Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards > 2023 Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards > CBCA Notables 2023
Xavier in the Meantime by Kate Gordon
$15.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels
Sometimes Xavier wakes up feeling hopeless. Every new doctor … this will fix it. Removing him from school … this will fix it. The therapy group … this will fix it. And his dad moving out. Maybe, this will fix it. Despite his positive affirmations, the black dog never really leaves him. It watch ...Show more
The Book of Wondrous Possibilities by Deborah Abela
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels
A middle grade adventure for 8-12-year-old heroes (even if they don't know it yet).Arlo Goodman lives with his Uncle Avery in a run-down flat above their bookshop. He has no friends, except for his pet mouse, Herbert.But when a girl called Lisette bursts into the shop and begs him to hide her from a mur ...Show more
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
The Bravest Word by Kate Foster
$17.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels
A rescue story of love and trust between a boy and a dog from the talented author of Paws. Do you hear that? You’re Cliff now, and your life is going to get better, I promise. When eleven-year-old Matt finds Cliff, a hurt, neglected dog abandoned in the bush, he knows the brave little pup needs saving. ...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
Ming and Flo Fight for the Future (#1 The Girls Who Changed the World) (CBCA Notable 2023) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Children's Novels | Series: The\Girls Who Changed the World Ser.
An empowering and exhilarating look at the girls who went before us, and the way they shaped the world. Twelve-year-old Ming Qong is convinced that girls must have changed the world, even if they are rarely mentioned in history books. So when Ming gets the chance to go back in time she imagines herself ...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
August & Jones by Pip Harry
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
From the CBCA Award-winning author of The Little Wave comes the story of two extraordinary kids who discover the life-changing power of friendship and teamwork. Eleven-year-old Jones Kirby has just moved to Sydney from her farm in country New South Wales. She's missing her alpacas and wide-open paddocks ...Show more
Evie and Rhino by Neridah McMullin
$18.99 AUD
Category: No Category
A young girl with a tragic past and a rhinoceros facing life in captivity form an unlikely and magical bond after a fateful storm and a shipwreck bring them together. A moving tale about love, connection and the healing power of friendship. On a stormy night off the coast of southern Australia, a ship t ...Show more
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