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Specials / Scott Westerfeld.

Tally thought they were a rumour, but now she's one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the Uglies down and the Pretties stupid. But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known. Tally still has memories of something else. Still, it's easy to tune that out -- until she's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.
Author: Westerfeld, Scott
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Published: ©2006
350 pages ; 20 cm.
Uglies ; 3.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T WES - Available - 010717966

The surprising power of a good dumpling [eAudioBook] / Wai Chim ; read by Wai Chim.

Anna Chiu has her hands full looking after her siblings and helping out at her dad?s restaurant, all while her mum stays in bed. The new delivery boy Rory is a welcome distraction and even though things aren?t right at home, Anna?s starting to feel like she could just be a normal teen. But when Mum finally gets out of bed, things go from bad to worse. And as Mum?s condition worsens, Anna and her family question everything they understand about themselves and each other.
Author: Chim, Wai
Unabridged ed.
Published: [Melbourne, Vic.] : ABC Audio, 2023.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
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Twin crowns / Catherine Doyle & Katherine Webber.

Two sisters. One throne. Who will ultimately rise to power and wear the crown? Wren Greenrock has always known that one day she would steal her sister's place in the palace. Trained from birth to avenge her parents' murder and usurp the princess, she will do anything to rise to power and protect the community of witches she loves. Princess Rose Valhart knows that with power comes responsibility including marriage into a brutal kingdom. Life outside the palace walls is a place to be feared and she is soon to discover that it's wilder than she ever imagined. Twin sisters separated at birth and raised into entirely different worlds are about to get to know each other's lives a whole lot better... An irresistible fantasy romantic comedy from two YA superstars - perfect for fans of Stephanie Garber, Sarah J Maas and Diana Gabaldon's Outlander.
Author: Doyle, Catherine, 1990-
Published: London : Electric Monkey, 2022.
Published: ©2022
506 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Twin crowns (Series) ; 1.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T DOY - Onloan - Due: 12 May 2024 - 010830382

My spare heart / Jared Thomas.

"Phoebe's non-Indigenous mother, a busy event manager, and her father, an Aboriginal man and uni lecturer, have split up and she's moved to sleepy old Willunga with him and his new health-obsessed girlfriend. It's only a few kilometres from Phoebe's friends and the city, but it feels like another world. Her new school is full of hippies, but some of the kids are cool and the local basketball team is tight, and before long Phoebe's fitting in. But as her mum becomes increasingly unreliable, Phoebe's grades suffer, her place on the basketball team is under threat and her worries spiral out of control. Phoebe can't tell her friends and if she tells her dad he'll get angry, but pretending everything is fine is breaking her heart. How can she help her mum without tearing her family apart?" -- Publisher.
Author: Thomas, Jared, 1976-
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen and Unwin, 2022.
Published: ©2022
370 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T THO - Available - 010625209

The merciless ones / Namina Forna.

It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera, and discovered who she really is... But war is waging across the kingdom, and the real battle has only just begun. For there is a dark force growing in Otera - a merciless power that Deka and her army must stop. Yet hidden secrets threaten to destroy everything Deka has known. And with her own gifts changing, Deka must discover if she holds the key to saving Otera... or if she might be its greatest threat.
Author: Forna, Namina
Published: London : Usborne Publishing Ltd., 2022.
Published: ©2022
477 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Gilded ones series ; 2
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T FOR - Available - 010573111

The blood traitor [Paperback] / Lynette Noni.

She'd failed them. All of them. And now she was paying the price. Kiva thought she knew what she wanted - revenge. But feelings change, people change... everything has changed. After what happened at the palace, Kiva is desperate to know if her friends and family are safe, and whether those she wronged can ever forgive her. But with the kingdoms closer to the brink of war than they've ever been, and Kiva far away from the conflict, more is at stake than her own broken heart. A fresh start will mean a perilous quest, forcing mortal enemies and uneasy allies together in a race against the clock to save not just Evalon, but all of Wenderall. With her loyalties now set, Kiva can no longer just survive - she must fight for what she believes in. For who she believes in. But with danger coming from every side, and the lives of everyone she loves at risk, does she have what it takes to stand, or will she fall?
Author: Noni, Lynette
Published: [Melbourne, Vic.] : Penguin Books, 2022.
Published: ©2022
xiii, 444 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Prison healer series ; 3.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T NON - Available - 010625223

Mia / Dianne Wolfer.

