Kids, Teens & YA

*CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Eve Pownall Award*Age range 6 to 9A conservation tale of the Gilbert's Potoroo Australia's rarest mammal.When a bushfire destroys Potoroo's home, he becomes one of the last surviving Gilbert's Potoroos at Two Peoples Bay in...

**Shortlisted for the 2023 Environment Award for Children's Literature**Age range 6 to 9Join Milly on her microlight adventure and discover how amazing and awesome migratory shorebirds are!In A Shorebird Flying Adventure you'll take a trip to...

Age range 6 to 9High in the Australian Alps, Possum faces the challenges of finding enough food and shelter to survive the harsh alpine winter. She will spend months hibernating under a blanket of snow. Will she last through the year to successfully...

Age range 9 to 12 Prepare to be AmAZed! on this wild ride through Australia's biodiversity from A to Z! Go on an amazing scientific journey through 100 topics inspired by the specimens and stories from CSIRO's National Research Collections Australia...

Age range 6+Are you a curious kid? Then let's get hands-on! The best-selling team behind Hands-On Science present 50 more fun DIY science activities that you can share with your friends and family. With clear step-by-step instructions and engaging...

Age range 10 to 16Get ready to play (and learn!) with your food!Discover how electricity is made, learn about the inner workings of atoms and conduct experiments with making waves, and more. Become a Kitchen Scientist by grasping gases using a home-made...

Age range 10 to 16Get ready to play (and learn!) with your food!Discover the secrets of Pi(e), learn about the hidden numbers in your food, conduct experiments with shapes and patterns, and more. Become a Kitchen Scientist by creating number patterns...

Age range 10 to 16Get ready to play (and learn!) with your food!Discover the truth about yeast, learn how to count calories, conduct experiments with rubbery eggs, and more. Become a Kitchen Scientist by dissecting an onion, decorating a cookie to look...

Age range 10 to 16Get ready to play (and learn!) with your food!Discover the truth about the problems with plastic and recycling, learn how to read the periodic table, conduct experiments with soda rockets, and more. Become a Kitchen Scientist by...

Age range 6 to 9A tiny caterpillar begins its journey towards becoming a magnificent butterfly.The Butterfly and the Ants tells the wonderful true story of a butterfly's lifecycle. 'Blue' might seem an odd name for a small caterpillar, but follow him as...

Age range 5 to 9When Olivia and Hamish see a smoky haze coming from their local park, they're ready to spring into action! But it's not a fire it's a nest of Australian stingless bees that needs their help. Time to give the Bee Detectives a buzz!Join...

Age range 6 to 12Did you know that there are plants that eat insects? Plants whose seeds spread in poo? Plants that move when you touch them? And plants that grow on other plants?Plantastic! presents 26 of Australia's most unique and incredible...

Age range 8 to 12Our oceans are amazing! They are filled with wonderful sea creatures and are essential for a healthy planet. But it's now estimated that there are more pieces of plastic in the ocean than visible stars in the Milky Way. So how can we...

Age range 9 to 12When a tree cries out in pain, some unexpected heroes come to the rescue.Nema and her gang of young nematodes (tiny worms) embark on a dangerous journey underground. The Xenos, a group of wise but deadly bacteria, hitch a ride. The story...

*Shortlisted for 2021 CBCA Notable Book: Eve Pownall Award for information books**Shortlisted for 2021 Environment Award for Children's Literature: Nonfiction*Age range 6 to 9Have you ever seen a fish that could do a handstand?This is the story...

Age range 8 to 12With her home under threat from a warming ocean, Zobi, a brave rhizobia bacterium, teams up with a family of slow but steady zoox (zooxanthellae). As the coral bleaches, everyone begins to starve...Can Zobi and the zoox work together to...

WINNER of the 2019 Whitley Awards Certificate of Commendation: Children's BookSHORTLISTED in the 2019 Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's LiteratureAge range 5+ Rocky, an ornate dragon, lives on the granite rocks in...

*Longlisted for the CBCA 2020 Eve Pownall Award for Information Books**Shortlisted for the 2020 Environment Award for Children's Literature: Non-fiction*Age range 5 to 12Do you know what a tree hollow is?To you and me, a tree hollow is just a...

Age range 7 to 12Did you ever wonder why some insects can walk on water? Or how the Ancient Egyptians made mummies? Are you curious about why a guitar sounds different from a flute? Gather some everyday materials from around your home and find out the...

