SHORT-LISTED: 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult FictionAnna Chiu has her hands pretty full looking after her brother and sister and helping out at her dad's restaurant, all while her mum stays in bed. Dad's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren't right at home, she's starting to feel like she could just be a normal teen. But when Mum finally gets out of bed, things go from bad to worse. And as Mu...

Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's 'Great Leap Forward', and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields.When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals. They're not used to hard labour and village life. But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they...

A very funny and fraught 'enemies-to-will-they-won't-they' romance between family friends Jamila and Billy.Jamila Dakhoul wants to escape her life.Forget everything.Forget that her only friends are strangers on the internet.Forget that she's stuck in a caravan after a fire destroyed her family's house.Forget that Year 12 is a brutal hellhole where bullying is an Olympic sport.Forget Billy Radcliffe once and for all.Bu...

Anna Chiu has her hands full looking after her siblings and helping out at her dad’s restaurant, all while her mum stays in bed. The new delivery boy Rory is a welcome distraction and even though things aren’t right at home, Anna’s starting to feel like she could just be a normal teen. But when Mum finally gets out of bed, things go from bad to worse. And as Mum’s condition worsens, Anna and her family question everything they understand about themselves and each other.

An evocative and compelling story about one boy living through the 2014 drought in Henan, China.WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019Shaozhen has no intention of staying in his remote Henan village and becoming another poor farmer: he'll finish school, and then, hopefully, work in a factory in one of the major cities, just like his father. But when Shaozhen returns home for the summer holidays, imagining days filled with nothing but playing basketball ...

Lin's excited about her first school sports day until she comes last. A relatable picture book about endurance and resilience from the award-winning author and Australian Survivor contestant, Wai Chim.It's Sports Day! Everyone has a different House colour.I'm in the Red House. Go Red!It's time for the sack race. On your marks, get set, go!But not everyone can come first.Sometimes winning means fini...