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The F Team by Rawah Arja

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Age range 14+ Meet Tariq Nader, leader of 'The Wolf Pack' at Punchbowl High, who has been commanded by the new principal to join a football competition with his mates in order to rehabilitate the public image of their school. When the team is formed, Tariq learns there's a major catch – half of the tea ...Show more

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Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories by Michael Earp

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Category: #LoveOzYA

What does it mean to be queer? What does it mean to be human? In this powerful #OwnVoices collection, twelve of Australia’s finest queer writers explore the stories of family, friends, lovers and strangers – the connections that form us. Compelling queer short fiction by bestsellers, award winners and ...Show more

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This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield

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Category: #LoveOzYA

CBCA WINNER 2020:Book of the Year: Older Readers Sixteen-year-old Nate McKee is doing his best to be invisible. He's worried about a lot of things--how his dad treats Nance and his twin half-brothers; the hydro crop growing in his bedroom; the way his friend Merrick always drags him into fights. And he ...Show more

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Peta Lyre's Rating Normal by Anna Whateley

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Category: #LoveOzYA

At sixteen, neurodivergent Peta Lyre is the success story of social training. That is, until she finds herself on a school ski trip - and falling in love with the new girl. Peta will need to decide which rules to keep, and which rules to break... I'm Peta Lyre,' I mumble. Look people in the eye if you ...Show more

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This One Is Ours by Kate O'Donnell

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Category: #LoveOzYA

Sixteen-year-old Sofie is a dreamer, an artist and a romantic. So when she goes on exchange to Paris, she is expecting magnificent adventures of the heart and mind. Yet France isn't what she imagined. It's cold and grey, and speaking another language is exhausting. Sofie's more homesick than lovesick. B ...Show more

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Love, Creekwood: A Novella by Becky Albertalli

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Category: A Touch of Romance

A gorgeously romantic new novella set in the world of Becky Albertalli's bestselling and beloved Simonverse novels- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Upside of Unrequited, and Leah on the Offbeat. IIt's been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL ...Show more

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Take the Shot by Sue White

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Category: #LoveOzYA

Bug has a secret. Actually, he has a lot of secrets … NUMBER ONE: he’s formed a basketball team at his new school based on a giant lie.NUMBER TWO: his parents don’t know he’s playing basketball again.NUMBER THREE: his new team-mates have no idea he isn’t allowed to play, and they definitely don’t know w ...Show more

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Meet Me at the Intersection by Ezekiel Kwaymullina; Graham Akhurst; Jessica Walton; Ambelin Kwaymullina; Rebecca Lim; Amra Pajalic; Kelly Gardiner; Alice Pung; Omar Sakr; Jordi Kerr; Ellen van Neerven

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Category: #LoveOzYA

With works by Ellen van Neerven, Graham Akhurst, Kyle Lynch, Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Olivia Muscat, Mimi Lee, Jessica Walton, Kelly Gardiner, Rafeif Ismail, Yvette Walker, Amra Pajalic, Omar Sakr, Wendy Chen, Jordi Kerr, Rebecca Lim, Michelle Aung Thin and Alice Pung, this anthology is designed to challeng ...Show more

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Ruby Tuesday by Hayley Lawrence

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Category: Contemporary Realism

Ruby was named after a song about freedom, but she's far from free. She's trapped by her mum's accident, her past as a famous pianist a distant memory. This was never the plan - both of them invisible and voiceless in a dusty small town. And Ruby wants to be heard. But that was before Joey Milano. Befor ...Show more

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Dear Martin by Nic Stone

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Category: Contemporary Realism

"Powerful, wrenching." -JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down "Raw and gripping." -JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys "A must-read " -ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give Raw, captiv ...Show more

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I Am Out With Lanterns by Emily Gale

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Category: #LoveOzYA

One of us is in the dark. One of us is a bully. One of us wants to be understood. One of us loves a girl who loves another. One of us remembers the past as if it just happened. One of us believes they've drawn the future. But we're all on the same map, looking for the same thing. Year Ten begins with a ...Show more

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All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil

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Category: Contemporary Realism

Michelle Ruiz Keil's YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then ...Show more

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Love, Creekwood: A Novella by Becky Albertalli

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Take the Shot by Sue White

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Meet Me at the Intersection by Ezekiel Kwaymullina; Graham Akhurst; Jessica Walton; Ambelin Kwaymullina; Rebecca Lim; Amra Pajalic; Kelly Gardiner; Alice Pung; Omar Sakr; Jordi Kerr; Ellen van Neerven

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Ruby Tuesday by Hayley Lawrence

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The F Team by Rawah Arja

$22.95 AUD

Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories by Michael Earp

$24.99 AUD

This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield

$19.99 AUD

Peta Lyre's Rating Normal by Anna Whateley

$19.99 AUD

This One Is Ours by Kate O'Donnell

$19.99 AUD

Love, Creekwood: A Novella by Becky Albertalli

$12.99 AUD

Take the Shot by Sue White

$16.99 AUD

Meet Me at the Intersection by Ezekiel Kwaymullina; Graham Akhurst; Jessica Walton; Ambelin Kwaymullina; Rebecca Lim; Amra Pajalic; Kelly Gardiner; Alice Pung; Omar Sakr; Jordi Kerr; Ellen van Neerven

$19.99 AUD

Ruby Tuesday by Hayley Lawrence

$19.99 AUD

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

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I Am Out With Lanterns by Emily Gale

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All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil

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