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The gaps [Paperback] / Leanne Hall.

When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of Yin being found alive is becoming smaller and smaller. Everyone is affected by Yin’s disappearance even scholarship student Chloe, who usually stays out of Balmoral dramas, is drawn into the maelstrom. And when she begins to form an uneasy alliance with Natalia, the queen of Year Ten, things get even more complicated. A tribute to friendship in all its guises, this is a moving examination of vulnerability and strength, safety and danger, and the particular uncertainties young women face in the world.
Author: Hall, Leanne Michelle, 1977-
Published: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2021.
Published: ©2021
356 pages ; 20 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T HAL - Available - 010217787

Waking Romeo [Paperback] / Kathryn Barker.

What if Juliet Capulet met someone who made her doubt true love? What if Wuthering Heights was a message to a time traveller? A cosmic reimagining of Romeo and Juliet and homage to two literary classics in a compelling novel about fate, love and time travel. YEAR: 2083. LOCATION: LONDON. MISSION: WAKE ROMEO. It's the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forwards. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the 'now', living off the scraps that were left behind. Among these are eighteen-year-old Juliet and the love of her life, Romeo. But things are far from rosy for Jules. Romeo is in a coma and she's estranged from her friends and family, dealing with the very real fallout of their wild romance. Then a handsome time traveller, Ellis, arrives with an important mission that makes Jules question everything she knows about life and love. Can Jules wake Romeo and rewrite her future? A highly original mashup that delights as it disorients ... and asks what would have happened if two great literary love stories were somehow intertwined.
Author: Barker, Kathryn
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin Childrens Books, 2021.
Published: ©2021
384 pages ; 21 cm.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T BAR - Available - 010263845

Henry Hamlet's heart [Paperback] / Rhiannon Wilde.

A queer romance set in Brisbane. Henry Hamlet doesn't know what he wants after school ends. It's his last semester of year twelve and all he's sure of is his uncanny ability to make situations awkward. Luckily, he can always hide behind his enigmatic best friend, Len. They've been friends since forever, but where Len is mysterious, Henry is clumsy; where Len is a heart-throb, Henry is a neurotic mess. Somehow it's always worked. That is, until Henry falls. Hard. For the last person he imagined. From an exciting debut author comes this passionate story of growing up, letting go, and learning how to love.
Author: Wilde, Rhiannon
Published: St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2021.
Published: ©2021
320 pages ; 20 cm.
Average rating: (1 review)

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T WIL - Available - 010316633

The prison healer [Paperback] / Lynette Noni ; [maps by Francesca Baerald]

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 Books, 2021.
Published: ©2021
x, 405 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Prison healer ; 1.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T NON - Available - 010278641
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T NON - Available - 010370710

House of Hollow [Paperback] / Krystal Sutherland.

Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark hair turned white. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. They have insatiable appetites yet never gain weight. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful and inexplicably dangerous. But now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time - something her two famously glamorous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. But when Grey goes missing without a trace, leaving behind bizarre clues as to what might have happened, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. They aren't the only ones looking for her though. As they brush against the supernatural they realise that the story they've been told about their past is unravelling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home.
Author: Sutherland, Krystal
Published: [North Sydney, NSW] : Penguin Books, 2021.
Published: ©2021
292 pages ; 20 cm
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T SUT - Available - 010278788

The boy from the Mish [Paperback] / Gary Lonesborough.

t's a hot summer, and life's going all right for Jackson and his family on the Mish. It's almost Christmas, school's out, and he's hanging with his mates, teasing the visiting tourists, avoiding the racist boys in town. Just like every year, Jackson's Aunty and annoying little cousins visit from the city - but this time a mysterious boy with a troubled past comes with them... As their friendship evolves, Jackson must confront the changing shapes of his relationships with his friends, family and community. And he must face his darkest secret - a secret he thought he'd locked away for good. Compelling, honest and beautifully written, The Boy from the Mish is about first love, identity, and the superpower of self-belief.
Author: Lonesborough, Gary
Published: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin Children's Books, 2021.
Published: ©2021
288 pages ; 20 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
Average rating: (1 review)

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T LON - Available - 010263814
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T LON - Available - 010092575

Tiger daughter [Paperback] / Rebecca Lim.

Wen Zhou is the daughter and only child of Chinese immigrants whose move to the lucky country has proven to be not so lucky. Wen and her friend, Henry Xiao - whose mum and dad are also poor immigrants - both dream of escape from their unhappy circumstances, and they form a plan to sit an entrance exam to a selective high school far from home. But when tragedy strikes, it will take all of Wen's resilience and resourcefulness to get herself and Henry through the storm that follows. Tiger Daughter is a novel that will grab hold of you and not let go.
Author: Lim, Rebecca
Published: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, [2021]
Published: ©2021
206 pages ; 20 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 7 and 8

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Fiction - J LIM - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - 010219323

Skin deep / Hayley Lawrence.

