Barry Jonsberg
1) Admission
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A compelling new young adult series set in a near-future post-pandemic world that is alive with action, intrigue, courage, betrayal, and retribution Pandora Jones wakes in a hospital-her body weak, her memory providing only flashes of horrific scenes of death. She soon discovers that her family has succumbed to a plague pandemic which has almost wiped out humanity. Pan is one of the lucky ones. She and other young survivors have been relocated to...
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From the multi-award-winning author of A Song Only I Can Hear comes another Children's Book Council of Australia Notable middle fiction novel that is warm, upbeat, intriguing and wholly absorbing.
NOTABLE BOOK: 2023 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers
SHORTLISTED: 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
I don't tell Mum and Sam anything about my weekends with Dad. It would be giving them tickets...
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"Twins Ashleigh and Aiden have always promised to protect each other, but after an accident on a school trip, Aiden starts behaving strangely. Are they just growing apart, or is something more sinister going on? In a future Australia ravaged by climate change, twins Ashleigh and Aiden Delatour have always promised to protect and be there for each other, no matter what. Their privileged upbringing and loving, wealthy parents leave them with little...
4) Dreamrider
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Harangued by his father about his weight and bullied in all the many schools he has attended, teenaged Michael finds some comfort in his ability to experience "lucid" dreaming but then starts to notice that the things that happen in his dreams are starting to occur in the real world as well.
8) Game theory
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"'Game Theory has brought me to this point and I must follow where it leads. Even though this is not a game.' Jamie is a sixteen-year-old maths whiz. Summerlee, his older sister, is in the grip of a wild phase. Tensions at home run high. When Summerlee wins a 7.5-million-dollar lottery, she cuts all ties with her family. But money can cause trouble - big trouble. And when their younger sister Phoebe is kidnapped for a ransom, the family faces a crisis...