Thirteen-year-old Mia lives on a bush block in the Pilbara, where she assist her mother's work as a vet and equine therapist. Although she is used to the seasonal cyclones that threaten the West Australian coast, nothing can prepare her for the ferocity of Cyclone Veronica when she finds herself home alone and needing to protect their property and the animals she loves. When her friends Nick arrives, pleading for help, and her favourite horse is injured, will Mia be able to withstand the greatest challenge of ther life? As the storm intensifies, can she save her beloved animals?
Author: Wolfer, Dianne, 1961-
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Published: ©2022
236 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Through my eyes. Australian disaster zones
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J WOL - Available - 010737674

Cemetery boys [eBook] / Aiden Thomas.

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can't get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free. However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school's resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He's determined to find out what happened and tie off some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.
Author: Thomas, Aiden
Published: Sydney : Macmillan Children's Books, 2022.
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The greatest thing [eBook] / Sarah Searle.

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 typical teenagers in her town: they're creative, a little rebellious and seem comfortable in their own skin in a way that Win can only dream of. But even though Winifred is breaking out of her shell, there's one secret she can't bear to admit to April and Oscar, or even to herself - and this lie threatens everything. Win needs to face her own truths, but she doesn't need to do it alone. Through the healing power of clandestine sleepovers, op-shopping and zine publishing, Win finds and accepts what it means to be herself.
Author: Searle, Sarah
Published: [Crows Nest, NSW] : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
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Where seagulls dare / Anthony Horowitz ; interior illustrations by Mark Beech.

Private investigators Tim and Nick Diamond haven't had a case for three months and are down to their last cornflake. So when a glamorous woman comes into their office offering them a pile of cash to find her missing father, they think Christmas has come -- only it turns out they are the turkeys! Before they know it, they are caught up in a case involving bike-riding hitmen, superhackers and a sinister far right organisation, the White Crusaders. The Diamond Brothers are in the soup and in it over their heads.
Author: Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
Published: London : Walker Books, 2022.
Published: ©2022
251 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Diamond Brothers mystery ; 8.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J HOR - Onloan - Due: 06 May 2024 - 010619673

Beyond the end of the world / Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner.

Both Nimh and her enemy, Inshara, have been sent to the cloudlands. Above, Nimh has no memory of her past, only an aching, undying certainty that she has left something, someone, behind. But while she struggles to recall her identity, an impostor wields her name with deadly purpose. Below, North looks to the sky, desperate to join the ones he loves and return to his world. But with only a traitor willing to help him, and others clamouring for him to take Nimh's place, the journey seems more impossible than ever. Enemies lurk in each world, and tragedy looms as the cloudland engines falter and mist rains terror on the surface. In their desperation to reunite and save their people, Nimh and North face one ultimate question: Can they defy their love and their destiny to save their homes? Or will the spark between them ignite their worlds and consume them altogether?
Author: Kaufman, Amie
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Published: ©2022
458 pages ; 24 cm.
Other side of the sky ; 2.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T KAU - Available - 010469841

Family of liars / E. Lockhart.

"A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars." -- Publisher.
Author: Lockhart, E.
Published: Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Published: ©2022
298 pages : genealogical table, map ; 24 cm.
We were liars ; 0.5
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T LOC - Available - 010592709

Undercover / R.A. Spratt.

Friday is not running away. Yes, she did get on a train to Norway without telling anyone where she was going, but she had to help Binky. He may or may not have been attacked by a polar bear. Now he's facing court martial for dereliction of duty. Obviously, Friday had to drop everything and travel 3000 kilometres to solve the case. The fact that it's easier to handle her feelings for Ian Wainscott if there's a continent between them is just a coincidence. When Friday arrives in Oslo, there are so many mysteries to solve. Is someone trying to keep Binky and Princess Ingrid apart? How can a painting leave a museum when all the doors are sealed? And will Melanie persuade Friday to go to the royal ball without wearing a brown cardigan? If Friday survives her trip to the remote Global Seed Vault, we may find out.
Author: Spratt, R. A.
Published: [Melbourne, Vic.] : Puffin Books, 2022.
Published: ©2022
259 pages ; 20 cm.
Friday Barnes ; 10.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 5 and 6
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Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J SPR - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 010484301

Rose : the extraordinary voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who sailed around the world for love / Suzanne Falkiner.

