The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
By: Wai Chim
4.01
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Anna Chiu has her hands pretty full looking after her brother and sister and helping out at her dad…
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1. The Fall
By: Tristan Bancks
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In the middle of the night, Sam is woken by angry voices from the apartment above. He goes to the w… read more
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- family
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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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- family
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3. Borderland
By: None
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Borderland- a coming-of-age, YA eco-thriller about Indigenous land rights, with sci-fi elements. St… read more
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4. 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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- romance
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- australia
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
5. Scar Town
By: Tristan Bancks
4.04
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
Twelve-year-old Will Haddon and his twin friends, Dar and Juno, find a safe full of money and human… read more
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- audiobook
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6. 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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- audiobook
"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)
7. Royals
By: Tegan Bennett Daylight
3.35
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Six teenagers. An empty shopping centre. No Wi-Fi. And … a baby? Acclaimed author Tegan Bennett Day… read more
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- romance
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- audiobook
8. 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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"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
9. Inkflower
By: Suzy Zail
4.32
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
A gritty YA novel about family secrets, hope and healing. Based on a true story. Lisa’s father has… read more
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- romance
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
10. 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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- fiction
- young adult
11. 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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"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
12. The Cult of Romance
By: Sarah Ayoub
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When your bestie is marrying a guy she barely knows, can you save her from the cult before it's too… read more
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- audiobook
"Who needs electricity? The room is enveloped in darkness, but inside it, I'm seeing light."-Sarah Ayoub, The Cult of Romance
13. Unnecessary Drama
By: Nina Kenwood
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enem… read more
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- audiobook
14. The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
By: Wai Chim
4.01
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Anna Chiu has her hands pretty full looking after her brother and sister and helping out at her dad… read more
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- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- australia
- audiobook
15. When Rain Turns to Snow
By: Jane Godwin
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Lissa is home on her own after school one afternoon when a stranger turns up on the doorstep carryi… read more
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- australia
16. Dancing Barefoot
By: Alice Boyle
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2021 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing Evie Vanhoutte is a teacher… read more
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17. No Words
By: Maryam Master
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Hero doesn't feel like a hero, but sometimes she feels as if the universe is asking her to be one. … read more
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18. 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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- mental health
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"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
19. The Snow Laundry (The Towers, #1)
By: Mette Jakobsen
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
With the intensity of The Handmaid's Tale, the drama of Divergent and the political intrigue of The… read more
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20. What We All Saw
By: Mike Lucas
3.34
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
Witches only exist in stories. Everyone knows that. But what if the stories are real? FOUR FRIEN… read more
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"There was just a resignation that, at some point in the near future, we were all going to have to face some kind of music. What the song was depended on our ability not only to sing, but to sing the …"-Mike Lucas, What We All Saw
21. Can't Say it Went to Plan
By: Gabrielle Tozer
3.14
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning author of The Intern, Faking It and Remind Me How This Ends. School's out… read more
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