5 Best indigenous books like Guardians (Wylah the Koorie Warrior #1) by Jordan Gould

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Guardians (Wylah the Koorie Warrior #1)

By: Jordan Gould

3.87

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Meet Wylah: warrior, hero and friend. Her adventures have been 40,000 years in the making! Wylah…

If you liked the indigenous plot in Guardians (Wylah the Koorie Warrior #1) by Jordan Gould , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Wilder Country (Winter, #2)

By: Mark Smith

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Finn, Kas and Willow have survived the winter of storms. Severe winds and cold have kept the Wilder… read more

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2. The Road to Winter (Winter, #1)

By: Mark Smith

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition for  Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his par… read more

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3. Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)

By: John Marsden

4.28

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hide… read more

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4. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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5. This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It

By: Tabitha Carvan

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Why We Can't Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midl… read more

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6. The Boy from Boomerang Crescent

By: Eddie Betts

4.17

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Longlisted for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG.… read more

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  • indigenous
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7. Amari and the Great Game (Supernatural Investigations, #2)

By: B.B. Alston

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York Times and Indie bestsel… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • adventure
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8. 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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  • middle grade
  • childrens
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9. The Things She's Seen

By: Ambelin Kwaymullina

3.80

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her dad is drowning in grief. He… read more

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  • fantasy
  • indigenous
"My science teacher said that just because two things happened together didn't mean one was because of the other, or as she put it: correlation does not imply causation."

-Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Things She's Seen

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10. 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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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"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

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11. The Grandest Bookshop in the World (The Grandest Bookshop in the World #1)

By: Amelia Mellor

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole’s Book Arcade in … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
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12. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra

By: Bruce Pascoe

4.20

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the… read more

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13. Mim and the Baffling Bully (The Travelling Bookshop, #1)

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Cbca's Notable Younger Reader's Book 2022 The right book might just change your life ... Mim… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • adventure
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14. 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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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
"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

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15. The Bookseller's Apprentice

By: Amelia Mellor

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Return to Amelia Mellor’s magical Melbourne in the prequel to best-seller The Grandest Bookshop in … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
"Summer came in November, and it came in blazing"

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

"It felt as large as an orange and as heavy as grief."

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

"The free reading wasn't a gimmick to bring customers back after all. It was a small, secret, gentle revolution. Oh, that Mr Cole was clever."

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

"History arranged everything that had ever happened into one epic tale of humankind. It turned scattered bones back into people and broken objects into stories."

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

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16. August and Jones

By: Pip Harry

4.33

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Jones Kirby has just moved to Sydney from her farm in country New South Wales. She'… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
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17. Tracks of the Missing

By: Carl Merrison

3.69

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Deklan 'Dek' Archer and his mates arrive at school to a tense atmosphere. 'Old Mate', Mr Henry, who… read more

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  • indigenous
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18. The Last Daughter

By: Brenda Matthews

4.32

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

An unmissable First Nations memoir that tells of the shattering experience of being stolen, The Las… read more

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  • indigenous
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19. Guardians (Wylah the Koorie Warrior #1)

By: Jordan Gould

3.87

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Meet Wylah: warrior, hero and friend. Her adventures have been 40,000 years in the making! Wylah… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Gould's Guardians (Wylah the Koorie Warrior #1) book and Jordan Gould's Guardians (Wylah the Koorie Warrior #1)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • indigenous
  • fantasy
  • mythology
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20. Love Flushed (All Access, #2)

By: Evie Mitchell

3.76

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

It's about to go down... Annie I sell toilet paper for a living. It doesn't seem glamorous but … read more

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21. Wurrtoo: The Wombat Who Fell in Love with the Sky

By: Tylissa Elisara

4.29

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Described as an Indigenous Blinky Bill meets Winnie the Pooh, this heartwarming and beautifully ill… read more

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4.33

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3.80

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3.86

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Once (Once, #1)

Morris Gleitzman

3.63

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3.80

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Tristan Bancks

4.04

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Tristan Bancks

4.05

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