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The Edge of Thirteen by Nova Weetman

Being a teenager means growing at different stages and liking different things to your friends and classmates. This is a story of fitting in and falling out and balancing on the edge of who you are and who you want to be.

 

We Run Tomorrow by Nat Amoore

Tonight, we’re gonna kidnap our best friend. And tomorrow? We run.

Sticks, Maki, Jed and Tommy can’t leave the decisions to the adults.  When they discover their favourite comic book series is being made into a blockbuster movie, they know what they have to do to stay together.

 Get to the audition. Get the parts. 

 

The Matilda Effect by Fiona Crawford

The exciting, inspiring, sometimes infuriating and always colourful story of the Australian women's football (soccer) team, the Matildas, and their ultimately successful struggle, alongside other women from around the world, to compete in World Cup football. 

 

Resilient by Mitchell Johnson

The story of how a shy 17-year-old champion tennis player was plucked from obscurity and anointed by Dennis Lillee is the stuff of sporting fairytales. Fast tracked into the Australian Under 19 side he made his Test debut in 2007. Within 12 months he had become the world's most feared bowler. But by 2011 the promise of greatness was unravelling.