Speedy Simpson is the absolute best at everything. He might even have stayed the best if it wasn't for Bebe LaMouche. She had a special talent with words that was going to take some beating.
Speedy se ...
Jayden Hayden, wordsmith, a.k.a rhyming boy, doesn't have a dad - just a mum obsessed with Jayden Finch, the footballer, and an embarrassing name that gets him teased. When a school father-son day is ...
Forced to find themselves a new secret hideout, Luke, Alex and Kevin head to an old mineshaft, only to discover it's already inhabited by a mysterious - and smelly - giant bat. From the author of Lick ...
Winner CBCA Book of the Year 1974
When Simon Brent's parents are killed in a car accident he is taken to live with his mother's cousins on their 5000 acre sheep station in the Hunter Valley. Simon, w ...
Tracey Binns is trouble - at least that's what she wants everyone to believe. While her parents work hard to provide the perfect life in the perfect house, Tracey is working hard at misbehaving. New g ...
Grade seven is not going well for Nathan Nuttboard. His mother is filling his sandwiches with pet food, his friends are crazy, and when he is publicly dumped by the most popular girl in the class, he ...
Loss and gain come not in equal measure at seventeen. Forced to board in her final years of school, Catherine feels awkward and different and struggles to fit in.
But the more she learns about her fa ...
Everyone has a story.
In Town, James Roy turns his hand to the short story, using it to explore the lives of the young residents of an Australian town. This town doesn’t have a name. But if it seems ...
She who walks the path of fire to the land of the dead...
When Harumi starts poking around in the back of the old Japanese antique shop, she has no idea where her curiosity will lead her. Will her r ...
'When can I hold you then?' he whispered. 'I want to. I ...' He was going to say I love you - but what did that mean?
For Xavier McLachlan, rugby is life. Winning a 1st XV jersey means everything ... ...