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Author(s)
., Australian War
Memorial
AARON, Moses
Title
M is for Mates: Animals in
Wartime from Ajax to Zep
Lily and Me
ABDULLA, Ian
As I Grew Older
ABDULLA, Ian
Tucker
ABELA, Deborah
In Search of the Time & Space
Machine
Max Remy Super Spy
ABELA, Deborah
Spyforce Revealed
Max Remy Super Spy
ABELA, Deborah &
WARREN, Johnny
ABELA, Deborah &
WARREN, Johnny
ADAMS, Douglas
The Finals
Jasper Zammit Soccer
Legend
Jasper Zammit Soccer
Legend
The Striker
Series
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the
Galaxy
ADAMS, Jessica
ADAMS, Richard
Kid's Night In
Watership Down
ADORNETTO,
Alexandra
The Shadow Thief
Strangest Adventures
AGARD, John
AGUIAR, Nadia
A Caribbean Dozen
Secrets of Tamarind
Tamarind
AGUIAR, Nadia
The Lost Island of Tamarind
Tamarind
AIKEN, Joan
Foot in the Grave
AKIMOTO, Nami
Ultra Cute No 1
ALCOTT, Louisa May Little Women
Ultra Cute
Annotation
An alphabetic book about the contribution made by animals in wartime and peace
operations.
Aaron Moses tells the story of how he met Lily, a cancer patient in the Children's
Hospital, and how he told her stories throughout her treatment.
Ian Abdulla tells of his life and experiences growing up in a traditional Aboriginal family,
living the Nunga way of life on the Murray River in the 1950s.
Telling the story of his childhood spent living along the Murray River, Ian Abdulla's
pictures speak of fishing and hunting with his Aboriginal brothers in the 1950s.
Max Remy, 11, hates almost everything and everyone except her fictitious friend,
superspy Alex Crane. Max is unhappily bundled off to the country relations but finds
they are not the hicks she thought.
Max Remy 2. Max goes to stay with relatives in the country who are inventors of an
amazing machine that can't get into the wrong hands
Another in the Jasper Zammit series, where the soccer team has a new coach. He
believes that you win at all cost, which makes the game no longer any fun to play.
Aamir is a new boy at Jasper's school. He doesn't speak much English but soon shows
he has soccer skills and is more than good enough to join the Rovers.
Fueled with beer and salted nuts Arthur and Ford hitch a ride on a giant spaceship just
as the Earth is blown apart. What follows is a wild intergalactic adventure spiced with
witty situations drawing on what we know and think about physics, the creation of the
universe and philosophy.
Short stories by some of the best authors with all royalties going to War Child
A warren of rabbits is being chased from its home by a land developer. The rabbits have
their own language and culture that is close to human.
Milli discovers that all the shadows from her town have been stolen by Lord Aldor, so
she and Ernest decide to investigate, which puts them at odds with the rest of their
families.
This is a compilation of West Indian poems.
Simon, Maya and Penny again head for the mysterious island of Tamarind, which is
being destroyed by evil developers.
Simon, Maya and Penny are alone on the ocean and their boat is swept towards the
mystical island of Tamarind which has terrifying secrets.
Eight handsome, ambiguous pictures provide inspiration for eight creepy ghost and
horror stories. Includes a cautionary tale for anyone who has been unkind to a younger
sibling.
This one is for girls. Relationships and friendships. Comedy and romance. Right to left
reading.
Four sisters growing up in a close American family live a rich, but austere life, during the
Civil War.
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Set in the 1950s on the south coast of France, this story covers a month in the lives of
13 year-old Beau, sent from England to recover from an accident, his 8 year-old sister
Fanny and a girl they meet , the wild, irrepressible Lelee, a girl from the sea
A portrayal of the life of a Romani family.
A collection of short stories with appeal for boys
Life in the early days at Sydney Cove is told through the diary of a young girl.
The Girl from the Sea
ALDRIDGE, James
The True Story of Lilli Stubeck
ALEXANDER, Goldie Killer Virus
ALEXANDER, Goldie Surviving Sydney Cove: the Diary My Story
of Elizabeth Harvey, Sydney,
1790
ALEXANDER, Lloyd The Black Cauldron
A Yearling Book
ALEXANDER, Lloyd
The Book of Three
The Chronicles of
Prydain
ALEXANDER, Lloyd
The Castle of LLyr
The Chronicles of
Prydain
ALIKI, N/A
William Shakespeare and the
Globe
The Blue Death
Our Don Bradman, the Diary of
Victor McDonald
Trophy Picture Books
ALLEN, Judy
ALLEN, Peter
ALMOND, David
ALMOND, David
Counting Stars
Jackdaw Summer
ALMOND, David
Skellig
ALMOND, David
AL-WINDAWI, Thura
Wild Girl, Wild Boy: A Play
Thura's Diary: a Young Girl's Life
in War-Torn Baghdad
Chains
ANDERSON, Laurie
Halse
ANDERSON, Laurie
Halse
Fever 1793
ANDERSON, Matthew Thirsty
T.
My Story
Taran joins Prince Gwydion to fight the spread of evil from the Black Cauldron, which
has created the deathless warriors.
Taran the lowly assistant pig keeper longs for adventure. When the magic pig, Hen Wen
disappears, it seems Taran will have his adventure, but this is a life and death struggle
with the evil Horned King.
Eilonwy is sent to the Island of Mona to learn to be a proper princess, and here she
learns of her magical powers before she is kidnapped. Taran must go to the island to
find her.
This is an introduction to Shakespeare's life and work, and his theatre, The Globe,
which was reconstructed in London.
A doctor turns detective to solve the cholera mystery in London, 1854.
My story series: The story of the Bodyline series is told against the story of Victor living
in the Depression in Sydney. In diary form we learn all about how people lived in Sydney
in the 1930's and all about the cricket and its impact upon Australia.
The author shares his childhood memories in this collection of short stories.
Liam inhabits the world between man and beast as he plays war games, finds an
abandoned baby and helps two runaways from a foster home survive.
Michael and Mina care for an extraordinary being when it seems to have given up on
life.
Following the death of her father, a young girl attempts to regain her grip on life.
Thura begins her diary as the Iraqi people wait for the imminent attack from America.
(Mature readers)
Sold into slavery with her five year old sister, Ruth, Isabel fights for survival in a New
York house with a nasty mistress during the American War of Independence. Not for the
faint hearted, as the stories of abuse of their slaves are included.
In 1793, 14 year-old Mattie hates getting out of bed and being nagged by her mum. Her
friend Polly comes down with yellow fever and the disease starts to spread through the
city. Even Mattie has to get serious as the panic spreads.
Chris realises that he is turning into a vampire, and tries hard to fight against the urge to
drink blood. He must decide which road to follow as each group of people who try to
help him may be those trying to make sure he falls into the blood drinking trap.
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Set in ancient times, the story of Milad as he travels from his home in Phoenicia around
the Mediterranean Sea and has all sorts of adventures including pirates, stowaways,
battles and the sea.
A wonderful telling of the story of Eureka through newspaper articles, photos and factual
accounts which reads like a story.
Told from the perspective of the elder of two daughters, this novel deals with the
emotional struggle of an ex Vietnam War nurse, and the ongoing impact of the war on
her family.
Girls First!
When young Amy goes to stay with her aunt in the central outback she befriends Lana.
Together they must overcome racial and cultural barriers and join forces to foil a
criminal stealing artefacts.
A hidden tattoo on her body may give her a clue as to who she belongs to and where
she is from, but Nyssa must first find out some truths from those around her.
Eddie Dickens Trilogy When both of Eddie's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow and smell of
hot-water bottles, it's agreed that he should go to stay with relatives at Awful End. Sadly
for Eddie, the relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even-Madder Aunt Maud.
ANHAR, Nazam
Milad : the Voyage to Ophir
ANNEAR, Robyn
ANTLE, Nancy
Fly A Rebel Flag: the Battle at
Eureka
The Longest War
APPLEGATE, Cathy
Red Sand, Blue Sky
ARBUTHNOTT, Gill
The Keeper's Daughter
ARDAGH, Philip
Awful End
ARDAGH, Philip
Dreadful Acts
ARDAGH, Philip
Terrible Times
Eddie Dickens Trilogy
ARENA, Felice
Specky Magee
Specky Magee
ARENA, Felice
Specky Magee and the Season
of Champions
Specky Magee and the Battle of
the Young Guns
Specky Magee and the Great
Footy Contest
Sounder
Specky Magee
Microscopic Monsters and
Deadly Diseases
Horrible Science
ARENA, Felice &
LYON, Garry
ARENA, Felice &
LYON, Garry
ARMSTRONG,
William
ARNOLD, Nick
ARRIGAN, Mary
Esty's Gold
Specky Magee
Specky Magee
Eddie Dickens narrowly avoids an explosion, a hot-air balloon and arrest, only to find
himself falling for a girl with a face like a camel, and into the hands of a murderous gang
of escaped convicts who have a little job for him to do.
The "Terrible Times" is a fire-and-brimstone newspaper published on the east coast of
North America, but owned by Eddie Dickens' family back in England. When the sixmonthly figures fail to reach Awful End, it is decided that Eddie must go to America
Specky is a very talented young footballer, passionate about his sport but his passion is
not shared by his family.
Specky blots his copybook when he tells lies to his parents and coach.
Specky has a chance to play on the hallowed turf at the MCG, but all sorts of problems
appear to hold him back.
Another in the series of Specky Magee novels involving year 7s and their football.
A poor, African-American family living in the South in the 1800s find their lives change
forever when the father is arrested.
Read funny explanations about what happens when your body comes under attack from
germs, the diary of a dust mite and more hilarious excursions into the scientific world.
Set in the time of the potato famine in Ireland, a family flees the poverty and death to
start a new life in Australia. Esty has heard of the Ballarat goldfields and they head there
in search of fortune.
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The future is made up of three groups: humans, beasts and Meks (machines). When
the Meks kidnap Mei's mother, her father takes her away to live in the sky village for
safety.
A fantasy adventure (Mature readers)
Ancient Roman times are realistically presented in this story of Nosey, an orphan who
becomes a member of the Roman army, a deserter, a gladiator, one of the Imperial
Guard and a person helping to overthrow Caligula.
The group looked so cool, happy and content, it was easy for Joe to be seduced by their
questions and become one of them. But how does he get out of the group?
ASHLAND, Nigel &
ASHLAND, Monk
Kaimira: the Sky Village
ASHLEY, Bernard
ASHLIN, Dan
Freedom Flight
Those About to Die
ASHWORTH, Sherry
Blinded by the Light
AUSTEN, Chuck
She Lies with Angels: Uncanny X- Uncanny X-Men
Men Volume 5:
Yotsuba&!: Moving
Yotsuba&!
AZUMA, Kiyohiko
BABBITT, Natalie
BAILLIE, Allan
BAILLIE, Allan
BAILLIE, Allan
BAILLIE, Allan
BAILLIE, Allan
BAILLIE, Allan
BAILLIE, Allan
BAILLIE, Allan
BAILLIE, Allan
BAILLIE, Allan
BAILLIE, Allan
Uncanny X-Men Series: A special tribute to William Shakespeare's most beloved work
Romeo and Juliet.
This Japanese anime reads from back to front and right to left with the illustrations in
black and white. Yotsuba is a young girl who has moved house with her father. She
likes meeting people and things just happen around her, like getting stuck in a toilet
window.
Tuck Everlasting
Drinking the water from a special spring ensures immortality. The Tuck family has
become immortal and faces a difficult situation when a girl uncovers their secret.
Adrift
Playing in a large crate by the sea Flynn, his little sister Sally and her cat, Nebu, find
themselves floating out from the shore. Flynn has to keep them all alive and in doing so
comes to respect his sister and reassess his place in the family.
Eagle Island
Col is an angry boy, angry because he has been abandoned by both his parents and is
just used by his other relations. He is jealous of Lew, a deaf boy with loving parents.
Coincidently these two are brought into a deadly conflict over a box of smuggled heroin
wanted by Col and his uncle Theo.
Foggy
Little Bay Village has a gigantic problem and it needs a wizard to solve it. When Meg
and Russ are given the desperate mission to find the wizard known as Foggy, they find
that he may be more trouble than he's worth.
Heroes: Australian At Their Best
Australia's best heroes at their most decisive moments.
Krakatoa
A wonderful telling of the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883, set against the backdrop
of Indonesia's rule by the Dutch, with its insurrections and prejudice.
Little Brother
An exciting and frightening story about a young boy's, Vithy's, escape from the Khmer
Rouge and his search for his brother, the last member of his family to survive the
horrors of the war in Cambodia.
Magician
In a futuristic Tasmania, where our sun is dying, an alien appears who may be able to
help.
Mates and Other Stories
A collection of short stories about friendship.
Riding with Thunderbolt: the
My Story
Based on the real figure of Ben Cross and the characters he met riding with Captain
Diary of Ben Cross
Thunderbolt.
Saving Abbie
Abbie is a very engaging six-year old orphan orang-utan, on the final leg of an odyssey
that will see her reintroduced to her Kalamantan home.
The Bad Guys
Omnibus Young Fiction Rivalry between three groups of camping city children. Wheels and his gang are
determined be the toughest.
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BAILLIE, Allan
The China Coin
BAILLIE, Allan
The Last Shot
BAILLIE, Allan
Treasure Hunters
BAILLIE, Allan
Wreck
BAJORIA, Paul
The Printer's Devil
BALL, Duncan
Piggotts in Peril
BALL, Duncan
The Ghost and the Goggle Box
BALL, Duncan
The Ghost and the Gory Story
Bluegum
BALL, Duncan
The Ghost and the Shutterbug
Bluegum
BALL, Duncan
Ty Daring and the Billion Dollar
Nose
BALLANTINE,
Maryann
All Stars 6: Tara, Goal Keeper
BALLANTYNE, R.M.
The Coral Island
BANKS, Lynne Reid
BANKS, Lynne Reid
Angela and Diabola
The Indian in the Cupboard
BARNARD, N
BARRIE, J. M.
Superglued
Peter Pan
BARRON, Antonia
Jeremy Jeremiah
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The horror of Tiannaman Square confronts Leah when searching for her ancient links in
China.
Steve is a brilliant basketball player with a conflict to solve involving family and his
achievements.
Pat joins his father on his quest for a sunken treasure ship off Indonesia, and discovers
that Indonesia has troubles of its own.
A story of survival about two children who discover a rusty freighter on their beach after
a cyclone. Is it calling them and could it be a trap?
When Mog Winter overhears plotting against the bosun of the ship in dock in London's
wharves, he has little idea that this will lead him to finding out more about his mother
and his own mysterious past. Set in Victorian times, the background is incredibly vivid
and the story fast paced.
The Piggots of "Piggot Place" return triumphantly in this cleverly paced story of elusive
pirate treasure.
The clean up of dead Uncle Arnold's Sydney house becomes a weird experience when
Roger discovers that the old man is haunting the television set.
Kit and his mother Valerie move into Wattle Street to the displeasure of Arnold Taylor.
When Kit, an aspiring author, devises the plot of a murder mystery involving the
neighbours, Arnold causes the plot to happen for real!
Arnold Taylor meets his match in Tassana, a young independent and courageous girl
who decides to take a picture of him
Ty Daring is the son of a very wealthy man. When he is picking up his pocket money
from one of his father's banks he is taken hostage by bank robbers. He finds a
sculptured nose in their car and this becomes the focus of a hunt, not for the nose but a
new micro chip hidden in it.
Tara makes new friends with the team, and realises that friends are not close friends all
the time. They have their differences and some are more honest than others, causing
her some grief
Three young sailors, sole survivors of a wreck, discover the enchanting beauties of the
South Pacific, but then they are swept into adventures with bloodthirsty pirates.
Essential Modern
Classics
Angela is the angelic twin and Diabola is just the opposite!
A toy Indian figure comes to life when placed in a magical cupboard.
Robert thinks that superglue is the key to get his parents back together again.
Magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children. He teaches them
to fly and takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land for many adventures
including a battle with the infamous Captain Hook.
This is a time-slip story of friendship and of Australia's early gold-mining days. Jeremy
makes contact with a boy who lived in Jeremy's house a hundred years before.
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Eight amusing stories about a young boy and his dog solving problems in his
neighbourhood. Gentle parody of the genre. First of three books in a series.
Stimulating, intricate illustrations take us into the magical world of dragons.
An aquatic, colourful gangster tale with a cautionary moral that greed is bad.
A poetic narrative involving Sprocc, an alien, and his struggle for freedom of expression.
BARTON, Colleen
I Findem P.I.
BASE, Graeme
BASE, Graeme
BASE, Graeme
The Discovery of Dragons
The Sign of the Seahorse
The Worst Band in the Universe
BASE, Graeme
Truck Dogs
BASSETT, Jan
BASTIAN, Greg
Wrecked: Mysteries and
Disasters at Sea
The Gold Seekers
BATES, Dianne
Grandma Cadbury's Safari Tours Bluegum
Sam lives with his father on the Victorian Goldfields in the 1850's. He helps bring
understanding of his two Chinese friends.
Gran is off again, this time in a 22-seater, turbo-charged, custom-built minibus, showing
tourists the sights of Australia. Unfortunately Gran is a bit in the background in this
collection of tales with the exploits of Steve, her grandson, taking centre stage.
BATES, Dianne
BATES, Dianne
Grandma Cadbury's Trucking
Bluegum
Tales
Grandma Cadbury's Water World Bluegum
Humorous and heart-warming tales featuring a dynamo of a grandmother. First of the
series.
Life is never dull with Grandma Cadbury, especially at a beach resort.
BATES, Dianne
Piggy Moss
BATES, Dianne
The Last Refuge
Dad has lost his job and Mum is going out to work. Then they find there is an older
brother, Jack, that the children were unaware of Vivian, who seems to do the worrying
for all the family, in the end sets things right.
A realistic and harrowing story of children's courage in the face of domestic violence,
with a positive outcome.
Magenta makes a decision to help her father, a man who has lost his job and his way in
life after his wife leaves him.
Moving to a new town, coping with a new school with different expectations and the
students, some of whom make it difficult for Millie to fit in, her new found interest in
photography help her work out what is important in life.
Chrissie is 12 years-old and very close to her dad, an artist, who is dying of lung cancer.
Her mother buries herself in her work and Chrissie has to work through her own great
grief, clinging to the special gifts her father has given her.
When Ruby's mother is in hospital, she feels alone and abandoned, even more so when
her best friend deserts her for the new girl in school. The solution is a wish pony.
BATESON, Catherine Magenta McPhee
BATESON, Catherine Millie and the Night Heron
BATESON, Catherine Painted Love Letters
BATESON, Catherine The Wish Pony
BAUER, Michael
Gerard
Dinosaur Knights
True Stories
Dog and machines come together in Hubcap, a small country town, where teenagers
are like others the world over, looking for excitement.
True stories about mysteries and disasters at sea.
Roland and Oswald must find proof of the dragon lurking in the forest before morning or
their father will hang. The professor has unwittingly sent a dinosaur back to the Middle
Ages, and must try and retrieve him. The adventure travels between medival times, a
time just in the future and the time of the dinosaurs.
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Ishamel cannot help his name which makes him the but of many jokes, but he must
stand up tp the bullies and he does so hilariously - in front of the whole school at a
debating competition!
A very funny sequel to 'Dont call me Ishmael' as the hero returns to school for year 10,
hoping that his cohort will be older and wiser. He's wrong.
The bitzer of a dog gives more than companionship to his family.
BAUER, Michael
Gerard
Don't Call me Ishmael!
BAUER, Michael
Gerard
BAUER, Michael
Gerard
BAUER, Michael
Gerard
Ishmael and the Return of the
Dugongs
Just a Dog
BAUM, Frank L
The Wizard Of Oz
BAWDEN, Nina
Carrie's War
BAWDEN, Nina
Granny The Pag
BEALE, Fleur
Juno of Taris
BEALE, Fleur
Lucky for Some
BELL, Helen
Idjhil
BELL, Helen
The Stone Swan
BELL, Krista
No Regrets
Takeaways
BELL, Krista
No Strings
Takeaways
BELL, Krista
Who Cares?
BELL, Krista
Who Dares?
The Running Man
Joseph, a shy quiet boy is asked by his next door neighbour to draw her reclusive
brother, a Vietnam veteran. Joseph becomes caught up with Tom's story through their
love of the silkworms an the link with the mulberry tree in Joseph's backyard. This is an
entrancing read about facing fears, loneliness and family (mature readers)
Dorothy 's adventures when she is whisked up in a tornado with her dog, Toto, and
transported to the fantasy land of Oz.
Carrie is evacuated to a Welsh mining town during the bombing raids on British cities in
World War II.
Catriona has lived with her grandmother from the time her parents decided she was a
hindrance to their stage careers. Now they plan to take her back and Cat doesn't want
to go.
In a future world, where 500 people have been selected to live in a sheltered
environment on an island in the South Pacific, Juno questions the rules and provokes
the ruling order to admit things kept hidden for a generation.
Leaving home in the city for a new life in the country causes huge stresses for Lacey.
Idjhil is a young Aboriginal boy who lives with his extended family in bush camps until he
becomes one of the stolen generation.
A pair of black swans, separated from their flock, are forced to nest alone in shrinking
wetlands, where they face unknown dangers in changing and increasingly hostile
conditions.
Julia is a gifted child, an amazingly talented musician and mathematician, who is
accelerated from her primary grade six class to a secondary college where, even in a
year 10 mathematics class, she outshines other students. Jealousy and resentments
erupt and the expectations of Julia's ambitious mother just adds to her difficulties.
Felix is a gifted thirteen-year-old who isn't coping. Will he ever become a world-class
saxophonist?
When Toby and Rhys are forced to spend a week together at a seaside holiday house,
they don't want to share their well-kept secret with a stranger.
Sequel to "Who Cares?". Rhys and Toby are involved with a surfing competition,
skateboarding and a puzzling mystery
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Daredevil, the Man Without Fear Marvel Knights
Marvel Knights Series (vol 6): Matt Murdock grew up an outcast, bullied constantly,
while tending his father's murder, Matt was left to his own devices, surviving by instinct.
Accidently blinded at thirteen he is taken under the wing of a frightening but charismatic
teacher.
Double Trouble
Ultimate Spiderman
Ultimate Spiderman Vol 3 As if juggling high school and superheroics were not enough,
Peter Parker now must contend with the deranged Dr Otto Octavius - out to kill
everyone and anyone associated with the accident that grafted monstrous metal
tentacles to his body
Hulk: Misunderstood Monster
Marvel Adventures
Caught in the explosion of a gamma bomb, brilliant scientist Bruce Banner was
transformed into a hulking beast, who helps those less fortunate than himself.
Claw of the Dragon
My Australian Story
A thrilling story about Billy, taken by pirates to work on the pearling boats, near Broome
in the last days of the nineteenth century.
Fords and Flying Machines: the My Story
The Great War has just ended and in Australia there is growing interest in and
Diary of Jack McLaren,
excitement about air travel. Young Jack McLaren has been apprenticed to his motor
Longreach 1919–1921
mechanic cousin, George, and, leaving home for the first time, travels from Sydney to
Longreach leaving behind his twin sister unhappily working as a skivvy.
The Outcast
Outcast Trilogy
First in the "Outcast Trilogy", this story introduces the chip-enchanced city dwellers of
the future.
Riddle of the Trumpalar
When two children want to save the Moreton Bay tree in their local park, they are taken
back in time to colonial days.
Pheasant and Kingfisher
Dreaming Story : The retelling of an Aboriginal Dreamtime story about how creatures
came into the world.
This is still Rainbow Snake
Scholastic Bookshelf
Dreaming Story : Aboriginal Dreaming stories.
Country
Danger Unlimited
Saving a boy from falling overboard sees Chris and his friends holidaying in Singapore
at the request of the grateful boy's parents. They uncover a smuggling ring and their
lives are in danger.
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body
An exciting and adventurous way to find out how the body works by following two tiny
explorers through arteries, veins, bones and organs.
The Ultimate Book Of Incredible Stephen Biesty's Cross- These cutaway drawings contain minute detail and explanations of technological
Cross-sections
sections
marvels.
Shark Girl
Everything changed for Jane the day she was attacked by a shark and lost her arm.
BLACKLOCK, Dyan
Comet Vomit
Orchard Red Apple
BLACKLOCK, Dyan
Pankration
A Little Ark Book
BLACKMAN, Jenny
Our Enemy, My Friend: the Diary My Story
of Emma Shelldrake, the
Adelaide Hills, 1915
Dead Gorgeous
The Shakespeare Stealer
BENDIS, Brian
Michael
BENDIS, Brian
Michael
BENJAMIN, Paul
BERNARD, Patricia
BERNARD, Patricia
BERNARD, Patricia
BERNARD-WAITE,
Judy
BERNDT, Catherine
BERNDT, Catherine
BIDWELL, Dafne
BIESTY, Stephen
BIESTY, Stephen
BLACKMAN, Malorie
BLACKWOOD, Gary
A very funny and often irreverent book of short stories aimed at those student who enjoy
a quick read.
Nic attempts to escape a plague-ridden ship in 430BC to go to the Olympic Games.
Written during World War 1, the diary refelcts the hatred shown towards the settlers of
German descent living in the Adelaide Hills.
Liam and Nova's friendship helps them to cope with their lives (Mature readers)
Set in and around London in the mid 1600s, Widge is ordered by his master to go to the
Globe Theatre and copy Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
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Joshua and his cousin Zoe see two men fighting and hear a gunshot. The police believe
the murder is linked to armed robberies in the area. The cousins decide to investigate
but will they be safe?
A story that focuses on the common and shared history of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
people, and how many individuals are personally coming to terms with this history.
Mature readers
Leah's failure to catch her friend on the parallel bars changes her life. Once both had
aims at being top gymnasts, now neither can follow their dream.
Poetry to inspire primary and junior high school students written by a young Sydney girl.
BLAKE, Bronwyn
Dangerous Waters
BLAKE, Bronwyn
Find me a River
BLAKE, Bronwyn
Rock Dancer
BLOOM, Jessica
Plenitude
BLUME, Judy
Deenie
BLUME, Judy
Double Fudge
BONE, Ian
A Dangerous Secret
BONE, Ian
Blood on the Microphone
BONE, Ian
BONE, Ian
Fat Boy Saves the World
Killer Plot
BONE, Ian
Sleep Rough Tonight
BONE, Ian
Spy Babies
BONE, Ian
That Dolphin Thing
BONE, Ian
The Puppet
After Dark
BONE, Ian
The Quivering Spy
Vidz
BONE, Ian
Time Trap
Vidz
BONE, Ian
Vidz, The X Factor
Vidz
Vidz
Takeaways
Deenie's mum wants her sister to have a brainy job and Deenie to be a model, but
Deenie is diagnosed with scoliosis, curvature of the spine. She struggles with her back
brace and other adolescent female issues.
Pete is just about to enter high school. Peter's little brother Fudge is mad about money
and he wants loads of it. In fact, he's going to print a hundred million "Fudge bucks" and
buy the whole world! He's driving Pete nuts.
Vids Series No 1: Hamish attends Capra Video High School but finds a way to enter
another world in the movies.
Thirteen year-old Saffie Grundig decides to find out about her older sister, Ruby, and
the secrets she is keeping about what's really going on at the sleazy Comedy House,
where Ruby has a cleaning job.
Susan has to care for her obese, selectively mute, brother.
Street kid, Tom roams the streets at night. Seeing what he thinks is murder, he has no
one to turn to.
Alex agrees to show how tough he is by spending a weekend homless in the city with no
money or food, only the Jockey for protection. Alex is scared but can't say no. A Notable
Book in the CBC Book of the Year 2005
Imagine finding yourself in the body of a baby, with all the disadvantages of that
condition.
Families were never like this in Ian Bone's seriously funny story of one boy's trawl
through his adolescence, coping with mum's cancer, a girl, his siblings and the dolphin.
The puppet uin the television studio, used in a children's TV show, has more on its mind
than entertaining the children who watch the popular show.
Vidz Series No 3: Bo enters an action-packed spy movie and becomes a secret agent
trying to overcome evil.
Vidz Series No 2: Kaz is drawn into a time travel movie where she learns she can
change the past.
The science teacher at the school has invented a machine which will give you a new
look and he's trying to lure Abbey into his lab. A fourth in this highly successful series
which has the kids download videos and then take part in them.
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BOUCHET, Bruno
The Trouble with Sauce
BOWEN, Carl
The Jungle Book
BOWEN, Victoria
War's End
BOWLES, Colin
Going Off
BOWLES, Colin
Night in the sun
BOWLES, Colin
Surfing Mr. Petrovic
BOYNE, John
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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Set in the 1970's on a station in Queensland, the story of a girl growing up amongst six
siblings. She longs for a sister, but cannot reach out to the girl of her own age who lives
next door.
Jonty is surprised to see his fellow students become smarter and develop successful
habits. He is suspicious however of the school principal and what he is getting up to.
Classic Fiction
The retelling of the story of Mowgli who grew up amongst the animals of the Indian
jungle. His family was a wolf pack and his enemy was Shere Khan the tiger. Should he
leave the jungle to live back with humans or stay amongst his pack?
When Nell's father is about to return home after World War 1, she is struck down with
the Spanish Flu, the epidemic sweeping the world at the close of the war.
Greg is tempted to do something desperate after the breakdown of his parents'
marriage and the death of his friend.
14 year old Sam helps his father at his picture theatre in Broome in the 1920's. He loves
to imagine he is one of the cowboys on screen until confronted with a real life drama
where a man is killed. Mature readers
While this story appears to be about the activities of a rebellious boy, there are
underlying themes of anger and sadness over the break up of a family.
The story of a Nazi Concentration Camp told through the eyes of an eight year old boy.
BRADFORD, Chris
BRADFORD, Chris
The Ring of Earth
The Way of the Dragon
Young Samurai
Young Samurai
BRANFORD,
Henrietta
BRASCH, Nicholas
Fire, Bed and Bone
BONGERS, Christine Dust
BRAZEL, Janette
BRESLIN, Theresa
So You Want to be Prime
Minister?
3 Willows: A New Sisterhood
Grows
The Sisterhood of the Traveling
Pants
Dead Giveaway
Mutant
BRESLIN, Theresa
BRIAN, Janeen
Remembrance
Cross Currents
BRIAN, Janeen
BRIGGS, Raymond
Hoosh! Camels In Australia
Fungus The Bogeyman
BRIGGS, Raymond
The Man
BRASHARES, Ann
BRASHARES, Ann
Gr8 reads
Jack Fletcher is on the run with the Shogun's samurai hot on his tail.
Jack's warrior training is put to the test when in 1613, the samurai are splitting apart,
taking sides in a war which threatens Japan.
Set in England in 1381, this story of political and emotional unrest is seen through the
eyes of an old farm dog.
Crammed with funny anecdotes and snippets of information, the handbook is a perfect
introduction to the occupation of being Prime Minister in Australia.
Three school friends go their own way over the summer holidays and discover more
about true friendship.
One pair of jeans fits all four friends as they spend the summer apart, but keep in touch
with email, postcards and phone.
Great Grandmother Lola left a riddle to be solved when she died.
Brad realises someone is trying to break into the cloning unit, but cannot decide who he
can trust.
This story covers the lives of 5 young men who enlist to fight in World War One.
Julia agrees to go with her stepfather camping, but is shocked when his taciturn son
comes along too. When they become stranded with Jeff breaking a leg, then it is up to
the two teens to work together to save their family.
A fascinating look at the role camels have played in Australian life.
A strip cartoon book about a miserable Bogeyman called Fungus, his wife Mildew, and
son, Mould.
A little, hairy man appears in the bedroom of a schoolboy demanding food, clothing and
shelter. This story is told in cartoon style.
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BRINSMEAD, Hesba
Pastures of the Blue Crane
BRINSMEAD, Hesba
The Silver Train to Midnight
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A lonely girl discovers that she has inherited a property in northern Queensland. The
grandfather she has never known, goes with her to this unfamiliar, rural community.
Tales in the Longtime tradition (but with different names) of a mildly eccentric family and
their extensive network of relations. The title story is delightful, about a little girl's belief
that the silver train went from a beautiful seaside city to a dark town, Midnight, and her
experiences when she actually does catch the train.
London detectives DemiChat and Lord Flannery Beagle are on the trail of a missing
scientist who has the formula for a special purple powder.
Jack exchanges his cow for a handful of beans. Familiar? But this is set in space...
BRISLAND, Toni
DemiChat and the Kent Street
Mystery
BRODERICK, Damien Jack and the Skyhook
BRODERICK, Damien Stuck In Fast Forward
& BARNES, Rory
Stuck in the future where they are safe from the plague, Nat and Fiona and their family
find the future is not as safe as they think.
