on ea ... Read More

Balloon Girls

By Darrell Pitt

Times are tough in the small town of Yallaroo where Ally Simpson has lived her whole life. The whole ... Read More

The World Between Blinks

By Ryan Graudin and Amie Kaufman

Discover a magical world where lost things are found... Whenever cousins Jake and Marisol get togeth ... Read More

Growing Up Disabled in Australia

By Carly Findlay

'My body and its place in the world seemed normal to me. Why wouldn't it?' 'I didn't grow up disable ... Read More

Influence

By Sara Shepard and Lilia Buckingham

Delilah is Internet-famous, in LA and at the start of something incredible. Everything is going to c ... Read More

Game Changer

By Neal Shusterman

An ambitious and magnetic novel from the New York Times bestselling Neal Shusterman, about a teenage ... Read More

The Hatmakers

By Tamzin Merchant

Cordelia comes from a long line of magical milliners, who weave alchemy and enchantment into every h ... Read More

Tiger Daughter

By Rebecca Lim

My study buddy, Henry, has made it his mission to get me to an A in maths the way I'm trying to get ... Read More

The Girls I've Been

By Tess Sharpe

Soon to be a Netflix film starring Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown - this must-read psychologica ... Read More

The Sad Ghost Club

By Lize Meddings

Ever felt anxious or alone? Like you don't belong anywhere? Like you're almost... invisible? Find yo ... Read More