First nations voices - young adult

Updated November 19, 2023
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Welcome to Country : a travel guide to Indigenous Australia
Langton, Marcia
Paper Book
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country 2nd edition is the essential follow-up to Australia's landmark travel guide to Indigenous Australia, Welcome to Country. In this extensively updated edition, Marcia Langton offers a full range of Indigenous-owned or -operated...
Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction
Ellen van Neerven
Paper Book
Unlimited Futures is an anthology of speculative, visionary fiction from 21 First Nations writers and Black writers, reflecting visionary pasts, hopeful futures and the invisible ties between First Nations people and Black people. With works from a collection of emerging and...
Tell me why : for young adults
Roach, Archie
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award. 'There are many Australian stories, and mine is just one about what happened to me and other First Peoples of this country. It's important for me to tell my story - because it's not just part of my...
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
Heiss, Anita
Paper Book
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside...
Yellamundie: Voices & Faces of First Nations People in Sydney
McGrath, Michelle.
Paper Book
In the Dharug language, yellamundie means 'storyteller'. This collection of stories from 30 of Sydney's Indigenous people will bring all Australians closer to the truth about the impact that colonisation has had on our First Nations people and how that impact continues today. Truth...
Robert runs
Sweetman, Mariah
Paper Book
**Winner of the Daisy Utemorrah Award 2022** Age range 12+ Compulsory reading for early teens and young adults. Based on true events, this gripping thriller sheds light on the brutalities of the past...
Dirrarn
Merrison, Carl; Hustler, Hakea
Paper Book
Age range 10+ Mia could hear the squarks of her Jarriny before she saw them. Her eye's had flicked to the sky in search of the passing dirrarn but soon realized the noise was from the bird just beyond the gate.
Tracks of the missing
Merrison, Carl; Hustler, Hakea
Paper Book
Age range 12+ 'There must be payback.' 'There must, you are right,' Grandfather agrees. 'What can you offer in exchange?' Grandfather holds up his arms, open, offering himself as a sacrifice. 'I am old.' Deklan 'Dek' Archer and...
My spare heart
Thomas, Jared
Paper Book
Seventeen-year-old Phoebe's life is turned upside down when she moves from the city to the country to live with her dad in this powerful and uplifting story about family breakdowns, facing truths and finding balance.

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