How to Repaint a Life
By: Steven Herrick
3.92
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Isaac is running from his old life when he steps off the bus in a small town. He doesn’t plan on st…
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1. Terciel and Elinor (The Old Kingdom, #6)
By: Garth Nix
4.20
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel’s parents, Ter… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
"A passion for something was energy to be exploited, not thwarted."-Garth Nix, Terciel and Elinor (The Old Kingdom, #6)
2. If You'll Have Me
By: Eunnie
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Super sweet and totally heartwarming!”—Alice Oseman, bestselling author of Heartstopper and Lovele… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
3. 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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- young adult
- australia
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
4. The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1)
By: C.G. Drews
4.29
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Can two broken boys find their perfect home? Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older b… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
"He wishes they'd realise, though, that you can't fill the hole of a missing mother by carving each other into pieces."-C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1)
"He's so empty. They tried to stitch him back together, but too much already fell out. Stars and buttons and caramel truffles."-C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1)
"Well, I don't trust whoever killed this pot. Did they cook potatoes or souls of the damned?' ' Ah.' Moxie peers at the blackened base. 'That was me."-C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1)
"Sammy.' He gasps for breath. 'I ran all the - way - over here - to rescue you -' He sucks in a ragged lungful of air. 'And you're just kissing - in the sunset? You little jerk."-C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses (The Boy Who Steals Houses, #1)
5. The Gaps
By: Leanne Hall
3.84
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to be the one left behind? When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the… read more
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- australia
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"Death is the worst kind of silence, and I don't want to be silent."-Leanne Hall, The Gaps
"Where do they go, those girls that accidentally fall through a gap in the universe? What's on the other side?"-Leanne Hall, The Gaps
"Why is it so easy to override what girls and women want, what they might decide if they were given any control."-Leanne Hall, The Gaps
"I see every fallen body on the cover of a crime novel, and I can't help thinking that everyone wants their teenage girls ruined"-Leanne Hall, The Gaps
6. 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
- young adult
- family
- australia
- 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
7. Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer
By: Amy Doak
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her … read more
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- australia
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
8. One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
By: A.J. Betts
4.00
Format: None pages, Audio CD
'In a few months, the four of us will be elsewhere, doing other things, and this chance we have wil… read more
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- young adult
- contemporary
"No one dismantles this band but me."-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
"Because I've been writing this song my whole life. It's the soundtrack of me."-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
"I'd lost myself in that haze, too, now that I think about it. I'd forgotten all else, when we jammed. It was sublime in there. I felt timeless. Thoughtless. Borderless. Made of nothing but air and mu…"-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World
9. 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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- family
- young adult
- contemporary
10. Cop and Robber
By: Tristan Bancks
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
If your mum was a cop and your dad was a crim who needed your help to commit a crime, would you do … read more
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- family
- young adult
11. 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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- romance
- relationships
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
"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)
12. 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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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- australia
- social issues
"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
13. 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
- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
14. Hive (Hive #1)
By: A.J. Betts
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
All I can tell you is what I remember, in the words that I have. Hayley tends to her bees and fo… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"There was nothing beautiful to go to after life. There was nothing."-A.J. Betts, Hive (Hive #1)
"Within me, the truth unfurled, opening as a flower. I breathed as if for the first time."-A.J. Betts, Hive (Hive #1)
15. Ready When You Are
By: Gary Lonesborough
4.20
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more
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- romance
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- australia
"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are
16. 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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- family
- fiction
- young adult
17. Broken Hearts & Zombie Parts
By: William Hussey
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A Big Gay Rom-Zom-Com with Heart Jesse Spark has a broken heart and in a few short weeks he'll r… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
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
- young adult
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
- 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. Sugar Town Queens
By: Malla Nunn
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From LA Times Book Prize Award Winner and Edgar Award Nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait … read more
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- romance
- young adult
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Anything But Fine
By: Tobias Madden
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Luca is ready to audition for the Australian Ballet School. All it takes to crush his dreams is one… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"What is it about hot jocks being dorky that is so impossible to resist?"-Tobias Madden, Anything But Fine
21. 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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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
22. 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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- relationships
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
23. 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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- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- 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
24. 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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- family
- contemporary
25. 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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- family
- young adult
- 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
26. The Way of Dog
By: Zana Fraillon
4.42
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A fiercely original verse novel from the ABIA and CBCA award-winning author of The Bone Sparrow. … read more
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- relationships
- family
" Be strong. Be fierce. Life is more than a concrete floor. "-Zana Fraillon, The Way of Dog
27. How to Repaint a Life
By: Steven Herrick
3.92
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Isaac is running from his old life when he steps off the bus in a small town. He doesn’t plan on st… read more
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- romance
- relationships
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- australia
- social issues
28. Dead End Girls
By: Wendy Heard
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In one week, Maude will be dead. At least, that’s what she wants everyone to think. After years of … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
29. The Jammer
By: Nova Weetman
4.27
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Fred has moved around her whole life, one small town after another, and never minded starting over.… read more
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- family
- young adult
- contemporary
30. The Apprentice Witnesser
By: Bren MacDibble
4.19
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
Bastienne Scull is nearly twelve years old and lives a simple life as an apprentice to the Witnesse… read more
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- young adult
31. We Could Be Something
By: Will Kostakis
3.97
Format: 401 pages, Paperback
Part Coming-Out Story. Part falling-in-love story. Part falling-apart story. Harvey's dads… read more
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- romance
- relationships
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- australia
"Right now, I'm not sure I can get a book about a gay teenager through acquisitions. The schools market factors heavily into our thinking and they won't let it fly."-Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something
"Just because you released one novel doesn't mean you're owed a career, Sotiris. That isn't how the book world works. There are so many names I only ever see on one title."-Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something
