Indigo Moon Book Review Cover

Indigo is the daughter of two enhanced humans who were virally optimised in experiments over 30 years before. She is 17, immortal and will not age after her 18th birthday. ...


Grandpa's Storybook Collection Book Review Cover

When Grandma sees Grandpa’s slippers on his feet one morning, she realises how old they are. There are holes in the soles and the stitching is coming undone. But Grandpa ...


Ihaka and the Unexpected Visitor Book Review Cover

When Īhaka answers the loud knocking on the front door, the last person he expects is the Māori god of weather – Tāwhirimātea! Tāwhirimātea needs Īhaka’s help. He has lost ...


Which way to anywhere Book Review Cover

Four children set off for school in their small rural village. Two of them have the surname O’Hero and two the surname Smith. Even so, they are all part of ...


Nothing More To Tell Book Review Cover

Brynn never thought she’d come back to her home town of Sturgis. After all, so many teens her age dream of a time when they can leave the going nowhere ...


There's a King in the Cupboard Book Review Cover

A young girl called Sarah has just moved into a new house with her mum and dad. It’s a very different house. This is a house with long hallways and ...


Spin Me Right Round Book Review Cover

Luis Gonzales is gay, loud and proud. He is a mover and shaker at his high school and desperately angling for Prom King. His best friend Nix is non-binary and ...


Playing with Fire Book Review Cover

Natalia has never been hiking before, and when her co worker Wyatt finds out he vows to remedy that. What Wyatt doesn’t know is that Natalia has spent nearly ten ...


Say No to the Dress Book Review Cover

Miri feels like her body has been kidnapped over the past two years. At 12 she was thin, flat chested and happy in her own skin. Then puberty hit along ...


Answers in the Pages Book Review Cover

Donovan knew something was up when his mum stood between him and the TV one night after school. She was holding his new English text in her hands asking, “What ...


My Own Lightning Book Review Cover

Annabelle is helping her teacher clean the school house now that the summer holidays have arrived. She’s still thinking about all the trouble of only months before. The loss of her ...


Time's Raven Book Review Cover

Indigo is in deep trouble – with her mother and the Black Spiral Intelligence Organisation that looks after people like her. People that can read others thoughts, ‘shift’ into another ...


The Stranded Book Review Cover

It’s 2094. Four decades ago, war erupted in Europe with virus laden warheads. Fleeing land, many people escaped the crisis on cruise ships. Many left the European warring nations and ...


Learning to Love Blue Book review Cover

Paige is 18 and has made the leap into her dream life of moving to Melbourne (the independent music mecca of the world), to find a band to join with ...


The Hidden Girl Book Review Cover

Melati has kept her head down the last year at school. Nobody knows the trouble she caused in Year 9, and Year 10 at her new private school was supposed ...


Shirley & Jamila's Big Fall Book Review Cover

Shirley and Jamila are best friends, especially after spending every day of the summer holidays together. Although close, they are very different even at only 10 years old. Shirley is ...


Some Mistakes Were Made Book Review Cover

Ellis’ home isn’t really a home, well not what most people would call a home. A home is walls and a roof and somewhere you return to every night. A ...


Grandpa versus Swing

Grandpa might look like a quiet, settled gentleman as he sits with his cuppa in his favourite armchair. Don’t let his braces or comfortable green slippers fool you. Grandpa loves ...


The Snow Laundry Book Review Cover

Life has been tough for Ally and her best friend Bon. They have been homeless, living in abandoned city tunnels like hundreds of other children and teenagers. Hope for their ...


Ali Cross (3) The Secret Detective Book Review Cover

Ali’s desire to become a much respected detective like his father (Alex Cross) still burns brightly inside him. His friend Gabe has developed an app that feeds into local police ...


Little Tales of Hedgehog and Goat Book Review Cover

Goat likes his paddock in the country. His tiny shed is painted the same pink as the house on the hill. He spends his time dancing, counting cars and making ...


The Fire Cats of London Book Review Cover

Asta and her brother Ash love living in the forest with their mum. She is teaching them how to catch their prey when they are caught instead. Petrified, they are ...


GRUB Book Review Cover

Grub is hungry. He’s always hungry. He eats and eats and eats and EATS! Deep in an old log he knows that all his eating will make something happen. He ...


You're not the Boss of me Book Review Cover

Amy is a positive person, and she will tell you this a lot. But when things got messy at school and totally unfair, and the same thing was happening at ...


A Little Spark Barry Jonsberg

Cate loves her dad. She loves her mum too of course, but every second weekend, she stays with her dad at his place. Mum has a new partner (named Sam) but ...


The Fear Book Review Cover

It started with a stupid meme. But it’s a bit creepy too. It’s asking what people think is the worst way to die. It’s not long before it goes viral, ...


Gone Dark Book Review Cover

He said it would happen. Someday, the world would fall apart and no-one will know what to do, or how to survive. That was five years ago, when Zara Ross ...