Worse Things
By: Sally Murphy
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Worse Things follows the lives of three main characters: Blake, an Aussie Rules football player who…
Want to Read"It's a shame my dad had to die, before you realized how mean you were."-Sally Murphy, Worse Things
"It's a shame my dad had to die, before you realized how mean you were."-Sally Murphy, Worse Things
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1. Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
By: Holly Smale
3.75
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
Harriet Manners knows a lot of things. She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiff… read more
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- realistic fiction
"She's....having an affair with a strawberry jam manufacturer?"-Holly Smale, Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
"Es la primera y única regla: la magia aparece cuando no la estás buscando."-Holly Smale, Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
"Your daughter is adorable. I've never seen such an alien duck in my entire life."-Holly Smale, Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
"...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us."-Holly Smale, Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
2. Then (Once, #2)
By: Morris Gleitzman
3.36
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
In Then- Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland… read more
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- middle grade
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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- poetry
- middle grade
4. Once (Once, #1)
By: Morris Gleitzman
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Onceby Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanag… read more
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- childrens
5. The Girl from Munich
By: Tania Blanchard
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Germany, 1943. The choices she makes will change her life forever. Growing up in Hitler's Germany, … read more
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6. 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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7. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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- family
8. Here One Moment
By: Liane Moriarty
4.15
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no probl… read more
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9. The Canyon's Edge
By: Dusti Bowling
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A novel in verse about a young girl's struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father g… read more
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- poetry
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- family
10. 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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- middle grade
- childrens
- family
11. 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
- family
"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
12. 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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- middle grade
- childrens
- family
13. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
By: Susan Hood
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her s… read more
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- poetry
- middle grade
14. 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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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
15. 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
16. 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
- family
"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
17. 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
18. 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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- poetry
- middle grade
- childrens
- family
" Be strong. Be fierce. Life is more than a concrete floor. "-Zana Fraillon, The Way of Dog
19. Evie and Rhino
By: Neridah McMullin
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
When Evie finds a fully-grown rhinoceros washed up on a beach, she feels an immediate connection an… read more
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- childrens
- family
20. Worse Things
By: Sally Murphy
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Worse Things follows the lives of three main characters: Blake, an Aussie Rules football player who… read more
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- poetry
- childrens
- school
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- family
"It's a shame my dad had to die, before you realized how mean you were."-Sally Murphy, Worse Things
21. Queenie in Seven Moves
By: Zanni Louise
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A sensitive, timely story addressing loss and belonging. To Queenie, home is Peachy, the little … read more
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- childrens
- family
