Catherine Bateson
Magenta McPhee

For Magenta McPhee, life is good. It would be almost perfect if she could sort out her dad, who quite possibly needs saving - from himself. Desperate times call for desperate measures, even if those measures involve identity fraud on a dating site, and replying, as your father, to emails he doesn't even know he's getting. But when pretending to be someone else is taking you away from your life's purpose-writing the next great fantasy trilogy- things might have gone too far. In Magenta McPhee, Catherine Bateson has once again created a cast of delightfully real characters who will stay in the reader's memory long after the last page is turned.

David Metzenthen
Jarvis 24

So far, Marc E. Jarvis has lost a white football boot, a school tie and a best friend. But there's more in store for him when he completes Work Experience at a local car yard - where his world is truly rocked, shocked and shaken. Then Marc meets Electra. And nothing will ever be the same again ... A story of true friend, crazed coaches, shooting stars, and loves lost and found.

Kid Kabula isn't afraid of anything, but when he rides his bike flat out through the local shopping mall, even he doesn't realise just how dangerous that's going to be. And when Fatts Charvetto, leader of the hairiest, dirtiest and meanest bikie gang in town, wants to know who just knocked him flying into a pond display, it's Stevie Goodes, local refundables collector, who dobs in the Kid. Look out, Victory Gardens - a turf war is starting! But the Kid and Stevie will be dodgin' bikies and keepinitreal for a long as it takes.