THE UNLIKEY HERO OF ROOM 13B by Teresa Toten
ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN by Gavriel Savit
FAR FROM FAIR by Elana K. Arnold
CRACKED by Clare Strahan
A wonderful debut novel that captures the essence of real, messy teenage lives: of action and consequence, of poor choices and fragile friendships, of standing up for what is right, and the attempt to make sense of a world when everything feels like it's falling apart.
At fifteen, Clover is finding the going tougher than she expected. Her life is close to being derailed on the rocky terrain of family, friendship, first love, acts of defiance and a planet on the brink of environmental disaster. So when Keek breaks his promise to her, and school sucks, and her mother is impossible, and her beloved old dog is dying, and her dad is in the wind, and the girls at school are awful and the footy-boys are bullies and she's arrested for vandalism - well, what else can she be but a little bit broken? Can Clover pull herself together - or will she spiral further out of control?
When life feels like it's fracturing, how do you find a way to feel whole?
BAD BONES by Graham Marks
DISAPPEARING ACTS by Terry McMillan
A TORCH AGAINST THE NIGHT by Sabaa Tahir
UNSPEAKABLE by Abbie Rushton
Megan doesn't speak. She hasn't spoken in months.
Pushing away the people she cares about is just a small price to pay. Because there are things locked inside Megan's head - things that are screaming to be heard - that she cannot, must not, let out.
Then Jasmine starts at school: bubbly, beautiful, talkative Jasmine. And for reasons Megan can't quite understand, life starts to look a bit brighter.
Megan would love to speak again, and it seems like Jasmine might be the answer. But if she finds her voice, will she lose everything else?
THE ROAD TO WINTER by Mark Smith
NIGHT VISION by Ella West
FOR THE FOREST OF A BIRD by Sue Saliba
LOVE AND OTHER MAN MADE DISASTERS by Nicola Doherty
DREAMING THE ENEMY by David Metzenthen
THE THINGS I DIDN'T SAY by Kylie Fornaiser
THE STARS AT OKTOBER BEND by Glena Millard
A powerful, captivating story about Alice, who is reaching out to express herself through her beautiful-broken words, and Manny who is running to escape his past. When they meet they find the tender beginnings of love and healing.
Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone, but something inside her is broken. She has acquired brain injury, the result of an assault, and her words come out slow and slurred. But when she writes, heartwords fly from her pen. She writes poems to express the words she can't say and leaves them in unexpected places around the town.
Manny was once a child soldier. He is sixteen and has lost all his family. He appears to be adapting to his new life in this country, where there is comfort and safety, but at night he runs, barefoot, to escape the memory of his past. When he first sees Alice, she is sitting on the rusty roof of her river-house, looking like a carving on an old-fashioned ship sailing through the stars.
HOW HARD CAN LOVE BE? by Holly Bourne
THE BAKING LIFE OF AMELIE DAY by Vanessa Curtis
