Snatched by Pirates (My Australian Story) by Patricia Bernard
$2.99 AUD
$16.99 (82% off)
Category: Teen True Stories | Series: My Australian Story Ser.
The perahu's crew is yelling in Malay for us to stop. Samuel is shouting that they are pirates and that they will rob us. I'm hiding my diary and pencil inside my shirt ...Billy Shanghai Hamilton has been blackbirded-snatched by pirates in the Torres Strait and forced to work on a pearling boat. Greed f ...Show more
Here I Stand: Stories That Speak for Freedom (Amnesty International) by Amnesty International UK
$22.99 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories
Did you know that ...government spies can turn on your phone and use the microphone to listen to your conversations? ...that lesbian and gay relationships are illegal in 78 countries and can be punished by death? ...that Amnesty recently recorded the highest number of executions globally for more than 2 ...Show more
Stolen Girl by Trina Saffioti
$19.95 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories
Stolen Girl is a fictionalised account of the now universally known story of the Stolen Generation and tells of an Aboriginal girl taken from her family and sent to a children's home. Each night she sings, and dreams of her mother and the life they once shared - of sitting on the verandah of their corru ...Show more
Notes on Being Teenage by Jana Rosalind
$15.99 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories
How would you describe yourself? Do you like to stand out, or fit in? Are you an Instagram junkie, or is Snapchat more your thing? Are you watching Zoella on YouTube, or reading Rookie on your phone? We're all different, and no-one's teenage years are the same. But we do all have one thing in common - b ...Show more
Survivors Club: the True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz by Michael Bornstein
$22.99 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories
For a very long time, I didn't talk about what happened to me during the war ...In 1945, in a now-famous piece of archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother's arms. Here is the unforgettable story of how a father' ...Show more
The Secret Art of Being a Grown-Up: Tips, Tricks, and Perks No One Thought to Tell You by Bridget Watson Payne
$25.99 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories
Here's a secret: Grown-Ups have more fun. This charming book will show you how without diminishing your status as a bona fide Grown Up. While being an adult is a lot of work, being a Grown-Up is about having fun. Eclectic, bite-sized chunks of advice meet quirky illustrations in this playful take on sel ...Show more
Elon Musk (Young Reader's Edition) by Ashlee Vance
$18.99 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories
Elon Musk is an inspirational role model for young entrepreneurs, breaking boundaries and revolutionising the tech-world. He is also the real-life inspiration for the Iron Manseries of films, starring Robert Downey Junior. From his humble beginnings in apartheid South Africa, he showed himself to be an ...Show more
Ryan Higa's How to Write Good by Ryan Higa
$26.99 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories
An unconventional, irreverent, yet heartfelt memoir by Ryan Higa, one of the top creators on YouTube. With pictures! And illustrations! And, y'know, words.I know you're used to seeing me on the Internet, but here I am, coming at you in book form. You might be asking yourself, A book? You? Why?Listen, I' ...Show more
Diary of William Shakespeare, Gentleman by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories
THE DIARY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, GENTLEMAN is part comedy, part love story, the threads of Shakespeare's life drawn from his plays. Could the world's greatest writer truly put down his pen forever to become a gentleman? He was a boy who escaped small town life to be the most acclaimed playwright of th ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles by Alan Marshall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories
Alan Marshall's classic account of his childhood spent on crutches after contracting polio at the age of six is funny, tough, moving, profoundly Australian, yet completely universal - and inspirational in the best sense.
Dan and Phil Go Outside by Dan Howell; Phil Lester
$39.99 AUD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: Teen True Stories
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER YouTube sensations Dan Howell (danisnotonfire) and Phil Lester (AmazingPhil) were just two awkward guys who shared their lives on the Internet...until now. Dan Howell and Phil Lester, avoiders of human contact and direct sunlight, actually went outside. T ...Show more
Feel Good 101 by Emma Blackery
$32.99 AUD
Category: Teen True Stories
THIS BOOK WON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFE But it might just help you change it yourself Only you can take the steps you need to help yourself become the strong, independent, fearless person you dream of being. It took me a long time - and a lot of real lows, excruciating heartaches and countless mistakes - to ge ...Show more