Library News - Deb Davis
Things have settled down in Cooinda and Eleanor Jones is getting used to her new normal – spending time with her friends, going to school, and working on a project at the local old age home. . Lower to Mid Secondary – Fiction |
A practical and therapeutic guide to managing anxiety, written specifically for those aged 14 - 25 by a psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with adolescents and young adults. By Dr Toni Lindsay
Lower to Upper Secondary - Non fiction |
Life has not been easy for Thomas since his dad died. His mother is acting strangely, he needs to care for his younger sister and things at school aren’t great. And then there’s the Other Shadow. The shadow that doesn’t belong to anyone. The shadow that wants to be Thomas’s friend. But who can you really trust when your world is falling apart?
Upper Primary |
Incredible world records, social media sensations, and pop culture crazes from the past year! This book covers everything from science, tech, sports, music, movies, animals, and more.
Non fiction |
Maria Petranelli will do anything to get away from her overbearing Italian-Australian family. She’s over their constant heckling about getting a boyfriend, their unspoken belief that she’s not normal, and their loudly spoken belief that she’s incapable of doing, well, anything. So when her family declares she ‘couldn’t handle living in Italy’, Maria immediately signs up to go there on student exchange. What could possibly go wrong? Well, everything Lower to Mid Secondary |
Finch and Wren are so close as a brother and sister can be. Then, Finch vanished on the same day another girl was lost, too. Her name was Ava. Ava’s story got all the media attention. And finch was forgotten. But not by Wren. Never by Wren. Then, another girl goes missing…….
Upper Primary Fiction |
Quinn Calvet was supposed to be having an epic year. She had all kinds of plans with her best friend, Ximena, and sister, Ava, and to grow her following as an influencer on The Whine. Instead, Quinn finds herself third wheel to Ximena and her new boyfriend or getting ditched by Ava who has turned into an overachiever, obsessed with studying and joining every school club. It brings up Quinn’s old feelings that her disability has her left behind. She tries to talk to Ava about it, but she’s too busy with the newest club at school, Defend Kids, which is working frantically to help find two kids who were recently kidnapped from a nearby town. Upper Secondary Fiction |
A slice-of-life rom-com about pizza and first crushes that readers will gobble up!
Lower – Mid Secondary Fiction |