Gus and the Starlight
By: Victoria Carless
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A spine-tingling and heart-warming story about friendship and finding your special place in the wor…
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1. 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
- family
- contemporary
2. When the Sky Falls
By: Phil Earle
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a true story. It's 1940, and Joseph has been packed off to stay with Mrs F, a gruff wom… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
3. Escape Room
By: Christopher Edge
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When twelve-year-old Ami arrives at The Escape, she thinks it’s just a game – the ultimate escape r… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fantasy
4. The Song Walker
By: Zillah Bethell
4.16
Format: None pages, None
"There are three questions that I need to find the answers to: -Where am I? -What am I doing here… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fantasy
5. Let’s Never Speak of This Again
By: Megan Williams
3.80
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Award Winner, Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, 2022 Ella and I have been best … read more
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- family
- contemporary
6. 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
7. The Agathas (The Agathas #1)
By: Kathleen Glasgow
3.93
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
Last summer, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for f… read more
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- contemporary
"She basically just told kindness to fuck off."-Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas (The Agathas #1)
8. The Getaway List
By: Emma Lord
3.58
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last … read more
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- contemporary
"The longer I'm in New York, the more I get the impression that it isn't the shiny new universe I expected it to be. It's just the home of 100,000 little universes... that all exist rubbing up against…"-Emma Lord, The Getaway List
9. The Light in Everything
By: Katya Balen
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of October, October, shortlisted for the 2022 CILIP Carnegie Medal, comes a life-af… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- family
- contemporary
10. 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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- middle grade
- childrens
- family
- contemporary
11. The Bravest Word
By: Kate Foster
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A rescue story of love and trust between a boy and a dog from the talented author of PAWS. "Do y… read more
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- middle grade
- family
- contemporary
12. 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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- middle grade
- childrens
- contemporary
13. Waiting for the Storks
By: Katrina Nannestad
4.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad. I don't want to remember the … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- family
14. 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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- middle grade
- childrens
- family
- contemporary
15. 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
16. 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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- contemporary
17. Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
By: Philip Reeve
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It was always at sundown they were seen. In that twilight hour, when the walls between the worlds g… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fantasy
18. Lenny's Book of Everything
By: Karen Foxlee
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
I knew my brother. I knew when he talked too much about Timothy his imaginary pet eagle. He was sca… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- family
- contemporary
"But now we knew. It was a good thing. All of Davey, in all his time upon the earth, was good."-Karen Foxlee, Lenny's Book of Everything
19. The Raven's Song
By: Zana Fraillon
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A wonderful children's novel by two stellar writers featuring Shelby and Phoenix, living 100 years … read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
- family
20. Gus and the Starlight
By: Victoria Carless
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A spine-tingling and heart-warming story about friendship and finding your special place in the wor… read more
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- childrens
- ghosts
- middle grade
- paranormal
- family
- contemporary
- fantasy
21. Into the Storm
By: Cecelia Ahern
3.59
Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition
Surviving the storm is only the beginning…It is a wild night in the middle of December, and GP Enya… read more
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