Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life
10 best books like Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life (Maureen McCarthy): Tomorrow, When the War Began, Saving Francesca, The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster, So Much to Tell You, Take My Word for It, All's Well That Ends Well, The Farseekers, Parvana's Journey, Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back
Tomorrow, When the War Began
| Author | John Marsden |
| ISBN | 0439829100 |
When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hideously wrong — their families are gone. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in their town has been taken prisoner. As the reality of the situation hits them,...
| Author | Melina Marchetta |
| ISBN | 0375829830 |
MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the...
| Author | May Gibbs |
| ISBN | 0207170614 |
Not, you never said that Snugglepot and Cuddlepie was a sex-and-violence-infused philosophically-motivated Scandinavian-themed retelling of Genesis. WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?
______________________
[Later the same day]
Well, I'm definitely building...
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
| Author | Sarah Krasnostein |
| ISBN | 1250101204 |
Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a lifetime of hostility and transphobic abuse and using it to care for some of society's most in-need...
Scarred, literally, by her past, Marina has withdrawn into silence. Then, at her new boarding school, she is set the task of writing a diary by her English teacher, and finds a way of expressing her thoughts and feelings and of exploring the traumatic events that have caused her distress. Through Marina's...
| Author | John Marsden |
| ISBN | 0732907659 |
Lisa is the hard one. At least that’s what her friends/dorm mates believe. She doesn’t dig deep or spill the important stuff. The intimate details.
She isn’t silent like Marina—the girl with the scars who lingers on the fringes, without ever really joining in.
No, Lisa is...
All's Well That Ends Well
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0743484975 |
Helena, a ward of the Countess of Rousillion, falls in love with the Countess's son, Bertram. Daughter of a famous doctor, and a skilled physician in her own right, Helena cures the King of France-who feared he was dying-and he grants her Bertram's hand as a reward. Bertram, however, offended by the inequality...
| Author | Isobelle Carmody |
| ISBN | 0765342715 |
A Children's Book Council of Australia Honor Book
In this powerful sequel to Obernewtyn, young Elspeth Gordie-possessed of extraordinary mental powers-has united with others Misfits for refuge on the remote mountain keep of Obernewtyn. Yet the threat from the totalitarian Council to...
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| ISBN | 0888995199 |
In Parvana's Journey, the Taliban still control Afghanistan, but Kabul is in ruins. Parvana's father has just died, and her mother, sister, and brother could be anywhere in the country. Parvana knows she must find them. Despite her youth, Parvana sets out alone, masquerading as a boy. She soon meets...
Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back
| Author | Bri Lee |
| ISBN | 1760295779 |
'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen Garner
EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0141324821 |
In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless they manage to escape . . .
A little hope goes a...
| Author | Clare Atkins |
| ISBN | 1863956891 |
Rosie and Nona are sisters. Yapas.
They are also best friends. It doesn’t matter that Rosie is white and Nona is Aboriginal: their family connections tie them together for life.
Born just five days apart in a remote corner of the Northern Territory, the girls are inseperable, until...
| Author | Tawni O'Dell |
| ISBN | 0451212452 |
Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.
With his mother in jail for killing his...
| Author | Bridget Birdsall |
| ISBN | 1629146064 |
Fifteen-year-old Alyx Atlas was raised as a boy, yet she knows something others don’t. She’s a girl. And after her dad dies, it becomes painfully obvious that she must prove it now—to herself and to the world. Born with ambiguous genitalia, Alyx has always felt a little different. But it’s after...
| Author | Rebecca Westcott |
| ISBN | 0141348992 |
Dandelion Clocks by Rebecca Westcott Smith will be loved by fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Cathy Cassidy or Annabel Pitcher. Liv takes us on a journey through her life from "Thirteen Weeks Before" to "Six Months After". We discover Liv's passion for photography, her brother's obsession with sticking...
| Author | Maria Dahvana Headley |
| ISBN | 0062320556 |
Where is home when you were born in the stars?
Aza Ray is back on earth. Her boyfriend Jason is overjoyed. Her family is healed. She’s living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you’ve spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering that your song can change the world.
As...