When Finn buys a magic pen at a market stall, it seems like all his problems are solved… but the good times don’t last in this action-packed adventure featuring life on the run, basketball battles, family secrets and more moral conundrums than you could...

Mavis is a feisty ten-year-old who lives in rural Australia with her mum, dad and sister, Doreen. It’s World War Two, and Darwin is bombed. Life as she knows it changes. Her dad and Uncle John dig a trench in the backyard, and school lessons are...

Skippy Blackfeet feels safe behind the cemetery walls, hidden from the dangers of the outside world. Out there, dogs bark, and cars blare and blast. Out there, people chase him away with the spray of a hose, or the shake of a rolled-up newspaper. Under...

Four years ago, Millie lost her baby brother Noah before he could be born. She writes a journal to him, exploring her memories and emotions, and thinks about him every day. When she learns her mother is pregnant again, she writes to him about her...

Pepper Masalah and the Flying Carpet by Rosanne Hawke is a series of five story books featuring an adventurous black cat called Pepper Masalah, and her nine-year-old friend, Zamir. Pepper Masalah lives with Zamir and his family on an olive farm in...

Two apples plus three oranges. Does that make five orples? NO! It's still two apples and three oranges. Join the adventurous cat and her friends for an interactive counting and adding challenge. But don’t get too mixed up! In this quirky maths...

Amanda and her two best friends, Lucia and Mai, are the Dolphin Squad. They live by the beach, hang out in HQ and solve all sort of problems. Amanda Commander is nearly nine and there is nothing she loves more than hanging out with her two best friends...

After Riz and her friends successfully led the Counterfeit Bust, Riz has discovered her passion for forensic science. Riz Chester loves mysteries, and with an interest in forensics she keeps finding crime. But nothing has happened for months. With Riz...

After their home in Sendirian City burns to cinders, Eden Fittell leaves school and gets a job to try and support her family and keep her alcoholic father away. But the city is being stalked by crime boss Kore Luddan, who is using Izrod, the strongest in...

In a world where the days of the week come to life, Monday learns to let go of negativity and accept herself for who she is. It’s pretty tough being Monday – you’re not named after a god like Thursday, and you’re certainly not a two-day party like...

Get ready for mayhem and pigeon poo in the latest instalment in the Game On series, a fast-paced adventure featuring rogue technology, warring siblings, and disasters of CAT-ASTROPHIC proportions. Max’s summer holidays are going decidedly NOT to plan...

It’s 1993. Beth McMaugh is eleven years old and about to start her final year of middle school. Her best friend since kindergarten is Ashlee, but Ashlee is changing. She wears surf brand clothes now, and watches teenage TV and knows all the words to all...

I read in the Bible, so it must be true, God can see everything that I do. But what might this look like? And how far does God's care reach? Join the wild, hilarious and certainly crazy ride of a young boy who dares to imagine the incredible scope of...

Pepper Masalah and the Flying Carpet by Rosanne Hawke is a series of five or more chapter story books featuring an adventurous black cat called Pepper Masalah, and her nine-year-old friend, Zamir.  Pepper Masalah lives with Zamir and his family on...

Amanda and her two best friends, Lucia and Mai, are the Dolphin Squad. They live by the beach, hang out in HQ and solve all sort of problems. Amanda Commander is nearly nine and there is nothing she loves more than hanging out with her two best friends...

A practical and therapeutic guide to managing anxiety, written specifically for those aged 14–25 by a psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with adolescents and young adults. Everything Anxiety Ever Told You Is a Lie is aimed at young...

Three Autistic friends try to save their school from never-ending maths in this fast and fun story, told from a rarely seen perspective. Superheroes for a Day tells the engaging story of Max, Daniel, and Natalie’s mission to save their school from...

Some Families Change tenderly guides children through various models of changing families with gentle verse and inclusive imagery.   ‘You may not have thought much about it, but did you know that some families change? Some get bigger, others smaller...

Ten-year-old Jerry Ronden is a walking nightmare who can make grown men cry. He sets off firecrackers in his parents’ bed, deploys stink bombs in his own house, and soaps the aisle of the school bus. But his mischief making days are numbered. He...

‘Out in the bay where sailboats glide, little horses drift and hide...' Beneath the waters of a calm bay, seahorses hide from predators, feed on shrimp and raise their young in gardens of sponge, coral, and grass. But when a storm destroys their...

This story draws attention to the importance of biodiversity on the reef and illustrates the special roles and relationships animals have under the sea. Told through the eyes of Roger the wrasse, a small and brightly coloured reef fish who is in charge...