First nations voices - young adult

Updated March 13, 2026
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Good young men
Lonesborough, Gary
Paper Book
A brilliant contemporary YA coming-of-age novel about three small-town Aboriginal friends finding their way towards adulthood, from the multi-award-winning author of The Boy from the Mish, We Didn't Think It Through and I'm Not Really Here.
Sweet home : stories of country and family
Yunupingu, Daydae
Paper Book
Home can be a building, it can be a person, it can be a place. In Sweet Home 28 students from ?awurr Boarding House in Nhulunbuy have written heart-felt stories about what home means to them. In vivid detail, these stories take the reader from the sparkling turquoise waters of Blue Mud Bay, to the...
Kangaroo stew
James, Zac
Paper Book
A good kind of trouble
Blurton, Brooke
Paper Book
A brilliantly warm-hearted NEW series from Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward, full of high school longing, friendship, footy matches, and dreams to change the world! It's funny how your life changes. I used to worry about playing footy and whether my first kiss would...
Marcia langton: welcome to country 2nd edition: fully revised & expanded, 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...
Is that you, Ruthie?
Hegarty, Ruth
Paper Book
'Is that you ...?' Matron's voice would ring out across the dormitory. In that pause sixty little girls would stop in their tracks, waiting to hear who was in trouble. All too often the name called out would be that of the high-spirited dormitory girl Ruthie. In the Depression...
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...
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...
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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