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Young Adult
White Rabbit Red Wolf
Tom Pollock Leah on the Offbeat
Becky Albertalli Mercy Point
Anna Snoekstra
PB $16.99
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 twin
sister Bel, as well as Ingrid, his only
friend. But when his mother is
stabbed and his sister is nowhere to
be found, Pete is dragged into a world
of espionage and violence where
state and family secrets intertwine. PB $17.99
When it comes to drumming, Leah
Burke is usually on beat – but real life
isn’t always so rhythmic. She hasn’t
told her friends she’s bisexual – not
even her openly gay BFF, Simon. And
Leah really doesn’t know what to do
when her rock-solid friend group
starts to fracture in unexpected ways.
It’s hard for Leah to strike the right
note while the people she loves are
fighting – especially when she might
love one of them more than she ever
intended. PB $19.99
In real life, the five of them are
enemies. Online, they are friends, with
one thing in common: they are all sure
they are adopted. When they meet,
they are horrified to find that the
people they have been sharing their
souls with are the people they hate.
But avoiding each other is difficult in a
town with only one high school. It’s
also tough to ignore one another
when they begin to realise that their
parents are hiding something more
sinister than adoption.
LIFEL1K3
Jay Kristoff Flying Tips for Flightless Birds
Kelly McCaughrain Hive
A. J. Betts
PB $19.99
Eve is having a bad day. Her robot
gladiator is now a smoking wreck,
she’s on a gangster’s hit list, and she
just lost her cash to the bookies. Also,
she can destroy machines with her
mind, and now a bunch of fanatics are
after her. But Eve has had a worse day
– one that lingers in the cybernetic
implant where her memories used to
be. Eve will have to go a long way if
she wants to save the ones she loves,
and learn the truth about the secrets
of her past. PB $16.99
Twins Finch and Birdie Franconi are
stars of the flying trapeze. But when
Birdie suffers a terrifying accident,
Finch must team up with the geeky
new kid, Hector Hazzard, to form an
all-boys double act and save the
family circus school. Together they
learn to walk the high-wire of teen life
and juggle the demands of friends,
family, first love and facing up to who
they are – all served up with a dash of
circus-showbiz magic. PB $16.99
Hayley tends to her bees and follows
the rules in the only world she has
ever known. Until she witnesses the
impossible: a drip from the ceiling. A
drip? It doesn’t make sense. Yet she
hears it, catches it. Tastes it. Curiosity is
a hook. What starts as a drip leads to a
lie, a death, a boy, a beast, and too
many awful questions. The latest YA
novel from the award-winning author
of Zac & Mia.