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The Truth and Lies of Ella Black, By Emily Barr.

This second novel from Emily Barr is a race-against time thriller and a true coming-of-age story. It explores the highs and lows of first love, all set under a blazing Rio sun.

Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for...

Until one day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro. Determined to find out why, Ella takes her chance and searches through their things.

And realises her life has been a lie. Her mother and father aren't hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they'll never think to look - the favelas.

But there she learns a terrible secret - the truth about her real parents and their past. And the truth about a mother, desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago...

Tom Weekly; My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up, By  Tristan Bancks and Gus Gordon.

I’m Tom Weekly. This is a nail-biting – make that toe-biting – thrill ride through my life.

This is where I pour out whatever’s inside my head. Like the time a bloodthirsty magpie out to get me. Or when I had to eat Vegemite off my sister’s big toe. And don’t forget the day I ate 67 hot dogs in ten minutes. My life gets a bit weird sometimes but that’s how I roll.

Top 3 reasons to read this book:

1. Cures for nits

2. Hover underpants

3. Instructions for teleporting

The Unicorn Quest, By Kamila Benko.

Claire Martinson still worries about her older sister Sophie, who battled a mysterious illness last year.

But things are back to normal as they move into Windermere Manor...until the sisters climb a strange ladder in a fireplace and enter the magical land of Arden. There, they find a world in turmoil. The four guilds of magic no longer trust each other. The beloved unicorns have disappeared, and terrible wraiths roam freely. Scared, the girls return home.

But when Sophie vanishes in the night, it will take all of Claire's courage to climb back up the ladder, find her sister, and uncover the unicorns' greatest secret. Blending the timeless feel of The Chronicles of Narnia with Frozen's powerful themes of identity and sisterhood, The Unicorn Quest will draw you into a magical world you'll never want to leave.

Who Was Anne Frank? By, Ann Abramson.

"Who Was Anne Frank?

1. A high-spirited child always playing practical jokes

2. A young Jewish girl forced into hiding for two years 

3. The author of one of the best-loved books in the world

4. All of the above!

Find out more about the real Anne Frank in this engaging and vivid illustrated biography!

The Draftees, By Emma Quayle.

Meet Jake Lever, Peter Wright, Isaac Heeney, Tom Lamb and Clem Smith. In 2015, they played their first game. In years to come, they could become stars. But first they had to be drafted to a club. Every year, hundreds of boys are put through their paces at AFL draft camps, training sessions, under-18 competitions and school footy matches. They all hope they will end the year signed to an AFL team. Meanwhile, clubs are making brutal calls on which young players will take them up the ladder. Too many bad recruiting decisions could set them back years. Emma Quayle, senior football writer for The Age and an expert on talent identification, tracks these five boys through 2014 - the year they nominate for the AFL's national draft. We meet their coaches and families. We ride the bumps and share the triumphs. With exclusive behind-the-scenes access to recruiters at St Kilda Football Club as they decide on their 2014 draft picks, Emma sheds light on what it takes to become an AFL footballer. For Jake, Pete, Isaac, Tom and Clem, hearing their name called out on draft day is just the beginning of their football story. But it takes a lot to get to that start line.