2008 Longlist
-
Write a review for this book Reviews: 0An anthology of fifteen very short illustrated stories. Each one is about a strange situation or event that occurs in an otherwise familiar suburban world; a visit from a nut-sized foreign...
-
Write a review for this book Reviews: 14Thirteen linked stories, spanning a year in the lives of thirteen young people.
...
-
Write a review for this book Reviews: 1No sooner has Alex splashed down off the coast of Australia than he finds himself sucked into another adventure. This time he is working for the ASIS - the Australian Secret Service - and his...
-
Write a review for this book Reviews: 0When the news swept the little town of Wattleton that sixteen-year-old Anne-Marie Cooper had been raped on her way home from school one summer afternoon, some townsfolk said they weren't...
-
Write a review for this book Reviews: 0I think about my final year of high school often. A lot of what happened then has led me to where I am now – who I am, and what I've become. I did some stupid things and some smart things. I got...
-
Write a review for this book Reviews: 2When Naomi tries to piece back the fragments of the last three and a half years of her life, she discovers she has a boyfriend she can't remember, her mother and father are divorced, she and her...
-
Write a review for this book Reviews: 1"Great," I said. "The world's coming to an end, and we're fixing it with Band-Aids."
-
Write a review for this book Reviews: 21"I know what a girl is. Course I do. I seen ‘em in the Noise of their fathers in town, mourned like their wives but not nearly so often."
Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown....
-
Write a review for this book Reviews: 1Funny, exciting novel about a teenage boy growing up with two secrets: one, that he has superpowers - two, that he's gay. And he gets to save the world . . .
-
Write a review for this book Reviews: 0Ned is a teenager with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Australian bushrangers. He is also autistic. Erin is a sixteen-year-old trouble-magnet trying to make a fresh start in a new town. Ned never...
