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The Trials of Apollo – The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan

Fantasy Fiction

How do you punish an immortal? By making him human.

After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour.

Nice Girls Don’t Play Footy by Kathy Helidoniotis

Sport Fiction   Australian Author

More than anything Devi Sharma wants to win the upcoming BollyOz competition for her mum. Then she’ll be on her way to becoming Bollywood’s first ever Australian half-Indian, sort of Kiwi, quarter Scottish, Vaisnavi vegan superstar!

Then Devi starts AFL lessons at school and she’s surprised to find she has talent...and a feeling she hasn’t had in a long time. Can Devi convince her family to let her play AFL when nice girls don’t play this football, and her mum thinks it will risk her winning BollyOz?

With the help of her best friend in the whole entire universe, Josie, Devi needs to come up with a plan so she can play footy like she wants and light the fire in her belly once again.

Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart

Contemporary Fiction

16-year-old Ava Gardener is heading back to school one year after a house fire left her severely disfigured. She's used to the names, the stares, the discomfort, but there's one name she hates most of all, "survivor". What do you call someone who didn't mean to survive? Who sometimes wishes she hadn't?

When she meets a fellow survivor named Piper at therapy, Ava begins to feel like she's not facing the nightmare alone. Piper helps Ava reclaim the pieces of "Ava Before the Fire", a normal girl who kissed boys and sang on stage. But Piper is fighting her own battle for survival, and when Ava almost loses her best friend, she must decide if the new normal she's chasing has more to do with the girl in the glass-or the people by her side.

Sneaky Spies – The Inspiring Truth Behind Popular Stealth Video Games by Thomas Kingsley Troupe

Quietly infiltrating a high-security building to steal secret documents. Sneaking behind enemy lines to rescue an important government official. What is the true story behind today's popular stealth games? What methods do spies use to secretly gather intelligence? What kind of gear do secret agents use to spy on the activities of others? How do special forces teams achieve their missions without getting caught?

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Fantasy Fiction

A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal-winning tale. Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbours a simple, impossible wish.

The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier

Humorous Fiction  Australian Illustrator

'Forty-two days ago I was an ordinary kid, living an uneventful life. But now it's TOTAL MONSTER ZOMBIE CHAOS, and I'm battling beasts on a daily basis. Crazy, right? But I know exactly how to make it through the zombie apocalypse.' Meet Jack Sullivan, self-described as a late-blooming, slow-developing 13-year-old who has so far survived the zombie apocalypse by hiding out in his treehouse.

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

Sports Graphic Novel

"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks ... The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. 'Cuz tonight I'm delivering," raps twelve-year-old Josh Bell. Thanks to their dad, he and his twin brother, Jordan, are kings on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood - he's got mad beats too, which help him find his rhythm when it's all on the line.