Random House Australia: 1821 books

Everyone has heard of the fairies who live at the bottom of the garden. But did you know that fairies also live in the big city? Of course they do! Pearlie looks after Jubilee Park and it keeps her very busy. Every day she makes the slippery dip slippery, opens all the flowers, polishes the...

A powerful memoir of antidepressants, misdiagnosis and madness. There was that term again, depression, being tossed around. When had I received an official diagnosis, anyway? It had just been mentioned by my GP and now staff were picking it up and running with it. Things seemed to be getting...

An easy to read guide to conception and a healthy pregnancy. 'This book is for anybody who might ever become a mum or a dad - the physical and mental health of your children is in your hands. It all depends on your efforts before conception. Truly beautiful, healthy, happy babies don't happen...

'I'll be waiting for you, and when we beat this thing we are going to celebrate.' At 15 Cass Nascimento was so beautiful she left boys tongue-tied. But her beauty was more than skin-deep: she was a sunny, generous, kind force of nature. When Jason Carrasco was diagnosed with fast-spreading...

Larceny Leyton is a wild child - tough, smart, willful and proud. Like so many others, she wears her attitude like armour.'Trust' isn't a word in Larceny's dictionary. It means opening up and taking the risk that you'll be hurt. Truth and dare.Nobody gets close enough to earn her trust. Larceny makes...

What about all that stuff you keep reading about: the moonlit walks, the red roses, waves softly kissing the sandy shore? It doesn't exist. Does it have to be a problem just because you don't want to hold your mother's hand anymore and you're not ready to hold anyone else's? Before you try to give yourself a hickey tonight, read this!

Charmwood High and Year 8 plans to turn the school play, 'Romeo and Juliet' into a rock musical. Everything's moving along until someone mentions Equal Opportunity. There aren't enough roles for girls in this production. For the Narrator, Peter Nutt, Equal Opportunity means more opportunities...

Margaret Clark invites you to come into her Parlour - and die! Mike and Kristy have been packed off to Camp Star by their mother and it's the original camp from hell. Dumb Leaders blowing whistles and jumping around in shorts, gross food, beds like concrete and everyone going feral: the usual good...

A brilliantly funny novel by the author of Ghost on Toast and Hold My Hand - Or Else!, for kids who are sick and tired of health food. All junk food is banned from the school camp. So Spoonhead, Amy Yui, Trash, Zits and some of the others think up outrageous ways of getting round the authorities....

Sam Studley's a bit older and wiser than when you met him in 'Hold My Hand - Or Else!' but it's a pity he can't say the same for his fifteen year old sister Leanne.No one seems to know where she is. Some kids are saying she's got AIDS and some are saying she's been abducted. Some are saying she's...

Friends, school, clothes. all your questions answered. A book about the importance of Friendship'My best friend suddenly won't talk to me and I don't know why. Yesterday, a group of my so-called friends sniggered when I walked past. What's wrong with me? We all need friends. Without them, life...

Take an everyday girl - short, with freckles, mud-puddle eyes and the kind of mind Sherlock Holmes would kill for - and you have the heroine of another light-hearted whodunit for Independent Readers. Laura's adventurous grandmother sends her a birthday charm to add to her silver bracelet, just...

Night Works is the story of fifteen year old Sophie, and her friends Mel and Kate. Told through Sophie's diary entries, the story highlights the girls' problems, families, boyfriends and everyday school lives. The power of friendship helps them face the world knowing they're not alone. In the tradition...

'If David Sedaris had got married and had kids, he would have been Reservoir Dad. Fall-on-the-floor funny, sharp, witty and just a little bit sexy.' Kerri Sackville, Best Australian Blog 2013 judge A sharply funny, fresh and irreverent chronicler of real life in today's parenting trenches,...