The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dressed in men's clothing and slipped secretly aboard his ship the day before it sailed on a voyage of scientific discovery to the South Seas. Living for three years as the sole female among 120 men, Rose de Freycinet defied not only bourgeois society's expectations of a woman in 1817, but also a strict prohibition against women sailing on French naval ships. From dancing at governors' balls in distant colonies, to evading pirates and meeting armed Indigenous warriors on remote Australian shores, to surviving shipwreck in the wintry Falkland Islands, Rose used her quick pen to record her daily experiences, becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the world and leave a record of her journey. Suzanne Falkiner tells this story of courage, enduring love, curiosity and a spirit of adventure -- and of the pivotal voyages that led to it -- while revealing a uniquely female view into the hitherto largely male world of 19th-century life at sea.
Author: Falkiner, Suzanne, 1952-
Published: Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 2022.
Published: ©2022
404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map ; 24 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 910.41 FRE - - (Set: 18 Oct 2022) - 010739364
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 910.41 FRE - Onloan - Due: 30 Apr 2024 - 010515159
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 910.41 FRE - Available - 010739371
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 910.41 FRE - Available - 010519966

I must betray you / Ruta Sepetys.

Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren't free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He's left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves - or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe. Cristian risks everything to unmask the truth behind the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. He eagerly joins the revolution to fight for change when the time arrives. But what is the cost of freedom?
Author: Sepetys, Ruta
Published: London : Hachette Children's Books, 2022.
Published: ©2022
x, 319 pages : illlustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T SEP - Available - 010502029

Youngbloods / Scott Westerfeld.

Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally Youngblood was once the most famous rebel in the world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow. Now she sees that while the revolution she led destroyed the Pretty regime, it created dangerous new societies. Freedom, she observes, has a way of destroying things. As the world is propelled further into conflict and conspiracy, Frey and Tally join forces but how will they know who else to trust?
Author: Westerfeld, Scott
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Published: ©2022
421 pages ; 24 cm.
Impostors (Series) ; 4.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T WES - Available - 010518754
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T WES - Available - 010518747

League of liars / Astrid Scholte.

Shadows are dangerous. Edem is illegal. And liars are cowards. Ever since his mother was killed in a freak edem-based crime, seventeen-year-old Cayder Broduck has had one goal: to have illegal users of extradimensional magic brought to justice. Cayder dreams of becoming a prosecutor and, when he secretly accepts an apprenticeship under the city's best public defender, he plans to learn every legal trick he can to one day dismantle defence arguments. Then he'll finally be able to make sure justice is served. But when he meets all three criminals he is to defend, he finds they are teenagers, like him, and their stories are ... complicated, like his. As their cases unfold, Cayder must race to separate the truth from the lies and uncover what really happened the night his mother died...
Author: Scholte, Astrid
Published: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin Children's Books, 2022.
Published: ©2022
414 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T SCH - Available - 010518761

Tyenna [eBook] / Julie Hunt, Lyn White.

An engaging and suspenseful novel about one girl's experience of the terrifying Tasmanian bushfires. They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything she loves will be lost. It's the summer holidays, and Tye is staying at her grandparents' lodge at Chancy's Point in Tasmania's beautiful Central Highlands. But her plans for fun with best friend Lily and working on her pencil pine conservation project are thwarted as fire threatens the community and the bush she loves - and when Tye discovers Bailey, a runaway boy hiding out, she is torn between secretly helping him and her loyalty to her grandparents. As the fire comes closer and evacuation warnings abound, Tye is caught up in the battle of her life. Will she and Bailey survive? What will happen to her beloved pencil pines and the wildlife at risk? Can she and the close-knit Tasmanian community make a difference in a world threatened by climate change?.
Author: Hunt, Julie
Published: [Crows Nest, NSW] : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones ; 2.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
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Impossible [eBook] / Stan Walker.