BRONTE, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
BROOKE, Lauren
Coming Home
BROOKE, Peggy
Jake's Orphan
BROOKS, Karen
Tallow
Only nine when she is orphaned and sent off to live with an unloving aunt, Jane spends
miserable, lonely years at boarding school before becoming a governess in the home of
a mysterious man.
A sensitive story about endurance, overcoming grief, and the importance of family and
friends. Heartland is a recovery centre for horses that have been rescued from neglect
and physical cruelty.
Young orphan, Tree, fervently wishes to set up a home for himself and his brother away
from the orphanage, in this story about identity, belonging and the transfiguring power of
love.
Tallow is raised by a poor candle maker, but somehow knows she is destined for great
things, if only she can stay alive.
Molly is torn between living with her mother or her father
Heartland
The Curse of the Bond
Riders
BROOKSBANK, Anne Mother's Day
BROOME, Errol
Away with the Birds
BROOME, Errol
Cry of the Karri
BROOME, Errol
Dear Mr Sprouts
BROOME, Errol
Nightwatch
BROOME, Errol
Rockhopper
A Little Ark Book
Sebastian is unhappy when he and his parents move from the country to a house in the
city. He feels unable to make friends with the other school children, particularly as his
sister is a teacher there, but does establish a relationship with his neighbour Mr Neary
who races pigeons.
When Aiden is lost in the forest, he is drawn into the mystery of a boy who disappeared
in the same forest two years before.
As a school project young Anke Duyker lets go a balloon with a pack of seeds attached.
A lonely country boy plants them, reluctantly, and as the trees grow so do Freddie and
Anke and their friendship by letter.
Chippy and Areti become firm friends because Areti, unlike many other people, sees a
person in Chippy before she sees her blindness. This is a story from Chippy's viewpoint,
how she manages as a blind person in a world of sight, how people react to her and
how the use of her other senses help to catch some bird smugglers on her
grandparent's farm. A touch of irony is that Chippy's father is a painter.
Quentin is dominated by an overprotective mother, but he learns self confidence from
Gus, a man with a past.
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BROWN, Alan
Tolpuddle Boy
BROWNE, Anthony
The Tunnel
BROWNLEE, Jodie
BRUGMAN, Alyssa
Ruby Rosemount and the
Doomsday Curse
Ruby Rosemount and the Magic
Carpet
Being Bindy
BRUGMAN, Alyssa
Finding Grace
BRUGMAN, Alyssa
Girl Next Door
BRUGMAN, Alyssa
Solo
BRYSON, Bill
A Really Short History of Nearly
Everything
Exchanging Lives
BROWNLEE, Jodie
BUCHANAN, Kathy
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In 1834, six Dorset farm labourers were arrested and sentenced to seven years
transportation to Australia. Their crime was to set up a "friendly society" to bargain for
better wages and escape appalling poverty.
Jack disappears down a tunnel and is turned to stone. Fairytale-loving Rose has to
restore him to flesh and blood. A story about sibling rivalry, stereotyping, fear and the
power of love in a dark, and ultimately, liberating fantasy.
Ruby is genie who goes to the Acadmy of Peace school in Babylon. Can she save the
world by destroying the Doomsday Curse?
A hugely exciting ride on a magic carpet. Hang on tight.
Bindy and Janey have been friends all their lives but high school creates problems
which neither can resolve. But when their single parents begin dating, they combine
forces to dissolve this relationship. Both learn to accept the other's differences.
BUCKLEY-ARCHER, Gideon the Cutpurse
Linda
BUDD, Laura
Augustine's Lunch
BULL, Angela
Flying Ace: the Story of Amelia
Earhart
BURGESS, Melvin
Billy Elliot
BURGESS, Melvin
The Cry of the Wolf
BURKE, Bob
The Third Pig Detective Agency
DK Readers
Grace becomes the carer of a brain-damaged woman, also called Grace. (Mature
readers)
Jenna-Belle's easy life has fallen apart. Her dad has disappeared, mum has lost her job
and her baby and their house has been taken back. They are left with nothing.
Sent to a wilderness camp for the week, she must camp by herself for 24 hours in an
effort to come to know herself.
The mysteries of science are explained, from how the universe began through to the
presence and influence of humans on our planets.
Charlie and Annie used to be best friends. They have very different plans for their
exchange student experience in America.
Kate and Peter time slip into the eighteenth century after an accident in the lab where
time experiments are taking place.
A light, humorous treatment of bullying and gender stereotyping based on character and
situation. The new boy, Steve, makes Gus's life a misery, turning him from a confident,
well-liked kid at high school into the class victim.
Amelia Earhart was the first female aviator to cross the Atlantic. This courageous pilot
disappeared in terrible weather conditions after leaving Australia on another flight. She
believed that women must attempt to do things, just as men must.
Billy's father wants him to learn how to box, just as he did and his father before him, but
Billy wants to dance. So begins a bitter battle as Billy sticks to his desire to dance.
Ben learns about extinction and survival when he changes from helping the hunter to
saving the wolves. The hunter becomes the hunted in this story of the sole surviving
grey wolf cub.
The Third Pig Detective The third pig in the Three Little Pigs tale is trying hard to make a go of detecting, and
Agency
when Aladdin comes along with a plea that he find his lamp, things hot up. A funny
parody of the old tales and nursery rhymes, makes the setting very familiar.
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When Evie's mum gives her a red cardigan she found at the second hand shop, Evie
feels uneasy. She sees things other people don't see and when a girl is found to be
misisng, Evie feels that the cardigan may be involved.
Mitch learns at his grandfather's side the art of surfing, a sport at which his grandfather
excelled. Now grandfather is dying and so sets out to build Mitch the best surfboard he
can.
A relief teacher turns out to be a nukekubi and so Miku is in trouble, especially when her
baby brother is kidnapped by the Japanese demons.
Oxford World's Classics Mary is as sullen as her sickly cousin, Colin, until the hidden garden brings them both to
life.
Why and how animals do the things they do is presented with fantastic photography.
An exciting guide to the natural world, full of colour, facts, pictures, activities and things
to discover.
During their last year at school, Nat, Lise and Sofia, the best of friends all through
school, find their lives changing as they have different experiences. Shy Lise finds life
overwhelming and begins to lose weight and so develops anorexia. (mature readers)
Professional players and their coaches describe in this book the training drills they use
and tips on top fitness progammes to improve stamina and speed. This includes
goalkeeping, defense, midfield and strikers demonstrated by diagrams, photographs
and explanatory text.
Abandoned and living in a not so nice orphanage, Molly Moon learns how to hypnotise
with her eyes. She heads to New York to find fame and fortune and ends up in the
hands of her enemy.
Set in London in 1810, Miss Nicola Sparks, an independent husband-hunting orphan
mixes with lords, earls and viscounts. She meets the fabulously rich and breathtakingly
handsome cad and bounder, Lord Sebastian.
Avalon High Coronation This is a girl's book melding fantasy, romance, family and getting by at school. This is
based on the Arthurian mythology and placed in the USA. It is up to Ellie to get Will to
believe he is King Arthur reincarnatedand still be the Homecoming Queen. Book 2 is
'Homecoming' and book 3 is 'Hunter's Moon'. They are done in the Manga style.
BURKE, JC
The Red Cardigan
BURKE, JC
White Lies
BURNE, Cristy
Takeshita Demons
BURNETT, Frances
H.
BURNIE, David
BURNIE, David
The Secret Garden
How Animals Work
Nature Explorer
BURTON, Rebecca
Leaving Jetty Road
BUXTON, Ted
Soccer Skills for Young Players
BYNG, Georgia
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of
Hypnotism
CABOT, Meg
Nicola and the Viscount
CABOT, Meg
The Merlin Prophecy
CABOT, Meg
The Princess Diaries
CADDY, David
Pope Max
CAHIR, Sandra
Livewire Investigates Aboriginal Livewires
Studies: Traditional Technologies
The first book about Mia who lives in New York City until it is revealed she is the heir to
the throne and becomes a princess.
When his grandfather dies, calling him Il Popa, Max turns his already religious head to
thoughts of Rome. A very funny take on a boy convinced he is going to be Pope one
day.
Sandra Cahir looks at the type of technology used by Aboriginal people living a
traditional lifestyle.
CAISLEY, Raewyn
Hot Shot
Adam Barrett loves soccer but his dad loves rugby.
The Princess Diaries
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When Nick joins his father's old cricket club, bad sportsmanship seems to be the order
of the day. Nick has to stand up and be counted when sledging becomes an issue.
Not Cricket
CARLYON, Patrick
The Gallipoli Story
CARMICHAEL, Claire Ads R Us
CARMICHAEL, Claire Cybersaur
CARMICHAEL, Claire Fabricant
CARMICHAEL, Claire Gotta B
This book brings the stories and myths of Anzac alive.
Born into a community that shuns the modern world, Barrett is seized by his aunt when
his father dies, and taken to the new world. His reactions are recorded and used in a
world where advertising is king.
Virtual Realities Trilogy Second title in the Virtual Realities trilogy. What a nostalgia trip! The Bobbsey Twins reborn in sci-fi!
Sequel to Originator, a classic tale of genetic engineering.
In the near future where all people are in instant communication via their iZod, Rick
becomes a disconnect, one of the few whose lines of contact are withdrawn. His friends
try desperately to find out why, uncovering a conspiracy of mammoth proportions.
CARMICHAEL, Claire Incognito
CARMICHAEL, Claire Originator
CARMICHAEL, Claire The Freezing Eye
Hotshots
CARMICHAEL, Claire Virtual Realities
CARMODY, Isobelle
A Fox Called Sorrow
Legend of Little Fur
CARMODY, Isobelle
A Mystery of Wolves
Legend of Little Fur
CARMODY, Isobelle
A Riddle of Green
Legend of Little Fur
CARMODY, Isobelle
Alyzon Whitestarr
CARMODY, Isobelle
Angel Fever
CARMODY, Isobelle
Little Fur
CARMODY, Isobelle
Obernewtyn
CARMODY, Isobelle
The Farseekers
Legend of Little Fur
Here the future is about control. Everyone is barcoded and continually tracked and
watched. When Karr and his father, for political reasons, lose their identity then they no
longer exist. They cannot get money or even access their own apartment.
Adam and Callie are both part of the Leets, the top strata of society, but when it is
discovered that their father has engineered their birth, he is put into jail as they begin to
question all they know.
Hotshots Series: Its bad enough to be the new kid at school, when your name is Robert
Roberts, but now the school bully has got it in for Robert.
Andy Tremain has a terrifying ability. Using virtual reality, he can create monsters from
his unconscious mind and he's obsessed with dinosaurs.
The fate of the elf-troll, Little Fur, becomes entangled with the mysterious fox, Sorrow,
who longs only for death. Together they must travel to Underth, the troll king's
underground city.
When Little Fur discovers that her friend, the cat Ginger, is in terrible danger, she is
forced once again to venture forth into the wilderness of a vast human city.
Little Fur begins a strange and dangerous journey that will take her far from her beloved
wilderness and lead her deep into the secrets of her own past.
Alyzon has a gift. She is able to sense, to smell, people who have the affliction. Her
family provide love and support for her journey that takes her to the edge of reality and
society as we know it. Help is provided by a small group of friends who believe in her
and also fear the consequences of what may come to pass.
Eely's dream to become a rift guide is realised one rainy day when she rescues a
winged man in the caves.
Little Fur is half elf, half troll, and she lives in her very own wilderness, a patch of park
within the city where humans live.
Elspeth has enhanced mental abilities which she must hide in a world struggling back
from the brink of apocalypse.
Elspeth must lead the Misfits in this sequal to the popular, "Obernewtyn"
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CARMODY, Isobelle
The Red Shoes
After Dark
CARMODY, Isobelle
CARR, Roger
Vaughan
CARROLL, Jane
Wildheart
Firestorm
CARROLL, Jane
First Born
CARROLL, Jane
CARROLL, Jane
Front Runner
Goose
CARROLL, Lewis
CARROLL, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Puffin Classics
CARTER, Forrest
CASSIDY, Anne
The Education Of Little Tree
Witness
Shades
CASSIDY, Cathy
Angel Cake
CASSIDY, Cathy
Ginger Snaps
CASSIDY, Cathy
Love, Peace & Chocolate
CASSIDY, Cathy
Lucky Star
CASSIDY, Cathy
Sundae Girl
CASWELL, Brian
A Cage of Butterflies
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Amerie's mother has left long ago but she has memories of her bird-like mother who
she suspected could actually fly. A fairy tale, 'The Red Shoes', makes her think that this
is a message that she too must seek her true form and freedom and she leaps from the
roof of the house as her father pursues her.
A young boy, who can communicate with animals, has a strong link to a wild falcon.
Ben watched in horror as the firestorm approached on Ash Wednesday in 1983.
After Alice
Pocket Money Puffins
A tale of change told from the viewpoint of Bree, a much-loved country girl, whose
dreams of life with an Alice-in-Wonderland-like adopted sister are broken when real life
Alice, an emotionally scarred child of a drug addicted mother, now dead, comes into
Bree's family and challenges all her former certainties.
Mother is always tired or busy but Merry gets the chance to stay with her Aunt in Sydney
over Easter. Di is not very responsible and often leaves Merry by herself. Merry has a
bad accident, breaking her leg, and has to stay in hospital.
This is a story about families and Robbie, who loves to run.
Goose is sent to the country to stay with his grandmother while his parents are
overseas. He is uncomfortable but achieves some standing through his swimming
prowess. He also saves a small child from drowning.
Alice's dream becomes real when the white rabbit lures her down a rabbit hole into
Wonderland.
A new edition of a classic with illustrations by John Tenniel, the original illustrator of
Carroll's works.
The story of a Cherokee boyhood.
On the way to school Todd witnesses the attack on an old man in his shop. Unsure
about reporting it to the police he does so, only to be threatened by the brother of the
attacker. When this fails to stop him, his geeky friend Dex is targeted by the criminals.
Kazia and her family move from Poland to Britain to build a new life, but getting used to
Liverpool is harder than they expected and finding friends proves to be difficult, until
Kazia meets Dan, the bad boy in the school.
Ginger thinks she might lose her best friend Shannon if she becomes friends with the
new weird boy at school.
A story of friendship – and what can happen when a boy gets in the way. It’s got a rockband theme, plus lashings of love, peace and chocolate!
Mouse, expelled from school for graffiti meets Cat, a girl from another area, over a stray
dog. Together they fight the crime in their area, getting to know each other and slowly
revealing their secrets.
All Jude wants is a hassle-free life, but it's not easy when she's chasing a trail of broken
promises. Could the floppy-haired boy from school be her knight on shining roller
blades?
Two scientists are working with a group of gifted young people and some autistic
babies. (Mature readers)
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Flyways
Millions of settlers come to the planet, Deucalion, to take advantage of the chance it
offers for a new beginning. What does this mean for the Elokoi, who lived there first?
And why are the people dying mysteriously?
A companion story to Mike, Lisdalia tells her own story which focuses on her Italian
family relationships, racism, bullying and rebellion
The final book in the trilogy, Maddie, like Mike and Lisdalia, deals with the issues of
adolescence. Maddie is a Vietnamese Australian.
An exciting, modern story with elements from ancient mythology.
Mike and his mother have moved from Melbourne to live at Boundary Park in Sydney s
west. Mike soon wishes they'd never left. At school he becomes the victim of the bully,
Shane. Then Mike meets Riny a neighbour with a secret success story.
UQP Adult Fiction
Max, the second youngest in a family of four children, has his worries dismissed by his
busy parents and siblings, 'Relax, Max!'. But he keeps seeing little people in the house
and, to add to his woes, the school bully is after him
A retelling of the last years of the Trojan War, where Achilles is killed, and Helen taken
back by Menelaus, told through the eyes of Helen's slave
Focus thinks he has found the Hawk, a floatplane made by the Wright brothers. One in
the Crime Waves series
While trying to restore his Harley, Jack has to help solve a murder. One in the Crime
Wave series.
Lucy knows she must fight back when she is being bullied at school by a gang.
Voyages of the Flying
Twins Missy and Lenis are on a hijacked airship powered by Bestia. Steampunk at its
Dragon
best with a huge array of characters and an improbable setting which is just marvellous.
CASWELL, Brian
Deucalion
CASWELL, Brian
Lisdalia
CASWELL, Brian
Maddie
CASWELL, Brian
CASWELL, Brian
Merryll of the Stones
Mike
CASWELL, Brian
Relax Max!
CATRAN, Ken
Black Ships Ablaze
CATRAN, Ken
Dawn Hawk
CATRAN, Ken
Road Kill
CHAMBERS, Aidan
CHANDLER, Ben
The Present Takers
Quillblade
CHAPMAN, Helen
CHASE, Diana
Heritage and Places
Surf's Up
Australia's Hertiage
2005 Shortlist - CBC Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
Brad teaches disabled Matt how to surf and finds himself in a life-threatening situation.
CHATTERTON,
Martin
A Belt Around my Bum
Willy Waggledagger
When Oberon, the hippy King of the Faeries, decides to wage war on Queen Elizabeth
for the prize of her diamond studded belt, Willy distracts everyone's attention by
slopping some love potion in the drinks. A sequel to 'By the Picking of my Nose'.
CHATTERTON,
Martin
By the Picking of my Nose
Willy Waggledagger
CHATTERTON,
Martin
CHATTERTON,
Martin
CHATWAY, Carol
The Brain Finds a Leg
A humorous account of William Shakespeare's early life as he struggles with his father
who wants him to be a leather worker, but all Will wants to do is watch the players at the
Stratford Theatre.
Sheldon befriends the new kid in his class, a nerd to out nerd all nerds, and finds that
his investigative powers takes them on an amazing journey.
The Brain and Sheldon find themselves in Switzerland, on a crazy adventure to solve
the crime of Helga's missing father.
Left with her weird aunt Joesta while her parents work in Madagascar, Saffron's distrust
metamorphoses into admiration. The illustrations are breathtaking,
The Brain Full of Holes
Wings
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CHAUNCY, Nan
Tangara
When Lexie was eight, she discovered an old shell necklace that had belonged to her
great-great-aunt. Through the necklace, she meets Merrina, who takes her to a gully
that holds a mystery. A combination of fantasy and Tasmanian history.
CHAUNCY, Nan
Tiger in the Bush
Australian Children's
This is an adventure story about the Tasmanian tiger and a family living deep in the
Classics
heart of the Tasmanian wilderness.
CHENG, Christopher 60 Classic Australian Poems
A lovely selection of favourite Australian poems, including the old faithfuls, Henry
Lawson, Banjo Paterson and CJ Dennis. A fascinating collection for kids to read and
teachers to use in the classroom.
CHENG, Christopher New Gold Mountain: the Diary of My Story
Shu Cheong, records the terrible happenings at Lambing Flat, which reflects the way
Shu Cheong, Lambing Flat, NSW
the Chinese were viewed by the other miners in the early gold mining town in New
1860-1861
South Wales.
CHRISTOPHER, John The Prince In Waiting
Luke does not adequately anticipate the future changes to his primitive society.
CHRISTOPHER, John The White Mountains
Tripods
An adventure story which reflects on free will when alien machines try to rule.
CHURCHETT,
Rainforests of Australia
Jacaranda English
Colourful photographs highlight this book about the ecology of Australian rainforests.
Graham
CLAMP, Anita
Angelic Layer Volume #1
The moment small town girl Misaki Suzuhara arrives in Tokyo, she is thrust into the
Sengupta
excitement of Angelic Layer-a high-tech, fast-paced game where dolls called Angels are
controlled by the thoughts of their operators, also called Deus.
CLAMP, Group
Carcaptor Sakura
Carcaptor Sakura:
All the magical cards have escaped from "The Clow", an enchanted book, while the
Master of the Clow
guardian was asleep. It is up to Sakura to recapture them before they wreak chaos and
destruction.
CLARE, Cassandra
City of Bones
The Mortal Instruments An urban fantasy novel set in New York between good and evil. Who can you trust?
CLARK, Anna &
CAWLEY, Kate
Convicted! The Unwonderful
World of Kids, Crims and Other
Convict Capers
Australia's convict history is so schocked with floggings, death, cannibalism and very
smelly feet that it's a wonder your wanted to read about anything else! Short chapters &
illustrated book that takes the 'humourous' approach to Australian convict history
CLARK, Margaret
Famous for Five Minutes
CLARK, Margaret
CLARK, Margaret
Hold My Hand or Else
Licorice Shorts
Peter Nutt strikes trouble in the guise of Equal Opportunity when he and his mates
devise a rock version of Romeo and Juliet so Peter pretends to be a girl, his cousin
Peta Nutt, for three weeks to get the role of lead guitarist. Having to live as a girl opens
his eyes to sexism. About the roles we play.
A story about first love and difficult sisters.
Soorted Shorts: Filo's Uncle Mick sells showbags and has great success with the
licorice bag that includes a pair of shorts made out of licorice. Filo helps him with his
popular stall at the local show but finds himself having to turn to his schoolmates Bront
and Simmo when Uncle Mick goes missing and a wild storm strikes the fairground.
CLARK, Margaret
The Big Chocolate Bar
CLARK, Margaret
CLARK, Margaret
The Search: Coolini Beach
Web Watchers
A great read about the ingenuity of a class which is told they must not take lollies,
chocolates or any sugar on their annual camp.
A summer of sun, surf, surfers and excitement for Flick and Liz.
Set inside a virtual internet world, two friends attempt to save earth's internet from evil.
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CLARKE, Judith
CLARKE, Judith
Kalpana's Dream
One Whole and Perfect Day
CLARKE, Judith
CLODE, Danielle
The Heroic Life of Al Capsella
Prehistoric Giants: The
Megafauna of Australia
Sadako and the Thousand Paper
Cranes
COERR, Eleanor
COLBERT, June
King of Large
Takeaways
COLBERT, June
The Last Boy
COLBERT, June
Volcano
COLE, Brock
The Goats
COLFER, Eoin
COLFER, Eoin
COLFER, Eoin
Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis
Artemis Fowl
Complex
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
COLFER, Eoin
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
COLFER, Eoin
Benny and Omar
COLFER, Eoin
COLFER, Eoin
The Artemis Fowl Files
The Legend of Spud Murphy
COLFER, Eoin
The Supernaturalist
COLLINS, Paul
Dragonfang
COLLINS, Paul
Slaves of Quentaris
Artemis Fowl
The Quentaris
Chronicles
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About a girl Neema whose great-grandmother comes to visit from India.
A young girl tries to get her family to have one whole and perfect day, where they would
all be together, forgiving each other for acts in the past, and accepting each other for
the person they are.
Al and Louis have a year of Aussie fun involving surfing and girls.
Step back in time to when giant goannas and marsupial lions stalked the Australian
bush, a time when humans shared the land with giants.
Sadako was only two years old when she survived the atomic bomb attack on
Hiroshima. Nine years later while practising running or her school athletics carnival she
collapsed and was diagnosed with leukaemia. This is the story of her fight to stay
alive.....
The FAT word is never used in Robbie's house, but when he has problems with his
health, the word diet becomes part of his vocabulary.
A boy finds that he is the last boy on Earth. He needs to survive and see if there is
anyone else left alive.
The daughter of a volcano watcher comes under some intense pressure at school
because her father, the scientist, is holding up the development of the local mining
industry.
It's the American summer camp scene and the seasoned campers play their traditional
trick on the two least popular and least worldly boy and girl.
Artemis Fowl holds the fairy, Holly Short to ransom.
Another in the very funny Artemis Fowl series, where Artemis must make a trip
underwater.
In this sequel, Artemus embarks on a daring plan to fight the Lower Elements and to
rescue his father.
Artemis wants to make a fortune, but he relies on the fair, Holly Short to save the day.
In moving to Africa, Benny finds that language can be a problem, as his friend Omar
can only speak English he has learnt from the television.
Artemis Fowl's locked dossier of all his adventures since he met the fairies.
Will's mother has the brilliant idea of packing Will and his brother Marty off to the library
during the holidays. Doesn't she know that, not only is the library no fun, it's also the
home of the legendary librarian Mrs Murphy?
Cosmo is desperate to escape the orphanage to which he was sent. He, as with the
others, is used for pharmaceutical comjpanies' experiements with new drugs. Escaping
brings him in contact with a group of subversives intent on destroying the blue parasites
which they can see but no one else can.
Jelindel Chronicles series: A sequel to Dragonlinks, this story continues the adventure
of Jelindel a strong young woman, about to overcome the forces of evil when confronted
with the power of the pentacle gems.
Yukin and his companion journey through the rift caves and discover hidden powers
involving the insects.
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A group of short stories, around the theme of the wasteland by many of Australia's top
sci fi writers.
Quentaris - Quest of the The first in this new series of Quentaris adventures, sees Quentaris cut adrift from the
Lost City
earth, and drift off into space, creating a whole new set of problems to be overcome.
COLLINS, Paul
Tales from the Wasteland
COLLINS, Paul
The Spell of Undoing
COLLINS, Paul
Vampires of Quentaris
COLLINS, Suzanne
Catching Fire
The Quentaris
Chronicles
The Hunger Games
COLLINS, Suzanne
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
COLLODI, Carlo
Pinocchio
COMPESTINE, Ying
Chang
Revolution is not a Dinner Party
CONAN DOYLE, Sir
Arthur
CONDON, Bill
The Extraordinary Cases of
Sherlock Holmes
Heroes
Australia Files
CONDON, Bill
Those Who Dared
Australia Files
Puffin Classics
CONLON-MCKENNA, Under the Hawthorn Tree
Marita
CONNOLLY, Sean
Nelson Mandela
CONSTABLE, Kate
Cicada Summer
CONSTABLE, Kate
The Singer of all Songs
Chanters of Tremaris
CONSTABLE, Kate
Winter of Grace
Girlfriend Fiction
The last in the current series of Quentaris Chronicles, with the familiar characters
beating off a raid by a group of vampires.
Katniss finds that to curb the ongoing talk of revolt, the capital calls back all the winners
of the past games to fight again. This time groups must form alliances knowing that in
the end they will become combatants. A tense and thrilling second installment of a
phenomenal series.
Pitted against 23 other teens just like her, Katniss knows that this is no game, but a life
and death struggle, fully viewed by the world's audience. A sobering look at where
reality TV could go, this story grabs from the first minute.
Pinnochio is a wooden puppet carved by Old Gepetto. He has a nose which grows
longer whenever he tells a lie. He runs away and joins a circus but, eventually, the
conscience of a talking cricket and Pinnochio's guardian fairy save him.
Based on a true story, Ling's family come under scrutiny during the Cultural Revolution
in China, until the Red Guard force their way into their apartment. They send Father off
to work in the fields, and Mother has to make do on very little, selling their precious
possessions to stay alive.
An amazing collection of Sherlock Holmes' cases, one of the first crime stories
published.
A look at some of the more heroic people in Australia's past and present, including, Dick
Smith, Weary Dunlop, Grace Bussell, Louis Lawson, and Roberta Sykes.
A look at some of those Australians now and in the past who had the courage of their
convictions and dared to make a difference. People include Germaine Greer, Lois
O'Donoghue, Annette Kellerman and Howard Florey.
Ireland in the 1840s is devastated by famine. Three children are left to fend for
themselves when tragedy strikes their family. Can they find their great aunts?
Here is a biography of the life and work of a political activist, his imprisonment and
election as the president of South Africa.
Drawn to her grandmother's deserted house after being left by her father with this
taciturn woman, Eloise steps into another time where she finds a friend and learns to
accept her mother's death.
An unconscious stranger, who possesses his own magical chantments, has infiltrated
Antaris. He leads Calwyn on a journey of self-discovery in this captivating fantasy saga
of adventure and enchantment, set in extraordinary lands.
Bridie and Stella find a way to maintain their friendship despite differing views about
religion.
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Katy Carr is untidy, tall and gangling, planning for the day when she will be beautiful and
beloved. She is also very disobedient and, as a result, has an accidental fall from a
swing that threatens her hopes for the future. Katy, with her usual courage,
COOLIDGE, Susan
What Katy Did
COOPER, Michelle
The Rage of Sheep
Hester must make decisions about her life, whether to follow the sheep in their insular
attitudes, or become a goat, climbing above the attitudes which dismay her.
COOPER, Susan
The Dark Is Rising
CORBET, R. M.
The Boy/Friend
The Dark and the Light are ancient enemies. In book one in the series of five, the Dark
has chosen this time to begin its ascent.
Can a relationship change from being good friends to being girlfriend and boyfriend and
still work?
The fictionalised story of Lady Jane Grey who became queen for 9 days following the
death of Edward, Henry the Eighth's son, in 1544.
Diverse stories about family ties and personal experiences, written by Australian and
Irish authors.
Halo is cared for by a group of centaurs after being washed ashore in Ancient Greece,
and retains the disguise as a boy when she goes to Athens in search of her real family.
CORBY, Caroline
Lady Jane Grey : Queen for Sale Before They Were
Famous
CORCORAN, Clodagh Goodbye and Hello
CORDER, Zizou
Halo
CORNISH, David M.
Factotum
Monster Blood Tattoo
CORNISH, David M.
Foundling
Monster Blood Tattoo
CORNISH, David M.
Lamplighter
Monster Blood Tattoo
CORRIS, Peter
Blood Brothers
COSTAIN, Meredith
COSTAIN, Meredith
Ali: Goal Attack
All Stars 1: Maddy, Goal Defence All Stars
COSTAIN, Meredith
All Stars 3: Josie, Wing Attack
COUCH-KEEN,
Glenda
Tom Downer's Legacy: The Story
Of The State Horse Drawn
Vehicle Collection
Australian Bushrangers
COUPE, Robert
The third in the Monster Blood Tattoo series, in which Rossamund continues as a
lamplighter despite his growing empathy with the monsters.
Monster Blood Tattoo series - Book 1 A fabulous fantasy series with diagrams, maps
and drawings adding to the realm of monsters created.
The second in this incredible fantasy series sees the hero, Rosamund, trek out on his
own as a Lamplighter.
Bart realises that his broken leg, done in a rugby game, is the result of a deliberate
action by his supposed best friend, Jack, but why?
Number 8 in the All Stars Series
Maddy is a good netballer and finds that she has been left out of the team. She and two
other girls decide to make up their own team and set about gaining some more
members. The first in the series sets the scene for the other 7.
Josie's sister's wedding is approaching, and being from a large Italian family, means
that nothings is spared. But the wedding is the same day as the game. Josie has no
choice but to be with her family, but when a disaster occurs, her friends come to the
rescue.
A fascinating story of the SA National Trust's collection of horse-drawn vehicles with
many photos and illustrations
This book portrays the history of bushranging in Australia and gives the details of many
bushrangers.
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COUVILLON, Jacques The Chicken Dance
COVER, Arthur Byron Macbeth: The Graphic Novel
COWELL, Cressida
How to be a Pirate by Hiccup
Horrendous Haddock III
COWELL, Cressida
How to Train your Dragon
COX, Michael
CREECH, Sharon
Agincourt: Jenkin Lloyd, France
1415
How to Drink from a Frog and
other Things you Need to Know
about Food.
Whose Crazy Idea was That?
Awesome! Australian Art for
Contemporary Kids
Hate That Cat
CREECH, Sharon
CREECH, Sharon
Heartbeat
Love that Dog
CREECH, Sharon
Ruby Holler
CREECH, Sharon
The Wanderer
CREECH, Sharon
Walk Two Moons
CREW, Gary
Automaton
CREW, Gary
Beneath the Surface
CREW, Gary
Force Of Evil
CREW, Gary
I Saw Nothing - the Extinction of
the Thylacine.
COX, Michael
CRAIG, Claire
CREE, Laura Murray
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Struggling to survive with parents who ignore him, Don looks after the chickens in the
Bridge
back yard so well that he wins the local prize at the chicken judging competition. But
finding his birth certificate locked away with a different name, sets him on the trail of a
sister he thought dead.
Set in the future this is an adaption of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Hiccup seems an unlikely heir to the leadership of the Hairy Hooligans Viking group as
he struggles to survive training in sword fighting at sea and other essential skills.
However, his cleverness; his ability to speak Dragonese; help from his friend, save the
Hooligans from slavery, find the treasure and live to be a wise leader.
This book tells the boisterous tale of a young heir to a Viking chiefdom who must hunt
down the fiercest dragon in the land, but ends up with the smallest, most ornery dragon.
My Story
The story of Jenkin Lloyd, archer and his adventure at the Battle of Agincourt.
A fast, funny look at food, nutrition and diet from all sorts of perspectives, giving insight
into the history of food along the way, some of which will turn your stomach.
