Barry Jonsberg takes us into a world compromised by climate change where artificial intelligence is a necessary survival tool in, Catch Me If I Fall. Twins, Ashleigh and Aiden, as they mature, realize they have different perspectives about the privileged lives they are afforded in this new world. 

Mythological dangers lurk for four adolescents on schoolies week as they meet a stranger and venture onto an uninhabited island in Anna Morgan’s, 'Before the Beginning'.