Stan Walker is one of Aotearoa's most famous singers. But nothing ever came easy for Stan. What were the chances of success for a kid whose parents had both been in jail? Whose world had been filled with drugs and violence and things no kid should even know about? In this young readers' edition of his bestselling autobiography, follow Stan's journey of overcoming impossible odds to achieve his dreams and make peace with his past.
Author: Walker, Stan
Published: [New York, NY] : HarperCollins, 2022.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
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The cult of romance / Sarah Ayoub.

"Natalie is living proof that love is a scam. She's traumatised by her parents' failed marriage and overwhelmed by her grandmother's expectations of good Lebanese girls - marriage, motherhood and exceptional tabouli-making skills. When her best friend decides to get hitched to a guy in the motherland, Nat's not exactly thrilled by the mammoth task before her: juggling cultural traditions, extra bridesmaid dresses and super-judgemental relatives. And to top it off there's the annoyingly good-looking best man and his constant need to mansplain all of the things. Natalie is in for the trip of her life. But can she save her friend from the cult of romance, without falling in love herself?" -- Back cover.
Author: Ayoub, Sarah
Published: Sydney, NSW : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
Published: ©2022
313 pages ; 24 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T AYO - Available - 010599838

You'd be home now [eBook] / Kathleen Glasgow.

Emmy is the good one. Not strong-willed like her beautiful older sister, Maddie, and not difficult like her brother, Joey. She takes up as little space as possible. When Joey returns from rehab, her parents ask her to act as his guardian. She's also expected to keep on top of her grades and hold everything together after the tragic events of that summer. The only person who makes her feel seen is her secret lover, Gage, but no one can find out about that ... How long can Emmy keep up her careful balancing act before it topples?.
Author: Glasgow, Kathleen
Published: [New York, NY] : HarperCollins, 2021.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
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Murder on the orient express [eBook] / Agatha Christie.

Murder on the Orient Express, by world's cleverest crime author, Agatha Christie, is one of the greatest murder stories of all time. First published in 1934, and based on a real-life kidnapping, it was later made into an Oscar-winning film. Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.
Author: Christie, Agatha
Published: [United States] : GENERAL PRESS, 2021.
Published: Made available through hoopla
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It's not you, it's me / Gabrielle Williams.

Holly Fitzgerald has inexplicably woken up inside the body of an LA teenager called Trinity Byrne in 1980 - trapping Trinity in Holly's forty-year-old body back in Melbourne, 2020. Mind. Officially. Blown. Holly finds herself navigating a brand-new body, family and cute boy next door - not to mention rock band that might just make it, and potential kidnapper. Meanwhile, lies intersect with truth, hurtling both Holly and Trinity towards a dangerous fate as the connections between them grow deeper and stranger than either could have ever imagined.
Author: Williams, Gabrielle (Young adult author)
Published: Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2021.
Published: ©2021
274 pages ; 20 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T WIL - Available - 010470298

Dark rise [Paperback] / C.S. Pacat.

Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother. Then an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight beside the Stewards, who have sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns. Will is thrust into a world of magic, where he starts training for a vital role in the oncoming battle against the Dark.
Author: Pacat, C. S.
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021.
Published: ©2021
451 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Dark rise ; 1.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T PAC - Onloan - Due: 05 May 2024 - 010418467

Funny kid. Prank ninjas / written and illustrated by Matt Stanton.

Every kid wants to laugh, but Max is the boy who can make it happen.These school holidays have turned Redhill into chaos as Max and his friends are locked in an epic prank battle ... with each other!Max is the funny kid ... and his pranking powers are being put to the test!Movie-theatre ninjas, toilet turbulence, shopping-mall disasters, cling-film mazes and an unimaginable Kid-Free Zone are just some of the things in store for Max and his friends in this brand-new Funny Kid adventure.
Author: Stanton, Matt (Illustrator)
Published: Sydney South, NSW : ABC Books, 2021.
Published: ©2021
249 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Funny kid ; 10.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 5 and 6

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J STA - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - 010372479
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J STA - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 010416975
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J STA - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - 010416760

The prison healer [eBook] / Lynette Noni.

