RWBY, Vol 1: The Beacon Arc by Bunta Kinami

Manga

Monsters known as the Grimm are wreaking havoc on the world of Remnant. Ruby Rose seeks to become a Huntress, someone who eliminates the Grimm and protects the land. She enrols at Beacon Academy, eager for the tests and to combat challenges to come.
Ruby knows she has the talent to achieve her goal, but is she ready to clash with Weiss Schnee, a fellow student and the haughty scion of the Schnee Dust Company?

White Rabbit, Red Wolf by Tom Pollock

Mystery Fiction

A thriller about murder, maths and the mind. An intelligent, shocking and tightly plotted psychological thriller and a revealing exploration of mental health.

Seventeen-year-old Peter Blankman is a maths prodigy. He also suffers from severe panic attacks. Afraid of everything, he finds solace in the orderly and logical world of mathematics and in the love of his family; his scientist mum and his tough twin sister Bel, as well as Ingrid, his only friend. However, when his mother is found stabbed before an award ceremony and his sister is nowhere to be found, Pete is dragged into a world of espionage and violence where state and family secrets intertwine. Armed only with his extraordinary analytical skills, Peter may just discover that his biggest weakness is his greatest strength.

 Rise of the Mythix: Mighty Minotaur by Anh Do

Fantasy Fiction                                                        Australian Author

The minotaur will be recognised by his strength.
Kelly doesn't believe in ancient prophecies. Then again, up until recently, she also didn't believe a horn could grow out of her forehead. Now the Collector is holding her mother hostage, and if Kelly wants to rescue her, she needs to learn how to wield all the powers of the Unicorn. She also needs some help. She needs to find... the Minotaur. Minh knows something epic is going on. For the last year, he has been getting stronger and stronger. He can pull a plough as well as any horse. He can lift cars. But he has no idea that this is just the beginning...

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Family/Relationships

Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It’s ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth.

Fable by Adrienne Young

Action and Adventure

As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen year-old Fable has ever known. It's been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father. But her father's rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn't who he seems. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they're going to stay alive.

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Science Fiction

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied. Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
Then, late one night, in the middle of the English countryside, they landed.

 Run, Hide, Fight Back by April Henry

Mystery Thriller                                          Grade 9+

When a deadly shooting breaks out in a Portland shopping mall, a group of teens ends up trapped behind a store’s security shutter. To her surprise, seventeen-year-old Miranda finds the others looking to her as their leader. But she’s hiding a big secret – and she’s not the only one. The group has just three choices: run, hide, or fight back. The wrong decision will have fatal consequences.