Sent to a hospital by her mother, Marina, a disfigured Australian girl who refuses to speak, reveals her thoughts and feelings in a diary.
Two fifteen-year-olds, Rosie and Asher, upset over the various unhappy circumstances of their lives in the Australian city of Perth, decide to run away.
Aiza Tan did not expect to spend her eighteenth birthday doing an eulogy for her dad after his sudden and unexpected passing. She also didn't expect to receive an email after the funeral ... from her dad. Desperate to decode his final message to her, she throws herself into the puzzle hunt that the email kicks off - a challenge the two of them used to do together. As the puzzles take her through their shared memories, she must reckon with his sudden absence in her life ... and what she'll do whe...
WINNER: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2012'Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from Crow. And Crow has work for you.'Sadie isn't thrilled when her mother drags her from the city to live in the country town of Boort. But soon she starts making connections - connections with the country, with the past, with two boys, Lachie and Walter, and, most surprisingly, with the ever-pre...
Rosie and Nona are sisters. Yapas. They are also best friends. It doesn't matter that Rosie is white and Nona is Aboriginal their family connections tie them together for life. The girls are inseparable until Nona moves away at the age of nine. By the time she returns, they're in Year 10 and things have changed. Rosie prefers to hang out in the nearby mining town, where she goes to school with the glamorous Selena and her gorgeous older brother, Nick. When a political announcement highlights div...
Meet Me at the Intersection
by Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina
Ellie and her friends, a small band of teenagers trying to survive in the Australian countryside, continue to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.