True stories about crazy ideas for new inventions.
Describing contemporary artworks and the intentions of the artists to show their
relevance to today's kids.
After the loss of his dog, Sky, Jack finds he has the same teacher, the one who loves
poetry. So he tries all that she shows them in class, emulating poets like Tennyson,
Myers, Williams and Poe.
Annie understands the cycle of life through her own family.
In verse, the boy in this poem explains that he hates poetry and cannot write it. In doing
so he writes a whole novel.
Florida and Dallas are twins from an orphanage who are learning to trust people again
now they have foster parents.
In this story about sailing, Sophie travels from Nova Scotia to England to visit the
grandfather that she has never met.
Sal is coping with loss and change and is helped by her unusual friend, Phoebe, and her
wise, loving grandparents.
Thomas Edison tried to make automatons - life-like dolls which could walk and talk - but
was not successful, and he dug a pit and buried them all.
A stunning sequel to the Watertower, Steven Woolman was working on this book before
he died in 2004. The illustrations are superb. Everyone who reads this book will want to
discuss it with someone else who has read it.
A group of short stories each with the base of being about crime and the police. Some
are supernatural, some just scary.
Gary Crew believes the extinction of any animal is a tragedy which is why he wrote this
book.
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Through the device of a letter, the story of what possibly happened to the Mary Celeste
is revealed. The ship was found in full sail, seaworthy but completely deserted in the
Atlantic ocean in 1872 and has been the subject of all sorts of speculation ever since.
CREW, Gary
In the Wake of Mary Celeste
CREW, Gary
Mama's Babies
CREW, Gary
CREW, Gary
Me and My Dog
Memorial
CREW, Gary
Old Ridley
CREW, Gary
Quetta
CREW, Gary
Stolen Children of Quentaris
CREW, Gary
The Fort
CREW, Gary
The Kraken
CREW, Gary
CREW, Gary
The Lost Diamonds of
Killiecrankie
The Watertower
CREW, Gary
The Well
CREW, Gary
Troy Thompson's Excellent
Peotry Book
CREW, Gary
Victory
CREW, Gary &
HATHORN, Libby
CREW, Gary &
NEILSEN, Phillip
Dear Venny, Dear Saffron
The Wombat King
After Dark
CREW, Gary &
O'HARA, Michael
The Millstone
After Dark
Takeaways
The Quentaris
Chronicles
After Dark
Sam Silverthorne
An historical novel set in the early days of Sydney, where new mothers, unable to cope
with a large family, farmed out their children to a minder.
10 short stories about man's best friend.
A new perspective on the ANZAC tradition and the implications of war on different
generations.
Intriguing fantasy about a solitary teenage boy fascinated by the very old, reputedly mad
inventor in the mysterious mansion next door. The story is based on the myth of Eos
and Tithonus who, by a trick of the gods, were granted immortality.
An emotionally charged picture book based on the facts surrounding the shipwreck of
the Quetta in Torres Strait in 1890.
A prequel to the amazing story, The Plague of the Quentaris, this story tells about the
kidnapping of the Quentaris children by the Nordian traders.
After Dark 32: Hiro, a gentle artistic boy becomes the victim of bullies in a brutish war
game at the fort, a construction left over from the defence of the Torres Strait in WW2.
But Hiro is revenged in an odd and unexpected way.
Through his determination and imagination, Christopher, who is blind, defeats the
Kraken, the beast of doubt, and helps his cynical sister who is unwilling to see how
things can be.
What happened long ago in Tasmania to the diamonds of Killiecrankie?
A mysterious watertower becomes more than a place to cool off for two outback youths.
The suspense is powerful.
After Dark 3: An unnerving story about the death of a twin and his nephews who visit the
site where he died, one of whom is almost lured to his death in turn.
An excellent collection of clever poems, indeed. The dialogue between student and
teacher in Troy's school exercise book is all written in poetry. Just like Mrs Kranke,
Troy's teacher, this book will encourage many in a love of poetry.
A wonderful adventure on the island of Mauritius as Sam and his friends follow the trail
of a murderer, who used a plate of oysters laced with a poisonous shell to kill.
Venny is a boy in Brisbane and Saffron a girl in New York and they exchange letters.
(Mature readers)
After Dark 13 Series: Christopher is an outsider, the target of bullies, the despair of his
parents, obsessed with wombats and, indeed, more wombat than human. He is
determined to join the Wombat King.
After Dark 36: A huge shifting rock provides Kasha with an opportunity to seal Jill, her
father's girlfriend, 'That Woman' as Kasha's bitter mother calls her, in an undergroud
cave forever.
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CRITCHLEY, Cheryl
Burn Out
CROSHER, Judith
Technology in the Time of
Ancient Egypt
Born of the Sun
CROSS, Gillian
CROSS, Gillian
CROSS, Vince
CROSS, Vince
CROSS, Vince
CROSSLEYHOLLAND, Kevin
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Jessica loves playing basketball but her mum makes her do too many other activities as
well.
Technology in the Time Explores the use of technology in ancient Egypt including technology used in
of
architecture, crafts, hobbies, transportation and ancient inventions.
Off to South America to find an ancient Inca city with her father, Paula finds they are in
deep trouble.
Ashley looks after her mother during the day and paints graffiti at night.
My Story
Thomas Adamson is caught up in the middle of the Civil War which tore England apart.
Tightrope
Civil War: Thomas Adamson,
England, 1643-1650
The Blitz: the Diary of Edie
My Story
Benson, London, 1940-1941
Zulu War: Jabulani, Africa 1879- My Story
1882
Arthur, King of the Middle March The Seeing Stone
CROSSLEYHOLLAND, Kevin
CROSSLEYHOLLAND, Kevin
Arthur: The Seeing Stone
CROWLEY, Bridget
Feast of Fools
CROWTHER, Robert
CUMMINGS, Phil
Pop-up Machines
A Piece of Mind
CUMMINGS, Phil
Angel
CUMMINGS, Phil
Breakaway
CUMMINGS, Phil
Danny Allen was Here
CUMMINGS, Phil
On the Run
CUMMINGS, Phil
Take It Easy Danny Allen
CUMMINGS, Phil
Tearaway
Waterslain Angels
Edie and her family are huddled together in the shelter as the planes drop bombs .
The horrors of the war between the British forces and the Zulu warriors is brought vividly
to life.
The last in the trilogy of Arthur, the Seeing Stone, takes us to Venice where thousands
of soldiers from all over Europe are amassing for the Fourth Crusade. The brutality of
the war under scores its futility.
A retelling of the myths of King Arthur, as the author sets this story of Arthur in a village
in the Welsh marshes.
When Annie first sees the wing of a sculpted angel, found in the attic of the rectory, she
and her friend, Sandy, devote their summer to finding the missing angels which once
adorned their Norfolk church.
Set in a medieval choir school, John has to probe the inner secrets of the Cathedral to
solve a murder.
28 working pop-up machines feature in this book.
A story about bullying on two levels as Matt tries to say no to his friends, all the while
being observed by a group of adolescents in a space ship over earth.
Shane is taken to the doctor by his parents when he insists that he can talk to his dead
brother.
A less than spaceworthy ship leaves earth. Aboard a large group of convicts being sent
to colonise an unknown planet in New Sector West. The parallels with the First Fleet
continue in this exciting story.
Danny Allen lives in Mundowie with his family and his dog, Tippy. For such a small town,
there's always lots of things to do. If only the man from the bank would stop bothering
his parents, life would be perfect.
22 Ridley Road, the rented house has many visitors but few leave, Barry and his friends
decide to find out why.
A very funny sequel to 'Danny Allen was Here', sees Danny and his family living in a
cramped flat in Adelaide, where strange things are happening.
Sequel to Breakaway. A group of of prisoners is sent into space to find a new planet in
New Sector West to inhabit. Paralleling the story of the Crossing of the Blue Mountains,
Tearaway delves into the hearts and minds of those early explorers venturing into the
unknown.
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CUMMINGS, Phil
The Rented House
CURLEY, Marianne
The Dark
CURLEY, Marianne
The Key
CURLEY, Marianne
The Named
CURTIS, Neil
The Memory Book
CUSHMAN, Karen
Catherine, called Birdy
CUSHMAN, Karen
Matilda Bone
CUSHMAN, Karen
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
CUSHMAN, Karen
The Midwife's Apprentice
DADDO, Andrew
DADDO, Andrew
DADDO, Andrew
DAHL, Roald
DAHL, Roald
Dacked
Sprung Again!
Sprung!
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
DAHL, Roald
Charlie and the Great Glass
Elevator
DAHL, Roald
Matilda
DAHL, Roald
Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes
DAHL, Roald
The BFG
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The first in the series of rented house stories, the boys watch the strange who moves
into a nearby house. Stories grow out of proportion as mysterious things happen.
Guardians of Time
Ethan is a member of a group called The Guardians, and he is trained and mentored by
Arkurian. His skills enable him to go back in time and shadow what happens without
changing the events
Ethan is a member of a group called The Guardians, and he is trained and mentored by
Arkurian. His skills enable him to go back in time and shadow what happens without
changing the events
Guardians of Time
Ethan is a member of a group called The Guardians, and he is trained and mentored by
Arkurian. His skills enable him to go back in time and shadow what happens without
changing the events.
Neil Curtis author of this book drew the pictures recollecting his childhood in London
before his family moved to Australia in 1957. Living in the top two rooms of a terrace
house, surrounded by the bombed out remnants of the war, they young Neil roamed the
streets and waterways of London.
Set in the Middle Ages, Catherine objects to marrying the rich suitors whom her father
has arranged for her to meet.
Sent to the Blood and Bone Alley, Matilda spies the implements she must use in her
new job as a bonesetter. A wonderfully evocative historical novel.
Reluctantly taken to the diggings in California during the goldrush, Lucy wants to go
back home to New England.
In 14th century England, Alyce is taken from a life on the streets to be an apprentice to
a village midwife.
A number of entertaining short stories about Fergus.
Fergus Kipper is involved in more amusing incidents in his family.
Amusing stories about Fergus Kipper's family and school life.
Roald Dahl recounts his life as a child, growing up in England.
When Willy Wonka, the eccentric chocolate-maker, opens his doors to the public, young
Charlie Bucket and four unworthy fellow winners, have the opportunity to discover some
of his extraordinary secrets. For Charlie, life will never be the same again.
Charlie, his parents and his grandparents together with Willy Wonka are in the glass
elevator heading back to the chocolate factory when Grandma Josephine interferes and
puts the glass elevator into orbit around the world.
Matilda is an exceptional child with magical powers. Matilda's parents have called her
some terrible things. The truth is, she's a genius and they're the silly ones. Find out how
she gets the better of them and her spiteful headmistress, Miss Trunchbull,
A collection of recipes based on food and drink featured in Roald Dahl's books. They
include mudburgers, hot frogs, lickable wallpaper, stinkbugs' eggs and crispy wasp
stings.
The big friendly giant captures Sophie but he only wants to keep her, not eat her, as the
other giants would.
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DAHL, Roald
The Witches
DALKIN, Philip
Dogstar
D'ARCY, Sean
Freestyle Football Tricks
D'ATH, Justin
Anaconda Ambush
D'ATH, Justin
Bushfire Rescue
D'ATH, Justin
Crocodile Attack
D'ATH, Justin
Devil Danger
D'ATH, Justin
Grizzly Trap
D'ATH, Justin
Killer Whale
D'ATH, Justin
Man Eater
D'ATH, Justin
Monkey Mountain
D'ATH, Justin
Pool
D'ATH, Justin
Scorpion Sting
D'ATH, Justin
Tiger Trouble
DAVID, Laurie &
GORDON, Cambria
The Down-to-Earth Guide to
Global Warming
DAVIDSON, Leon
Red Haze: Australians and New
Zealanders in Vietnam
DAVIDSON, Leon
Scarecrow Army: the Anzacs at
Gallipoli
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The scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year old boy who has a run-in with
some real-life witches!
The year is 2347 and a new planet is being settled, but the spaceship carrying the dogs
has gone missing.
Takes you step by step through the most popular and impressive soccer tricks. Includes
how to juggle, juggling drills to help you improve, impressive catches and the most
popular juggling tricks.
Extreme Adventures
Sam Fox is on a field trip with his uncle in the Amazon, when he's swept over a waterfall
and lands in an underground lake. There he discovers a fortune in gold.
Extreme Adventures
Sam is once again in a position of life and death. This time it's in the high country where
bush fire threatens to engulf everyone in its path
Extreme Adventures
Sam and his cousin are kidnapped at the height of a cyclone in Northern Queensland.
Swept away by the rising water in a flooded creek, Sam must save them all, not only
from the water but the crocodiles
Extreme Adventures
Dodging a Tasmanian Devil on the ski slopes, Sam notices a baby drop down out of the
sky. Kidnappers are in pursuit and he is in the middle of it all.
Extreme Adventures
Sam and his cub scout group are visting North America, when their bus crashes. Sam
must use his initiative to find help and escape from the grizzly bear.
Extreme Adventures
Stranded on the Antarctic ice pack seems mild compared with the whale which rises up
from the deep, showing all of its teeth. Another in the scary series of extreme
adventures.
Extreme Adventures
Stranded in the wilds of Africa, Sam must make his way through an area terrorised by a
man-eating leopard.
Extreme Adventures
A school trip to Borneo sees Sam trying to impress Stephanie by reaching down to
retreive her backpack, stolen by a troop of monkeys near the volcano. The volcano
starts to erupt and Sam and his teacher are stranded.
When Wolfgang begins to fall in love with Audrey, the blind girl, whose father has given
him money to date, he enters her world of near death experience, angels and wanting a
miracle.
Extreme Adventures
When the roof of a cave collapses Sam's brother is trapped under the rubble. Being
trapped however is only a minor problem, because Sam discovers a wave of giant
scorpions.
Extreme Adventures
Sam Fox visits India to see his brother play cricket for Australia, and gets involved in a
wrestle with a tiger.
A practical look at the terms kids hear non-stop, like global warming and carbon
footprint, and explains what these terms mean and some things they can do to curb
global warming.
Through story, personal accounts,letters, diaries and newspaper cuttings, this book
relates the story of our involvement in the Vietnam war with realism, humour and great
interest.
The story of the Anzacs at Gallipoli
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DAVIS, Jenny
If Only I'd Known
DAY, David
Tolkien Bestiary
DE FOMBELLE,
Timothee
DE LA BEDOYERE,
Camilla
DE LA BEDOYERE,
Camilla
DE SAINTEEXUPERY, Antoine
Toby and the Secrets of the Tree
DEARY, Terry
Bloody Scotland
Horrible Histories
DEARY, Terry
DEARY, Terry
DEARY, Terry
Cruel Crimes and Painful
Punishments
Cruel Kings and Mean Queens
Even More Terrible Tudors
The story of the Scots from the desperate Dark Ages to the terrible 20th century. It
provides facts on cool kings, cruel kings, mean queens and wise women. Find out about
William Wallace (Braveheart) and gory Scottish ghost stories.
A funny look at historical and scientific topics
Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories
DEARY, Terry
DEARY, Terry
The Angry Aztecs
The Awesome Egyptians
Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories
DEARY, Terry
DEARY, Terry
The Gorgeous Georgians
The Groovy Greeks
Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories
DEARY, Terry
The Rotten Romans
Horrible Histories
DEARY, Terry
DEARY, Terry
DEARY, Terry
The Ruthless Romans
The Stormin' Normans
The Terrible Tudors
Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories
DEARY, Terry
The Terrible Tudors and the
Slimy Stuarts
The Vicious Vikings
The Vile Victorians
Dark Dreams
Horrible Histories
A funny look at historical and scientific topics
Made famous because of Henry's habit of beheading his wives, this book will give even
more gruesome facts.
A funny look at historical and scientific topics
This book is packed with quizzes, facts and ghastly details of the lives, habits and
customs of the ancient Egyptians.
A funny look at historical and scientific topics
The hip and fabulous Greeks hung out over 2000 years ago. Meet horrible heroes,
suffering slaves and foolish philosophers. Find out about the world's first flushing toilet
and why dedicated doctors tasted their patients' ear wax .
Life in ancient Rome from Nero to Boudicca includes gory games, rotten recipes and
lots of frightening facts.
A funny look at historical and scientific topics
A funny look at historical and scientific topics
The head chopping on the front cover sets the scene for some horrible facts about this
period in our history.
A funny look at historical and scientific topics
DEARY, Terry
DEARY, Terry
DECHIAN, Sonja
Human Body
Wild Animals
The Little Prince
Black Apples
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A dark story which opens in a psychiatric hospital and evolves, with some tender
moments, as Livvie tells her story.
An exciting resource for fans seeking the inspirational source of Tolkien's beasts, flora
and fauna.
Sequel to Toby Alone.
Ripley's Believe it or not! Great fun to be had looking at information about the human body told in a humourous
way with fascinating photos.
Ripley's Believe it or not! Great fun as pages of facts and wonderful photos highlight the strange world of animals
around us.
The whimsical story of an airman's discovery of a very appealing small boy from another
planet in the desert and a thought-provoking allegory of the human condition.
Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories
A funny look at historical and scientific topics
Some revolting facts about our great great grandparents, and their habits.
A book of short stories by young people about those who have come to Australia as a
result of war. Being a refugee is vividly recreated by some.
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DECHIAN, Sonja
No Place Like Home
DEDMAN, Stephen
Bone Hunters: on the Trail of the Extraordinary
Dinosaurs
DEFOE, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
DENANT, David
A Story of Natural Numbers
D'ERRICO, Camilla & Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes
DYSART, Joshua
Volume 1
DESAI, Anita
The Village by the Sea
DHAMI, Narinder
Bang, Bang, You're Dead
DHAMI, Narinder
Bend it like Beckham
DICAMILLO, Kate
Because of Winn-Dixie
DICAMILLO, Kate
The Magician's Elephant
DICAMILLO, Kate
The Tale Of Despereaux
DICKENS, Charles
A Christmas Carol
DICKENS, Charles
Oliver Twist
DICKINSON, Peter
The Ropemaker
DINGO, Sally
DISHER, Garry
Ernie Dingo : King of the Kids: an
Australian Story
From Your Friend, Louis Deane
DISHER, Garry
Maddie Finn
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Young Australians interviewed family and friends to tell their stories of dislocation and
migration, whether it be as a result of war, displacement or migration. Each tells a story
of what it is like to move to Australia and become Australian.
There is a wealth of dinosaur information in this book, as well as accounts of the
palaeontologists who made many of the famous discoveries.
An English sailor is marooned on a desert island for nearly thirty years.
A fascinating look at the history and use of numbers.
Based on a contribution by Avril Lavigne. Hana does not fit in at school and her parents
argue at home. One night she comes across a website, make5wishes.com, and can not
get away from it. A package is ordered from the site that will guarantee all her dreams
will come true via a demon. Part of a series.
This story is set in a fishing village near Bombay, India, and tells of the two oldest
children and their struggle to keep the family together.
When Mia hears that a gunman has got into her school and is holding a class hostage,
she just knows that it is her brother, Jamie. She tries to get into the school which is in
lockdown.
Jess loves to play soccer but her Indian parents think she should be preparing for
marriage.
Opal goes to the supermarket and brings back a dog. Her father lets her keep it, little
knowing that the dog will help them become part of the community.
When a magician tells orphan Peter that his sister is still alive and that the answer to his
question is an elephant, he cannot believe that he has used his silver florin for such an
answer.
This long fantasy novel tells of a mouse, Despereaux, who lives in a castle where lives a
princess with whom he falls in love. Fraternising with humans only puts you in the
dungeons with the rats, but there is one rat with a different agenda altogether.
This book tells the heartwarming story of the mean employer Scrooge who is visited by
four ghosts who tell him that if he doesn't change his ways he will die a miserable man.
Oliver Twist is an orphan in early 19th century England who is befriended by a gang of
child thieves, led by Fagin.
The people of the Valley have been protected for twenty generations by a magic force in
this substantial story. The spell is weakening and their enemies are waiting. Tilja, her
three companions and an obstinate horse seek a mythical figure.
Written for children, this is the story of Sally Dingo's husband, Ernie, and his mob.
As well as having to adapt to moving to a country, coastal town from the city , Louis also
has to deal with the tragic Tilly.
Maddie and her mother are to be evicted from their home in the grounds of Harold
Delamore's big house. But when she is taking Mr Delamore's dog for a walk with Delia
Delamore, they enter an alley to find a gang of kidnappers waiting with surprising result
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DISHER, Garry
Moondyne Kate
DISHER, Garry
The Apostle Bird
DISHER, Garry
DISHER, Garry
The Bamboo Flute
Walk Twenty, Run Twenty
DIXON, Franklin W
Crime in the Cards
Hardy Boys
DIXON, Franklin W
Skin and Bones
Hardy Boys
DIXON, Franklin W
DIXON, Franklin W
The Spy that never Lies
Typhoon Island
Hardy Boys
Hardy Boys
DIXON, Franklin W
Warehouse Rumble
Hardy Boys
D'LACEY, Chris
DOBBIE, Fran
Shrinking Ralph Perfect
Whisper
DODSWELL, Paul
True Escape Stories
DODSWELL, Paul
True Stories of Heroes
DOHERTY, Berlie
The Snake Stone
William Shakespeare and his
Dramatic Acts
DRINKWATER, Carol Suffragette: the Diary of Dollie
Baxter, London 1909-1013
DRINKWATER, Carol The Hunger: the Diary of Phyllis
McCormack, Ireland 1845-1847
DRINKWATER, Carol Twentieth Century Girl: the Diary
of Flora Bonnington, London
1899-1900
DRUMMOND, Allan
Henry Parkes
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A thriller involving Nat and a possible link between his family and the bushrangers.
(Mature readers)
Set in the Western Australian goldfields in the 1930s, this narrative is told by Neil, who
describes life on the sometimes violent diggings.
A story of Paul, his father, and life during the Great Depression in Australia.
Bluegum: Rick's parents have been killed in a traffic accident and he is now living with
his aunt, uncle and cousins on their sheep farm. He feels totally alien until he and his
cousins face danger together when they tackle some sheep thieves.
Hardy Boys: When the Hardys' friend Chet discovers that his deck of cards is
mysteriously stolen right before a card tournament, the boys set out to uncover the
person responsible.
The Hardy Boys - Frank and Joe attempt to track down a suspect who has been
threatening the owner of a store that sells animal skulls, reptile skins and other similar
objects.
The Hardy Boys: Another Hardy Boy's adventure
While cationing on a tropical island, Frank and Joe Hardy endure 'bad luck', face a
dangerious typhoon, and struggle to solge a mystery.
Hardy Boys - The reality based game show in which Frank and Joe Hardy are leading
contestants seems to be plagued with mysterious problems, leading envious
competitors to believe the boys are responsible.
Ralph shrinks to become very small.
These are Australian stories about a special friendship between Edie, an Aboriginal girl,
and Maggie, a non-Aboriginal.
Escaping from Alcatraz, Devil's Island, Wormwood Scrubs are some of the great
escape stories in this book.
Short stories of some of the world's greatest heroes, Jesse Owens, Yuri Gagarin,
Odette.
James is close to his adoptive parents but he has always wondered about his natural
mother and why she gave him away. Armed with only a small stone and a note scribbled
on the back of an envelope as a clue to her identity, James sets off to find his past.
DONKIN, Andrew
A funny look at famous people.
My Story
My Story
My Story
Aussie Notables
Dollie records her participation in the movement dedicated to rights for women at a time
when women could not vote.
The potato famine which struck Ireland in the middle of the nineteenth century is
revealed in all of its horror in Phyllis's diary.
Flora records all her thoughts as the old century closes and the new opens, offering
change and hope for the future.
Henry Parkes is a famous Australian whose face was on the Federation five dollar note.
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DRUMMOND, Allan
John Monash
DUBOSARSKY,
Ursula
DUBOSARSKY,
Ursula
DUBOSARSKY,
Ursula
DUBOSARSKY,
Ursula
DUBOSARSKY,
Ursula
Golden Day
DUBOSARSKY,
Ursula
The Red Shoe
DUBOSARSKY,
Ursula
The White Guinea Pig
DUDER, Tessa
Alex
DUDER, Tessa
Personal Best
DUGAN, Michael
Vietnam War
DUNLAP, Susanne
Anastasia's Secret
DWYER, Christina
EARLY, Margaret
The Sixth Worry Doll
Robin Hood
EATON, Anthony
A New Kind of Dreaming
EATON, Anthony
Fireshadow
EATON, Anthony
Into White Silence
My Father is not a Comedian
The First Book of Samuel
The Game Of The Goose
The Last Week in December
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John Monash has his photo on the $100 Australian bank note, and this book lets us
know why he is so famous.
When a teacher disappears during an excursion, the lives of the classmates are
changed inexplicably as eachhas their own idea of what really happened.
Claudia gets herself and her father into a predicament and has to help her father get out
of it!
Samuel is missing on his twelfth birthday, and his sister must delve into family history to
find out why.
Three children pool their resources to buy a strange looking board game. Each one
disappears inside it as they begin the game.
Stealing her English grandfather's, Ernest's, tobacco pouch was a spur of the moment
thing that lead to anguish for Bella but she was able to forget about her crime for three
years until a return visit by the grandparents is announced. Bella's secret is the focus of
a very amusing look at how different families work and after an eventful summer.....
Set against the Petrov Affair in 1950’s in Australia, "The Red Shoe" tells the story of
three sisters, their parents’ marriage and the minutiae of their everyday lives. Shortlisted
for CBC Book of the Year, 2007
Geraldine has a guinea pig thrust upon her by a school acquaintance, to be minded
during the holidays. The guinea pig disappears and other story strands are introduced.
Alex is competing with Maggie for selection in the New Zealand Olympic Games'
swimming team, when tragedy strikes.
An anthology of stories about a range of sports written by two authors from Australia
and New Zealand.
One of a series about Australia's involvement in wars around the world. The Series
includes Colonial Wars, Boer War, World War One and Two, Korean War.
A fictionalised story of the Romanovs, the last family that ruled Russia, murdered in
1918 during the Russian Revolution, focusing on the imagined love of Anastasia.
A story reflecting the experience of immigration.
This illustrated Robin Hood is a delightful, aesthetic experience with a well-rounded
telling about the Robin Hood tales.
When Jamie is sent to Port Misery to serve out a custodial sentence, he feels
something is wrong. He becomes embroiled in a nasty town story of getting rid of a
refugee who landed on the beach.
The story of two lives crossing, even through 50 years apart, is riveting, as Vinnie
escapes to the bush following his sister's death and finds the remains of a POW camp
in a remote corner of SA Western Australia. The tow stories are told side by side and
come together through fire. Shortlisted in the CBC Book of the Year 2005
The story of the exploration vessel, Raven, trapped in the ice in Antarctica in the winter
of 1922 is revealed in a diary found by a writer who spends time there.
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EATON, Anthony
The Darkness
EDWARDS, Christine On Board the Boussole: the Diary My Story
of Julienne Fulbert, Lapérouse's
Voyage of Discovery 1785–1788
EDWARDS, Hazel
Antarctica's Frozen Chosen
EDWARDS, Hazel
Fake ID
Takeaways
ELDRIDGE, Jim
Armada: the Diary of Thomas
Hobbs, England, 1587-1588
Desert Danger: Tim Jackson,
North Africa WW2
Flying Ace: Jack Fairfax, Royal
Flying Corps, 1915-1918
Spy Smuggler: Paul Leland,
France 1942-1944
The Trenches: Billy Stevens, the
Western Front 1914
My Story
ELDRIDGE, Jim
ELDRIDGE, Jim
ELDRIDGE, Jim
ELDRIDGE, Jim
ELKS, Wendy
The Gift Horse
ELLIS, Deborah
A Company Of Fools
ELLIS, Deborah
Diego, Run!
ELLIS, Deborah
Diego's Pride
ELLIS, Deborah
Looking for X
ELLIS, Deborah
Off to War: Voices of Soldiers'
Children
ELLIS, Deborah
Parvana
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Fear is ever present at Isolation Bay, where an enormous wave takes people in its
wake.
Just how close did Australia come to being a French colony? This book suggests that
although Lapérouse arrived at Botany Bay just as the First Fleet was making it's way
from there to Port Jackson, he came with no firm intentions apart from exploration.
Jade goes on an Antarctic expedition for the summer as an assistant. But she finds out
that she is being used by an eco group and so must make up her mind who to support.
My Story
My Story
My Story
My Story
Zoe finds that on her Gran's funeral, that the name her Gran went by was fake, taken on
to avoid being returned to Hungary after the Olympic Games in Melbourne.
The exciting story of the Armada seen through the eyes of a young boy watching from
the shores.
Defusing mines is an horrific, dangerous job and Tim sees others lose their lives in
North Africa.
The Royal Flying Corps is new with flying machines never seen in a war before. Jack
flies in his Bleriot plane over France.
Paul has lived under Nazi occupation in rural France since the start of WW2. He
becomes part of the escape route for escaped POWs and agents.
A teenager, Billy Stevens, is the hero of this book. He fights in the trenches on the
Western front in 1914. The reader is given a great deal of historical information during
the course of the story.
The story of a girl and a horse. Callie has always wanted a pony of her own and when
she is asked to look after Oscar, she is delighted. But Oscar bites and kicks and is
difficult to ride. Then, one day Callie meets Sarah who knows all about horses .
Henri is part of the Abbey of St Luc, living a quiet life amongst the monks. But a
fearsome disease comnes to their doors in the form of the plague.
Diego is in prison with his family in Bolivia. Making money to help them survive is all he
thinks about so when an offer comes his way he jumps at it. Being a small cog in the
wheel of making and supplying cocaine he is in fear of his life.
A sequel to 'Diego, Run', this books tells us Diego's story as he is helped by a family
that finds him after escaping from the cocaine dealers in the jungles of Bolivia.
Looking after her autistic brothers takes up all the family resources. Khyber learns to
understand the decision her mother makes but only after running away.
Ellis interviewed a large number of children whose parents are part of the military forces
in the USA and Canada. Many do not want to join the defense forces when older, seeing
the effect it has had on their own families. A sad reminder of the effect of war on those
not involved.
To survive the Taliban after her father is taken away, Parvana must don her brothers
clothes and work in the market to keep bread on the table for her family.
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Parvana leaves her home to try and find her mother, and along the way meets other
children as desperate as she, in war torn Afghanistan.
Shauzia roams the refugee camps in Pakistan, hoping still to get to France. She must
make a choice however when the women express their need for her talents.
When Binti's parents both die of AIDS in Malawi, she and her siblings are farmed out to
relatives who do not want them.
Oliver Nocturne
Oliver and his family, a mix of vampires and werewolves, must move from their home in
Seattle.
Oliver Nocturne
A series of attacks on humans forces Oliver's family to track down the culprit before
they are found out. But Oliver and his friends suspect that larger forces are afoot and
hurry to find out what is going on.
Oliver Nocturne
Oliver is in desperate straits. Wanting to escape his fate, the vampire must avoid the
coming ball, but he cannot do that and save his friends. Or can he?
Fantastica is slowly decaying, its childlike empress dying. Only a human can set things
right. Unicorns, dragons and sprites inhabit this enchanted world, into which Bastian
ventures through the pages of an old book.
The story of a refugee family, looking for peace in Australia, and the disgusting way they
are treated. Based on accounts of refugees the author met in Western Australia.
ELLIS, Deborah
Parvana's Journey
ELLIS, Deborah
Shauzia
ELLIS, Deborah
The Heaven Shop
EMERSON, Kevin
Blood Ties
EMERSON, Kevin
The Demon Hunter
EMERSON, Kevin
The Eternal Tomb
ENDE, Michael
The Neverending Story
EVANS, Alwyn
Walk in my Shoes
EVANS, Ann
The Beast
FACEY, A. B.
A Fortunate Life
FARRER, Vashti
Archer's Melbourne Cup
FARRER, Vashti
Escape from Eagle Hawk
FARRER, Vashti
FATCHEN, Max
FATCHEN, Max
Plagues & Federation : the Diary My Story
of Kitty Barnes, The Rocks,
Sydney 1901
A Paddock of Poems
Poetry All Sorts
FATCHEN, Max
Tea For Three
FATCHEN, Max
The River Kings
My Australian Story
"Evan's the beast" is the most straight forward of the two tales and fills in all the
background details for the reader. It is quite traditional in its telling with Amanda and her
brother Grant the main characters with their parents and the strange Rab Stewart being
the only human components to this tale
The uplifting story of A. B. Facey's life growing up around the time of Federation, going
to Gallipoli and living in rural Western Australia.
Told in diary form, the story of Robby Jenkins, a stablehand, makes Melbourne Cup
seem real when Archer, a famous horse before Phar Lap, won the cup.
