Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards > 2023 Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards > CBCA Notables 2023 > 2023 CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers Notables
Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of schooling. Ages 13-18 years.
Note: Books in this category are for mature readers and some may deal with particularly challenging themes including violence and suicide. Parental guidance is recommended
Neverlanders (CBCA Winner 2023) by Tom Taylor
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
Neverland has become a war zone and it's up to a new group of lost teens to set things right in this gritty YA graphic novel series from #1 New York Times bestselling Australian author Tom Taylor and powerhouse Australian comic artist Jon Sommariva!Bee and her fellow runaways are their own found family. ...Show more
Ask No Questions by Eva Collins
$25.00 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No Questions, Eva Collins writes spare affecting lines about her own experience as a teenager when her parents decided to emigrate from ...Show more
The Other Side of Tomorrow by Hayley Lawrence
$15.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
What if you thought you had forever ... To live your life. To tell your story. But what if forever was taken from you? When your tomorrows are counted, all you have is this moment. And this story you wish was never yours to tell. When Abby traded her life in the city for a wholesome new life on the coas ...Show more
The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
It's the first day of Grade Ten, and Winifred is going to reinvent herself. Now that her two best (and only) friends have transferred to a private school, Win must navigate high school on her own. Luckily, she isn't alone for long. In art class, she meets Oscar and April. They don't look or act like the ...Show more
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