Scarlett was gifted with beauty. But beauty can be taken in a day, in a single moment, by one car fire. Now permanently disfigured, Scarlett has become a smudge in her perfect world. She can see only one acceptable solution: to escape the modern world for Matilda Mountain, which is desolate, isolated, forlorn. Perfect. But mountains are not always as lonely as they appear. And unexpected friendships can be found in the wilderness. Friendships that challenge her ideas about perfection and her place in the world. Can Scarlett break free from the confines of her beauty-obsessed culture to discover who she is beyond the layers of her skin?
Author: Lawrence, Hayley
Published: Gosford, NSW : Scholastic Australia, 2021.
Published: ©2021
258 pages ; 20 cm.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T LAW - Available - 010316602

Sugar town queens [Paperback] / Malla Nunn.

When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. If Amandla wears a blue sheet her mother has loosely stitched as a dress and styles her normally braided hair in a halo around her head, Amandla's father will come home. Amandla's mother, Annalisa, always speaks of her father as if he was the prince of a fairytale, but in truth he's been gone since before Amandla was born and even Annalisa's memory of him is hazy. In fact many of Annalisa's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give Annalisa and Amandla strange looks--that and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is brown. But when Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's handbag along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. But what she discovers will change the shape and size of her family forever.
Author: Nunn, Malla
Published: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin Childrens Books, 2021.
Published: ©2021
291, 10 pages ; 20 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T NUN - Available - 010447368

Girls in boys' cars [Paperback] / Felicity Castagna.

Rosa was never really trying to hurt anyone, no matter what they said in court. But she's ended up in juvenile jail anyway, living her life through books and wondering why her best mate Asheeka disappeared. A page-turning novel about a complicated friendship; a road trip through NSW in a stolen car; the stories that define us; and two funny, sharp, adventurous young women who refuse to be held back any longer.
Author: Castagna, Felicity
Published: Sydney, N.S.W. : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2021.
Published: ©2021
296 pages ; 20 cm.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 7 and 8

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T CAS - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - 010449362

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 - Available - 010418467

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: 22 May 2024 - 010418214

Social queue [Paperback] / Kay Kerr.

Zoe Kelly is starting a new phase of her life. High school was a mess of bullying and autistic masking that left her burnt out and shut down. Now, with an internship at an online media company, the first step on the road to her dream writing career, she is ready to reinvent herself. But she didn't count on returning to her awkward and all-too-recent high-school experiences for her first writing assignment. When her piece about her non-existent dating life goes viral, eighteen-year-old Zoe is overwhelmed and more than a little surprised by the response. But, with a deadline and a list of romantic contenders from the past, she is hoping one of those old sparks will turn into a new flame.
Author: Kerr, Kay
Published: Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2021.
Published: ©2021
286 pages ; 20 cm.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T KER - Available - 010418238

Terciel and Elinor / Garth Nix.

In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, eighteen-year-old orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael. But not to raise the Dead, rather to lay them to rest. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life. Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, a steam-age country where magic usually does not work, nineteen-year-old Elinor lives a secluded life, her only friends an old governess and an even older groom who was once a famous circus performer. Her mother is a tyrant, who is feared by all despite her sickness and impending death, but perhaps there is even more to fear from that. Elinor does not know she is deeply connected to the Old Kingdom, nor that magic can sometimes come across the Wall, until a plot by an ancient enemy of the Abhorsens brings Terciel and Tizanael to Ancelstierre. In a single day of fire and death and loss, Elinor finds herself set on a path which will take her into the Old Kingdom, into Terciel's life, and will embroil her in the struggle of the Abhorsens against the Dead who will not stay dead.
Author: Nix, Garth, 1963-
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021.
Published: ©2021
367 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Old kingdom series ; 6.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T NIX - Available - 010496687
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T NIX - Available - 010550990

The midnight girls / Alicia Jasinska.

It's Karnawał season in the snow-cloaked Kingdom of Lechija, and from now until midnight when the church bells ring an end to Devil's Tuesday time will be marked with wintry balls and glittery disguises, cavalcades of nightly torch-lit "kuligi" sleigh-parties. Unbeknownst to the oblivious merrymakers, two monsters join the fun, descending upon the royal city of Warszów in the guise of two innocent girls. Newfound friends and polar opposites, Zosia and Marynka seem destined to have a friendship that's stronger even than magic. But that's put to the test when they realize they both have their sights set on Lechija's pure-hearted prince. A pure heart contains immeasurable power and Marynka plans to bring the prince's back to her grandmother in order to prove herself. While Zosia is determined to take his heart and its power for her own. When neither will sacrifice their ambitions for the other, the festivities spiral into a wild contest with both girls vying to keep the hapless prince out of the other's wicked grasp. But this isn't some remote forest village, where a hint of stray magic might go unnoticed, Warszów is the icy capital of a kingdom that enjoys watching monsters burn, and if Zosia and Marynka's innocent disguises continue to slip, their escalating rivalry might cost them not just the love they might have for each other, but both their lives.
Author: Jasinska, Alicia
Published: [Australia] : Penguin Books, 2021.
Published: ©2021
338 pages ; 20 cm.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T JAS - Available - 010560203
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T JAS - Available - 010518396