Action-packed tale of convict boys transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1830s.
Overseers, superintendents and jail bullies make their lives miserable, even dangerous,
but Sam and Jemmy are determined not to be stuck at Point Puer.
Kitty writes her diary living in the slums of the Rocks in 1900. She describes the history
of the times.
This is a collection of Australian poetry
A collection of poems by South Australia's great journalist to be loved, learned and
listened to.
A compilation of the two authors' favourite poems are illustrated in this Australian poetry
book.
Shawn, a thirteen-year-old runaway is taken on by Cap'n Elijah on the 'Lazy Jane'. The
life is hard but Shawn loves the river and makes many friends including the lively
farmer's daughter Mary. Debt, then a fire, finishes the old riverboat and Shawn is
offered a place on the land with Mary's father.
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FEIST, Raymond E.
Magician Apprentice
FENSHAM, Elizabeth Bill Rules
FENSHAM, Elizabeth Helicopter Man
FENSHAM, Elizabeth Miss McAllister's Ghost
FIELDER, Lisa
Dating Hamlet
FIENBERG, Anna
FIENBERG, Anna
FIENBERG, Anna
Ariel, Zed and the Secret of Life
Joseph
Number 8
FILIPOVIC, Zlata
Zlata's Diary
FINE, Anne
FINE, Anne
Madame Doubtfire
The Book of the Banshee
FINE, Anne
The Road of Bones
FINN, Mary
Anila's Journey
FISHER, Catherine
The Archon
FITZGERALD, F.
Scott
The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button
FITZHUGH, Louise
Harriet the Spy
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Pug and Tomas are two kitchen boys who drem of being heroes one day in a medieval
fantasy world.
Matty Forever
Sequel to the highly popular 'Matty Forever', this book tells of two friends, Matty and Bill,
who are also next door neighbours. Bill is worried when he hears his father has been
released from jail and is headed home.
Hiding form the helicopters and the police means that and his father is alone all the
time. Little by little the reader realises that what they are hiding from is not real, that the
boy's father is mentally ill, and the story becomes a look at how the boy will cope and
protect his father.
When Wilf runs home, scared out of his wits, his brother and sister decide to investigate
his story of a ghost. Cautiously they find the house he visited and find his ghost is an
eccentric old woman called Miss McAllister.
Imagine the story of Hamnlet where nearly everyone ends up dead on the stage,
changed with the advent of a feisty and opinionated Ophelia. Usually vapid and vague,
Ophelia takes on a modern stance in this very funny update of the Shakespearean play.
(more mature readers)
Two friends travel to the Island, a magical mystical place.
An attractive version of the old testament story about Joseph.
Jackson moves to the suburbs with his Mum and he is very wrong when he thinks it will
be a quiet life.
In 1991, just before her eleventh birthday, Zlata began keeping her diary and it becomes
a mirror of the war in Sarajevo.
An estranged father applies for the job of housekeeper to his children.
Will's sister, Estelle, has turned into a teenager and transformed the house into a war
zone.
Yuri, sent ot a Siberian labour camp as a youth, escapes, wondering what methods he
would use to get people to follow his beliefs.
Anila, the daughter of an East India Company soldier and a Bengali mother, knows her
father will come back for her after her mother's death. To support herself she
accompanies an explorer up the Ganges, as his illustrator. A superb read about a young
girl taking hold of her life in the most difficult of circumstance at the turn of the
nineteenth century.
Oracle Sequence
The Oracle series: The Archon, now in the body of a ten year old, must follow a journey
to find the long lost Well of Songs. His country is wracked with drought and the journey
he takes is perilous in the extreme.
Benjamin Button is born an old man, stooped, grey bearded and tall. The tale of
Benjamin getting younger each day as those around him grow older, is used by
Fitzgerald as a vehicle to poke fun at American society in the late nineteenth century.
Harriet spies on all the people in her neighbourhood and writes notes about them in her
book.
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FLANAGAN, John
Erak's Ransom
FLANAGAN, John
Oakleaf Bearers
FLANAGAN, John
The Burning Bridge
FLANAGAN, John
FLANAGAN, John
The Icebound Land
The Ruins of Gorlan
FLANAGAN, John
The Siege of Macindaw
FLEISCHMAN, Sid
The Whipping Boy
FLEMING, Ian &
LAWRENCE, Jim
FLEMING, Ian &
LAWRENCE, Jim
James Bond 007: The Golden
Ghost
James Bond 007: Trouble Spot
FLYNN, Pat
How to Get Dumped
FLYNN, Pat
The Trophy Kid
FLYNN, Pat
To the Light
FLYNN, Rachel
FLYNN, Warren
I Hate Fridays: Stories from
Koala Hills Primary School
Escaping Paradise
FOGARTY, Lionel
FORREST, Lisa
Booyooburra
Dj Max
FORRESTAL, Elaine
Black Jack Anderson
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Ranger's Apprentice
Number 7 in the Ranger's Apprentice series goes back to events in Will's first year as
an apprentice.
Ranger's Apprentice
The fourth book in the series about WIll, the apprentice spy and his search for Evanlyn,
kidnapped by the fierce Temujai warriors.
When Will is chosen to go on a mission to speak to the nation over the rift valley, he is
one of three people sent. They encounter a young woman along the way who alerts
them to the dangers ahead. A bridge is being built to forge the rift and so Will and his
friends must destroy it.
Ranger's Apprentice
The third in the series about Will, the apprentice spy.
Ranger's Apprentice
Ranger's Apprentice (series) The story of Will, training to be a Ranger, must defend
himself against the bullies as they pick on him about his size. Very much like Harry
Potter and Deltora Quest, there are hints of the Lord of the Rings in this highly readable
fantasy set in Medieval times.
Ranger's Apprentice
Will needs to bring together a group of men to fight the criminals who have overtaken
the castle, but the only ones around are not to be trusted.
Jemmy must take the whippings for the royal heir, Prince Brat, but the Prince must rely
on Jemmy when they both run away from the castle.
Another in the republishing of original comic strips, which also has four strips plus a
discussion on the Bond cars.
'Trouble Spot' includes four original comic strip Bond stories that originally appeared in
the Express newspapers in England. Some of the strips are very much of the period
they were written in.
Tony's problem of dumping his manipulative girlfriend, Ashleigh, becomes more difficult
when her ex-boyfriend threatens him with dire consequences should he hurt her in any
way, and he falls for his best friend's sister, Lacy.
Another in the very funny series of books of the trials and tribulations of a middle school
boy.
In the style of Flynn's Alex Jackson books, our hero, Jamie, wants to learn to surf, and
so enlists the help of an old surfie who hangs around the beach. Light-hearted and fun,
the story shows the range of friendships in a school, as well as the skills needed to surf,
whether you are a girl or boy
An interlinked collection of stories about the hilarious goings-on at Koala Hills School.
Nicki, holidaying in Bali is kidnapped by freedom fighters. They think that she is the
daughter of a wealthy oil baron, who can easily pay for his daughter's release, but not so
a girl from suburban Perth. For more mature students.
The history of the Murri people of Waka Waka.
Maxine has lived happily with her grandparents until the death of her grandmother
changes her relationship with her grandfather. He disapproves when she uses her
clarinet money to buy lessons from a disk jockey.
The fictionalised account of Australian pirate, Black Jack Anderson, who stole from
passing ships from Middle Island off Esperence in Western Australia in the 1830s.
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FORRESTAL, Elaine
Graffiti on the Fence
FORRESTAL, Elaine
Someone Like Me
FORRESTAL, Elaine
Stone Circle
FORRESTAL, Elaine
Winning
FOX, Lee
Other People's Country
FOX, Paula
One-eyed Cat
FOX, Rodney
Sharkman
FRANK, Anne
The Diary of a Young Girl
FRANK, Anne
The Diary of Anne Frank
FRANK, Anne
The World of Anne Frank
FRANKLAND, Richard Digger J Jones
J.
FREEMAN, Cathy
Born to Run
FREEMAN, Pamela
Hair of the Skeleton
FREEMAN, Pamela
Murderer's Apprentice
FREEMAN, Pamela
Scum of the Earth
FREEMAN, Pamela
The Black Dress
FREEMAN, Pamela
The Willow Tree's Daughter
FREEMAN, Pamela
Trick of the Light
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Three friends seem to be on the verge of juvenile delinquency, terrorising an old
woman, who then comes to their aid when one of them is threatened.
Tas is an ordinary school boy, but Enya, new from Northern Ireland, has experienced
danger and terror. The plot reveals an extraordinary fact about Tas in the final
paragraph.
Tori and his sister, Maddy go to stay with their cousins, Bronte and Morgan. Very quickly
they are plunged into a mystery with very odd paintings and wells involved in their
adventure.
The most important thing in the boys' lives was running. But when Yosef, the quiet
Egyptian boy, starts to beat the leader and champion, their lives begin to change.
Lola and her family move to a remote Aboriginal community and are confronted by a
very different culture.
Ned fired just one shot from the forbidden gun. But someone, a face, fleetingly seen
staring at him from an attic window, was watching. When a one-eyed cat turns up in an
elderly neighbour's yard, Ned is caught in a web of guilt, fear, and shame.
Rodney Fox's own story, not only of the terrifying shark attack, but about his experience
with sharks since then.
Anne Frank's famous diary written during the years she and her family spent in the
secret annex and published after World War II.
During the persecution of the Jewish people in the Netherlands in World War II, Anne
wrote in her diary of how her family hid for two years in a few rooms.
A picture book which shows the rise of anti-Jew sentiment leading to the Frank family's
hiding in the attic of a house.
Digger J Jones keeps a diary recounting the life of his family in the referendum year of
1967.
The remarkable story of Cathy Freeman who dreamed of winning Olympic gold from a
young age and achieved her dream.
A series of books in which Jake, Peter and Ruby solve mysteries in their
neighbourhood.
Merrith does not want to be a murderer like her parents, and is asked to go into the rift
caves to help save Quentaris. She finds a way to use her skills lerant (but not the
killing), to save the city she cares about and finds a new career.
Ruby, Jake and Peter involve themselves in solving the mystery of who is dumping toxic
waste at their local beach, but end up in more trouble than they hoped for.
Mary McKillop's early life reflects what she became. This book is a recreation of Mary
telling us about her early life, her family and the influences upon her.
The Floramonde Books Max escapes being made a king and marries Salizia, a tree dryad. Their daughter,
Betony, has magic powers.
Vandalism at Tiger Beach, causes Ruby, Peter and Jake to become more involved
when one of their friends is accused of vandalism.
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FRENCH, Fiona
Snow White in New York
FRENCH, Jackie
A Rose for the Anzac Boys
FRENCH, Jackie
FRENCH, Jackie
Dark Wind Blowing
Daughter of the Regiment
FRENCH, Jackie
Hitler's Daughter
FRENCH, Jackie
FRENCH, Jackie
How to Guzzle your Garden
Lady Dance
FRENCH, Jackie
Macbeth and Son
FRENCH, Jackie
Missing You, Love Sara
FRENCH, Jackie
Pharaoh, the Boy who
Conquered the Nile
FRENCH, Jackie
Rain Stones
FRENCH, Jackie
Ride the Wild Wind: the Golden
Pony and other Stories
FRENCH, Jackie
Rockin’, Rollin’, Hair & Hippies,
1945-1972
FRENCH, Jackie
FRENCH, Jackie
Stories to Eat with a Banana
Stories to Eat With a Watermelon
FRENCH, Jackie
Summerland
FRENCH, Jackie
FRENCH, Jackie
Tajore Arkle
The Camel who Crossed
Australia
The Dog Who Loved a Queen
FRENCH, Jackie
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An innovative retelling of the tale of Snow White set in the jazz and gangster era of New
York in the 1920s. Snow White lives in New York, known as the 'Big Apple', and the
wicked stepmother is a classy socialite who looks for herself in the "Mirror".
A story of Gallipoli from the perspective of several young women who set up a stall on
the railway station in Calais during WW1, giving hot soup and chocolate to the war
weary soldiers who pass through on their way home, injured and shell shocked.
A scary story about a test tube which contains a deadly virus.
The light in the corner of the chookhouse allows Harry to see into Cissie's life 150 years
ago.
While waiting for the school bus, children tell stories to pass the time, and one of these
was about a mystery daughter of Hitler in Germany during World War II.
This book enables the reader to select seeds, grow, cook and eat the produce.
Set in the Middle Ages at the height of the Bubonic Plague, readers will get an insight
into the lives of those who survived and died.
A parallel story of a boy who does not want to cheat to enter a private school as his
stepfather wants, and the story of Macbeth, unlike the story he is reading in class.
Sara's sister, Reenie goes missing, and Sara, her friends, family and the police look for
her.
The life of the first pharaoh, Narmer, and his struggle to stay alive against the predatory
attempts by his brother to kill him, and then to gain the power of the throne.
Bluegum
Fair Dinkum Histories
Young Bluegum
A collection that consists of five inspiring and thought-provoking longer stories with
some use of strong language.
Stories about horses with some told by the horse. The collection includes the story of
the first horse tamed by a young girl, King Arthur's horse and the special relationship
between a boy and stallion.
An overview of all the trends and changes which make up the post war era in Australia,
when women and children exerted their right to be heard. Told with humour.
Fun stories that feature the Phaery Ethereal - Phredde for short.
A very funny set of short stories which include a girl eating rose bush, a frog named
Bruce and stories about Phredde.
Iddy finds herself in a beautiful harmonious place where every clearing has its own
unicorn and each person's needs are provided by others easily and generously. But she
has few memories, the only certainty that her own world is quite different to this place.
Anya has visionary capabilities of ancient memories. (Mature readers)
The story of Burke and Wills' notorious trek across Australia from south to north is told
from a totally different perspective of one of the camels, Bell Sing.
The dog of Mary Queen of Scots narrates the life of his owner as she bravely takes on
the Queen of England, in her pursuit of the throne.
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The dramatic story of Simpson and his donkey is recreated in this book. An amazing
introduction to the story of Gallipoli and the ANZACs.
Isaac joins Captain Cook's ship, Endeavour, ready to sail to Tahiti. Over the months on
board, Isaac becomes friendly with the goat, brought on board to supply fresh milk for
Captain Cook and the officers
When Sam is transported back to Ballarat in 1854, she knows that Eureka Stockade is
about to happen and that her new friends are in danger. A wonderful time slip novel
viewing the events of 1854.
A captain takes the children from an island about to be invaded during the reign of
Catherine de Medici. He promises to find them a safe harbour, but he is still sailing in
the twentieth century.
Snarf and his owner, Hekja are captured by Vikings when they raid their Scottish village.
Their captor is the daughter of Eric the Red and they go to the new colony in Greenland.
FRENCH, Jackie
The Donkey who Carried the
Wounded
The Goat who Sailed the World
FRENCH, Jackie
The Night they Stormed Eureka
FRENCH, Jackie
The White Ship
FRENCH, Jackie
They Came on Viking Ships
FRENCH, Jackie
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy
FRENCH, Jackie
Valley of Gold One Valley's
Stories of Gold Through the Ages
FRENCH, Jackie
Walking the Boundaries
Bluegum: artin can walk around his great grandfather's property then he can have it, sell
it and be rich but Martin's walk crosses the boundaries of time and his outlook is
changed. Adventure, Australian bush setting, ecology, change, fantasy.....
FRENCH, Simon
All We Know
FRENCH, Simon
Cannily, Cannily
FRENCH, Simon
Change the Locks
FRENCH, Simon
Where in the World
FRENCH, Vivian
Funky Tales
FRENCH, Vivian
The Robe of Skulls
All Arkie knows is that things are changing, the vacant block of land is being built on and
everyone is talking about going to high school.
Moving from place to place, Trevor is always the new boy. His home is a caravan and
for Trevor, school is a strange desk in an unfamiliar classroom. He has his own way of
coping, of fitting into each new place but this time it's different.
Steven has to assume much of the responsibility for his little brother when his young
mother can't cope.
Set in Sydney, this heart warming first person narrative of a boy's love for his family and
his enjoyment of soccer and music, is told by 11 year-old, German born, Ari.
This text features eight classic folk tales, retold by Vivian French in a funky and modern
style. Stories include "Jack and the Beanstalk", "The Princess and the Frog" and the
"Elves and the Shoe-maker".
When the sorceress, Lady Lamorna, wants to buy a beautiful robe with skulls
embroidered around the hem, she must find a way of funding her new piece of clothing.
FREUD, SA
Caged
Tom is sent to the new colony of Botany Bay after stealing in London. Through his eyes
we see the despair of the first settlement and its attempts to support itself.
Eight fictional stories arranged chronologically alternate with short nonfiction essays, all
about the history of an Australian valley from the formation of the Earth.
Going on a holiday in a winnebago with mum and step dad, Shaun has a great time
cruising along the eastern coast of Australia. But they happen to uncover an
international smuggling ring, capturing birds to take them out of the country and to the
lucrative markets overseas.
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FUNKE, Cornelia
Inkdeath
Inkheart
FUNKE, Cornelia
Inkheart
Inkheart
FUNKE, Cornelia
FUNKE, Cornelia
FUQUA, Jonathon
Scott
Inkspell
The Thief Lord
Darby
Inkheart
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The last in this fine fantasy series, which sees the Folcharts return to their own time and
place.
Meggie realises that her father, Mo, a book binder, has the unusual ability to bring book
characters to life while reading aloud, something he did many years before while
reading a book called Inkheart. One of the characters who came out of this book,
Dustfinger, returns to warn Meggie and Mo to flee the country, as they are being
pursued by another character, Capricorn.
Second in the series, where more of Dustfinger's story is told.
Homeless children in Venice discover a secret.
Longing to be a journalist, Darby writes of her life in her small southern country town in
the USA. She unwittingly exposes the racism in her neighbours, as well as the more
liberal views which people must express in the face of the Ku Klux Klan.
FUSEK-PETERS,
Out of Order: between Age
Andrew
Poems
FUSILLO, Archimede Bruises
Poetry Collections
FUSSELL, Sandy
FUSSELL, Sandy
Fire Lizard
Monkey Fist
Samurai Kids
Samurai Kids
FUSSELL, Sandy
Owl Ninja
Samurai Kids
FUSSELL, Sandy
FUSSELL, Sandy
Polar Boy
Shaolin Tiger
Samurai Kids
FUSSELL, Sandy
White Crane
Samurai Kids
GAIMAN, Neil
The Graveyard Book
GALLICO, Paul
The Snow Goose
GANERI, Anita
GARDENER, Sheryl
Desperate Deserts and Bloomin
Rainforests
One Dead Seagull
GARDINER, Kelly
Ocean Without End
The Swashbuckler
Trilogy
An anthology that identifies the many issues of older adolescents' angst.
A school camp is the climax of the tension between students at the school, as they are
seperated by the teachers into their bunkhouses for teh week. The aggressive Ape is
made leader and uneasy strain builds up to life and death situation from which no
participant emerges unscathed. (mature readers)
Fifth in the series Samurai Kids.
Another in the series about the Little Cockroaches, a group of disabled kids who rescue
Kyoko, one of their friends who has been kidnapped.
The fifty years of peace that has ruled over the samurai ryus is coming to an end and
only the Emperor can stop it. The kids from the Cockroach Ryu are back and make it
their mission to get the Emperor to stop the coming war.
Illuak and his family live in the Arctic and he knows he is destined to meet a bear.
Sensei and the Samurai Kids go on a journey to China to save the White Tiger Temple.
Niya is a one-legged samurai kid who overcomes many challenges in his training to be
a samurai warrior.
Bod is raised by ghosts in the graveyard when he wanders there as a toddler after his
family are murdered. There are many dangers for him in the outside world.
A beautiful tale set in a tragic war, of a hunchbacked artist, a girl and a wounded bird
that culminates in a courageous act at Dunkirk.
A very funny book about the geography of the world.
Wayne has an easy relationship with his dad, and tries all he can to keep mum off his
back and keep the two from getting back together.
Lily enjoys her adventurous life as a 12 year old pirate on a mission to find her missing
father.
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GARDNER, Scot
Burning Eddy
GARDNER, Scot
The Detachable Boy
GARDNER, Scot
The Legend of Kev the Plumber
GARDNER, Scot
White Ute Dreaming
GARFIELD, Leon
Shakespeare Stories
GARFIELD, Leon
Smith
GARFIELD, Leon
GARNER, Alan
The God Beneath the Sea
The Owl Service
GARNER, Alan
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
GATES, Susan
Dusk
GATES, Susan
Ghost Dogs
GAVIN, Jamilla
The Blood Stone
GAVRON, Jeremy
Moon
GEASON, Susan
GEASON, Susan
Australian Heroines
Great Australian Girls
GEASON, Susan
Rebel Girl
GEE, Maurice
The Champion
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When Dan's father, Tom, is carted off to prison, the school bullies seem to have more
ammunition. Dan's relationship with Eddy, the elderly woman next door, brings light and
joy into his life.
Crystal has been kidnapped and taken to the USA, but how can the boys rescue her?
Luckily John can detach his arms and legs, so Ravi posts him to America. Problems
can easily be overcome if you are detachable.
Leaving school Gary becomes an apprentice plumber. His boss is Kev and he learns
much more than plumbing from this larger than life man.
A sequel to 'One Dead Seagull' sees Wayne learning to cope with the opposite sex.
When his girlfriend's family moves interstate, he must make some decisions.
Twelve of William Shakespeare's most famous plays are presented in narrative form.
Animal Investigations
Smith is a 12 year-old pickpocket, who finds himself involved in murder, suspense and
the London underworld.
A recreation of Greek legends.
Three children find a mysterious set of dishes in an attic which sets off a chain of events
from an ancient Welsh drama.
The story of two children, Susan and Colin, who are sent to rural England, where they
encounter a frightening local woman, and an ancient wizard, named Cadellin. They find
themselves on the run through abandoned mine tunnels, aided by a pair of heroic
dwarfs/
Dusk is cloned in a laboratory experiment, with the sight of a hawk designed to enable
soldiers to see at night. After an accident at the facility, Dusk escapes with a guard dog
and a cloned rat. The meet up with Jay, but the rats are working to take over the world,
so Jay and Dusk must do something to stop them.
Miriel and Ellis must get to the feral child before the hunter. But he is being followed by
the throng of media, hot for a news story about a wild child.
Filippo, the son, must travel halfway around the world with a beautiful jewel, the blood
stone, to rescue his father. The precious jewel is the ransom for his father being kept in
Hindustran, and Filippo's guide, Muselman, must be trusted to take him there.
A young boy growing up in Rhodesia sees the divide between black and white from a
child's point of view
True Stories of ten Australian women of extraordinary courage.
The biographies of twenty-three remarkable and diverse women who started on the
path to their exceptional lives while they were still girls.
During the Taiping Rebellions of mid nineteenth century China, Su-Lin must hide the
daughter of the house where she works, in case she is found and killed, all the while
watching out for herself.
During World War 2, Rex's family billets a wounded soldier from the US army in his
small New Zealand coastal town.
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When an old school friend of his father appears in the small New Zealand town, Colin is
pleased, as he offers his dad a job. It seems, however, that this man has a mysterious
hold over the family.
Red Fox Older Fiction An Inuit girl runs away to regain her traditional Eskimo culture and becomes lost on the
frozen Arctic tundra. Only the wolves can help her. Julie's survival depends on the
leader of the pack.
Sam is determined to survive in the woods and keeps a journal to describe the birds
and animals with whom he learns to live. A tale of the determination and bravery of a
city boy who refuses to give in.
Katherine dreams of being her own person after years of operation following horrific
burns and months spent in the burns unit.
These are two gumnut babies who live in the Australian bush and have adventures with
their bush friends and the big bad Banksia men.
The stage adaptation of Winton's novel of families, relationships and adolescence.
GEE, Maurice
The Fat Man
GEORGE, Jean
Julie of the Wolves
GEORGE, Jean
My Side of the Mountain
GERVAY, Susanne
Butterflies
GIBBS, May
GIFFORD, Clive
GILBERT, Kevin
The Complete Adventures of
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Lockie Leonard, Human
Torpedo: The Play
The Water Puppets
Child's Dreaming
GLEESON, Libby
Dear Writer
GLEESON, Libby
Dodger
GLEESON, Libby
Eleanor, Elizabeth
GLEESON, Libby
I Am Susannah
GLEESON, Libby
Mahtab's Story
GLEESON, Libby
Refuge
GLEESON, Libby
GLEITZMAN, Morris
The Rum Rebellion: the Diary of My Australian Story
David Bellamy, Sydney Town,
1807-1809
Blabbermouth
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Boy Overboard
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Bum Face
GIBBS, Paige
A Story from the War in Vietnam.
Kevin Gilbert is an Aboriginal artist and poet and his poems focus on the Australian
outback, in particular, the fauna.
Lizzie and her friend want to surprise their teacher with a visit by his favourite author for
the teacher's birthday in Book Week.
Mick's life at school starts to change when he is chosen to play the part of the Artful
Dodger.
Eleanor finds her grandmother's diary in the old schoolhouse where she did her
lessons.
Susie is devastated when her friend moves away and an old lady comes to live in Kim's
old house.
Amazingly Mahtab and her family make it to Australia from Taliban controlled
Afghanistan, survivng months waiting in Pakistan for news of their father and then the
perilous sea journey to Darwin. They were incarcerated in a detention camp on the
Australian mainland.
Global morality and personal responsibility are tested when a family is asked to hide a
Timorese refugee.
A first-hand account of events which unfolded during the rum rebellion.
Rowena cannot speak and she has a blundering, enthusiastic, country music obsessed
father, whom she decides to change.
Jamal and Bibi are Afghani asylum seekers whose most precious possession is their
soccer ball. They dream of being international soccer stars in a land where they don't
have to worry about their ball hitting a landmine.
Here, humour masks the adult themes that make this story suitable for more mature
readers.
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GLEITZMAN, Morris
Doubting Thomas
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Girl Underground
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Give Peas a Chance
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Grace
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Now
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Once
GLEITZMAN, Morris
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Puppy Fat
Sticky Beak
GLEITZMAN, Morris
GLEITZMAN, Morris
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Teacher's Pet
The Gift of the Gab
Then
GLEITZMAN, Morris
GLEITZMAN, Morris
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Toad Away
Toad Heaven
Toad Rage
GLEITZMAN, Morris
Two Weeks with the Queen
GLEITZMAN, Morris
GLEITZMAN, Morris
GLEITZMAN, Morris &
JENNINGS, Paul
GLIORI, Debi
GLIORI, Debi
Worm Story
Worry Warts
Deadly! Part Five, Grope
Pure Dead Brilliant
Pure Dead Magic
GLIORI, Debi
Pure Dead Wicked
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Thomas is an interminable worrier, but even more so when his nipples begin to crazily
itch. He is devastated to find that they itch when someone near him lies.
A story of friendship, courage and a bit of crime. Bridget wants a quiet life. Including, if
possible, keeping her parents out of prison. Then a boy called Menzies makes her an
offer she can't refuse, and they set off on a job of their own.
15 short stories which have as their main characters, people from Gleitzman's novels, in
more hilarious situations.
When Grace is investigated by the elders of her church, she is convinced that she is
about to be expelled, which means total separation from her family. But when her father
is the one who is expelled, she is compelled to save her family from the terror of her
church.
Zelda's one aim in life is to please her grandfather, Felix. He is a holocaust survivor and
is looking after her while her parents serve in Dubai. This leads to her being bullied at
school. The Victorian bushfires form the backdrop to this inspiring story.
Felix is an orphan and escapes to warn his parents of the book burners. Through his
eyes we see the horror of Nazi Germany and the abandonment of children during the
Holocaust.
Keith wants to stop his parents turning into couch potatoes
A sequel to Blabbermouth, this book continues the story of Rowena's chaotic life as a
teenager who cannot speak aloud yet converses with the reader with her "voice".
Ginger's happy school changes when Mr Napier takes over being the principal.
Rowena, who can't speak, tries to find out what happened to her mother.
'Then' continues the story of Felix and Zelda in 'Once'. They have found shelter on a
farm from the everpresent Nazis, searching for escaped Jews.
More adventures of Limpy and his friends
More adventures of Limpy and his friends
A young cane toad can't understand why humans dislike cane toads so much and sets
out to prove how nice they really are.
When his brother is stricken with leukemia, Colin's parents send him to England to stay
with relatives.While there, he asks the Queen's physician to help his brother with
hilarious results. A very funny take on a most serious subject of cancer and AIDS.
Deadly!
Wilton is the hero of the story and his adventures start as an intestinal worm.
Sequel to Misery Guts. Keith tries to solve the family's money problems.
A book in six parts about a gang of children contribute to this funny story of chase and
escapes.
Another fantasy with the Strega-Borgia family.
The Strega-Borgia children have a new nanny who will need to cope with the mythical
beasts in the basement.
Titus experiments with cloning (mature readers).
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GOETZE, Jutta
Dolphins Dance
GOLDEN, Christopher Surrogates
GOLDS, Cassandra
Angel
Clair de Lune
Cassandra Golds tells us we are reading a fairytale—but not quite—and indeed
throughout this romantic story there is constant movement between the down-to-earth
struggle of daily life and magic. So fitting for a tale about ballet, an art of ethereal beauty
built on sweat, strong muscles and distorted feet.
The story of Matthew Flinders and his cat Trim.
GOLDS, Cassandra
The Mostly True Story of
Matthew and Trim
GOLDSMITH, Dr Mike Space
GOLLON, Matilda
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Ali learns to understand his feelings about his brother's autism through dolphins.
Angel Series: Based on the TV series spun-off from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
Ripley's Believe it or not! Fascinating look at Space with the eye of the Ripley team, some of it not quite what you
expect!
The Science Book : Explore and
Facts about all kinds of science are presented in an exciting way.
Learn the Big Ideas of Science
GOODE, Katherine
Jumping To Heaven
GOODMAN, Alison
The Two Pearls of Wisdom
GOSCINNY, Rene
GOSCINNY, Rene
Asterix and Obelix all at Sea
Asterix the Gaul
GOTT, Robert
GOTT, Robert
GRAHAM, Ian
Bush Tucker
Natalie Imbruglia
Mighty Machines
GRAHAM, Ian
GRAHAM, Ian
Sports Cars
The Best Ever Book of Flight
GRAHAME, Kenneth
GRAY, Samantha
The Wind in the Willows
Ocean
GREAGG, David
It's True! The Vikings Got Lost
GREEN, Jessica
A Tyranny of Toads
GREEN, Jessica
Diary of a Would-Be Princess
After many interviews, Goode has written a series of short tales about refugees and
their lives.
Eon has powers beyond his stature and background, and is trained to compete to be the
apprentice to the Dragoneye. When it finally comes around, he must stand up to the
powerful Lord Ibo, a man intent on being Emperor.
Asterix
Asterix Series: Another classic Asterix adventure
Asterix
Asterix, the Gaul and his friend Obelisk wander through many adventures during the
times of the Roman Empire.
Information about the indigenous use of bush tucker, including recipes.
Young Achievers
Natalie Imbruglia is an internationally renowned singer and songwriter.
Ripley's Believe it or not! Fascinating information and facts about all manner of large machinery used around the
world.
Designed for Success All the sports cars you have ever dreamed about and more.
The Best Ever Book
An overview of the history of flight, how they are built, the fastest and most spectacular.
of.......
The early pioneers, air displays and the future of flight are also covered.
All the characters are here adapted to the graphic novel format by Michel Plessix.
DK Eye Wonder
An entrancing book which details information about many aspects of the ocean, fish of
all sorts, whales, sharks, life in the depths and life in a coral reef to name a few.
It's True
Meet Eric Blood-Axe - plus Ragnar Hairy-Pants, Ulf the Unwashed, and their mates.
The Vikings are on the loose!
Jillian keeps a diary of her awful time in year 6, avoiding the princesses who think only
about their hair and makeup, the brother who leaves insulting notes on her door, and
Mr. Nose, her teacher who is expecting great things.
Life is just not fair for Jillian, desperate to be loved and accepted by her classmates. All
is revealed in the very funny diary.
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Lucinda Green, professional horsewoman, eventer and TV commentator, presents an indepth beginner's guide, revealing the secrets of riding, from choosing a riding school
and mounting for the first time, to competing in a show and saddling up for a pony.
GREEN, Lucinda
Riding
GREEN, Roger
Lancelyn
GREEN, Roger
Lancelyn
GREEN, Roger
Lancelyn
GREENBERG, Nicki
A Book of Dragons
Fantasy tales of make-believe appear before your eyes.
Tales of Ancient Egypt
Hamlet
GREENBERG, Nicki
The Great Gatsby
These stories, legends from ancient Egypt, are of gods, magic and adventure, including
the great myths of Amen-Ra of Isis.
