Are You There, Buddha?
By: Pip Harry
4.27
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A fresh, funny and very contemporary take on puberty, first periods and relationships from the CBCA…
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1. Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family
By: Cameron Bloom , Bradley Trevor Greive
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story full of hope and courage, featuring Cameron Bloom's ex… read more
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- australia
- family
2. How to Bee
By: Bren MacDibble
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
For 8-12 year olds - and all those who love middle grade fiction. Peony lives with her sister and g… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- fiction
3. Sister Heart
By: Sally Morgan
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the dist… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
4. The Secrets We Keep (The Secrets We Keep #1)
By: Nova Weetman
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
I don't know if you've ever seen a house burn, but it's not like anything else ... Clem Timmins has… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- contemporary
5. When Michael Met Mina
By: Randa Abdel-Fattah
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Before Mina, my life was like a completed jigsaw puzzle but Mina has pushed the puzzle onto the flo… read more
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6. The Secrets We Share (The Secrets We Keep, #2)
By: Nova Weetman
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Clem is slowly rebuilding her life after a house fire destroyed everything. She's about to start hi… read more
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7. Runt
By: Craig Silvey
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- australia
8. Dress Coded
By: Carrie Firestone
4.17
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
In this debut middle-grade girl-power friendship story, perfect for fans of Moxie , an eighth grade… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"What if, instead of seeing us as covered or uncovered body parts, you saw us as people and you learned our names?"-Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded
9. Girls in Boys' Cars
By: Felicity Castagna
3.42
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
A complicated friendship. A roadtrip in a stolen car. The stories that define us. And two … read more
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- family
- australia
- young adult
- contemporary
"I was still thinking we'd gone halfway to another world but here we were again under the same McDonald's sky."-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars
"Most stories don't really go ahead in straight lines. They get jumbled up and you have to untangle them again (just like life, I suppose)."-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars
"A woman I met told me something that made me think of you, she said when you tell a story you are trying to walk with someone else to understand who they are while listening to your own heartbeat."-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars
10. As Happy as Here
By: Jane Godwin
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
A beautiful coming-of-age story about three teenage girls from very different backgrounds who find … read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- contemporary
11. Sick Bay
By: Nova Weetman
4.28
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Meg uses Sick Bay to hide from other kids. She’s struggling with changes at home, wears slippers to… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- australia
12. Completely Normal (and other lies)
By: Biffy James
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all. Stella Wilde is secre… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
"This isn't all on you. But god forbid we blame the dude. Fucking patriarchy."-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)
"I considered letting my own meltdown come to the surface, but I had no way of knowing how long it would last once I let it, so I didn't. I put it in the black well instead, backing away so I wouldn't…"-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)
"Maybe it was better to accept that when someone died there were some things that were never going to happen, and this was just another one of them. Because death left things unfinished. Unsaid. Unsew…"-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)
13. Grace Notes
By: Karen Comer
4.16
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
, This song has a grace note a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
- australia
"Restrictions can't stop our music, can't stop us."-Karen Comer, Grace Notes
"together we weave a set of colours so beautiful that surely every listener's heart expands"-Karen Comer, Grace Notes
"The world has stopped still, yet we can feel our frenzied, uncertain energy spinning the Earth."-Karen Comer, Grace Notes
"Surely traditions have to evolve? Surely daughters can choose their own happiness? Surely our world can handle this new virus?"-Karen Comer, Grace Notes
14. We Are Wolves
By: Katrina Nannestad
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches … read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- fiction
"Books are treasure."-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves
"How do you thank someone for saving your sister?"-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves
"I don't want to stop because when the songs and rhymes and stories and all the German words are gone, I will be gone. Liesl Anna Wolf will be no more."-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves
15. Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief
By: Katrina Nannestad
4.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- fiction
16. Silver Linings
By: Katrina Nannestad
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad Nettie… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- family
"How can anyone eat now that Billy is gone? How can we even breathe?"-Katrina Nannestad, Silver Linings
17. It Sounded Better in My Head
By: Nina Kenwood
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From debut author Nina Kenwood comes a tender, funny, and compulsively readable novel about first l… read more
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- coming of age
- young adult
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
"I am an adult now (sort of, kind of, not really)."-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head
"I do like to be out doing things and talking to people.' 'I like to be home, not doing things, talking to no one."-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head
"Maybe I've never smiled or laughed at an appropriate time in my entire life and I just didn't realise until this moment."-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head
"People aren’t all good or all bad. You can learn from mistakes. Or you can keep making them. You can always become a better person."-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head
18. Tiger Daughter
By: Rebecca Lim
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
IBBY Honour List 2024 A Kirkus, Booklist, She Reads and Amazon Best Book of 2023 Winner, People's… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- australia
"It's aiming for the peaks,' I tell him, 'and swimming through the troughs so that there are moments where you can just float under the sun and see how far you've come."-Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter
19. Are You There, Buddha?
By: Pip Harry
4.27
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A fresh, funny and very contemporary take on puberty, first periods and relationships from the CBCA… read more
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- childrens
- coming of age
- humor
- middle grade
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- australia
20. Exit Through the Gift Shop
By: Maryam Master
4.10
Format: None pages, ebook
Anahita Rosalind Ghorban-Galaszczuk (yes, that really is her name but you can call her Ana) is disc… read more
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- childrens
- humor
- middle grade
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
21. A Glasshouse of Stars
By: Shirley Marr
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Meixing Lim and her family have arrived at the New House in the New Land, inherited from First Uncl… read more
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- childrens
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- family
"It is then you understand that Kevin isn't angry at the world; he's angry at himself."-Shirley Marr, A Glasshouse of Stars
"The promise touches your face softly and wraps itself gently around you, planting a seed of hope in your heart."-Shirley Marr, A Glasshouse of Stars
"Are you scared of the darkness?" Kevin asks you. "No," you say. With your answer, the black sky is at once filled with a million galaxies. It is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen. "No," you…"-Shirley Marr, A Glasshouse of Stars
22. Can You See Me?
By: Libby Scott
4.28
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
A coming-of-age story about learning to celebrate yourself -- and teaching the world to recognize y… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
"Actually, the more I think about it, the more I figure that a lot of the cons of autism are not really caused by autism, but by how other people react to it."-Libby Scott, Can You See Me?
23. Huda and Me
By: H. Hayek
4.03
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
Huda's sitting in the airport lounge, fiddling with our tickets. I can tell she's excited because s… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- family
- contemporary
24. Dragon Skin
By: Karen Foxlee
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
How to save a dragon: 1) Assemble equipment. Water, Weet-Bix, sugar, syringe, sticky tape, scissor… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- contemporary
"He was dangerous. Dangerous like water. He could seem calm and glassy on top but underneath he was all dark silt and weed."-Karen Foxlee, Dragon Skin
"[Pip] was wondering if the dragon was still alive in the little hoodie nest. It had been after the world’s fastest shower. She’d peeked into the wardrobe and seen its little belly rising and falling,…"-Karen Foxlee, Dragon Skin
"Mika belIeved in Magic. One hundred per cent without a doubt. She learned that fast when he arrived. He knew the Dewey decimal 130s like the back of his hand and they went to the town library often t…"-Karen Foxlee, Dragon Skin
25. The Edge of Thirteen (The Secrets We Keep, #3)
By: Nova Weetman
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Clem Timmins can't wait to see her best friends after being apart all summer holidays. But when the… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- contemporary
26. The Museum of Broken Things
By: Lauren Draper
4.00
Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback
I didn’t always live here. Not so long ago I was living in a thriving metropolis with more than one… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
27. Social Queue
By: Kay Kerr
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'I thought I was nobody’s teen crush, but turns out I was just missing the signs.' Zoe Kelly is … read more
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- australia
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"It bothers me how people need the truth to be sugar-coated to be palatable. And that it's my job to remember the sugar."-Kay Kerr, Social Queue
"I’ve been trying to motivate myself to have a shower for the last forty-five minutes, but so far all I’ve managed to do is get my underwear out of the drawer and lie back down on the bed. Having a sh…"-Kay Kerr, Social Queue
28. The Goodbye Year
By: Emily Gale
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
It’s the start of 2020 and Harper is filled with anticipation about being in the final year of Rive… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- contemporary
29. Elsewhere Girls
By: Emily Gale
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It’s midnight and I’m alone in the kitchen eating a cold potato scallop. Coach O'Call would say som… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- family
- contemporary
- australia
30. Everything We Keep
By: Di Walker
3.94
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Trailing her orange suitcase, and a heart full of worry, thirteen-year-old Agatha is about to go ho… read more
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- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
31. The First Summer of Callie Mcgee
By: A.L. Tait
3.98
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
'The water in a rip current is always calmer than the waves on either side. Once in it, you’re best… read more
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