Breakthrough : How One Teen Innovator is Changing the World by Jack Andraka
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
Have you ever had a problem you would give everything to solve - a problem so difficult you would spend years searching for a solution? When Jack Andraka was thirteen, he had a whole pile of problems like this. An outsider at school, he knew he didn't fit in - and a close family friend was dying of canc ...Show more
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
Rediscover the natural world with the multi-award winning phenomenon and youngest ever major literary prize winner in UK history. 'This diary chronicles the turning of my world, from spring to winter, at home, in the wild, in my head.' Evocative, raw and lyrical, this startling debut explores the nat ...Show more
You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine by Yeva Skalietska
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
Everyone knows the word "war". But very few understand what it truly means - when you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. All of your plans are suddenly interrupted - Until you've been there, you don't know what war is. This is the gripping, urgent and movi ...Show more
Last Man Out: A personal account of the Gallipoli Evacuation by Louise Park
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
The evacuation from Gallipoli of Australian and New Zealand troops was a logistically incredible undertaking. The exhausted young men were to slip away by ship in the dead of night. But… Someone needed to remain behind to cover for their fellow soldiers. This was a mission that almost certainly meant de ...Show more
Vincent: A Graphic Biography by Simon Elliott
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers | Series: BioGraphics Ser.
Follow the journey of Vincent Van Gogh's revolutionary and deeply turbulent life in a unique graphic novel format. 'I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and painting is in the very marrow of my bones' The life of Van Gogh has gone down in legend as the archetypal artist's existence. He was ...Show more
Quentin Tarantino: A Graphic Biography by Michele Botton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers | Series: BioGraphics Ser.
Unofficial and unauthorised. "When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'No, I went to films'" From the set of 1993's Pulp Fiction, to a bar room meeting with Robert Rodriguez and an inspirational lunch with Leonardo di Caprio, this unique graphic novel takes us across a series of Holl ...Show more
Against All Odds Young Readers' Edition by Richard Harris, Craig Challen
$17.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
The incredible true story of the Tham Laung Thai cave rescue of a boys' soccer team trapped for days with no supplies and decreasing oxygen levels. From joint Australians of the Year Richard Harris and Craig Challen. Now in a special edition for young readers.A young readers' edition of the incredible t ...Show more
Blank Spaces: An Unofficial Taylor Swift Fan Journal
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
Wreck this Journal and Burn After Writing meets Taylor Swift! Taylor Swift is the soundtrack of our generation. Reflect on the albums, songs and lyrics that define moments of your life. Revel in the nostalgia, distract yourself from the real world, think about your own love and loss, appreciate your fri ...Show more
LeBron: Life Lessons from the King by Brian Boone
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
A biographical account featuring the secrets to success from one of the greatest basketball players of all time: LeBron James“Nothing is given. Everything is earned.” His power, speed, and killer instincts made him a basketball phenom, but it was blood, sweat, and determination that turned him into an u ...Show more
Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness by David H. Lewis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
From author David H. Lewis and illustrator Gilang Bogy, Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness contains the secrets to success from the greatest basketball player of all time.“Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.”Michael Jordan defied gravity, transcended the world’s expectatio ...Show more
We're in This Together - A Young Readers Edition of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders by Linda Sarsour
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
An inspiring and empowering young readers edition of We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders, the memoir by Women's March coorganizer and activist Linda Sarsour. You can count on me, your Palestinian Muslim sister, to keep her voice loud, keep her feet on the streets, and keep my head held high because I am n ...Show more
Reaching for the Moon - The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
"Captivating, informative, and inspiring...Easy to follow and hard to put down." School Library Journal (starred review)The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11.As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school s ...Show more