From bestselling Australian author Lynette Noni comes a dark, thrilling YA fantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir. Here at Zalindov, the only person you can trust is yourself. Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to undergo the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water and earth, assigned to only the most dangerous of criminals. Then a coded message from Kiva?s family arrives, containing a single order: Don?t let her die. We are coming. Aware that the Trials will kill the sickly queen, Kiva risks her own life to volunteer in her place. If she succeeds, both she and the queen will be granted their freedom. But no one has ever survived. With an incurable plague sweeping Zalindov, a mysterious new inmate fighting for Kiva's heart, and a prison rebellion brewing, Kiva can't escape the terrible feeling that her trials have only just begun.
Author: Noni, Lynette
Published: [North Sydney, NSW] : Penguin eBooks, 2021.
The Prison Healer ; 1.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
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The break / Phillip Gwynne.

Growing up with the famous Bali surf at his back door, sixteen-year-old Taj had an idyllic childhood - until ten years ago when his father was arrested for smuggling drugs. He's been on death row in Bali's infamous Kerobokan Jail ever since, leaving Taj in an uneasy limbo. When an execution date is set, Taj is left with one course of action: bust his dad out of jail and hightail it back to Australia. What follows is the desperate, dangerous ride of a father and son on the run. As events unravel and time runs out, Taj uncovers startling truths about his family, his girlfriend and the stranger he is rapidly falling for.
Author: Gwynne, Phillip
Published: Melbourne, VIC : Penguin Random House Australia, 2021.
Published: ©2021
375 pages ; 20 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T GWY - Available - 010564225

The gilded cage / Lynette Noni.

'You need to choose, Kiva. It's him or us. Them or us. You can't have it both ways.' Kiva Meridan is a survivor. Not only did she survive Zalindov Prison, but also the deadly Trial by Ordeal. Now, Kiva's purpose goes beyond survival to vengeance. For the past ten years, her only goal was to reunite with her family and destroy the people responsible for ruining their lives. But now that she has escaped Zalindov, her mission has become more complicated than ever. As Kiva settles into her new life in the capital, she discovers she wasn't the only one who suffered while she was in Zalindov - her siblings and their beliefs have changed, too. Soon it's not just her enemies she's keeping secrets from, but her own family as well. Outside the city walls, tensions are brewing from the rebels, along with whispers of a growing threat from the northern kingdoms. Kiva's allegiances are more important than ever, but she's beginning to question where they truly lie. To survive this time, she'll have to navigate a complicated web of lies before both sides of the battle turn against her and she loses everything.
Author: Noni, Lynette
Published: [North Sydney, NSW] : Penguin Books, 2021.
Published: ©2021
xii, 433 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Prison healer ; 2.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T NON - Onloan - Due: 01 May 2024 - 010370598

How to repaint a life [Paperback] / Steven Herrick.

Isaac is running from his old life when he steps off the bus in a small town. He doesn't plan on sticking around and has nowhere to stay, but a local café owner's kindness offers him a chance to change his story. Then Isaac meets Sophie and learns he's not the only one wanting to repaint his life.
Author: Herrick, Steven, 1958-
Published: St Lucia, QLD : University of Queensland Press, 2021.
Published: ©2021
274 pages ; 20 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T HER - Onloan - Due: 27 Apr 2024 - 010418214

You'll be the death of me / Karen M. McManus.

When three old friends re-live an epic ditch day, it goes horribly-and deadly-wrong. Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Back in middle school they were best friends. So, when Cal pulls into campus late for class, and runs into Ivy and Mateo, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn a bad day around. They'll ditch school and go into the city. Just the three of them, like old times. Why did they stop hanging out, anyway? As soon as they pull out of the parking lot Cal knows why. Ivy's already freaking out about missing class, and heartthrob Mateo is asleep in the backseat, too cool to even pretend like he wants to be there. The truth is they have nothing in common anymore. At least they don't until they run into the fourth student ditching school that day. Brian Boney Mahoney is supposed to be accepting his newly won office of class president. Which is why Ivy follows him into an empty building, only to walk into the middle of a murder scene. Cal, Ivy, and Mateo all know the person lying on the ground of that building, and now they need to come clean. They're all hiding something. And maybe their chance reconnection wasn't by chance after all.
Author: McManus, Karen M.
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2021.
Published: ©2021
326 pages ; 20 cm.
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