Recommendation: 'Tomorrow when the war began' by John Marsden

  If your homeland was invaded, what would you do? This story offers a glimpse inside the lives of a group of teens who find themselves at... Read more »

Recommendation: 'Perfect' by Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkin's trade mark stream of conscious narratives are edgy, raw and powerfully representative of issues that  people face in tod... Read more »

Recommendation: 'Roman Dirge's Lenore: Noogies' by Roman Dirge

Roman Dirge's Lenore: Noogies  For those of us out there that liked the kooky exploits of The Adams Family  and other things that go ... Read more »

Retro read: 'Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude get a life' by Maureen McCarthy

Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude get a life by Maureen McCarthy. Set in Melbourne, in the early 1990s, what drew me to this book was the ... Read more »

5 fantastically romantic 80s movies

Anna D’s post on awesome 80s movies inspired some of us (who were alive in the 80s, yes, we’re old) to come up with our fav 80s movies ... Read more »

Gritty Teen Reads

Without meaning to, I seem to have selected some disturbingly gritty teen fiction lately, the sort of thing that when you try to give som... Read more »

Recommendation: 'Maggot Moon' by Sally Gardner

Maggot Moon. Imagine a dystopian society, ruled by an oppressive regime that relies on propaganda to segregate society into the chosen a... Read more »

The Awesomeness of the Movies from the 1980s

You know how there are things (like Star Wars, or Elvis, or the Beatles) that just become cultural and you MUST know about them because th... Read more »

Recommendation: 'Crusher' by Niall Leonard

Crusher by Niall Leonard . Niall Leonard is a screenwriter who has worked on Wire in the Blood and Monarch of the Glen . He apparently wr... Read more »

Recommendation: 'Alex as well' by Alyssa Brugman

Alex As Well by Alyssa Brugman Puberty is a time of changes, a time to discover who you are. But the changes and challenges Alex faces a... Read more »

Recommendation: 'The Children and the Wolves' by Adam Rapp

The Children and the Wolves . This is such a powerful raw and disturbing read, its hard to explain the impact upon reading it. Three friends... Read more »

Recommendation: 'My Brother Simple' by Marie-Aude Murail

My brother Simple . Imagine being in high school and having to live as an independent, surviving on very little income,  managing shared li... Read more »

Recommendation: 'Feed' by MT Anderson

  It started out like any ordinary trip to the moon. In a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted i... Read more »

Recommendation: 'What's left of me' by Kat Zhang

What's left of me by Kat Zhang Addie and Eva have a secret they have to keep at all costs - they are a hybrid.  In a world where e... Read more »