Scar Town: Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Younger Readers 2024 by Tristan Bancks
$17.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
A missing father. A drowned town. A buried secret. Three friends on a dangerous mission to uncover the truth.Seven years after Old Scarborough was drowned, a house is emerging from the water. Will and his friends Dar and Juno dare each other to explore it.But when they find bones - and a stash of cash - ...Show more
The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox
$19.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
A powerful, lyrical novel about friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma, love and our hopeless, hopeful world from the award-winning author of How It Feels to Float. George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says ...Show more
Two Can Play That Game by Leanne Yong
$19.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
Funny and romantic, an upbeat YA novel about gaming, goals and getting even from a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction. How did I let my sister talk me into going out when I have a game to fix and a jerkface to destroy? Sam Khoo has one goal in life: create cool indie games. She's willing to do any ...Show more
Grace Notes by Karen Comer
$19.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
This song has a grace note, a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored, not played. Tonight, I add it in - just because. We can all do with an extra note of grace. Grace Dalfinch is a talented violinist who longs to play contemporary music in bars, but her mum forbids her. Jam ...Show more
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! A Celebration of Blak Excellence by Corey Tutt
$34.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! is an inspirational, illustrated compendium that celebrates the diversity and success of First Nations People. Written by Corey Tutt, author of The First Scientists, this book features the profiles of 80 Blakfellas who are doing deadly things across sport, art, activism and s ...Show more
Let's Never Speak of This Again by Megan Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
Ella and I have been best friends since grade one. We can spend hours talking about everything and nothing. We know each other's greatest fears, things that irrationally annoy us, and ideal career if money and skill weren't an issue. If there was only one Hartford Bakery brownie left in the whole world ...Show more
Huda Was Here by H. Hayek
$15.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
Huda hatches a bold plan to help her dad get a job - which lands her and her brother in all kinds of trouble. A delightful and hilarious story from a CBCA award-winning author, about a lion-hearted girl who just wants the best for her family. Huda yawns loudly and stretches out her arms. Almost like she ...Show more
Etta and the Shadow Taboo by Jared M Field
$27.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
Where is theirs? And where is mine? To hurt a shadow Is surely a crime When Etta steps on Baawaa’s (her sister's) shadow, she learns of the Shadow Taboo, and learns to value the personal space of others, as well as her own. Written by Gamilaraay author JM Field and illustrated by Ngarabal/Gomeroi artis ...Show more
Eww Gross: Foul Facts and Putrid Pictures by Dan Marshall
$29.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
Did you know your kitchen is dirtier than your toilet seat? Or that there is a mound of poo bigger than the Statue of Liberty? And that there is a parasitic fungus that turns ants in zombies? This is a disgustingly wonderful guide to all things yuck, filled to the brim with facts and activities that wil ...Show more
Our Country: Where History Happened by Mark Greenwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024 | Series: Our Country Ser.
The second title in the OUR COUNTRY series, celebrating and contextualising the richness of Australia's history, and where it happened. In every corner of Australia, history happened. The pages of this book are a journey through tens of thousands of years. Our history is recorded in ancient rock art, in ...Show more
Being Jimmy Baxter by Fiona Lloyd
$16.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
A gently funny yet powerful coming-of-age middle grade novel about surviving the odds, unlikely friendships and the magical music of Elvis.It's not eggsactly easy being Jimmy Baxter 'cause- The real Jimmy's hiding inside Ned Kelly's giving him the evil eye Mum's stopped going to work and stays in bed Th ...Show more
When You're A Boy by Blake Nuto
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
A powerful and moving exploration of what it means to be a boy from an exciting new author-illustrator talent. When you're a boy you are told how to be like the white-roaring oceans. But I've learned the fierceness of flowers the glory of colour and the beauty of dreaming. Wander through forests, cross ...Show more