The adventures of one of the enduring stories from England are republished for a new
audience.
A graphic novel retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet with the main characters portrayed
as ink blots.
A graphic novel version of the classic tale of wanting something beyond your grasp is
recreated here using cartoon like creatures as the well known characters.
The Sundowner, the local bushranger, whose notoriety sustains the tourism of the town,
has Pete and Nick enthralled as they think they have found the location of his hideout,
reputedly filled with stolen gold.
Getting money for digging up old bottles and selling them is easy until Peter's sister and
two friends from school intervene.
Dreaming Story : Dreamtime stories are told in this book in Kukatja and English,
including a Kukatja word list and English translations.
Life in post World War I Melbourne, as told through a young girl's diary.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Puffin Classics
GREENBERG, Robert Swimming with Skeletons
Aussie Chomps
GREENBERG, Robert There's Money in Toilets
Aussie Chomps
GREENE, Gracie
Tjarany - Roughtail
GREENWOOD, Kerry A Different Sort of Real: the Diary
of Charlotte McKenzie,
Melbourne, 1918-1919
GREENWOOD, Kerry Journey to Eureka
GREENWOOD, Kerry The Long Walk
GREGORY, Kristiana Cleopatra VII: Daughter Of The
Nile
GRIFFITHS, Andy
Fears and Fantasies
The Royal Diaries
Blasters
GRIFFITHS, Andy
GRIFFITHS, Andy
GRIFFITHS, Andy
GRIFFITHS, Andy
Just Annoying!
Just Crazy!
Just Disgusting!
Just Macbeth
Andy Griffiths' Just...
Andy Griffiths' Just...
Andy Griffiths' Just...
GRIFFITHS, Andy
GRIFFITHS, Andy
GRIFFITHS, Andy
Just Stupid!
Just Tricking!
The Day my Bum went Psycho
Andy Griffiths' Just...
Andy Griffiths' Just...
Llew smuggles his way aboard a ship bound for Australia, looking for his mother and
uncle. He makes new friends while at the goldfields in Victoria.
Isa and her brothers and sister set off along the Great Ocean Road in search of their
father.
In an elegantly written royal diary, Cleopatra VII has recorded every rich detail from her
tumultuous times including her frightening escape and the men that she loved.
A group of 12 stories by well known Australian authors, bound to make you sit up and
take notice.
Andy annoys his family and neighbours in these funny short stories.
An even more insane mixture of indicators and accounts of craziness.
Andy writes nine amusing stories imitating well-known tales.
The 'Just' team of Andy, Donny and Lisa find themselves back in Shakespeare's
Macbeth, waiting on the heath to be met by the three witches, and playing the roles of
the three main characters in the play. A comical adaption of the play.
Andy visits lots of places and is very stupid all through these nine stories.
Andy enjoys practical jokes in these 10 tricky stories.
When Zack sees his bum disappearing over his windowsill and out into the night, he
knows something is terribly wrong.
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Pascal escapes the bombing of his village only to be kidnapped by rebels intent on
drugging him to do their bidding. Evading them he wallows in a refugee camp before
being offered a safe trip home which turns out to be slavery in a cocoa plantation.
GRINDLEY, Sally
Bitter Chocolate
GRINDLEY, Sally
Broken Glass
GRINDLEY, Sally
Spilled Water
GRYLLS, Bear
Sands of the Scorpion
Mission: Survival
GRYLLS, Bear
Way of the Wolf
Mission: Survival
GURNEY, James
GWYNNE, Phillip
Dinotopia
Deadly Unna?
Dinotopia
GWYNNE, Phillip
Jetty Rats
HADDON, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Night Time
HALE, Jenny
Jatta
Jatta, princess in the kingdom of Alteeda, learns that the werewolf that killed her mother
has left her infected. Every full moon she turns into a werewolf, lusting for blood.
HALL, Lincoln
Alive in the Death Zone
HARDING, Lee
HARLEN, Jonathon
Displaced Person
Brain Scam
Plus
HARLEN, Jonathon
Dangerous Games
Fletcher Smith Sports
P.I.
HARLEN, Jonathon
Drop Dead, Mad Dog Fred
HARLEN, Jonathon
The Lion and the Lamb
HARMER, Wendy
I Lost my Mobile at the Mall :
Teenager on the Edge of
Technological Breakdown
The Load of Unicorn
On Mount Everest, Lincoln Hall is pronounced dead, but then found alive. In this book
he recounts the events of that climb, and shows what it takes to be a climber in the
most hazardous place on earth.
Graeme starts to feel as if he is alienated from the rest of the human race.
Sent to Kreeb's Correct-a-torium means meeting Kreeb, the child hater with his house
with 7 floors of dungeons and nasty ways of dealing with kids.
Fletcher is a private investigator for the Institute of Sports and must find Tom Baker's
lucky charm, given to him by Don Bradman.
A very funny story involving a wombat, giant desert pythons, a talking dingo and Sam,
trying very hard to help his father out of the money difficulties they are in.
Themes of bullying and prejudice surround this story of gentle Hector and two
neighbouring boys.
Funny story about the reliance we have on technology and what happens when it
disappears.
Classic Mammoth
A story set in London, centred around the Caxton printing press.
HARNETT, Cynthia
Two young boys escape their father's temper and flee to the streets of India where they
hope to find work and survive. They are not alone as there are many like them living
from one day to the next, surviving on scraps, and working for miserable pay.
'Spilled Water', a useless girl child in a family is taken by her uncle and sold into
servitude. Longing to return to the country village where her mother and brother still live,
she bravely endures the horror of working in a factory.
Having stumbled upon smugglers, Beck Granger must bail out of a plane over the
Sahara Desert. If the heat doesn't get him, then his pursuers will.
After his father's plane crashes in Alaska, Beck and his friend, Tikaani, must make their
way back to civilization to get help. It's a journey fraught with difficulties.
This is a pseudo-factual account of the relationship between humans and dinosaurs.
Blacky and Dumby are friends but one is Aboriginal, which seems to change everything.
(Mature readers)
Hunter lives in a delapidated seaside town where fishing is the main occupation. A funny
look at Australian life and culture.
Christopher finds a dead dog on the lawn, so puts his considerable skills to the test to
find out what happened, but his difficulty is communicating with other people.
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HARRIS, Christine
Baptism Of Fire
HARRIS, Christine
Buried Secrets
HARRIS, Christine
HARRIS, Christine
Danger
Fortune Cookies
HARRIS, Christine
Jigsaw
HARRIS, Christine
Nightmare
HARRIS, Christine
Omega
HARRIS, Christine
HARRIS, Christine
Outback: the Diary of Jimmy
Porter 1927-1928
Outer Face
HARRIS, Christine
Pitt Man
HARRIS, Christine
HARRIS, Christine
Secrets
Strike
HARRIS, Christine
Warped
HARRIS, Christine
Widdershins
HARRIS, David
A Man Called Possum
HARRIS, David
Blood of the Incas
HARRIS, David
HARRIS, David
Devil's Island
Firebug
HARRIS, David
Fortress
HARRIS, David
Monsters in the Sand
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'As I am writing this the villagers are eating a neighbouring tribe'. Young Hannah only
briefly considers including these alarming words in her letter to a friend but although
'unthinkable' to write down, the issue of bokola (human flesh for eating) pervades this
novel set in mid nineteenth century Fiji.
Fourteen very different stories in this collection cover topics such as x-ray vision, senility
and coping with braces.
Jesse must find a bomb in a crowded railway station
A collection of stories, some humorous, but some healthily realistic which relate stories
from lands north of Australia.
Vibes
Suffering from amnesia, the secrets in her past keep flashing before her, but nothing
makes sense.
Girl Undercover
Jesse is a child prodigy and selected to be a spy. Her skills are stretched when she
meets another with similar skills while on a job.
Coming aware after being in stasis, an unconcious state, Shayla realises that the world
she has known all her life, has gone and she must survive.
My Story
Jimmy moves to live with his uncle and his family in a wattle and daub hut in the middle
of nowhere.
A set of odd short stories, in Harris' style, taking the weirdest things and making a story
out of them.
An alien comes down to earth and seeing a poster, models himself on the image. But it
is a poster, so the alien is a metre tall version of Brad Pitt.
Spy Girl
Jesse is recruited to work as a spy when she is 12 years old
Set in Port Adelaide during the Depression, two friends are affected by the "wharfies"
strike of 1928.
Nobody could miss Christine Harris' wonderfully bizarre sense of humour, and these
stories are just ripe for some serious laughter.
A group of funny short stories from a diverse range of points of view, all taken from a
position which is part of anyone's experience.
Max Jones, country detective, is determined to uncover the truth about Possum, the
town hermit.
Time Raiders
The real life adventure of Hiram Bingham, the discoverer of the lost Peruvian city of
Machu Picchu.
Cliffhangers
A humorous adventure for Luke on the island trying to overcome nightmares.
Cliffhangers
David has been accused of being a firebug since he started a fire at the age of six that
resulted in a tragedy. He has a horrifying ordeal, at the hands of a real firebug, when
fires break out in the local area.
Cliffhangers
Survival, fraud, violence, mystery and suspense are included in this story which is part
of the "Cliffhanger" series.
Time Raiders
Ther terrific story of Austin Lanyard and his search for the fabled city of Nineveh is
brought to life in this story which blends fact with a little linking of imagined
conversations.
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Leonardo and the Death Machine
HARRIS, Rory
HARRISON, Michael
HARRISON, Michael
A Book to Write Poems By
Oxford Treasury of Classic
Poems
The Oxford Book of Story Poems
HARTNETT, Sonya
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
HARTNETT, Sonya
The Ghost's Child
HARTNETT, Sonya
The Midnight Zoo
HARTNETT, Sonya
The Silver Donkey
HARVEY, Gill
The True Stories of Crime and
Detection
Mo and Jo Fighting Together
Forever
HASPIEL, Dean &
LYNCH, Jay
HATHORN, Libby
HATHORN, Libby
HATHORN, Libby
HATHORN, Libby
All about Anna and Harriet and
Christopher and me
Fire Song
Okra and Acacia: The Story of
the Wattle Pattern Plate
Rift
HATHORN, Libby
The ABC Book of Australian
Poetry : a Treasury of Poems for
Young People
HATHORN, Libby
The Painter
HATHORN, Libby
The River
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Life for Leonardo da Vinci, an apprentice to an artist in medieval Florence is bound up
with death as he stumbles on the plans for a machine being built to help overthrow the
Medici family, the city's rulers
Inspiration for poets of all ages lies within these pages.
An anthology for middle years' students for all times.
With the common theme of narrative verse, this collection of poems contain humorous
and serious verse for children and adults.
A young man in a country town battles with his future and his family situation. He is
haunted by the sighting of a Tasmanian tiger, presumed to be extinct. Mature readers.
Maddy, longing for a magical life, meets the mysterious Feather on the beach and falls
in love.
A fable of freedom and confinement, war and peace, as three children survive the
horrors of war in a zoo.
A group of French children find and shelter a wounded soldier in the woods at the end of
the war. While there he tells them four stories all involving donkeys. This fable reflects
the values of trust and peace, in telling the story of Simpson and his donkey and the
story of the donkey carrying Mary to Bethlehem.
Ten exciting stories of crime and detection.
Toon Book
Two siblings are given a super hero suit and rip it in half as they do not want to share.
They each get part of the whole suit's powers and must learn to work together.
Disasters seem to happen when Anna comes to visit her cousins every Saturday.
Ingrid is aware that her mother is trying to burn down their house for the insurance, but
is aghast that her mother is doing something so wrong and asking her to lie as well.
A beautifully written, romantic story, weaving Aboriginal myth with ancient folklore.
Vaughan gets caught up with an evil Pastor who has created division in his town. Can
Vaughan gain entry to the gang he so badly wants to belong to by accepting their
terrifying challenge?
An exuberant collection of old and new poems, this book is the perfect book to have in
the classroom and library. Old favourites, with poets such as Banjo Paterson, CJ Dennis
and Henry Lawson are sliced between newer poets, Les Murray, Steven Herrick and
Libby Hathorn.
Van Gogh's life is presented in this unusual story of a young man finding his own feet as
a painter in Arles.
A gift, a treasure and an adventure unfold for two young girls, Hong and Xian in this
story set in urban and rural China.
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Thunderwith
HAVEL, Geoff
Grave of the Roti Men
HAVEL, Geoff
The Real Facts of Life
HAWKE, Rosanne
A Kiss In Every Wave
HAWKE, Rosanne
HAWKE, Rosanne
Borderland
Sailmaker
HAWKE, Rosanne
Soraya the Storyteller
HAWKE, Rosanne
The Keeper
HAWKE, Rosanne
HAWKE, Rosanne
Wolfchild
Zenna Dare
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Lara is devastated over the loss of her mother and escapes to the hills to meet her only
friend, a wild dog, called Thunderwith.
Aaron stows away on a boat in Indonesia, while staying there with his father, and
unwittingly becomes involved in illegal fishing.
Max thinks he is knowledgeable about the facts of life, but is unable to see what is going
on in his own family.
Lothian YA Fiction
With her grandmother moving into her house, Jessie is resentful and her dementia
becomes very frustrating. But things change when Jessie finds her old love letters.
Combined edition of the Boorderland Trilogy - Re-entry, Jihad and Cameleer.
A fast-moving adventure story involving an escaped convict, bullying, boyish rivalries
and ghosts. Joel struggles for self-control and self-confidence as he battles his own
hyperactivity.
Takeaways
Cautiously settling into her new Australian school Soraya overcomes her fears, past and
present, through the medium of storytelling. There is the story told each night at bedtime
by her adopted grandmother and the story Soraya is writing at school in the ESL class.
Takeaways
HAWKING, Stephen & George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
HAWKING, Lucy
HAYES, Rosemary
Blood Ties
HAYES, Rosemary
Mixing It
HAYES, Rosemary
The Silver Fox
HEANEY, Seamus
Beowulf
HEARN, Lian
HEARN, Lian
HEARN, Lian
HEARN, Lian
HEARN, Lian
HEATH, Jack
Across the Nightingale Floor
Brilliance of the Moon
Grass for His Pillow
Heaven's Net is Wide
The Harsh Cry of the Heron
The Lab
HEFFERNAN, John
A Horse Called Elvis
Tales of the Otori
Tales of the Otori
Tales of the Otori
Tales of the Otori
Dyslexic Joel gets more than he bargains for after placing an ad in the paper for a father
to take him to the father and some fishing competition.
An adventure story set in England in the time of the Normans in the eleventh century.
Jenefer copes with moving to a country town and finding out about her ancestors.
(Mature readers)
George and Annie go on a cosmic adventure to save Earth. Many fascinating facts
about the Universe are included.
Kath and her grandmother have a close relationship made even closer when Kath must
find out about their ancestors because of a rare blood condition.
Fatimah saves a boy from bleeding to death after the church they are walking past is
bombed, but then she must be careful, as some Muslims do not like the idea that she
cares for a non Muslim boy.
A silver fox links the story of Emily and her dead mother, with a shipwreck on the
Victorian Coast many years before.
An Anglo-Saxon epic of warriors, dragons and monsters composed between the 7th
and 10th centuries, translated by Seamus Heaney.
Tomasu's adventures take place in fantasy version of ancient Japan
Sequel to 'Across the Nightingale Floor', set in medieval Japan.
Sequel to Across the Nightingale Floor, set in medieval Japan.
Sequel to 'Across the Nightingale Floor', set in Medieval Japan
Sequel to 'Across the Nightingale Floor', set in medieval Japan.
Chaosonic, a cloning company, hasn't much in the way of ethics and so is investigated
by Agent Six of Hearts from Deck, a group which keeps Choasonic in check.
Elvis the foal not only saves himself with his pushiness but helps the family save their
farm.
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HEFFERNAN, John
HEFFERNAN, John
Chips
GBH
HEFFERNAN, John
Haunted Australia
HEFFERNAN, John
More than Gold
HEFFERNAN, John
My Dog
HEFFERNAN, John
Pup
HEFFERNAN, John
Spud
HEFFERNAN, John
The Island
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The story of the farm dogs, Spud and Chips, follows on from Spud.
A futuristic look at Sydney after a great war has devastated the land. Into this comes the
survivors, told in the exciting first book CBD. In GBH the story teller becomes all
important as it is she who carries the stories of the past. But she must survive the
machinations of the power hungry.
Ghosts, spirits, spectres, spooks, apparitions, ghouls, banshees they all come with a
different name. A look at some of the ghosts that haunted Australian towns and country
areas from the early days until now.
Raiko a refugee from Thailand, runs for his dead father, and also the community which
has supported him since arriving in Australia
Allja's only companion is a dog, but his optimism and courage in the face of adversity
and loneliness is touching and inspiring.
The story of Pup the dog, left behind by his owners when they move, only to be cruelly
dealt with by his new owner.
Spud, a blue-heeler dog, experiences kindness and cruelty from his masters in the city
and on the land in this harsh story of domestic violence and abuse.
The blind urchin's senses are finely tuned to his surroundings living by the sea. Ideal for
reading aloud and small groups.
Treehorn has a problem. He is shrinking but his parents don't seem to notice.
HEIDE, Florence Parry The Shrinking of Treehorn
HEIMANN, Rolf
HEINBERG, Allan
Sydney Through Time
Sidekicks
HEISS, Anita
Who am I: the Diary of Mary
Talence, Sydney 1937
My Story
HELLARD, Bernadette Netball or Nothing
HENDERSON, Don
Half the Battle
HENDERSON, Don
Keepinitreal
HENDERSON, Don
Macbeth, You Idiot!
HENDRY, Frances
Gladiatrix
HENDRY, Frances
The 45 Uprising: the Diary of
My Story
Euphemia Grant, Scotland, 17451746
A puzzling historical account of Sydney's history to the year 2000.
In the wake of Avengers Disassembled, a mysterious new group of super heroes
appears with powers and names resembling classic Avengers Captain America, Iron
Man, Thor and the Hulk. But who are they?
Mary is ten when she begins to write in her diary documenting her life as an Aboriginal
child who was taken from her natural parents and raised by a non-Aboriginal foster
family.
Rachel's goal is to play netball for Australia but she has a lot to learn about being a
team player.
Sean joins the Year 9 football team and learns a lot about moving forward in life with the
help of his mates.
Wonderful adventure involving some boys trying to save the local greyhound track,
surprisingly with the help of the local bikies who really are not their best friends.
Andy Macbeth wants to achieve lots of goals in his first year of high school, especially
through playing soccer, but everything seems to go wrong.
The third in the series about an Iceni warrior who trains to be a gladiator in the Roman
Arena. She becomes a favourite of the emperor Nero and must use all her skills and her
wit to escape death at his hands all the while watching her cousin Cram, newly arrived
in Rome
Euphemia chronicles the time when the Scottish rose up to shake off the English
overlords.
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Lily visits the fabulous Crystal Palace which so intrigues and excites her.
My Story
HENDRY, Frances
The Crystal Palace: the Diary of
Lily Hicks, London, 1850-1851
Victoria, Born to be a Warrior
HENDRY, Frances
Victrix
Victrix
HENRY, O.
HERGE, Georges
Remi
HERGE, Georges
Remi
HERRAN, Joe
HERRAN, Joe
Gift of the Magi
Tintin In America
The Adventures of Tin
Tin
Tintin: 3 Complete Adventures In The Adventures of Tin
1 Volume
Tin
In-line Skating
Action Sports
Karting
Action Sports
HERRAN, Joe
HERRAN, Joe
HERRICK, Steven
Skateboarding
Snowboarding
By the River
HERRICK, Steven
HERRICK, Steven
Cold Skin
Do-Wrong Ron
HERRICK, Steven
HERRICK, Steven
HERRICK, Steven
Lonesome Howl
Love, Ghosts and Nose Hair
My Life, My Love, My Lasagne
HERRICK, Steven
HERRICK, Steven
Rhyming Boy
The Simple Gift: a Novel
HERRICK, Steven
The Spangled Drongo: a Verse
Novel
HERRICK, Steven
Tom Jones Saves the World
Action Sports
UQP Adult Fiction
Victoria is of mixed parentage, with an Icini mother and a Roman father she fits into
neither camp. But Roman Britain has need of her skills and she is able to fight with the
best of them. Determined to become a gladiatrix, she must first prove herself to the men
of Britain. First of a trilogy.
After Boadicca's death in the battle with the Romans in Britain, Victoria gets Pompee
where she learns to be a gladiator. But her eyes are always on Rome, where she wants
to take revenge for Boadicca and the other Iceni.
A beautiful Christmas story about the giving of presents and what it really means.
Tintin goes on the most extraordinary adventures in this series of books, classics being
The Blue Lotus, Tintin in Tibet and The Broken Ear.
Adventures of Tintin Series Volume 1: Another classic Tintin adventure
A book for in-line skating enthusiasts.
All you need to know about Karting, from the gear to wear, the kart to ride, the circuits
and the skills required. The book includes information about the competitions within
Australia and a great glossary explaining the terms used.
A book for skateboarding enthusiasts.
A book for snowboarding enthusiasts.
Harry loves his life by the river, swimming, leaping into the water, just being there. But
when the river bursts its banks, its time for Harry to seek out the wider world. In the now
familiar free verse form, this book is a shortlisted book in the CBC Book of the Year
2005
A small country town is rocked by the brutal murder of a young woman.
Ron tries always to do the right thing but it seems the fates are against him. His
melancholy lifts a little when he finds a guinea pig, even though everyone seems to think
it is a rat and then he is befriended by the granddaughter of a new neighbour, Isabelle
When Jack hears a wolf howling at night it leads to a thriller of an adventure story.
A verse novel, this poetry takes older readers on a journey through Jack's life.
A collection of funny, poignant and significant poems detailing the everyday lives of
children - family, school and friends. Each poem echoes with young voices.
Jayden Hayden is on a quest to find his father with the help of his friend, Saskia.
Billy leaves his old life behind and manages to find kindness and friendship (Mature
readers)
Eleven year old Sam Slater is orphaned and lives in a small house with Ronaldo the
soccer dog, Parrot, the parrot and eccentric Aunt Ashmara. He is soccer mad and a
poet.
Dumb things become important when you're old. At least that's what Tom reckons, like
living in a guarded, gated community. Tom meets Cleo, the snake charmer, and they
break out together to make discoveries.
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Billie Jo describes her life on the farm in Oklahoma during the dust storms of 1934 and
1935.
Young Nick faithfully records the ordinary human achievements that make extraordinary
those of the company of the bark, 'Endeavour', on Captain Cook's first epic voyage.
HESSE, Karen
Out of the Dust
HESSE, Karen
Young Nick's Head
HEST, Amy
When Jessie came across the
Sea
Cybercage
Depicts the migration of Jewish people to the United States.
HILLMAN, Robert
A long term prisoner befriends a computer nerd who manipulates the computer system
controlling the state of the art court system. Jade and her friends happen to be on a
school excursion to the courts when the impossible break out occurs.
Eye of the Beast
Moonshadow
A fantasy novel set in Japan, 'The Eye of the Beast' is full of spies and men with
immense courage backed up by unbeatable skils.
In the Jaws of the Sea
Investigating a giant kelp forest, Kira's boyfriend becomes trapped underwater, so Kira
and her submarine go to the rescue.
The Wrath of Silver Wolf
Moonshadow
The powerful Silver Wolf plots against Moonshadow, trying to undermine the peace that
the country is aiming for.
Thunderfish
Kira Beaumont buys a submarine which she fits out to hunt down modern pirates in the
seas north of Australia, before the pirates in the seas north of Australia, before the
pirates attack and kill refugees headed for this land.
Under no Flag
This book continues the story of Kira and her submarine.
By Royal Command
Young Bond
The latest in the series, Yound Bond, has James' expulsion from Eton College after an
incident with a maid, and shows James falling in love for the first time.
Double or Die
Young Bond
James Bond is no ordinary boy with his weekend including kidnapping, violence,
explosions and murder.
Hurricane Gold
Young Bond
The fourth in the highly popular Young Bond series has young James following some
master criminals around Mexico and the Caribbean islands to foil their plans.
Silverfin
Young Bond
The young James Bond is at Eaton, a school bound by out of date traditions which
cause James some discomfort. On holidays in Scotland, he finds that his tormentor is
living nearby and when he and his friend investigate the strange goings on at the castle,
find imprisonment is the least of their troubles
Captain Cook's Apprentice
The true story of Isaac Manley, a cabin boy on Cook's discovery of the Great South
Land, is told in a fiction format which shows us what it was like to be aboard Captain
Cook's ship, Endeavour.
Soldier Boy: the True Story of Jim
This is the story of Jim Martin who enlisted in the Australian army at the age of fourteen
Martin the Youngest Anzac
to fight in World War I.
The Burnt Stick
A boy's Aboriginal family tried to save him being taken away by using the charcoal from
a burnt stick to make his skin dark black.
Building the Snowy Scheme
Great Australian Stories The building of the Snowy Mountains Hydro electric scheme.
HILLMAN, Robert
Crossing the Blue Mountains
HILLMAN, Robert
Gallipoli
The early years of the New South Wales colony were hampered by their inability to
cross the Blue Mountains.
The story of the battle that has shaped Australia's view of itself.
HIGGINS, Simon
HIGGINS, Simon
HIGGINS, Simon
HIGGINS, Simon
HIGGINS, Simon
HIGGINS, Simon
HIGSON, Charlie
HIGSON, Charlie
HIGSON, Charlie
HIGSON, Charlie
HILL, Anthony
HILL, Anthony
HILL, Anthony
Cascade
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How Australia's capital was selected and built.
Ann-Marie has to move to rural England and leave her dog, Maudie, behind. As AnnMarie frets for her dog, she becomes involved with a ghostly story involving a sad child
separated from her dog.
An ex-guide dog, now retired, must use all his seeing-eye dog skills to solve the murder
of one of the neighbourhood cats. He tells the story of the crime for which he stands
accused. Can he solve the murder?
Pyro is living with his aunt and her friend, Mr. Stig, in their caravan by the sea while his
mother nurses gran. In the seaside town he meets Min and his dog, and instantly the
pair become friends, but when two bullies appear on the scene, things happen.
Sprite's mother is severely depressed and when father leaves home, Sprite and her
brother set off to find him. Sprite lands in the home of someone she cannot trust, and is
rescued by a homeless boy.
Young Bluegum
Tim is an unhappy and worried boy and more he worries the more he hiccups. He is
being bullied at school and now his mother is seeing a lot of their neighbour, David, and
David's daughter seems to want to see a lot of Tim. A light hearted novel about the
difficulties of sharing one's life with new people.
Young Bluegum
Violet-Ann befriends a seven legged spider which she names Sam.
A graphic novel retelling of the story of King Lear, trying to buy his three daughters'
affections in his old age, by dividing his kingdom between them.
Fourteen-year-old Rusty-James runs one of the meanest gangs in his neighbourhood,
his reputation safe mainly because his brother is the widely-feared Motorcycle Boy.
Mature readers
The amazing Amelia writes a story about the peacock lamp which hangs outside her
bedroom, unwittingly setting in motion a series of events involving an exiled princess
returning to her homeland, and discovering her own abilities in understanding people.
HILLMAN, Robert
HILTON, Nette
The Story of Canberra
A Ghost of a Chance
HILTON, Nette
A Grave Catastrophe
HILTON, Nette
Pyro Watson and the Hidden
Treasure
HILTON, Nette
Sprite Downberry
HILTON, Nette
The Hiccups
HILTON, Nette
HINDS, Gareth
The Web
King Lear : a play
HINTON, S.E.
Rumble Fish
HIRSCH, Odo
Amelia Dee and the Peacock
Lamp
HIRSCH, Odo
Antonio S and the mystery of
Theodore Guzman
Anthonio has a plan to find out more about the mysterious Mr Guzman who lives in the
same apartment building as Anthonio, his magician father and his doctor mother.
HIRSCH, Odo
HIRSCH, Odo
Bartlett and the Ice Voyage
Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool
HIRSCH, Odo
Hazel Green
The adventure of Bartlett who retrieves an iceberg to use as an exotic gift.
Every 25 years the Bell family must give a grand and expensive gift to the town council.
But this year has seen the family fall on hard times, and the time for the gift is near. Can
Darius find the answer in the cave?
Hazel Green is a wonderful character, a clear-minded, inventive, tenacious girl who
when faced with mistrust and opposition sets about steadily restoring her reputation and
ensuring the success of her plans (not unlike Jinks' Camilla in The Stinking Great Lie
HIRSCH, Odo
Slaughterboy
The amazing adventures of Conrad, who without parents tries to survive in medieval
England. He becomes a slaughterboy, apprentice to a slaughterman, the lowliest job
there is, and has to fight to maintain his place in the world.
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Something's Fishy, Hazel Green!
HIRSCH, Odo
Think Smart, Hazel Green!
HIRSCH, Odo
Will Buster and the Carrier's
Flash
Will Buster and the Gelmet
Helmet
My Place in Space
The Mouse and his Child
HIRSCH, Odo
HIRST, Robin
HOBAN, Russell
HOEYE, Michael
HOEYE, Michael
The Sands of Time: A Hermux
Tantamoq Adventure
Time Stops for no Mouse
HOFFMAN, Ernst
The Nutcracker
HOFFMAN, Mary
Women Of Camelot: Queens and
Enchantresses at the Court of
King Arthur
They Took the Children
HOLLINSWORTH,
David
HOLM, Anne
I am David
HOLMAN, David
Whale: The Play
HOLPER, Paul
HONEY, Elizabeth
Wow!: Amazing Science Facts
and Trivia
45 & 47 Stella Street and
Everything that Happened
Don't Pat the Wombat
HONEY, Elizabeth
Remote Man
HONEY, Elizabeth
The Ballad of Cauldron Bay
HONEY, Elizabeth
HOOPER, Mary
What do you Think, Feezal?
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum
HONEY, Elizabeth
Will Buster
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Hazel is the junior detective who has to find the lobster thief and retrieve the stolen
lobsters for her friend, the fishmonger.
Hazel Green has a new mission; to save Mr Volio and his bakery from a greedy rival
baker. Mr Murray, a much inferior baker in Hazel's opinion, has bought the building and
intends to throw the Volio bakery out.
Will Buster's new adventure involves the disappearance of his friend Myron
Will Buster
Hermux Tantmoq
Adventures
Will Buster is involved in a secret experiment in mind control.
From one house, the book moves on to present earth's place in the universe.
Here is a sweet tale about a pair of wind up mechanical mice, a father and son, who
embark on a quest to become self-winding.
Hermux is given an old scroll and the adventure begins
Hermux, a watchmaker and an unlikely hero, finds himself in a world of danger and
intrigue.
Written in 1816, this is the basis of Tchaikovsky's later ballet. In this edition, the story of
a sinister toymaker and a boy and girl doll that come to life is presented with beautiful
illustrations and detailed historical information.
The stories of nine women of Camelot are illustrated and written in modern language.
Heinemann Plays
The story of the stolen generations of Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed
from their parents as part of Australian government policies.
A young boy's journey of survival across Europe following his assisted escape from a
concentration camp.
A play focusing on the combined rescue of these gentle animals by US and Soviet
forces.
A collection of scientific facts in chapters, illustrated with cartoons.
The families and friends who live in Stella Street lead fascinating lives!
The goings-on at the year six camp are recounted in a boy's written excerpts, drawings
and photographs.
An up to the minute story where Ned, in Northern Australia, enlists the help of his chat
room buddies in Europe and North America to capture some criminals.
Henni is on holidays at the beach with some neighbours from Stella Street when she
meets Tara, and everything changes.
Bean has to move to Sydney to live in a penthouse, where she can't have a dog.
Hannah goes to London in 1665 to work with her sister, unaware that the Plague is
taking hold of the city. An exciting tale of how the plague affected London and the
ordinary people.
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HOOPER, Mary
Newes from the Dead
HOOPER, Mary
Petals in the Ashes
HOOPER, Meredith
Race to the Pole
HOOPER, Meredith
Who Built the Pyramid
HORNBY, Hugh
Football
HORNIMAN, Joanne
Sand Monkeys
HOROWITZ, Anthony Alex Rider, the Gadgets
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The true story of the hanging and then revival of Anne Green in 1650 is riveting reading.
Accused of infanticide when her new born and illegitimate baby dies, she is hanged at
Oxford, but when about to be dissected by the doctors, makes a sound and so is
revived.
Hannah returns to London after the great Plague (1660) to restore her shop selling
sweets, but just as they think they can retrieve their living, the Great Fire (1666) sweeps
through London, burning all in its fierceness, and causing chaos.
