Book Lists for 11-13 Year Olds

Stories for 11-13 years

Meet me at the moon tree

by Shivaun Plozza

Picasso and the greatest show on Earth

by Anna Fienberg

The tree that sang to me

by Serena Molloy

Spirit of the crocodile

by Aaron Fa’Aoso, Michelle Scott Tucker and Lyn White

The apprentice witnesser

by Bren MacDibble

All the beautiful things

by Katrina Nannestad

The pull of the moon

by Pip Smith

The many masks of Andy Zhou

by Jack Cheng

Kwame crashes the underworld

by Craig Kofi Farmer

Courage be my friend

by Jenny Davis

Series for 11-13 years

Escape from Firestone Fortress

by Rachel Jackson

Andromache

by Gabriel Bergmoser

The grandest bookshop in the world

by Amelia Mellor

Impossible creatures

by Katherine Rundell

Black cockatoo

by Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler

Landovel

by Emily Rodda

Silverleaf chronicles

by Ambelin Kwaymullina

The School for Good and Evil

by Soman Chainani

My Australian story series

A collection of uniquely Australian stories.

Book to screen for 11-13 years

The secret garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Enola Holmes

by Nancy Springer

The whale rider

by Witi Ihimaera

The boy in the striped pyjamas

by John Boyne

The house with a clock in its walls

by John Bellairs

Fantastic beasts and where to find them

by J.K. Rowling

How to train your dragon

by Cressida Cowell

Artemis Fowl

by Eoin Colfer

Factual books for 11-13 years

How to be a good enough kid

by Alice Peel

Design & building on Country

by Alison Page, Paul Memmott and Douglas Blak

101 collective nouns

by Jennifer Cossins

Five nights at Freddy’s cookbook

by Scott Cawthon

Minecraft mega bite-size builds

by George Lee

The book of time : adventures in the past, present, future, and beyond

by Clive Gifford and Teo Georgiev

Big book of animals

by Taronga Conservation Society Australia, Amandine Thomas, Simone Fumagalli, Raquel Martin and Blithe Fielden

Brain lab for kids

Eric H. Chudler

South with the seabirds

by Jess McGeachin

Universal guide to the night sky

by Lisa Harvey-Smith and Sophie Beer