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She thought of Billy, and how he would never say 'Bye, beautiful' to someone like her, that likely no one would ever say anything like that to her in her life, and how she could not do anything to change any of it. Sandy does not know if she would fit in anywhere, but she feels like a complete outsider...

A moving family drama about change and loss, and having the courage and strength to surf the big breaks. By the acclaimed author of Father's Day and Mother's Day. His dad had often spoken of these rare and special days: the days when some change far out in the sea brought great waves rearing up and...

WHAT IF YOUR PARENTS HAD BEEN KEEPING A SECRET FROM YOU YOUR WHOLE LIFE? Sam is in his first year of high school and has been saving his paper-round money for months to buy the one thing he yearns for a boat. Suddenly his bank balance is doubled by an unknown person. But who is it? As Sam investigates...

He is crafty and cranky, mysterious and moody, and he wants children pie for his seven hundredth birthday. He is Kevin the Troll and he has his wicked little eye fixed on you . . . Nearly all the trolls look up to him. Incredibly, by the end of this hilariously twisted adventure, you will too. Besides...

IT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR NERDS, ONE GIANT LEAP TO BEING COOL. Mama tells me I'm gifted and talented. But I know the truth. I'm just a nerd. Kids call me Con-nerd- half Connor and all nerd. I'm supposed to become a doctor but i have this deep, dark secret: I want to be a cartoonist. And all of a sudden...

It's 1941 . . . and the war is changing Pearlie's life every day. Darwin is full of soldiers, there's a spy on the loose, her beloved pets are in danger and people are turning against Pearlie's best friend, Naoko, just because she's Japanese. When everything falls apart, will Pearlie be brave enough...

The Abbot said, 'Peng is so powerful he can fill up the whole sky, and yet shrink so small he can sit on a blade of grass without it bending under his weight.' 'No creature on earth can do that!' said Jax. 'But Peng is not from this world,' the Abbot replied. From the moment Peng fell from the stars...

It's 1942 and Darwin is under attack. While bombs are falling, Pearlie is doing all she can to save her beloved pets and help the wounded soldiers. But it's too dangerous to stay, and when Pearlie finally has to say goodbye, only the thought of being reunited with her best friend Naoko can cheer her...

Ziggy Truegood lives in a tiny town deep in Hushing Wood, where strange things are happening. The townspeople are fighting, Ziggy feels like something is hunting her, and her beloved woods have become dark and hostile. When exotic Raffi and his grandfather arrive in town, Ziggy finds herself strangely...

It's1841 . . . and if Letty wants to keep her job she must travel with her mistress to a sheep farm in the Blue Mountains, leaving her sister Lavinia behind in Sydney. Letty has heard that the bush is a wild place, full of strange beasts and dangers, not to mention the bushrangers who hide out in...

I tell you what, they're turning it on here today, folks. They're putting on a ring-a-ding-ding contest . . . And who is that lad in the number five guernsey? Specky can't wait to get to the country and have the chance to play grassroots football for the first time . . . against adults. But more is...

If you want to land your kids in therapy, then by all means, give them everything under the sun. In his work as a family psychologist, Michael Carr-Gregg has noticed a worrying trend in our modern parenting styles, which sees kids running riot and parents running for cover. In our desire to give our...

There are family outings you can avoid: stuff like visiting your neighbour in hospital after he's had a massive pimple surgically removed, or even something as exciting and important as a car trip to the chemist to pick up Dad's long-term prescription for fungus cream. But in the family rule book,...

If you had a crazy family, a bag of frozen peas, 70 Hawaiian shirts, a tyre-swan, a shoplifter, a social cling-on, a scarily attractive girl, a cool dude, a crazy activity coordinator and a fully volcanic island, you could have written this novel. But relax - all you need to do is read it! It's a...