An exciting retelling for younger readers of the desperate Antartic bids, of Shackleton,
Scott and Amundsen, to be first to the South Pole.
Wonderfully illustrated this text follows the stories of each person who had a hand in
building the pyramids of Ancient Egypt.
DK Eyewitness
The history of soccer right through to the present day is covered, including topics such
as the rules, players and the World Cup.
A number of teenagers have to get to know each other as they come to live in a house
in Sydney, while the adults live in an adjoining house.
Alex Rider
The gadgets used by Alex Rider in the series of books
HOROWITZ, Anthony Ark Angel
HOROWITZ, Anthony Burnt
HOROWITZ, Anthony Crocodile Tears
Pocket Horowitz
Alex Rider
HOROWITZ, Anthony Eagle Strike
Alex Rider
HOROWITZ, Anthony Evil Star
Gate Keepers
HOROWITZ, Anthony Groosham Grange
HOROWITZ, Anthony Necropolis
Power of Five
HOROWITZ, Anthony Point Blanc
Alex Rider
HOROWITZ, Anthony Point Blanc Graphic Novel
Alex Rider
HOROWITZ, Anthony Raven's Gate
HOROWITZ, Anthony Scorpia
Alex Rider
The sixth adventure in the Alex Rider series, when Alex has to take action with a group
of eco terrorists.
3 short stories about scary topics
Alex Rider, determined not to be mixed up with the MI6 ever again, is drawn reluctantly
into their schemes when a journalist tries to blackmail him. Landing in Kenya with
crocodiles snapping at his heels, Alex escapes to fight another day.
In this fourth title in the Alex Rider Series, Alex is plunged into the world of violence and
mystery of Damian Cray - a famous British celebrity.
The gate opens to allow evil into the world. Only Matt Freeman has the power to stop
the forces of evil. Now a second gate opens in Peru.
A boarding school with strange teachers on an island is where David's mean parents
send him and the adventure begins.
The fourth in this series of supernatural stories has found Scarlett fighting against the
media attention while Matt in Peru has stumbled over the truth, finding the last
Gatekeeper. But trying to defeat the Old Ones is trickier than it seems.
Alex Rider Book 2: Alex Rider, teenage MI6 agent, is pulled out of school again in order
to save the world. Two of the world’s most powerful men have been killed. The only
connection is that both their sons attend Point Blanc Academy—an exclusive school
situated in the French Alps, cut off from the world.
Alex Rider is sent to find out what is happening at the Point Blanc Academy in France.
This book features action-packed Manga-style art work.
The gate opens to allow evil to get into the world. Only Matt Freeman has the power to
stop the forces of darkness.
Alex Rider, like a young James Bond takes on all comers.
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HOROWITZ, Anthony Skeleton Key
Alex Rider
HOROWITZ, Anthony Snakehead
Alex Rider
HOROWITZ, Anthony Stormbreaker
Alex Rider
HOROWITZ, Anthony Stormbreaker: the Graphic Novel Alex Rider
HOROWITZ, Anthony The Greek who Stole Christmas
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Alex has only just begun to get over his experiences in Point Blanc when he is
approached once again by Mr Crawley offering a supposedly simple job - ball boy at
Wimbledon. But it leads to Alex becoming involved with one of the triads and they will
stop at nothing to kill him.
From the Alex Rider series, Alex is teamed up with his Godfather, Ash, to infiltrate the
Snakehead in Asia.
Alex Rider, a modern day teenage James Bond, is thrown in at the deep end when a
secret division of MI6 cajoles (threatens) him into taking over the case his uncle was
working on when he was killed.
A graphic novel adaption of the movie about the teen spy, Alex Rider.
Diamond Brothers
HOROWITZ, Anthony The Unholy Grail or Return to
Groosham Grange
HOROWITZ, Anthony Skeleton Key: the Graphic Novel
& JOHNSTON, Antony
HORSFIELD, Alan
The Rats of Wolfe Island
HOWARTH, Lesley
Maphead
HOWKER, Janni
The Nature of the Beast
HUBER, Raymond
Sting
HUGHES, Ted
The Iron Man
HUNT, Paula
The Outlaw Son: The Story of
Ned Kelly
HUNTER, Kate
The Parfizz Pitch
HUTCHINS, Elizabeth A Matter of Cats
HUTCHINS, Elizabeth Bring Back the Songs
Greek pop princess Minerva is receiving death threats - and when one of her enemies
turns up dead, its clear that she's next in line. Can Nick and Tim find the murderer
before it's too late?
The sequel to Groosham Grange with more mystery and adventure for David Eliot.
Alex Rider is an orphaned young spy who does work for MI6. On a routine mission he
accidentally stops a triad fixing a tennis tournament for gambling purposes. This is the
thrid adventure with the others being 'Stormbreaker' and 'Point Blanc'.
In this eerie mystery, Eddie Haite becomes involved in monitoring the behaviour of
some radiation-affected rats on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific. The rats
seem to have the ability to observe people and the man who runs the lab.
Maphead, an alien boy, has the ability to produce maps of anywhere across his face.
Mosquito Advertising
A community in Yorkshire, England is devastated by unemployment and has another
problem to contend with - an unknown beast roaming the moors.
Ziggy is sent on a mission by the queen bee which begins an adventure that sees him
meeting all sorts of bees in the wild as well as being captured by humans.
A strange metal eating iron man is befriended by a young boy and taken to a scrap yard
to eat the metal there. When an alien beast threatens the community, the iron man
defends everyone.
The story of Ned's life from his early beginnings as the son of a poor ex-convict family,
striving to make ends meet to his death by hanging in 1880. The inviting presentation of
the story makes it involving and appealing.
When their family business is about to fold, Katie decides to start up an advertising
campaign designed to get the drink back on the shelves.
A thinly veiled Warrawong Sanctuary is the vehicle to show the harm cats do to the
environment, when the family visits the place where the owner has a hat made from cat
skins.
Nessie's journey to find out about her past takes an unexpected turn when she goes to
Port Augusta with her family.
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HUTCHINS, Elizabeth Tinooka, Segments of an Orange
Two new girls begin at the small rural Area School, and invoke quite different reactions
from the school community.
HUTTON, Sam
Countdown
Special Agents
The third in the Special Agents series
HUTTON, Sam
Final Shot
Special Agents
Alex, Danny and Maddie go undercover again to solve a murder, this time involvong the
Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Another in the Special Agents series.
HUTTON, Sam
Special Agents: Deep End
HYDE, Lily
Dream Land
HYDE, Michael
HYDE, Michael
IBBOTSON, Eva
Finals Chance
Mud and Rain
Journey to the River Sea
IBBOTSON, Eva
Which Witch?
Special Agents
Change the Game
INGPEN, Robert
The Boy from Bowral: the Story
of Sir Donald Bradman
INNOCENTI, Roberto Rose Blanche
IRELAND, Julie
A rollicking good adventure story, well told with a credible cast of late teens. Deep End
is the first in the series of stories set around three teenagers, Danny, Maddie and Alex,
who all work for a special branch of the British Police.
All her life, Safi's parents have dreamt of returning to Grandpa's native village in
Crimea. On arriving in Crimea from Uzbekistan, Safi's parents and other Crimean
Tartars struggle to reclaim the land from which they were exiled in World War II.
A choose your own adventure style of novel, but about Aussie Rules football.
A choose your own adventure about Aussie Rules football.
Eva Ibbotson is deservedly well-known for her whimsical fantasies. Journey to the River
Sea is the first of her books for children that is a straight adventure.
Arriman the Awful, evil Wizard of the North, devises a spell-casting competition so he
can marry the winner and produce an heir. Belladonna longs to be a fiendish hag and
win the competition, but how?
Don Bradman's career is brought to life as the greatest batsman in the history of cricket.
A picture book that tells of Rose, a little girl living in a small German town during the
war, who sees trucks going to a place outside of town and wants to find out more.
IRELAND, Julie
Hanging by a Thread and Other
Stories
Stitches in Time
A brilliant set of stories ranging from science fiction to futuristic.
IRELAND, Julie
The Face at the Window
IRVINE, Ian
Runcible Jones and the
Backwards Hourglass
Runcible Jones
IRVINE, Ian
Runcible Jones
IRVINE, Ian
Runcible Jones and the Frozen
Compass
The Grasping Goblin
Grim and Grimmer
IRVINE, Ian
The Headless Highwayman
Grim and Grimmer
Elise unable to cope with her mother's death, visits her aunt in France. Here she is
given a dress made by her mother and is transported back to the Middle Ages where
acceptance finally happens.
Drawn by a face at the window in a supposedly empty house, mysterious things occur
which deepen the story.
On 14 year old Runcible Jones' shoulders stands the future of the Earth, only he can
stop the power and might of the enemy, Lord Shambles. Book four in the Runcible
Jones series.
Book three in a series, hailed as something to fill the hole left by Harry Potter.
Second in the Grim and Grimmer series sees the Nightmare Queen hunting down Ike
and Mellie.
When Ike draws a door with the stolen pen on the wall in his guardian's house, he is
impelled to open it and go through. The world he finds is unlike any he knows and he is
befriended by a headless highwayman.
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IRVINE, Nance
Eliza! Eliza! The Biography Of
Eliza Winstanley
Nellie Melba
IRVINE, Nance
The Depression Years
JACKSON, Livia Bitton Elli: Coming of Age in the
Holocaust
JACQUES, Brian
Loamhedge
JACQUES, Brian
Lord Brocktree
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Told through words and illustrations, this tells the story of Australia's first leading lady
and the first actress to gain overseas success.
Hodder Australian
Words and illustrations tell the story of the famous opera singer's life.
Series
Hodder Australian
Through words and illustrations, this book describes both the grim poverty and the
Series
happy side of life during the Great Depression in Australia.
Elli recounts her experiences as a 13 year-old living in a concentration camp.
Redwall
A Tale of Redwall
JACQUES, Brian
Mariel of Redwall
Redwall
JACQUES, Brian
Marlfox
Redwall
JACQUES, Brian
Martin the Warrior
JACQUES, Brian
Mattimeo
Redwall
JACQUES, Brian
Mossflower
Redwall
JACQUES, Brian
JACQUES, Brian
Rakkety Tam
Redwall
Redwall
JACQUES, Brian
Salamandstrom
JACQUES, Brian
The Bellmaker
JACQUES, Brian
The legend of Luke
JACQUES, Brian
The Long Patrol
JACQUES, Brian
The Outcast of Redwall
JACQUES, Brian
The Pearls of Lutra
JACQUES, Brian
The Taggerung
JACQUES, Brian
Triss
A Tale of Redwall
Redwall 17
Redwall 14. Salamandstrom is under threat from an enemy and relies on Lord
Brocktree to come to the rescue.
Redwall 5. Storm is washed ashore on a beach and finds her way to Redwall Abbey
where the mystery of who she is unfolds.
Redwall 12. Marl foxes are magic and have the ability to disappear from sight and cause
trouble in Mossflower Wood.
An ordinary mouse becomes a famous warrior in mythical Redwall. One of the
"Redwall" series.
Redwall 4. A feast is planned at Redwall Abbey but the magicians turn out to be
imposters and capture the young ones including Mattimeo.
Redwall 3. Martin the Warrior is captured by Verdauga who rules over Kotir. He is
treated cruelly by Tsarmina, his ruthless daughter
Another book in the Redwall Series.
In this book from the Redwall series, the animal inhabitants of Redwall Abbey have to
fight to stop the evil one-eyed rat warlord from taking control of their home.
Redwall 6. Salamandstrom is the badger lord of the Fire and this book is how the story
of his daughter Mara and Samkin intertwine.
Redwall 8. It begins at Southsward, a land far south of Mossflower where Rab
Streambottle has escaped from the castle.
Redwall 13. Martin returns to Northland shore to find out more about what happenend to
his father, Luke
Redwall 11. The Southern wall of Redwall Abbey is crumbling. Will the great
Rapscullion army storm the Abbey?
Redwall 9. An adventure with the badger and Skarlath, the hawk he manages to free.
Redwall 10. Emperor Ublaz - mad eyes - yearns to own the Pearls of Lutra. His army
attacks Redwall to find them.
Redwall 15. The clan of Sawney Rath kidnaps a baby from Redwall. Will he find his way
back to become the Taggerung - a warrior hero?
Redwall 16. Triss is a new and unforgettable heroine who arrives at Redwall.
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The Glory Garage
JARVIS, Robin
JENKINS, Martin
JENNINGS, Paul
The Dark Portal
Miguel De Cervantes Don
Quixote
Sick As: Bloody Moments in the
History of Medicine
Grandad's Gifts
JENNINGS, Paul
How Hedley Hopkins did a Dare
JENNINGS, Paul
Paul Jennings' Trickiest Stories
JENNINGS, Paul
JENNINGS, Paul
Quirky Tails
Round the Twist
JENNINGS, Paul
Spookiest Stories
JENNINGS, Paul
Spooner or Later
JENNINGS, Paul
JENNINGS, Paul
JENNINGS, Paul
JENNINGS, Paul
JENNINGS, Paul
JENNINGS, Paul
Tongue-Tied!
Unbearable!
Uncanny
Uncovered
Undone!
Unmentionable!: More Amazing
Stories
Unreal! Eight Surprising Stories
JENNINGS, Gael
JENNINGS, Paul
JENNINGS, Paul
JENNINGS, Paul
JENNINGS, Paul &
GLEITZMAN, Morris
JENNINGS, Paul &
GLEITZMAN, Morris
JINKS, Catherine
Unseen
Weirdest Stories
Deadly! Part Six, Pluck
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Written by two Muslim girls, this book details their experiences growing up in a relaxed
Australia, where some of their customs and beliefs are difficult to adhere to. The book
gives a good account of why some of the customs are followed, and an insight into the
Australian Muslim world
Deptford Mice
The first book in the Deptford mice series.
A beautifully illustrated graphic novel version of this classic tale from Spain, retold by
Martin Jenkins.
Fascinating historical aspects of medicine presented in an unusual and exciting format.
Shane's curiosity gets the better of him as he must know what is in the forbidden
cupboard.
Hedley is a new arrival from Egland and desperately wants to fit in. Lonely, he accepts a
dare to collect a skull from an opened grave on the beach. Mature readers.
This special collection of Paul's trickiest stories proves yet again that he is the master of
unexpected twists and turns!
A collection of humorous short stories of unexpected phenomena with a twist.
Four of the stories from the award winning series "Round the Twist", based on Paul
Jenning's books
Some of Paul Jennings' funniest and scariest stories have been compiled into one
volume.
Picture puzzles and humorous drawings highlight this book of word games and
spoonerisms.
Eight new short stories - some humorous.
More bizarre stories
9 entertaining stories
A group of nine appealing science fiction fantasy stories.
Eight more stories where the wekaest usually overcome problem situations.
Amazing short stories
Deadly!
Wicked
Eglantine: A Ghost Story
Boys are the heroes in each of the tales in this assortment of funny, scary and
disgusting short stories.
A collection of funny stories, particularly appealing to boys.
A collection of Paul Jennings' weirdest short stories.
The sixth book in the deadly serial continues the humorous adventures
A compilation of all the Wicked stories published in separate titles.
Allie's Ghost Hunters
When Allie and her family move into a new home, the last thing they expect is an
unwanted guest. But Bethan's room seems to be inhabited by a ghost - one who writes
on the walls. Layers of paint, experts on psychic phenomena, and Feng Shui don't help.
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Allie gives in to her best friend's wheedling, and joins the Exorcists' Club. But involving
herself in a seance has repercussions beyond her expectations.
Cadel does not do what ordinary boys of his age do. He deplores Lego and instead
hacks into the world's best security systems, undermining their operations.
JINKS, Catherine
Eloise
JINKS, Catherine
Evil Genius
JINKS, Catherine
Eye to Eye
JINKS, Catherine
Genius Squad
JINKS, Catherine
JINKS, Catherine
Pagan In Exile
Pagan's Crusade
Pagan Chronicles
Pagan Chronicles
JINKS, Catherine
Pagan's Daughter
Pagan Chronicles
JINKS, Catherine
JINKS, Catherine
Pagan's Vows
The Reformed Vampire Support
Group
The Stinking Great Lie
Pagan Chronicles
JINKS, Catherine
JINKS, Catherine
JOHNSON, Pete
What's Hector McKerrow doing
these Days?
Thora and the Green Sea
Unicorn
Hot News
Graffix
JOLLEY, Dan
Escape from Pyramid X
Twisted Journeys
JOLLEY, Dan &
HUNTER, Erin
The Lost Warrior
Warriors
JOLLEY, Dan &
HUNTER, Erin
JOLLEY, Dan &
HUNTER, Erin
Warrior's Refuge
Warriors
Warrior's Return
Warriors
JONES, Carol
It's True! Women Were Warriors It's True
JOHNSON, Gillian
Thora
JONES, Diana Wynne Charmed Life
The Chrestomanci
Series
JONES, Diana Wynne The Lives of Christopher Chant
The Chrestomanci
Series
Jansi, a feral boy, and the computerised intelligence of a crashed spaceship make an
unlikely pair in this story, set after the apocalypse.
Sequel to Evil Genius, this story tells the tale of Cadel, trying hard to be good. But who
can he trust?
The second in the series Pagan's Crusade
Set in 1187, Pagan is the young squire for a knight in Jerusalem, fighting in the
Crusades.
Pagan's daughter is in danger of her life, and Pagan's scribe Isobard has been given the
quest of searching her out from her life with the doomed Cathars, and rescue her.
The third in the wonderful series, Pagan's Crusade
The vampire support group meets every Tuesday evening, but one of their number has
been murdered. They are propelled into a world of evil.
When her father, the Urine Collector tries to marry her off, Camilla is most upset, so she
is sent to a family where she will learn how to behave. A Medieval romp.
A teenager wishes to find out about an old time film star by starting up a bulletin board
on the Internet. Mature readers
A most unusual array of characters, including a mermaid, this book will thrill the fantasy
lovers, as Thora seeks to find her lost sea unicorn, Shirley.
Graffix Series: Tony is confused. His best mate, Gavin fancies Vanessa and she seems
to like him,,,,,,,
A form of choose your own adventure as a graphic novel. You are on an expedition to a
pyramid and be prepared for surprises and twists in the story. You choose how you
follow this story.
Graystripe has been captured by two legs and even though he has all the food and
shelter he needs, he wants to go home. With the help of his new friend Millie (a kittypet
all her life), he sets off on the journey home.
Based on the Erin Hunter novels, it is Graystripe's (of the Thunderclan) journey home
with his friend Millie (a kittypet). Along the way they help the barncats.
Graystripe and Millie have finally made it to the Thunderclan territory only to find it
destroyed by the twolegs. They must now journey on to find the clan - an almost
impossible journey.
Warning: This is not a book about saints or do-gooders. This is a book about lying,
cheating, bullying, murdering, vengeful women.
Everyone says that Gwendolyn Chant is a gifted witch with astonishing powers, so it
suits her enormously when she is taken to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Her brother, Eric
(better known as Cat), is not so keen, for he has no talent for magic at all.
Christopher's destiny, by virtue of his possession of nine lives, is to be the next
Chrestomanci, a position of awesome magical responsibility, but he rebels against it.
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JONES, Diana Wynne The Ogre Downstairs
JONES, Elsie
The Story of the Falling Star
JONES, Terry
Fantastic Stories
JONES, V M
Buddy
JONSBERG, Barry
Cassie
JORGENSEN,
Norman
In Flanders Fields
JUSTER, Norton
The Phantom Tollbooth
JU-YEON, Rhim
President Dad No 1
KEITH, Lois
A Different Life
KELLEHER, Victor
Del-Del
KELLEHER, Victor
Master of the Grove
KELLEHER, Victor
Papio
KELLEHER, Victor
Parkland
KELLEHER, Victor
Red Heart
KELLEHER, Victor
Taronga
KELLEHER, Victor
The Ivory Trail
KELLEHER, Victor
Where the Whales Sing
KELLY, Bernadette
Making Waves
KELLY, Bernadette
Pony Trek
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When a new stepfather, the ogre to the stepchildren, gives chemistry sets to both sets
of children in the house, magic things start to happen!
Dreaming Story : A retelling and recreation of the Paakantji people of the Darling River
in New South Wales.
21 stories of mischief and magic, dragons and dinosaurs, monsters and mermaids,
cruelty and courage.
Josh appears to be a typical teenager, resentful of his parents' divorce and dad's new
girlfriend. Despite a crippling fear of the water, he struggles to learn to swim so that he
can take part in the Iron Kid Triathlon.
Girlfriend Fiction
Holly eventually works out who her real friends are, and works towards putting things
right with friends and family, including her cousin who has cerebral palsy.
In Flanders fields, a young homesick World War I soldier risks his life to cross no-man's
land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire. He hears the soldiers on the other
side singing Christmas carols.
New Readers Circle
A young boy receives a special birthday gift that takes him on a journey through an
Editions
extraordinary land.
President Dad
Ami Won's dad has jsut become president of Korea. What does this do to the life of
your average schoolgirl?
A swim in the sea results in Libby catching an infection which paralyses her legs and
leads to a different life.
After a family visit to the grave of Laura, the middle child who died exactly a year earlier,
Sam, the seven-year-old, begins to act very strangely.
Derin travels across the world to find his father. This quest leads him into the conflict
that besets his race.
The dramatic story of two children who rescue Papio and Upi, male and female
baboons, from an experimental research station in Central Africa, only to find freedom
brings problems for the animals and themselves.
Parkland is an enclosure that houses humans and human-ape hybrids. They are
controlled by vicious creatures called leopards.
Nat needs to find his uncle so that his parents' farm can be saved. But venturing into the
flooded interior of Australia is hazardous in the extreme.
Ben comes upon Taronga Zoo which seems unaffected by a nuclear holocaust, or is it?
Ben and his Aboriginal friend, Ellie, are aware that decisions they make may have huge
implications for the future.
In this most unusual and quite intriguing novel are five stories, linked and interwoven
with a journey of self-discovery and enlightenment.
Claire and her father encounter a storm in which a whale overturns their boat and
Claire, with an injured knee, is left to fend for herself.
Riding High
Annie and her friends go to a seaside riding camp for a holiday but two of the horses
escape, and Annie's best freind has a falling out.
Riding High
Annie takes her city friend, Jade on a pony trek but is put out when the leader of the
group seems more interested in Jade than Annie.
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Riding High
A series of four books about joining a pony club. Annie moves to the country where she
joins the local pony club but must work hard to learn all the skills, make new friends and
win her father's approval.
The turbulent term of Tyke Tiler
Tyke's good friend, Danny, gets into all sorts of trouble with his practical jokes.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Essential Modern
Nine-year-old Anna was too busy with schoolwork and friends in 1933 to take much
Classics
notice of Adolf Hitler's rise to power in her native Germany, until she is forced to learn
the skills needed to be a refugee.
Children of the Lamp: The
A hot day in Egypt, Hussein and his 11 year old son, Baksheesk are digging for
Akhenaten Adventure
treasures, when an earthquake uncovers the most glorious of sights..........
Aladdin
DK Readers
An abridged retelling of the classic tales of the Arabian Nights with beautiful illustrations
and detailed historical information.
Meridian: Flying Solo: Vol 1
Meridan
Sephie lives in an ideal world - destined one day to rule as Minister of her land,
Meridian, in her father's place. She adores her family and friends and most of all the
miraculous floating island she calls home.
Meridian: Taking the Skies: Vol 3 Meridan
Sephie is growing ever stronger, testing her new powers and blossoming into the leader
her father knew she could be.
Jameela
Jameela survives in war-torn Afghanistan, finally finding her way to an orphanage.
The Stonekeeper
Amulet
Emily and Navin move to an old family home in the country. This is the house that their
great grandfather disappeared from. On their first night in the house their mother is
attacked and taken by a creature. The children follow through a doorway into another
world and the journey begins to save their mother.
Onion Tears
Nam-Huong escaped from Vietnam and lost her grandfather on the long terrible voyage.
She finds it hard to release her pent up grief, until her teacher falls ill.
Two Hands Together
Lily and Ella live next door to each other and are best friends. Lily can't understand the
prejudice her Dad has towards Ella's family.
My Sister's a Burp
My Sister
More funny adventures with Zeke and Eppie where Eppie is swallowed by her mother.
KILLEEN, Gretel
KILLEEN, Gretel
KILLEEN, Gretel
KILLEEN, Gretel
My Sister's a Full Stop
My Sister's a Nightmare
My Sister's a Sea Slug
My Sister's a Yoyo
My Sister
My Sister
My Sister
My Sister
KILLEEN, Gretel
KILLEEN, Gretel
My sister's an Alien
The Very Naughty Mother is a
Spy
The Bronte Girls
Lily B - on the Brink of Cool
My Sister
KELLY, Bernadette
KEMP, Gene
KERR, Judith
KERR, PB
KERVEN, Rosalind
KESEL, Barbara
KESEL, Barbara
KHAN, Rukhsana
KIBUISHI, Kazu
KIDD, Diana
KIDD, Diana
KILWORTH, Gary
KIMMEL, Elizabeth
Cody
KING, John Anthony
KINGSLEY, Charles
The Book of Australian Ballads
The Water Babies
Eppie becomes a character in a book of fairy tales.
Zeke's sister Eppie becomes involved in a nightmare in this humorous story.
Eppie has a humorous adventure underwater.
Eppie is squashed by a strawberry and becomes attached to a yoyo which leads to
some funny situations.
An adventure with Eppie travelling through space.
The top secret story of the very naughty mother and her two kids, Zed and Pink solving
problems because of what mum does.
A father keeps his family locked in a time warp away from the twentieth century.
Lily Blennerhassett, an aspiring writer, is hampered in her ambitions by the tragic
boringness of her family. Then at a family wedding, she meets tanned, gorgeous
cousins the Le Blancs.
A collection of Australian lyric poetry.
Whilst cleaning a chimney, Tom emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, who mistakes him for
a thief. He runs away and slips into a cooling stream. He falls asleep to become a
Water Baby with a quest to the Other-end-of-Nowhere.
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KING-SMITH, Dick
The Sheep-pig
A piglet becomes famous after being adopted and trained as a sheep dog.
KIPLING, Rudyard
Kim
Kim is an 11 year-old Irish boy in India who is orphaned and lives amongst the poor on
the streets.
KLEIN, Robin
Boss of the Pool
Required to accompany her mother, who works at a hostel for the disabled, Shelley is
more than a little unhappy. Eventually, she chooses to teach Ben, who is mentally
disabled and very fearful of the water, how to swim.
KLEIN, Robin
Came Back to show you I could
Eleven year-old Seymour meets Angie, who is older, beautiful, a dream girl. Seymour is
Fly
unaware that Angie is a drug addict. Their friendship, and the revelation of this secret,
changes both their lives. A story of drug abuse for older readers.
KLEIN, Robin
Halfway Across the Galaxy and
A family from the planet, Zyrgon, arrive on Earth after travelling half way across the
Turn Left
galaxy and turning left.
KLEIN, Robin
Hating Alison Ashley
Alison is a perfect only child who has everything - beauty, clothes and money. Erika is
so jealous, she has to find a way to get rid of Alison Ashley, once and for all.
KLEIN, Robin
Penny Pollards' Diary
Penny Pollard
A delightful series of stories about Penny.
KLEIN, Robin
Penny Pollards' Guide to Modern Penny Pollard
A delightful series of stories about Penny.
Manners
KLEIN, Robin
Penny Pollards' Letters
Penny Pollard
A delightful series of stories about Penny.
KLEIN, Robin
Penny Pollards' Passport
Penny Pollard
A delightful series of stories about Penny.
KLEIN, Robin
Penny Pollard's Scrapbook
Penny Pollard
A delightful series of stories about Penny.
KLEIN, Robin
People Might Hear You
An arresting story for older readers about a strange and sinister religious sect called
The Temple and how Frances discovers its secrets.
KLEIN, Robin
Tearaways
There are ten stories of different people who may be best avoided!
KLEIN, Robin
The Robin Klein Collection
Three novels in one, People Might Hear You, Seeing Things and The Listmaker.
KNEECE, Mark
The After Hours
Rod Serling's The
Reminiscent of the old television series, the Twilight Zone is a place where things are
Twilight Zone
not always as they seem. This thought provoking story focuses on a woman and her
experiences in a department store.
KNIGHT, Fran
Ngadjuri - the Aboriginal people
This book covers the Aborginal peole from their weapons, hunting techniques and us of
of the Mid North of South
the environment, where they lived, their stories, brush with early settlers and what
Australia
happend to them when their land was taken. Interviews with today's Ngadjuri people
KONOMI, Takeshi
The Prince of Tennis
A young tennis player wants to become the best in the world.
KROLL, Jeri
Mickey's Little Book of Letters
Mickey writes letters to express her feelings and also a sci-fi fantasy novel.
KRUSZELNICKI, Karl Dis Information and Other Wikkid
Great fun as Dr Karl tackles the great myths of science.
S.
Myths: More Great Myths in
Science
KRUSZELNICKI, Karl It Ain't Necessarily So... Bro
Dr Karl answers a lot of questions about life, the universe and well, everything.
S.
KRUSZELNICKI, Karl Please Explain
Another funny compilation of facts about things you've always wanted to know.
S.
KRUSZELNICKI, Karl Science is Golden
Another in Dr Karl's charming way of telling us lots of facts about things we've never
S.
thought about.
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KUIJER, Guus
The Book of Everything
KUSAKAWA, Nari
The Palette of 12 Secret Colors
KYOKO, Ariyoshi
Swan Vol.1
LAGUNA, Sofie
Bird and Sugar Boy
LAIRD, Elizabeth
A Little Piece of Ground
LAIRD, Elizabeth
Leopard Trail
LAIRD, Elizabeth
Paradise End
LAMB, Charles
Tales From Shakespeare
LANDMAN, Tanya
Apache: Girl Warrior
LANDMAN, Tanya
The Goldsmith's Daughter
LANDY, Derek
Skulduggery Pleasant
LANDY, Derek
Skulduggery Pleasant: The
Faceless One
Death Cloud
LANE, Andrew
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Despite an abusive father, Thomas remains cheerful and full of life, and his light hearted
conversations with Jesus give him a window into a world where there is no unhappiness
or pain.
In the fantasy world of Opal, Cello has the ability to become a great wizard, but she can't
seem to control her powers.
Young Masumi wants to be a world class ballerina. She has recieved admission to a
ballet school. Right to left read.
James and his best friend, Sugar Boy, are inseparable, but when Sugar Boy is to leave
the town, neither boy can talk to his friend about the move.
All Karim and his friends want is a little piece of ground to call their own on which to play
their beloved game of soccer. But this is Palestine and Israeli tanks are everywhere.
Wild Things
Siki is an orphan in an Apache tribe, continually besieged by Mexican raiders, and
hostile settlers moving onto their land. She becomes a warrior.
At the time of the Spanish destruction of the fabled Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, two
people from opposing sides meet and fall in love. Itacate, an Aztec goldsmith, meets
one of the men destined to take over her country, destroying it forever.
Besieged by a talking, clothed skeleton after her uncle has left her his house and all of
its contents, Stephanie realizes that her uncle's horror stories were not fiction. So it is
left to her and her new friend to save the world from evil.
Skulduggery Pleasant The second in the series about the skeleton detective and his offsider Valkyrie, as they
interpret the clues left at the crime scene and so find the killers.
Young Sherlock Holmes A teenage Sherlock Holmes solves his first murder mystery.
LANGRISH, Katherine Troll Fell
LARKIN, John
LARKIN, John
Armitage Shanks and the
Footballers Bones
David Beckham, Eat This!
One of the "Wild things" series. Tom has mixed emotions when his family moves to
Africa, until he spots the regal leopard outside his house. He quickly joins his new
friends as they try to save the animal from being shot.
The story of how a friendship develops between two girls from different ends of the
street, one wealthy, the other from the local school, is well told with a believable cast of
characters. Carly and her new friend Tia must brush aside the prejudices of Tia's
mother, who sees Carly as an interloper, after Tia's money
Prose adaptations of twenty of Shakespeare's works written especially for children.
Western Wildcats
Western Wildcats
When his father dies, Peter is taken far from his land and stripped of his possessions, to
live with his wicked uncles. His only hope comes from his friendship with Hilde from a
neighbouring family. Set in Viking times, this book is fast and furious when they learn of
the uncles' plots with the trolls.
Several diverse incidents combine here to emphasise the growing loyalty and
commitment of the Wildcats.
The focus here is on Splinters and his worries about his father's, Stan's, love life or lack
thereof. Gazza and her marriagable mother have returned to England. Where can he
find another prospect to replace her?
