47 Degrees by Justin D'Ath
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Zeelie wonders if they're in danger. When temperatures soar to 47 degrees one hot summer day, 12-year-old Zeelie hopes the nearby bushfires everyone's talking about aren't heading towards her family's new home. What will they do if the wind changes direction? What about their belongings and their belove ...Show more
A Friend (How to be . . . ) by Anna Branford
$15.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds
Hazel Morrison has settled into her new school, and made a new friend, Laura, who shares Hazel's love of making pretend tutorials about everyday things. How to fold your pajamas: The Morrison Method! Three top tips for drizzling honey on your porridge! Laura's dad is away, and when her mum gets very ill ...Show more
A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
$18.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds
A KIND OF SPARK tells the story of 11-year-old Addie as she campaigns for a memorial in memory of the witch trials that took place in her Scottish hometown. Addie knows there's more to the story of these 'witches', just like there is more to hers. Can Addie challenge how the people in her town see her, ...Show more
A Walk in the Dark by Jane Godwin
$16.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult - 12+
A gripping and suspenseful rite-of-passage novel about five teenagers and one night that will change them all, from award-winning author Jane Godwin. 'It's just a walk in the dark. What is there to worry about?' That's what the head teacher, Johan, says. And so the Year Nines from Otway Community School ...Show more
Act (#3 Click) by Kayla Miller
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds | Series: Click
Act is the funny and honest follow-up to the middle school graphic novel sensations Click and Camp. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Shannon Hale, and Victoria Jamieson. How do you know when the person who can make the difference . . . is you? Olive is excited to start sixth grade: new teachers, ne ...Show more
After (#3 Felix & Zelda) by Morris Gleitzman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds | Series: Once | Reading Level: 11+
After the Nazis took my parents I was scaredAfter they killed my best friend I was angryAfter they ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determinedTo get to the forest To join forces with Gabriek and Yuli To be a familyTo defeat the Nazis after all
Alex: Through My Eyes (Australian Disaster Zones) by Rosanne Hawke
$18.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds | Series: Through My Eyes Ser.
A gripping story of one Australian boy's experience of devastating drought. A few kookaburras laugh in the gum trees. Alex grins - they don't often come up this far. His grandpa told him that if kookaburras laugh late in the afternoon, it will rain next day. 'Ha, someone needs to tell the rain to listen ...Show more
All the Bright Places (FTI) by Jennifer Niven
$17.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult - 12+
A compelling and beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die. Soon to be a major film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith. Theodore Finch constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself, but each time something good stops him. Violet Markey exists for the future, coun ...Show more
All the Little Tricky Things by Karys McEwen
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds
A novel about taking on new challenges, dealing with change and growing up, All the Little Tricky Things is perfect for readers about to start secondary school, or those moving into a new stage in life. It's the start of the summer holidays and twelve-year-old Bertie is worried. Next year she's going to ...Show more
Always (#7 Felix & Zelda) by Morris Gleitzman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds | Series: Felix & Zelda
The final part in the highly moving 'Once' sequence about Felix, who began life in an orphanage, hiding from the Nazis. Late in life, Felix finds himself back where he started, living in an aged-care home that reminds him of his childhood orphanage. He's not happy. His body might be old, but his spirit ...Show more
Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult - 12+
A heartfelt and hilarious Australian YA debut from a rising star. Luca is ready to audition for the Australian Ballet School. All it takes to crush his dreams is one missed step . . . and a broken foot. Jordan is the gorgeous rowing star and school captain of Luca's new school. Everyone says he's straig ...Show more
Are You There, Buddha? by Pip Harry
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds
Bridget 'Bee' Ballentine is 12 and starting her first year of high school in the beach suburb Crescent Bay. Still reeling from the departure of her mother for an ashram in India, Bee talks to Buddha and begs for her first period not to arrive. She's not ready to become a woman yet, whatever that means. ...Show more