Afloat

Author: Kirli Saunders

Illustrator: Freya Blackwood

Audience: Lower Elementary

Justification: Reviewed by Booklist, Horn Book Magazine, Kirk's Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal

Classification: By an author who is part of two First Peoples nations of Australia. Illustrated by an Australian illustrator.

Cover image © Hardie Grant Publishing. Source: official publisher webpage. Used under fair use.

Countdown to Yesterday

Author: Shirley Marr

Audience: Upper Elementary

Justification: Reviewed by Booklist, Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal

Classification: Written by a first-generation Chinese immigrant to Australia about a mixed-race boy whose white father and Chinese mother are divorcing.

Cover image © Simon & Schuster. Source: official publisher webpage. Used under fair use.

Little Bird's Day

Author: Sally Morgan

Illustrator: Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr

Audience: Lower Elementary

Justification: Reviewed by Horn Book Magazine, and Kirkus Reviews

Classification: A folktale written by an Australian Aboriginal author and an illustrator who is from a Yolŋu man from the Ganalbingu clan

Cover image © Magabala Books. Source: official publisher webpage. Used under fair use.

Ready When You Are

Author: Gary Lonesborough

Audience: Upper Elementary

Justification: Reviewed by Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews

Classification: A book about two gay Aboriginal teens written by a queer Aboriginal author

Cover image © Scholastic. Source: official publisher webpage. Used under fair use.

Catch Me If I Fall

Author: Barry Jonsberg

Audience: Middle School

Justification: Reviewed by Booklist, and Publishers Weekly

Classification: A book about Australian twins set in Australia in the near future. Written by an English immigrant to Australia.

Cover image © House of Anansi Press. Source: official publisher webpage. Used under fair use.