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LARKIN, John
Gazza's Gone
LARKIN, John
Ghost Byte
LARKIN, John
LARKIN, John
Nostradamus and Instant
Noodles
Soccer's Off
LARKIN, John
Wembley Wobblers
LARKIN, John
Western Wildcats Suck
LASKY, Kathryn
LAWRENCE, L
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the
House of Tudor
Mayflower: the Diary of
Remember Patience Whipple,
1620
Eagle of the West
LAWRENCE, Louise
Children of the Dust
LASKY, Kathryn
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Western Wildcats
Third title in the Western Wildcats series about the worst soccer team ever to wear
boots.
Brendan finds himself accompanied by a ghost who communicates through his
computer, further complicating his adolescent life.
Ian Champion travels to England to discover things might not have been so bad at
home, despite his parents' mid-life crisis.
Western Wildcats
Could the Western Wildcats be the worst soccer team to ever tie on the boots? Maybe,
but they win with their wonderfully inventive nicknames and totally eccentric ways that
includes a wandering goalie, Smokin, and Wedgie. Laughs come thick and fast.
Western Wildcats
The team are off to play at Wembley, but how will they cope with an opposition
consisting of the best English young players?
Second title in the series and even more hilarious than the first. Larkin's builds a
marvellous mosaic of parents, kids and community and when we finally do get to a
soccer game, a pre-season in Book 2, it is no surprise at all to have a penalty kick
(almost) result in an arrest! Sequel to Soccer's Off.
The fictionalised diary of the young Queen Elizabeth 1, up until the death of her father.
My Story
Patience Whipple is aboard the Mayflower as it journeys to America in search of
religious freedom for its inhabitants.
Ardavan travels with the Roman Army in 53BC experiencing the adventure and battles.
LAWRENSON, Diana Inside The Australian Ballet
LAWRENSON, Diana It's True: Your Bones are
Stronger than Concrete
LAWRINSON, Julia
Chess Nuts
It's True
LAWRINSON, Julia
Famous
Aussie Chomps
LAWSON, Sue
Allie McGregor's True Colours
LAWSON, Sue
Finding Darcy
The bell was not a practice but an emergency which left most ot the world dead. Sarah
must survive and find others like her.
All facets of creating a performance of a ballet, from the costumes to the scenery, are
described in this book.
The history and anatomy of bones told in a grisly but funny way designed to inform and
amuse.
The school chess club is seen as a bunch of losers by many of the sporting teams
within the school, but when one of their champions chooses chess over winning the
Sportsperson of the Year award, things begin to change.
Sophie is taken aback when her teacher tells her that 'being famous' is not a career
option, but Sophie is determined to be just that.
Allie is called the 'hormonal' one by her radio announcer father, but things at home are
set to spiral when her mother develops cancer.
When Darcy is sent to her grandmother's house while her mother is away, they live
together with anger and misery. When Darcy must write about her great grandfather's
role in WW2, she uncovers the pain that these women have carried since 1945.
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LAWSON, Sue
Tessa
LE GUIN, Ursula
A wizard of Earthsea
LEBLANC, Andre
The Red Piano
LEMIEUX, Michele
L'ENGLE, Madeleine
Stormy Night
A Wrinkle In Time
L'ENGLE, Madeleine
The Young Unicorns
LENNON, Jessie
And I Always Been Moving
LENTE, Fred van
LESTER, Alison
Iron Man
The Quicksand Pony
LESTER, Alison
The Snow Pony
LEVINE, Gail Carson
Ella Enchanted
LEVINE, Karen
Hana's Suitcase
LEWIS, C.S.
Prince Caspian
LEWIS, C.S.
The Horse and His Boy
LEWIS, C.S.
The Last Battle
LEWIS, C.S.
LEWIS, C.S.
The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe
The Magician's Nephew
LEWIS, C.S.
The Silver Chair
LEWIS, C.S.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Tessa badly wanted a pet pup but her mother gave her a silky bantam instead and she
was devastated. A rooster was no use as a friend or for keeping the bully and his dog
away!
Ged, a young wizard in the magical worlds of Earthsea, has to struggle against the
forces of evil.
This book was inspired by the extraordinary true story of one young girl who grew up
during China's Cultural Revolution. In spite of the hardship she suffered, this is a story
of triumph. The little girl was the international concert pianist, Zhu Xiao-Mei.
While a storm rages outside, a young girl ponders some of life's big questions.
Meg, her brother, Charles, and Calvin, their best friend, search for Meg's scientist
father. An unearthly visitor takes them on a fantastic voyage to rescue him.
The Austin family find themselves endangered by the Alphabat gang's evil use of lasers.
Marvel Adventures
The Chronicles of
Narnia
The Chronicles of
Narnia
The Chronicles of
Narnia
Jessie Lennon, a Matutjara woman, tells the story of her early life in the desert of South
Australia.
Iron Man, the Armoured Avenger, blasts into a new adventure.
The lives of two children are brought together when Bella, Biddy's pony, is trapped in
quicksand in the Australian outback.
Dusty and her horse, the Snow Pony, live in the high country. Dusty experiences all the
hardships of living with a father who is a farmer beset by drought. Mature readers
Ella is given a blessing at birth by a very stupid fairy, the gift of obedience. A mixed
blessing for Ella, who literally has to do what anyone, and everyone tells her.
At the Holocaust Education Centre in Japan a small suitcase belonging to Hana is on
display. This story tells us of the quest to find out more about Hana.
Edmund and Lucy walk through the back of the wardrobe into Narnia where good and
evil fight for supremacy. A classic children's tale. Chronicles of Narnia 4
Edmund and Lucy walk through the Back of the wardrobe into Narnia where good and
evil fight for supremacy. A classic children's tale.
Edmund and Lucy walk through the back of the wardrobe into Narnia where good and
evil fight for supremacy. A classic children's tale.
Four children are evacuated to the country in war-torn England. Playing inside an old
wardrobe, they discover a magical land.
The first book in the series of the Chronicles of Narnia is the prequel which explains
how the comings and goings between our world and Narnia first began, when Polly and
Digory found the way to Narnia by accident.
Edmund and Lucy walk through the back of the wardrobe into Narnia where good and
evil fight for supremacy. A classis children's tale.
Edmund and Lucy walk through the back of the wardrobe into Narnia where good and
evil fight for supremacy. A classic children's tale.
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Mao's Last Dancer
LINCOLN, Christopher Billy Bones: a Tale from the
Secrets Closet
LINDGREN, Astrid
Pippi Longstocking
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The incredible true story of peasant boy plucked from the poverty of his home in rural
China to be trained in Shanghai. He went on to be the principal male ballet star in the
Australian Ballet.
Billy Bones
Everyone has a skeleton or two in their closet... hidden away under the stairs, young
Billy Bones is just getting to grips with the rules of secret keeping.
A humorous story about a super strong, super rich pirate's daughter who has
adventures with her two friends, a monkey and a horse.
A rude, steak-and-kidney-come-what-you-like pudding and his mates Bill Barnacle, Sam
Sawnoff and Bunyip Bluegum battle the pudding' thieves in the Australian bush.
DK Superguides
Gary Lineker, who captained his national team, played in two World Cups and is a TV
commentator, shows beginners all the techniques of the game leading young players
through the rules, essential skills and special team tactics.
Greek legends for the younger reader.
LINDSAY, Norman
The Magic Pudding
LINEKER, Gary
Football
LINES, Kathleen
LIVELY, Penelope
The Faber Book of Greek
legends
The Yankee Whaler: the Diary of My Story
Thomas Morris, Bunbury WA
1876
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
LLEWELLYN, Claire
The Complete Book of Mummies
LLOYD KYI, Tanya
Fires
LLOYD, Alison
LLOYD, Alison
Wicked Warriors and Evil
Emperors : the True Story of the
Fight for Ancient China
Year of the Tiger
LLOYD, Saci
The Carbon Diaries
LOBDELL, Scott
LOBDELL, Scott
The Hardy Boys - Identity Theft
The Hardy Boys - Mad House
Hardy Boys
Hardy Boys
LOBDELL, Scott
Hardy Boys
LOEB, Jeph
The Hardy Boys: the Ocean of
Osyria
Batman: Hush Volume 1
LOEB, Jeph
Superman for all Seasons
LISSON, Deborah
Batman
An exciting story of a boy who, anxious to escape his abusive father, is involved in the
escape of a group of Fenians from the Fremantle Jail, and so is able to get to the USA
where he longs to be a journalist.
The ghost of a 17th century sorcerer attempts to recruit James Harrison as his
apprentice.
An overview of all the different sorts of mummies found in the world, with a fascinating
insight into how they are unravelled, how they are mummified and how to find them.
Fires gives detailed accunts of many of the fires around the world that have been
remembered during the centuries. The Great Fire of London in 1666, the Hindeburg
Disaster of 1837, the Indonesian fires of 1997 are amongst the ten fires told with great
flare.
Shocking, the true story of China's first emperor.
An adventure for Ren and Hu builds on the edge of the Great Wall in China when the
barbarians invade.
In diary format, Kaura tells us of the first year of Carbon Rationing in Britain as people
take to the streets, families attempt to live off what they can grow in their meagre
backyards, water is cut off and global warming increases at an alarming rate.
Number 2 - tells of their efforts in solving the smuggling of diamonds by sky divers.
A graphic novel version of the Hardy Boys stories. Number 3 tells of the boys'
undercover work in the Mad House.
Frank and Joe Hardy, Will Callie and Iola, search for a stolen Mid Eastern art treasure,
the Ocean of Osyria, to free their best friend, Chet Morton
Batman Series: Hush reinvigorated the Dark Knight's monthly adventures. An epic tale
of friendship, trust and betrayal that spans a lifetime.
This is about Clark Kent, a young man coming to terms with his powers. His
transformation from country boy to a superhero.
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Akira is an English Languages student in Hobart
Buck is a family pet, stolen and sold to be a sled dog in the Alaskan gold rush. This is a
story of cruelty, kindness and survival in a harsh environment.
This is a story of a wolf-dog who learns to survive in the bleak Alaskan wilderness.
2005 Shortlist - CBC Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
LOMER, Kathryn
LONDON, Jack
The Spare Room
Call of the Wild
LONDON, Jack
LONG, John
LONG, John
LONG, John
LORD, Gabrielle
White Fang
GogoFish: the Story of the
Western Australian State Fossil
Emblem
Journey to the Dawn of Time
The Mystery of Devil's Roost
August
Conspiracy 365
LORD, Gabrielle
February
Conspiracy 365
LORD, Gabrielle
July
Conspiracy 365
LORD, Gabrielle
June
Conspiracy 365
LORD, Gabrielle
LORD, Gabrielle
March
October
Conspiracy 365
Conspiracy 365
LORD, Gabrielle
September
Conspiracy 365
LOVELOCK, Damien
True Stories
LOWE, Pat
Soccer: Great Moments, Great
Players in World Football
Desert Cowboy
LOWE, Pat
Desert Dog
LOWE, Pat
The Girl with No Name
LOWE, Pat
Yinti: Desert Child
LOWRY, Brigid
LOWRY, Lois
Guitar Highway Rose
Anastasia on her Own
LOWRY, Lois
Number The Stars
LUCKETT, Dave
Paladin
Anastasia
A sequel to the Mystery of Devil's Roost.
Two children go back in time to the dinosaur era and must fight for their lives.
Buried alive, Cal's only glimmer of hope is if his two friends, Boges and Winter find him,
but time is running out. Only 153 days to go, but he must survive.
Cal must stay alive until the end of the year, but with everyone searching for him to kill
him, this seems an impossible task.
With 184 days to go until he is safe, Cal must find his Great-aunt Millicent who may hold
the key to what he needs to know.
With 241 days left, Cal's fight for survival revolves around the retrieval of the Ormond
Jewel.
Into the third month of his trying to stay alive, Callum is seemingly trapped on a train.
October sees Cal still avoiding capture and death. He only has two months to go before
he can stop hiding from his pursuers.
September sees Cal still avoiding capture and death as well as trying to work out just
who to trust. He only has three months to go before he can stop hiding from his
pursuers.
Written by a keen fan of the sport, this book highlights some of the key aspects of
soccer, its followers and players.
Yinti's station life, travelling from one outback place to another, makes up the story of
Desert Cowboy as he experiences a series of firsts - learning the kartiya language
(English), getting his first pay, seeing kartiyas (whitefellas), cars, cows etc.
When Spinifex, a dingo pup, is taken from her mother she becomes a hunting dog and
lives with Yinti in the Great Sandy Desert.
Matthew has a beautiful and unusual friendship with an Aboriginal girl. The story is set in
the dramatic beauty of the Kimberley region.
Yinti, an Aboriginal child, growing up in the Western Australian desert, has no contact
with white people until the last chapter of the book.
Rosie and Asher are friends, experiencing all sorts of changes. (Mature readers)
When Anastasia and her father are left on their own, they find out just how hard
housekeeping really is.
A story of the determination of the people of Denmark to protect their Jewish friends
from the Nazis in World War II.
Finny and Sam are catapulted into a medieval time when the Lords of the Dark are
taking over the countryside.
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Stu must go and stay with his cousins on a farm for a while, but has no idea of what is
required to fetch the eggs, or milk a cow, and his cousins treat him like a simpleton.
LUFF, Nathan
Chicken Stu
LUKE, Pauline
Amber Pash on Pink
A funny book about growing up written in the form of diary and emails sent between two
friends whose friendship is being strained with the appearance of boys in their lives.
LUKE, Pauline
Bronco, Fi, Maddie and Me
MACAULAY, David
The Way we Work: Explore the
Human Body, Head to Toe!
Al Capone and his Gang
Queen Victoria and her
Amusements
Written in Blood
A group of middle school students try to save their historic school building from the
developers, making a film of the reasons behind the mansion being built.
A fascinating look at all the ins and outs of the human body, with lots of diagrams and
planty of information, a good index and glossary.
A funny look at famous people.
A funny look at famous people.
MACDONALD, Alan
MACDONALD, Alan
MACDONALD,
Beverley
MACDONALD,
Caroline
MACDONALD, Fiona
MACDONALDBALDWIN, Grace
MACDONALDBALDWIN, Grace
MACHALE, D J
Women in Medieval Times
Croc on the Loose
MACINNIS, Peter
Australian Backyard Explorer
MACLACHLAN,
Patricia
MACLEOD, Doug
MACLEOD, Doug
MACLEOD, Doug
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Dead Famous
Dead Famous
The Lake at the End of the World
Other Half of History
The Giant Scrub Python
The Merchant of Death
Sister Madge's Book of Nuns
Spiky, Spunky, my Pet Monkey
The Life of a Teenage Body
Snatcher
MACLEOD, Jilly
How Nearly Everything was
Invented : by the Brainwaves
MACPHAIL, Catherine Roxy's Baby
An hilarious mixture of gory stories of the breadth of human experience, but mostly ones
about the shedding of blood.
Two children are living in a community in an underground cave because The Counsellor
has dropped toxic waste on the earth above.
A study of the role of women in Roman and medieval periods in history.
Sam takes home the baby crocodile he finds at the creek, and troubles ensue.
The boys encounter a scrub python on the track. Part of the Quick Reads series.
Pendragon
Bobby is a normal American boy who lives with his parents and goes to school and has
occasional visits from his uncle. One day his uncle takes him for a ride and now he is in
another world transported there by a flume. This is part of the Pendragon series of 9
books.
Tells the story of many intrepid explorers who explored Australia in the first 120 years of
European settlement. Includes information such as skills needed and food stuff. Each
chapter has a practical project section.
Sarah has come from Maine to live on the prairie farm to be mother to two children, but
she misses the sea.
An hilarious and irreverent account of convent life, told in cheeky verse.
A collection of very funny poems with accompanying illustrations.
16 year old Timothy's life changes dramatically when he sees a body-snatcher at work.
Wonderfully inviting book of all sorts of information about inventions.
Roxy's is 14, pregnant and a runaway. She catches a bus to London to go to the house
which offers shelter to girls like her, but is turned away. she is taken in by the Dyce's
and finds out that they are lying to the girls in their care. This is 21st century baby
farming at its worst
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MACPHAIL, Catherine The Beast Within
Nemesis
MACPHAIL, Catherine Underworld
MACQUITTY, Miranda Shark
DK Eyewitness
MAGORIAN, Michelle Goodnight Mister Tom
MAGUIRE, Gregory
Leaping Beauty
MAH, Adeline Yen
China: Land of Emperors and
Dragons
Chinese Cinderella
MAH, Adeline Yen
MAH, Adeline Yen
Chinese Cinderella and the
Secret Dragon Society
MAHY, Margaret
Alchemy
MAHY, Margaret
Aliens in the Family
MAHY, Margaret
Kaitangata Twitch
MAHY, Margaret
Maddigan's Fantasia
MAHY, Margaret
Operation Terror
MAHY, Margaret
The Changeover
MAHY, Margaret
MAHY, Margaret
The Haunting
Underrunners
Surfers
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Ram is on the run, but he has no memory and doesn't even know his name. He knows
he must escape the Dark Man.
A school excursion goes hideously wrong when the roof of the cave the group is
exploring falls in trapping the 5 students and a teacher. Mr Marks would have known
what to do, but he is unconscious so the kids have to make life and death decisions.
All the information anyone would want to know about sharks can be found in this book,
complete with a selection of wonderful photographs.
William is evacuated to the countryside during the bombing of English cities in World
War II. Mr Tom takes him in and turns his sad life around. Mature readers
Fairy stories with different endings have been around for many years, and kids enjoy
listening to and reading them as well as having a go at changing them for themselves.
Here is another version, a series of parodies using animals.
An enchanting look at China's 2 millennia of history, concentrating on a whole host of
interesting facts and anecdotes.
The plight of a young girl who is rejected by her family at birth due to traditional Chinese
beliefs.
Chinese Cinderella is thrown out into the streets of Shanghai by her stepmother. She
takes refuge with her gran at a Martial Arts Academy and there learns these ancient
arts. Together with three friends, she sets out on a secret mission.
Roland has everything a young man could wish for. He cannot explain why one of his
teachers knows about a petty crime that he is supposed to have committed. Now, the
teacher, Mr Hudson, is using this knowledge to blackmail Roland. Mature readers
Jake helps her new step-sister and step-brother to protect an alien from another
dimension.
A reprint of a New Zealand classic. The supernatural presence influences how Meredith
takes on the unscrupulous developer who is threatening to take over the island. TV
series.
Set in the futre, where people are suspicious of strangers, where the little circus,
Maddigan's Fantasia, moves from town to town, over a poorly remembered trail of roads
rarely signposted. Maddigan has assumed leadership of the group after her father's
death, but must wrestle with a range of problems to keep them all safe
Surfers series: In this high-interest short adventure, two boys, Harley and David, take a
joyride in an abandoned car, but to their horror the car drives itself (and them) into an
experimental research station in a forest.
Laura has premonitions and senses what is about to happen. She is encouraged to
"change over" and become a witch so that she can help save her brother from an evil
spirit.
A child begins to receive strange messages and learns about a family legacy.
Kidnapping and suspense highlight this story of two children who have to rely on
courage and resourcefulness to escape from a bleak house.
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The Declaration
MALLEY, Gemma
The Resistance
MANKELL, Henning
MANKELL, Henning
Secrets in the Fire
The Fury in the Fire
MANNINGSANDERS, Ruth
MANOS, Helen
MANSFIELD, Keith
The Book of Wizards
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Anna is a Surplus, confined in a centre where she is one of 500 Surpluses being trained
to be Useful in a society where a Longevity drug keeps people alive forever so births are
unecessary.
The sequel to 'The Declaration', this story is told from Peter's point of view, as both he
and Anna try to survive in a world where they are considered to be Surplus. A grim look
at a future world.
A refugee girl loses her legs in a Mozambique landmine accident.
Sofia, with prosthetic legs, has had three children, but distrusts the man she lives with.
She follows him to work in the nearby city and finds he is seeing another woman and
stealing. How the community deals with him is confronting in this story of modern life in
Mozambique.
Stories in this collection include Aladdin, Jack and the Wizard, Silver Penny and Two
Wizards with many more.
Nick learns about fitting in at a new school and make friends, despite being bullied.
Johnny has amazing abilities with electronics and living in a children's home he is able
to receive messages from outer space while tinkering with the TV. When visiting his
mother, he finds out that he has a sister and endeavours to find her.
A fantasy set in the land of Lumatere where the cursed inhabitants are imprisoned
behind the castle walls, or wandering in search of refuge.
Josephine, a second generation Australian from an Italian family, seeks to find her way
during her HSC year.
Jellico Road houses the boarding school for kids who need something extra. One girl
has lived there most of her life, and this summer, when the boys from the city arrive,
secrets are revealed.
Year Eleven proves to be a watershed year for Francesca. She has started at a new
school, St Sebastian's, the first year that this boy's school has taken in female students
and life in this new environment is not at all easy for the girls. Mature readers
Roller Blaze
Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit
of London
MARCHETTA, Melina Finnikin of the Rock
MARCHETTA, Melina Looking for Alibrandi
MARCHETTA, Melina On the Jellicoe Road
MARCHETTA, Melina Saving Francesca
MARK, Jan
MARK, Jan
Handles
Voyager
MARR, Andrew
Who's in Charge?
MARRIOTT, Zoe
MARRYATT, F.
Daughter of the Flames
The Children of the New Forest
MARSDEN, Carolyn
MARSDEN, John
Silk Umbrellas
Burning for Revenge
War
A girl, who is mad about motor bikes, finds happiness in a run down bike shop.
Demetria has escaped from her barren island and barren life, only to be rescued by a
passing ship, forced to hand her over to the authorities at the next port. A sequel to the
excellent 'Riding Tycho'.
All the big ideas about government and power wrapped up in a time line of information
and diagrams and photos.
Zira's journey from a warrior priestess to becoming queen calls for tough actions.
Cavaliers and Roundheads battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war
and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans trying to survive in the
forest.
Set in Thailand, Noi's family traditions must change with the times.
Tomorrow series 5. The group succeed in blowing up the airfield in Australia. Mature
readers
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MARSDEN, John
Darkness, be my Friend
MARSDEN, John
MARSDEN, John
For Weddings and a Funeral
Hamlet, a Novel
MARSDEN, John
Home and Away
MARSDEN, John
So Much to Tell You
MARSDEN, John
Staying Alive In Year 5
MARSDEN, John
Take My Word for It
MARSDEN, John
The Dead of the Night
MARSDEN, John
MARSDEN, John
The Head Book
The Night is for Hunting
MARSDEN, John
The Third Day, the Frost
MARSDEN, John
Tomorrow When the War Began War
MARSDEN, John
While I Live
MARSDEN, John
Winter
MARSHALL, Alan
I Can Jump Puddles
MARTIN, Carol Ann
Once there were Mermaids
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Tomorrow series 4. The group of friends are taken from where they are safe in new
Zealand back to the fighting in Australia. Mature reader
A wonderful selection of poetry chosed by John Marsden.
A modern version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which the young man is ordered by his
father's ghost to take revenge on his murderer, his brother.
Marsden looks at what happens when an ordinary family becomes one of the world's
billion people without a home. A picture book for older readers.
Her face scarred, Marina does not speak but keeps a journal expressing the pain she
feels after her father threw acid at her mother, hitting Marina instead.
Mr Murlin is definitely not an ordinary teacher. His rules are amazing - eating chocolate
in class is compulsory!
Year 9 boarding school dormitory life is revealed through Lisa's diary. Although strong
and private in everyday life, she pours out her observations of friends and family, her
frustrations and successes, her thoughts and feelings in her writing.
Tomorrow series 2. Ellie and her friends are still conducting their own war with brave
acts, deaths and injuries. Mature readers
A quick-fix guide to general knowledge and/or trivia.
Tomorrow series 6. The group rescue some feral children from the invaders and all try
to survive. Mature readers
The friends plan a huge attack after which they are pursued and captured. Mature
readers
The first book in the series tells of a group of teenagers who return from a camping trip
to find that their town has been invaded and their parents imprisoned. Mature readers
MARTIN, Jesse
The first in the series entitled, The Ellie Chronicles, the series follows the life of Ellie,
first seen in the series, Tomorrow when the war began. In this new series, the war has
finished, Australia is a divided country and Ellie and her friends must learn to live a life
of peace. Mature readers
At age sixteen, Winter arrives back home, drawn by memories that haunt and tease,
determined to unravel the mystery of her mother's death. Mature readers
Alan Marshall's autobiography shows how someone who contracted polio at the age of
six, in 1908, and was permanently crippled, can still have a fulfilling life.
Miranda Hodge goes to Tasmania to stay at Blossom's gloriously eccentric cafe in
Mariners Bay. Mariners Bay turns out to be a place where once there were mermaids;
and Miranda's fascination with the story of the mermaids saves the cafe.
The inspirational sailing adventure of Jesse Martin's solo voyage around the world.
MARWOOD, Lorraine Redback Mansion
Told in verse, this is the exciting story of a young girl, alone on the gold field, except for
her dog, Ratwhiskers. Together they befriend the Chinese diggers.
A collection of well-crafted literary poems with a rural theme.
Lionheart: a Journey of the
Human Spirit
MARWOOD, Lorraine Ratwhiskers and Me
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Marvels & Mysteries
An outstanding overview of the life of mummies from those found in Siberia, the Swiss
Alps, as well as the usual ones found in Egypt. Bog mummies as well as animal
mummies are included in this fascinating book.
Adam, aghast at the prosepect of leaving behind his dog, even though the terrorist are
about to bomb his home in the Middle East, finds he is left behind. He teams up with
Emir, a young boy enslaved to a cruel camel owner. Together despite their fear and
loathing for each other the boys must survive the hostile desert and their several
attackers.
Going to live with his unknown father, Jaz finds he has a half sister, Noora, and a
jealous cousin, Tariq. Living in a Middle Eastern country is a wildly new experience and
Jaz must use all of his senses to keep alert to what is going on around him.
MASON, Paul
Mummies
MASON, Prue
Camel Rider
MASON, Prue
Destination Abudai
MASSON, Sophie
MASSON, Sophie
Birds of a Feather
Cold Iron
MASSON, Sophie
The Hunt for Ned Kelly
My Australian Story
MASSON, Sophie
The Phar Lap Mystery
My Australian Story
MASSON, Sophie
The Tiger
MASTERS, Anthony
MASTERS, Anthony
MASTERS, Anthony
MASTERS, Anthony
Get Real
World War 2 Stories
World War 2 Stories
World War 2 Stories
MATHENY, Bill
Football Heroes
War at Home
War in the Air
World War II Stories - War at
Sea
Crime Time
MATSUBA, Hiro
More Starlight to Your Heart v1
More Starlight to Your
Heart
MATTHEWS, Penny
A Girl Like Me
MATTINGLEY,
Christobel
MATTINGLEY,
Christobel
MATTINGLEY,
Christobel
Asmir in Vienna
For the dark knight detective every night is crime time. Volume 1 of the "The Batman
Strikes!" series.
Akane was born into wealth and privilege but to be with Aogi who is just a guard she
must change that life of privilege to one of a servant.
This story is set in country South Australia over a century ago. It is a fictional story
based on the real event of a shocking murder.
The sequel to "No Gun For Asmir"
Escape from Sarajevo
The end of the story about Asmir's family as they leave their homeland for Austria
Maralinga: The Anangu Story
The bomb tests at Maralinga had far reaching effects on the Aboriginal people who lived
there. The story is movingly told by the Anangu people with Christobel Mattingley.
MATTINGLEY,
Christobel
No Gun for Asmir
The harrowing tale of a boy's journey through his wartown homeland, based on
interviews with a family in Sarajevo, by the author, Mattingley.
This is a novel with the central theme of bullying.
Tattercoat's only friends, Pug, the gooseherd, and Malkin, the serving maid, devise a
way to smuggle her into a birthday ball from which her grandfather has excluded her.
The diary of Jamie Ross makes riveting reading when he and his sister travel to
Beechworth to live, following the death of their photographer father. Here Jamie learns
that Ellen wants to photograph the Kelly gang, a feat that will make their fortunes.
The diary of Sally Fielding postulates the story behind the mystery of Phar Lap's
astonishing death in 1932.
Java is the setting for this story about an Indonesian family and an old mystery
surrounding Nick's grandmother.
Three short stories about football heroes and their game.
True stories of how the people coped at home during World War 2.
True stories of World War 2 in the air
True stories of the World War 2
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For the more reflective student, this story is of a pioneering family and particularly one
member, Ruby, who opened a post office in remote Trouwutta in North West Tasmania.
Based on interviews, the story tells us lots about life in a tiny, remote town in the early
part of the twentieth century.
Two children listen to their mother's memories of wartime.
MATTINGLEY,
Christobel
Ruby of Trowutta
MATTINGLEY,
Christobel
MATTINGLEY,
Christobel
MAXWELL, Gavin
The Angel with a Mouth-Organ
The Sack
When Shane's dad loses his job, everything begins to change.
Ring of Bright Water
MCCALLUM, Grant
Anthony Mundine
MCCALLUM, Grant
Cathy Freeman
Aussie Stars Millenium
MCCALLUM, Grant
Christine Anu
Aussie Stars Millenium
MCCALLUM, Grant
Mandawuy Yunupingu
Aussie Stars Millenium
Set in the wilds of Scotland, this story follows the adventures of Mijbil, an adorable and
mischievous otter.
Anthony Mundine's biography shows how he wanted to follow in his sporting father's
footsteps.
Cathy Freeman's early career as a schoolgirl athlete and a Commonwealth Games
representative for Australia.
Christine Anu's life begins in the Torres Strait Islands and leads to her rise in the world
of music.
A former Australian of the Year, Mandawuy Yunupingu, leads the band Yothu Yindi.
MCCALLUM, Grant
Michael O'Loughlin
Aussie Stars Millenium
The life of one of the star players of the Australian Football league.
MCCALLUM, Grant
Nova Peris-Kneebone
Aussie Stars Millenium
MCCANN, Daryl
Wish you weren't Here
MCCARTHY,
Stephanie
MCCAUGHREAN,
Geraldine
MCCAUGHREAN,
Geraldine
MCCAUGHREAN,
Geraldine
MCCLOUD, Scott
Diary Z
Making Comics
MCDONALD, Kellie
Antarctica
McDONALD, Meme
Flytrap
Little Lower than the Angels
One thousand and One Arabian
Nights
Tamburlaine's Elephants
McDONALD, Meme & Njunjul the Sun
PRYOR, Boori Monty
The first Aboriginal Olympic gold medallist, Nova Peris Kneebone's rise to fame is the
subject of this book.
Becky has trouble with changing friendship groups as well as her stepfather. She wants
things to be as they were.
Red Liston entertains the reader with diary entries about his teenage exploits. Mature
readers
Gabriel is apprenticed to a stonemason, a cruel master. When the opportunity presents
itself, he runs away to join a troupe of travelling mystery players.
Oxford Story Collection A retelling of these fantastic tales.
In capturing an elephant, Rusti brings himself to the attention of the powerful emperor,
Tamburlaine the Great, intent on capturing Delhi.
Learn how to create characters, strengthen the stories, create rich, believable worlds
and more storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels.
This book contains a vast amount of information about the environment and life in
Antarctica.
The story of a lie that gets out of control. Nancy is worried. She's told her teacher she
has something that she doesn't, and now Miss Susan wants her to bring it in to show
the class. Stories from different Australian histories are interwoven as Nancy's.
A 16 year-old Aboriginal boy leaves his family and home for the big city. As he struggles
to make sense of his experience, he realises that he must have the knowledge of his
own people and culture in order to know who he is and to find his direction. Mature
readers
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MCFARLANE, Peter
MCFARLANE, Peter
Bomber Boy
Goat Boy
MCFARLANE, Peter
Kart Girl
MCFARLANE, Peter
More than a Game
MCHUGH, Siobhan
Snowy: the Diary of Eva Fischer,
Cabramurra, 1958–1959
MCINNES, Peter
Kokoda Track: 101 Days
MCINTOSH, Fiona
The Whisperer
MCKAY, Amanda
Sally Marshall's Not an Alien!
MCKAY, Kim &
BONNIN, Jenny
True Green Kids
MCKEEVER, Sean
Super Crush
MCKINLAY, Meg
Duck for a Day
MCKINLEY, Robin
The Blue Sword
MCKISSACK, Patricia Slave Girl: the Diary of Clotee,
Belmont Plantations, Virginia,
1859
MCLEOD, Andrew & Australian football : Steps to
JACQUES, Trevor
Success
MCMULLEN, Sean
The Ancient Hero
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Some of the characters from Goat Boy appear in this adventure in a cyclone.
When goat boy, Martin goes to the Gammon Ranges for a holiday getting lost is a
cause for huge concern as he is Autistic and has little comprehension of the danger he
is in. A warm, funny story about a disabled boy relating to goats.
