Time to get reading!
Discover the funny, fascinating and thrilling stories from the spectacular line-up of authors at MWF Schools.
MWF Schools booklist titles can be ordered from Readings, our Official Festival Bookseller, via the 'Read More' buttons below.
This Camp Is Doomed
Anna Zobel | Primary
A run-down camp in the woods.
No phone reception.
Ten students with untested powers . . .
Celine is seeing conspiracies everywhere. Fionn has a bad premonition about the colour blue. Mr Berg is horrified at the camp's questionable safety standards. Something is definitely not right at Camp Buttress.
This hilarious and quirky new novel by Anna Zobel will keep you guessing as the students and their teachers try to solve the mystery - and survive.
Wylah the Koorie Warrior
Jordan Gould and Richard Pritchard | Primary
Wylah has already accomplished the unbelievable feat of uniting the five Guardians, but her journey is far from over. Together with her megafauna friends, she must travel through the treacherous and forbidden Valley of the Spirits to face off against the Dragon Army.
Can Wylah defeat the perils that lay ahead and become the ultimate Koorie Warrior?
Embark on a heart-stopping journey filled with danger and excitement with book 2 in the bestselling Wylah the Koorie Warrior series. Inspired by First Nations history and grounded in culture, this is a must-read for adventure lovers of all ages!
Frog Squad
Kate and Jol Temple | Primary
Step into a top-secret world where frogs don't just eat flies, they eat danger! This is FROG SQUAD!
Frog Squad comes to the rescue of a mega tanker in distress - and it's full of ice-cream! Will these brave rescue frogs be fast enough to stop Professor Cain and The Organisation of Amphibious Devious Scoundrels (TOADS) from controlling the global supply of ice-cream?
Streaming now on Frogflix!
Your Brain Is a Lump of Goo
Idan Ben-Barak | Primary
A funny exploration of the most mysterious organ in the human body from the bestselling and award-winning author of Do Not Lick This Book.
Hi, I'm your brain.
Here are some things you should know about me:
I'm about the size of a pineapple.
I sit behind your eyes. I look like a big walnut (but gooey). I'm not a computer.
So what do I do? Oh, just about everything.
A fun-filled book made by brains, about brains, for brains.
League of Liars
Astrid Scholte | Secondary
Ever since his mother was killed in a freak edem-based crime, seventeen-year-old Cayder Broduck has had one goal: to have illegal users of the extra-dimensional magic brought to justice. When Cayder secretly accepts an apprenticeship under the city’s best public defender, he wants to learn every legal trick to dismantle defence arguments for when he becomes a prosecutor. Then he’ll finally be able to make sure justice is served.
But the three criminals he is to defend are teenagers, like him, and their stories are … complicated, like his. As their cases unfold, Cayder must race to separate the truth from the lies and uncover what really happened the night his mother died.
From the bestselling author of Four Dead Queens comes a heart-pounding mystery rife with secrets and danger, where nothing is as it seems…
What We All Saw
Mike Lucas | Secondary
Witches only exist in stories. Everyone knows that. But what if the stories are real?
FOUR FRIENDS. FOUR TRUTHS. ONE NIGHTMARE.
If you wander into the wood …
If you hear scratching sounds from the Old Quarry …
If you go too close to the edge …
WATCH. OUT.
Completely normal (and other lies)
Biffy James | Secondary
Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all.
Stella Wilde is secretly in love with the hottest guy in school, Isaac Calder. He seems to love her back, but there’s a problem - he already has a girlfriend, the gorgeous Grace Reyes.
When Isaac is killed in a car accident, the entire school is turned upside down with grief. And while Grace can mourn publicly, Stella has to hide her feelings to stop people from finding out about her and Isaac being more than friends.
But how long can Stella keep lying - to herself and everyone else? And when the truth finally comes out, how will it affect her newfound friendship with Grace?
Ultrawild
Steve Mushin | Secondary
Join maverick inventor Steve Mushin as he tackles climate change with an avalanche of mind-bending, scientifically plausible inventions to rewild cities and save the planet.
Jump into his brain as he designs habitat-printing robot birds and water-filtering sewer submarines, calculates how far compost cannons can blast seed bombs (over a kilometre), brainstorms biomaterials with scientists and engineers, studies ecosystems and develops a deadly serious plan to transform cities into jungles, rewilding them into carbon-sucking mega-habitats for all species, and as fast as possible.
Through marvellously designed and hilarious engineering ideas, Mushin shares his vision for super-high-tech urban rewilding, covering the science of climate change, futuristic materials and foods, bio reactors, soil, forest ecosystems, mechanical flight, solar thermal power and working out just how fast we could actually turn roads into jungles, absorb carbon and reverse climate change.
Developed over seven years, Ultrawild is an optimistic book about creative thinking, science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and the potential for massive change. Filled with laugh-out-loud design-ridiculousness, it aims to empower and excite a new generation of designers, scientists, engineers and ultra-wild thinkers.