Vegie gang's member, Gabby is seriously injured in an accident. Surprisingly it is her
arch rival who aids her recovery.
Tammy is an intellectually impaired young woman from a family of avid football fans.
Eva's move from Bondi to the small township of Cabramurra in the Snowy Mountains
proves to be a positive change in her life, introducing her to a special friend, to people
from all over the world and to her own capacity to organise others and achieve good
things.
550 men of the 39th Battalion slowed and eventually stopped 60000 Japanese men
across the Owen Stanley Range in New Guinea, creating one of the perpetually heroic
tales in Australia's history. First hand accounts mingle with historical facts to bring this to
life.
Griff has always been able to hear what people are thinking, and when he hears a boy
cry out for help, he searches him out, knowing him only as The Whisperer. Lute, the
heir to the throne of the kingdom in which the two boys live, is being pursued by his
power hungry uncle. The worlds of these very different boys collide.
The book that inspired the film about Sally being accused of being an alien by the
school bully. Sequel, Not Sally Marshall again.
100 fun and pracitcal ways for kids to do something about the environment, by
becoming a green model in your home, in the classroom and in the wider community.
Spider Man Loves Mary Mary Jane is determined to date Spiderman. Will she or will crime fighting get in the
Jane
way?
When the pet duck needs an overnight stay, two classmates, Abby and Max, vie for the
priviledge with a competition which sees the pair become friends.
Living in the desert country of Damar, shared by the Homelanders and the secretive
magical Hillfolk, orphaned Harry Crewe is kidnapped by Corlath, the Hillfolk king, who
intends to train her in the arts of war until she is a match for any of his men.
My Story
Clotee is a slave on the Belmont plantation in Virginia in 1859.
Steps to Success
This book covers all essential skills, drills and team play to help you to improve your
football.
Only Zelder, the student has the ability to say the spell to defeat the ancient stalke
preying on the people of Quentaris.
The Quentaris
Chronicles
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McROBBIE, David
A Good Arriving
McROBBIE, David
McROBBIE, David
Mum, Me and the 19C
See how they Run
McROBBIE, David
MCSKIMMING,
Geoffrey
This Book is Haunted
Cairo Jim and the Lagoon of
Tidal Magnificence: a Sumatran
Tale of Splendour
Xylophones Above Zarundi
MCSKIMMING,
Geoffrey
Cairo Jim
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Helen takes the opportunity to emigrate to New South Wales when her family's farm is
taken from them. But she must repel all those who wish her ill before she can find her
own way.
Cara finds a timewarp device and is transported back to the 19th Century.
A British family is forced to flee to Australia to escape criminals in England. This six-part
thriller is exciting and suspenseful.
Stories of ghostly fiction.
The kidnapping of the entire Turkish women's Olympic Tent Erection Team sparks an
adventure which includes archaeological investigations by the Cairo Jim characters.
Starlight
Jocelyn Osgood Series: Jocelyn Osgood and Joan Twilight pursue the stolen Diadem of
Cyangugu (which apparently can control time) across Africa accompanied by one third
of the fabulous Tropical Xylophonists. Absolutely bizarre!
Katie begins her diary after the death of her father in 1930. The beginnings of the
Depression are obvious, and things become much worse when the ground begins to
shake and the town of Napier is completely shattered.
Francis, an intelligent pig, is rescued from being included in a scientific experiment.
MCVEIGH, Janine
Earthquake: the Diary of Katie
Bourke, Napier, 1930-1931
My Story
MEASDAY, Stephen
A Pig Called Francis Bacon
Francis/Roger Bacon
MEASDAY, Stephen
Bringing Home the Bacons
Francis/Roger Bacon
MEASDAY, Stephen
MEASDAY, Stephen
My Friend, Roger Bacon
Send Simon Savage
Francis/Roger Bacon
Simon Savage
MEASDAY, Stephen
The Giant Spiders
After Dark
MEEHAN, Kierin
MEEHAN, Kierin
10 Rules for Detectives
Hannah's Winter
MEEHAN, Kierin
MEEHAN, Kierin
In the Monkey Forest
Night Singing
MEEKS, Arone
Raymond
MEERMAN, Ruben
Enora and the Black Crane
40 Cool Science Tricks
The Surfing Scientist
MEERMAN, Ruben
MEERMAN, Ruben
40 DIY Science Gizmos
40 Super Human Body Tricks
The Surfing Scientist
The Surfing Scientist
The fourth in the series about Roger Bacon, the talking pig, is about his trying to buy a
farm secluded enough for his strange ability to go unnoticed.
Roger Bacon 2. Roger, a talking pig, becomes a radio announcer.
When Simon accepts a position at a prestigious school in Britain, he hopes to uncover
details of his father's disappearance, but here he becomes a time traveller.
After Dark 6: Toy spiders, assembled by children in a town, come to life and go out
feeding.
Kev and Boris' detective agency is on the trail of a bushranger's hidden treasure.
Contemporary and humorous, this story is dotted with snippets of Japanese language
and culture, as Hannah and her ghost friend attempt to solve an ancient riddle.
Miki's holiday turns out to be a magical and often challenging adventure in Japan.
A funny and fascinating story of contemporary Australia, and a moving tale of survival in
Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War. When Josh breaks his leg, he is
rescued by his kind but mysterious neighbour, Mrs Murakami.
Dreaming Story : An aboriginal story that tells of Enora's fascination with the coloured
birds of the forest.
The Surfing Scientist provides a book full of science tricks. Make an Ice Cube Lava
Lamp or a Leakproof Bag, or fool your friends with a Waterfloating Orange.
The Surfing Scientist shows how to make science gizmos from everyday objects.
Ruben from the ABC TV's Rollercoaster outlines 40 things you can do mainly at home
and with a minimum of implements to prove your body is superior.
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Changing Stories
MERCER, Sienna
Switched
MERES, Jonathon
Fame Thing
MERLIN, Isabelle
Cupid's Arrow
MERLIN, Isabelle
Pop Princess
MERLIN, Isabelle
Three Wishes
METZENTHEN, David Anton Rocks On
METZENTHEN, David Black Water
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A collection of different versions of folk and fairy stories designed to encourage
secondary students to consider different points of view and the ways stories can change
over time.
My Sister the Vampire Arriving at a new school, Olivia meets a girl who looks just like her, except for the Goth
clothing and makeup. They find they have the same birthdate and are actually twins,
separated by adoption, but Ivy has another secret. She is a vampire.
When football superstar, Dean Johnson moves into their village, the family is stoked.
When he meets George and her bother Nick and asks them around to watch the game,
they think they have gone to heaven, but when his manager asks George why she is no
longer in her wheelchair, pennies begin to drop.
Fleur and her mother jet off to Avalon to take charge of the magnificent library they have
inherited. But Fleur has nightmares of being stalked by an archer.
Lucky Lucie is hired by a company to be the paid companion of a pop princess who
lives in Paris. Excitedly, Lucie imagines what life in Paris would be like, but is dismayed
when she realises the extent of the restrictions imposed upon the girls.
When Rose learns that she has a count for an uncle and that he wishes to meet her,
she jets off to France to reside in his chateau, unaware of the adventure that awaits.
Aussie Chomps
Anton has some challenges starting high school but his guitar playing, friends and
sense of humour help him through. Aussie Chomp
While his brother is away at Gallipoli, Farren's father is lost at sea, so Farren must find
work. His returned brother is vastly different from the boy who left for war, and both their
lives are changed when a child, Souki, is found after a midnight shipwreck.
METZENTHEN, David Boys of Blood and Bone
METZENTHEN, David Brocky's Bananagram
METZENTHEN, David Finn and the Big Guy
METZENTHEN, David Johnny Hart's Heroes
METZENTHEN, David Stony Heart Country
METZENTHEN, David The Colour of Sunshine
METZENTHEN, David The Really Nearly Deadly Canoe Aussie Chomps
Ride
When Henry borrows a friend's Volvo and heads north to a shack on the coast, he
comes across a small town with a row of memorial trees. Here he learns of the sacrifice
made by Andy Lansell in World War 1, and how his life still touches many in the town.
For older readers and the descriptions of war are graphic.
Matt Brock and his friend write a message on a banana which is to be shipped out from
his dad's plantation, and he receives a reply!
Finn comes to the city for his first big break - as a stable hand at a large racetrack.
Working with the horses he loves, Finn feels valuable for the first time in his life.
Two young people meet after losing their jobs. They team up with a farmer who is taking
his sheep to the long paddock to avoid the drought. Together they make new lives for
themselves.
A city boy, staying in a small Victorian country town with his father, experiences the
resentment of the townspeople. Young adult themes and strong language.
Following the death of his older sister in a car accident, a nine year-old boy is
surrounded by the grief of his family.
When two friends inherit a canoe from an elderly next door neighbour, they plan to
canoe from the river to the sea.
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METZENTHEN, David
METZENTHEN, David
MEYER, Stephenie
MEYER, Stephenie
MILLARD, Dr Anne
MILLARD, Glenda
MITCHELHILL,
Barbara
MITCHELL, David
MITCHELL, Pratima
MITCHISON, Amanda
MITTON, Tony
MITTON, Tony
MOLLOY, Michael
MOLONEY, James
MOLONEY, James
MOLONEY, James
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The Really Really Epic Mini-Bike Aussie Chomps
Pete and Morris want to emulate their Hollywood heroes, in this easy to read Chomp.
Ride
The Really Really High Diving
Aussie Chomps
Is the diving tower just too high for Pete and Morris?
Tower
Tiff and the Trout
Tiff lives in a tiny mountain town. She lives a life of fishing, families and friends but
things are about to change.
New Moon
Twilight Saga
Edward and his family leave Forks because he believes that their presence puts Bella's
life in danger. She develops a strong friendship with the warewolf Jacob Black.
Twilight
Twilight Saga
Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington State, and finds her life
in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen.
The New Book of the Pharaohs
Using the very latest information and in full colour, Dr Millard takes us through some of
the mysteries surrounding the life and death of ancient pharaohs. King Tutankhamen
and others are featured in this up-to-date look at ancient Egypt.
A Small, Free Kiss in the Dark
Skip lives on the streets, so when the war starts, he teams up with Billy, an old hand,
and together they survive in a deserted carnival park. There they collect other waifs, and
have to survive as best they can.
Dangerous Diamonds
Charlie and Harry are caught up in a smuggling ring when they find a cache of
diamonds in a reliquary loaned to their crime writer father by the museum.
Martial Arts
DK Superguides
David Mitchell gives expert advice on 14 of the most popular martial arts. Skilful holds to
dramatic throws and kicks are featured.
Indian Mutiny: Hanuman Singh, My Story
The Indian Mutiny was a turning point in England's treatment of India as part of its
India, 1857-1858
extensive empire.
Mission Telemark
Four especially trained teenagers are sent into Nazi occupied Norway to blow up a
heavy water storage facility to prevent the Nazis from making an atomic bomb.
Groovy Greek Hero Raps
Rap Rhymes
Heracles and Theseus are the subjects of humorous poems.
Mighty Greek Myth Raps
Rap Rhymes
A humorous anthology of poetry including poems on Odysseus in Greek mythology.
Peter Raven, Under Fire
Peter joins a ship during the Napoleonic Wars between Britain and France as a
midshipman. with his brighter than average questioning, his attention to the detail of life
about him and his quick wit, he is used to advantage by the spy on board. An exciting
historical adventure of life on board ships nearly two hundred years ago
68 Teeth
Jack, home for the holidays to his family's property in Queensland Gulf Country, is lucky
not to be eaten by a huge crocodile that has made its way down river during the rains.
Nils Fingleton, a professional trapper is called in, and soon bags a croc, but Jack is
surprised by its colour and size. The giant croc attacks Nils. Only Jack & his dog can
save him.
Buzzard Breath & Brains
UQP Adult Fiction
Rex, "Buzzard Breath", becomes a victim in this sequel to "Swashbuckler"
Crossfire
Luke is interested in guns and hunting but it is the emotional crossfire between his
divorced parents that has him trapped.
Dougy
When Dougy's sister, Gracey, is chosen for the State Athletics Championships, it leads
to violence. It is up to Dougy to save his family, from the racist war that ensues and the
mysterious Moodagudda. The first in a trilogy.
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Grommet is a 13 year-old troublemaker who gets a job as an undercover agent at a fun
park trying to catch a saboteur. He survives a terrifying ordeal suspended upside down
from a stopped rollercoaster, and other misadventures, with wise-cracking humour.
MOLONEY, James
Grommet Saves The World
MOLONEY, James
Scorpion's Tail
MOLONEY, James
Swashbuckler
MOLONEY, James
The Book of Lies
MOLONEY, James
The Mobile Phone Detective
Aussie Chomps
MOLONEY, James
MOLONEY, James
The Pipe
The Trolley Boys
After Dark
Aussie Chomps
MOLONEY, James
The Tunnels of Ferdinand
The Doomsday Rats
MONK, Scott
The Crush
The children, still living in the sewage system beneath the earth must learn to adapt to a
new machine built just for their destruction. A great sequel to the first in the series about
survival.
Peter's saviour from the school bullies is an unlikely hero dressed in a cape and
speaking in old-fashioned English.
Hearing that a new orphan has been abandoned on the doorsteps, Bea enters his room
just in time to see a wizard steal the boy's identity and replace it with another. She must
try to convince him that his new identity is a lie.
a quick-thinking Renton, on holiday in France, outwits two suspicious looking men he
photographs on the beach using his mobile phone.
A skateboarding story with a twist.
A new trolley boy uncovers the plot to steal the shopping centre's million dollar
necklace, designed to draw crowds to the place.
The Doomsday Rats (series) Escaping from the dormitory where he has lived all his life,
Berrin is taken in by the Rats, other escaped children who live in the underground
sewers. At all costs they must not allow those above to learn where they live.
Matt is a talented Rugby League player and an intelligent and caring boy appreciative of
his mother's struggles to create a home for them both. Mature readers
MONKFISH, Rowley & Nicholas and the Chronoporter
ROGERS, Cameron
Aussie Chomps
Nicholas has a special belt that allows him to travel through time. But his teacher Mr
Graves will do anything to get his hands on it so he can take over the world.
MONTGOMERY, L.
M.
MOR, Caiseal
Puffin Classics
The Harp at Midnight
MORECROFT,
Richard
MORGAN, Nicola
Poems by Young Australians Vol
2
Blame my Brain
MORGAN, Nicola
Know Your Brain
MORGAN, Nicola
The Highwayman's Footsteps
Anne grows up with her Aunt and Uncle and from a young age is determined to acheive
what she wants to in life.
When thirteen-year-old Andrew Ferguson goes to stay in an old house in Ireland, he is
immediately plunged into the mysteries of Irish legend.
CD. Poetry readings by Richard Morecroft, Interviews with young poets. The Taronga
Foundation Poetry
A carefully researched, accessible and humorous examination of the ups and downs of
the teenage brain. Includes chapters on powerful emotions, the need for more sleep,
the urge to take risks, the difference between genders, the reasons behind addiction or
depression, and what lies ahead.
Find out more about your brain and what it is capable of in this intriguing mix of fun and
information, with lots of exercises to make your brain work better.
Using Alfred Noye's beautiful poem, 'The Highwayman', as the inspiration, this story
revolves around Will and Bess, two people thrown together by circumstance into
becoming highwaymen.
Anne of Green Gables
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MORGAN, Sally
My Place
MORGAN, Sally
MORIARTY, Jaclyn
The Flying Emu and other
Australian Stories
Wanamurraganya: The Story Of
Jack McPhee
Feeling Sorry for Celia
MORIMOTO, Junko
My Hiroshima
MORGAN, Sally
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An autobiography of three generations of Sally Morgan's Aboriginal family that traces
her search for her identify.
Dreaming Story : Twenty fables about how the world began and the events that
followed.
The story of Jack McPee, an itinerant station and mine worker, from the Pilbara region
of Australia.
Life isn't going well for Elizabeth. Her best friend, Celia, keeps disappearing, her absent
father suddenly reappears and her communication with her mother consists of wacky
notes left on the fridge.
Teaching students about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, this picture
book tells the story through the eyes of one who lived through this time.
A retelling of the old Anglo-Saxon legend of the heroic Beowulf who travelled to
Denmark to rid the kingdom of the fearful monster Grendel.
Matt goes to help refugees in Rwanda and becomes badly injured.
MORPURGO, Michael Beowulf
MORPURGO, Michael Dear Olly
MORPURGO, Michael Farm Boy
MORPURGO, Michael Kensuke's Kingdom
MORPURGO, Michael Out of the Ashes
MORPURGO, Michael The Amazing Story of Adolphus
Tips
MORPURGO, Michael Toro! Toro!
MORRIS, Jill
Rainbow Warrior
Extraordinary
MORRIS, Mary
Blabbermouth: The Play
MORROW, Robin
(comp.)
MOWLL, Joshua
Beetle Soup: Australian Stories
and Poems for Children
Operation Red Jericho
The Guild Trilogy
MOWLL, Joshua
Operation Storm City
The Guild Trilogy
The author tells the story of his farmer grandfather who he visited during each of his
school holidays. On one such visit just the old man took the narrator into his confidence
and made a deal with him - if he could teach Grandpa to read and write in three months
he would have a hundred pounds.
An adaptation of the Robinson Crusoe story, a family's sailing adventure turns into a
story of survival following a storm.
The outbreak of foot and mouth disease changes Becky's life forever, as her farm and
that of many farmers around are subject to their animals being destroyed.
What happens when war comes to the villages of Britain in the closing stages of World
War 2 is seen through the eyes on one young girl and her love for her cat. An amazing
story of an incident during the war that people rarely hear about.
The suffering, loss and futility of war are shown through the intensity of one child's
experiences of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war when grandfather, Antonito, recalls
his life.
The true story of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace fleet,
sunk in Auckland Harbor by the French Secret Service.
This stage adaptation of Gleitzman's novel explores disabilities, friendship and families.
This anthology consists of thirty seven poems from twenty six poets, and a number of
Australian stories.
Book one in The Guild Trilogy. When the ship, 'Expedient', is taken by a typhoon in the
Celebes Sea, brother and sister, Doug and Becca are stranded but their search for their
parents is put to one side when confronted by the mysterious Guild.
Book three of The Guild Trilogy takes Becca and Doug on a search for the lost city of UrCan and their parents.
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Book two in The Guild Trilogy sees Becca and Doug still searchign for answers about
the Guild and their missing parents. They become sipwrecked on a volcanic island.
MOWLL, Joshua
Operation Typhoon Shore
MOWLL, Joshua
MUCHAMORE,
Robert
MUCHAMORE,
Robert
MUCHAMORE,
Robert
MUCHAMORE,
Robert
MUCHAMORE,
Robert
MUCHAMORE,
Robert
The Great Space Race
Class A
Cherub
Divine Madness
Cherub
The fate of the world rests on one boy and his robot monkey.
James and the other MI5 spies go undercover to break up a cocaine empire. They
befriend the children of the drug baron.
Fast paced thriller of teenagers solving crime in England and Europe.
Mad Dogs
Cherub
Fast paced thriller of teenagers solving crime in England and Europe.
Man vs Beast
Cherub
Fast paced thriller of teenagers solving crime in England and Europe.
Maximum Security
Cherub
James must get himself inside a juvenile prison in order to help an inmate escape.
The Escape
Henderson's Boys
MUCHAMORE,
Robert
MUCHAMORE,
Robert
MUCHAMORE,
Robert
MUMBULLA, Percy
The Fall
Cherub
An exciting story about two groups of children who make their way across war torn
France, just ahead of the German Army in 1940, risking their lives to spy for Britain with
the master spy, Charles Henderson.
Fast paced thriller of teenagers solving crime in England and Europe.
The Killing
Cherub
The Recruit
Cherub
The Whalers
MURGATROYD,
Sarah
MURRAY, Kirsty
MURRAY, Kirsty
Dig 3ft NW: the Legendary
Journey of Burke and Wills
A Prayer for Blue Delaney
Becoming Billy Dare
MURRAY, Kirsty
Bridie's Fire
MURRAY, Kirsty
India Dark
MURRAY, Kirsty
Market Blues
Sam travels back a hundred years, to a time where he must make his own way in life.
MURRAY, Kirsty
Tough Stuff
Stories of children who have become famous for their talent, earned a fortune,
protested, rebelled, prayed, saved lives, or just hung on through oppression and war.
Children of the Wind
James must infiltrate a criminal's home, befriending his kids to find out about his illegal
activities. Noone suspects the child is the spy.
An action packed series for the lower secondary boy, where a group of kids are
recruited to be undercover agents, exposing criminals through their operations.
Stepping between Aboriginal Dreaming stories and the Australian yarn, the Whalers
reflects the ideas and practice of reconciliation. It tells of the relationship between the
orcas and the Aboriginal whalers of Twofold Bay.
An abridged version of 'The Dig Tree', a history of the infamous exploration by Burke
and Wills, ending in their demise in northern South Australia.
The third book in the "Children of the Wind" series.
Children of the Wind (series) Paddy, an Irish lad, steals himself aboard a ship bound for
Australia in the 1890's. Surviving a shipwreck, Paddy joins a circus and then lives rough
in Melbourne.
When Bridie's family die during the Great Hunger in Ireland, she begins again in
Australia.
Based on a true story, a singing and dancing troupe of children travel overseas to
perform. When they are treated badly and want to go home, they are not free to leave.
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Vulture's Gate
MURRAY, Kirsty
Walking Home with Marie-Claire
MURRAY, Martine
The Slightly Bruised Glory of
Cedar B. Hartley
The Slightly True Story of Cedar
B. Hartley
MURRAY, Martine
MURRAY, Peta
MUSGROVE,
Marianne
Spitting Chips
Don't Breathe a Word
MUTH, Jon
The Three Questions
NA, An
A Step From Heaven
NAIFEH, Ted
NAMIOKA, Lensey
Polly and the Pirates V1
Ties That Bind
NAYLOR, Phyllis
Reynolds
NEEDLE, Jan &
STOKER, Bram
NESBIT, Edith
NESBIT, Edith
Shiloh
NESS, Patrick
Monsters of Men
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Set in the not too distant furture, Bo and Callum search for a safe place. Their venture
into a bombed out Sydney sees them taking refuge on an island in Sydney Harbour, but
even here, things are not what they seem and they are in danger.
Marie-Claire changes the way PJ looks at life and friendships dealing with teenage
issues.
The sequel to "The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley"
Cedar hangs out on the edges of the neighbourhood social circuit with Stinky, her dog
and best friend. Things start to change when she meets a boy called Kite and finds they
have a lot in common. Together they form a circus troupe and put on a performance.
Teenage
A family drama that deals with relationships, friendship and loneliness.
Mackenzie and Tahlia have an enourmous secret and must not breathe a word about it
outside their home. But their grandpa is acting strangely and the girls are frightened that
they will be sent somewhere else to live.
Based on a short story by Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai asks three questions which relate to why
he is here and what is his purpose in life. He wants to be as good as he can be but
worries whether he is doing the right thing. In helping an old man in need, the wise
turtle, Leo, tells him he has found the answers to his questions.
Young Ju and her Korean family struggle in their new country, America. Her father holds
firmly to Korea's tradition and uses violence towards his family to achieve this.
A pirate adventure with Polly on the trail of treasure and her mother.
The year is 1911 and Ailin sees the pain her sister is in when her feet are bound. She
determines she will not follow her sister, and refuses to have her feet bound. This
causes immense problems for her family and her marriage is called off. But she refuses
to follow the custom.
Shiloh, a beagle, is owned by a violent, angry man. Shiloh's rescue comes when Marty
appears.
A new edition of Dracula has cut down the length of the original, first published in 1897,
but it is all there with all of its fizz, vampires and wolves.
It is a sand-fairy that grants a wish a day to the five children.
A middle class family living in London at the end of the 18th Century, fall on hard times
and move to the country where the children have adventures around the railway.
Chaos Walking
The third in this trilogy of a dystopian world where Todd and Viola face a terrifying future
in a land where there are no women and people can hear each other's thoughts.
Dracula
Five Children and It
The Railway Children
NEWBOUND, Andrew Demon Strike
When ghost busters Alannah and Wortley go to the manor to rid the place of its ghostly
entities, things happen which are totally unexpected, particularly the appearance of Fhli,
the ANGEL.
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The Billionaire's Curse
NEWTON, Robert
My Name is Will Thompson
NEWTON, Robert
The Black Dog Gang
NEWTON, Robert
The Punjabi Poppadum
NEWTON, Robert
The Runner
NICHOLLS, Bron
Three Way Street
NICHOLLS, Catriona
Chicken: the story of Chicken in
Australia
NICHOLSON, John
A Home among the Gum Trees:
The Story of Australian Houses
NICHOLSON, John
Animal Architects
Paperark
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Gerald inherits an enormous amount of money, but with the cash comes a trail of
conspirators who may have killed his great aunt. He teams up with Sam and Ruby to
unravel the theft of the famous diamond from the British Museum, solve his great aunt's
murder, and find the casket which possibly held the Holy Grail.
Will finally finds somewhere who will help him with his poor literacy skills, but the
government intends to close it down, so Will and his friends decide to act.
Set in the Rocks, Sydney, 1900, the five boys in the Black Dog Gang live a life of
adventure until things go very wrong.
Veejay's parents restauraunt, the Punjabi Poppadum, once the most popular place in
town, is losing customers. With the help of friends, Dexter and Travis, and the retired
policeman from the nursing home, the problem is solved
Charlie leaves school and works for Squizzy Taylor, the notorious underworld figure who
ruled inner Melbourne in the 1920s.
A realistic novel told by Aggie, twelve, who lives in Melbourne with her mother, siblings
and new dog, Bruce.
The chicken industry in Australia is outlined from the raising of chickens on Australian
farms, to how chicken meat is processed and packaged and made available to the
general public.
The complete history of Australian homes from pre-European settlement to modern day
dwellings.
A look at the architectural and engineering skills of many Australian and overseas
animals, giving fascinating details of how they construct shelters.
NICHOLSON, John
Kimberley Warrior: The Story Of True Stories
The story of Jandamarra and the struggle for justice by the Bunuba peoples in the late
Jandamarra
nineteenth century.
NICHOLSON, John
The Mighty Murray
Australia's greatest river system as it is and was, with many stories about the people
who lived on or in the Murray Valley, from archaeological finds and Aboriginal legend to
riverboat traders and dam engineers.
NICHOLSON, William Slaves of the Mastery
The Wind on Fire 2: Five years after Bowman and Kestrel have restored the voice to the
wind singer the city is sacked by the forces of the Mastery and its citizens either killed or
taken into slavery. Only Kestrel escapes and she sets out on foot to follow.
NICHOLSON, William The Wind Singer
Kestrel Hath and her twin brother follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary silver
voice of the wind singer in an attempt to heal the Aramanth people.
NIEUWENHUIZEN,
Family
Sixteen stories by well-known, as well as unknown, writers in this collection of tales
Agnes
centred around family life.
NILSSON, Eleanor
The Bells of Gemelshaunsen
A retelling of an old story from Germany, has the bells sounding a warning when
Frederick falls in love with Gertrude.
NILSSON, Eleanor
The House Guest
A gang of children rob houses.
NIMMO, Jenny
Charlie Bone and the Red Knight Children of the Red King Charlie is determined to stop the evil Bloors and their cronies from taking over the city
and driving everyone away. The final book in a series crackling with magic!
NIMMO, Jenny
Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Charlie Bone
A sequel to 'Midnight for Charlie Bone' and one in the series of adventures about
Badlock
Charlie Bone and his friends, school peers and Charlie's ancestor, the giant, Otus.
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NIMMO, Jenny
Midnight for Charlie Bone
NIMMO, Jenny
The Time Twister
NIX, Garth
Drowned Wednesday
NIX, Garth
Grim Tuesday
NIX, Garth
Keys to the Kingdom
NIX, Garth
Lord Sunday
NIX, Garth
Mister Monday
NIX, Garth
NIX, Garth
NIX, Garth
One Beastly Beast
Sabriel
Sir Thursday
NIX, Garth
Superior Saturday
NIX, Garth
The Abhorsen
NIX, Garth
The Seventh Tower: The Fall
NOONAN, Diana
A Whistle from the Blunder
NOONUCCAL,
Oodgeroo (Walker,
Kath)
NOONUCCAL,
Oodgeroo (Walker,
Kath)
NORCLIFFE, James
Father Sky and Mother Earth
Stradbroke Dreamtime
Two halves of this book combine to bring together a collection of Dreamtime stories and
stories reminiscent of the author's childhood on Stradbroke Island.
The Loblolly Boy
NORMAN, Lilith
A Dream Of Seas
When Michael exchanges with a winged boy, he is at first thrilled to be out of the cruel
children's home where he has lived most of his life. But he finds he is pursued by a
butterfly collector wanting the ultimate specimen for his collection.
Set in Bondi, a boy moves from the country to the city following the death of his father.
NORRINGTON,
Leonie
Leaving Barrumbi
Children of the Red King Children of the Red King Book 2. Charlie and his friends face a new challenge with the
return of Great Uncle Henry after he disappeared many years ago.
The Keys to the
The second book in the Keys to the Kingdom series - Arthur Penhaligon's fight to find
Kingdom
the keys
The Keys to the
The Thursday edition of Arthur's surprising story told in seven days of his search for the
Kingdom
key which will save the world.
The Keys to the
Arthur must retrieve a set of keys which will restore order to the kingdom. Each of the
Kingdom
seven books in the series is the fantastic story of one key.
The Keys to the
The final in the brilliant Keys to the Kingdom series.
Kingdom
The Keys to the
Keys to the Kingdom Series: Arthur Penhaligon is close to death, having suffered an
Kingdom
asthma attack while cross country running, when he is visited by Mister Monday, a
languid man in a bathchair pushed by an even stranger manservant, Sneezer.
The Keys to the
Kingdom
Seventh Tower 1
Barrumbi kids
Four fantasy stories with the strangest beasts ever, full of humour and fun.
Can Sabriel find her father in a land where monsters stalk and fear prevails?
Fourth in the excellent Keys to the Kingdom fantasy series - Arthur Penhaligon and his
fight to find the keys
Anyone following the adventures of Arthur will love this, the sixth book in the series.
The final book in the Old Kingdom trilogy about the Abhorsen, where the stories all
come together.
In a land where sunstones provide the only light, Tal tries to save his family from social
oblivion.
Hearing the haunting whistle of an old time steam train takes Cadence back into past
secrets long hidden in the town.
An illustrated book depicting environmental concerns by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, a poet
and an activist for Aboriginal rights.
Dale has lived all his life at an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory and now
he must leave to go to high school. He discovers the barriers between black and white,
and finds them unacceptable.
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Leonie
NORRINGTON,
Leonie
NORRINGTON,
Leonie
NOYES, Alfred
The Barrumbi Kids
NUNN, Cameron
Shadows in the Mirror
O'BRIEN, May
Wunambi the Water Snake
O'BRIEN, Robert
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O'BRIEN, Robert
Z for Zachariah
O'DELL, Scott
OLDFIELD, Pamela
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Great Plague: the Diary of
Paynton, London, 1665-1666
Victorian Workhouse: the Diary
of Edith Lorrimer, England 1871
OLDFIELD, Pamela
OLIVER, Martin
OPPEL, Kenneth
ORMAN, Lorraine
The Last Muster
The Spirit of Barrumbi
The Highwayman
My Story
My Story
Spilling the beans on
Tutankhamen and other
Mummy's Boys
Silverwing
ORR, Wendy
A Long Way From Home: the
Diary of Lillian Glenmore,
Warkworth, 1943
Leaving It To You
ORR, Wendy
Peeling the Onion
ORWELL, George
Animal Farm
ORWIN, Joanne
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The story of Dale and Tomia from two families, one Aboriginal and one white, who are
both in their last year at the community school.
Shane and Red live on a cattle station in the Kimberleys. Finding a herd of wild horses
leads to a story about land rights and race relations.
A non Aboriginal person, Sean, strays onto a sacred site causing an adventure which
involves the whole Aboriginal community.
A classic adventure love story told in rhyme, of the tragedy and heroism of Bess and the
highwayman
A scholarship boy avoids the bullying dished out to others by joining in some of the
pranks, but when a new boy enrols and is placed in his room, he learns that sometimes
a choice must be made.
Dreaming Story : When the children disturb old Wunambi, the giant water snake, there
is big trouble ahead.
A group of laboratory rats come to the aid of the intrepid Mrs Frisby and her fieldmouse
family.
Set in the future after a nuclear war, a young girl believes that she is the last person left
on earth. A deadly stranger proves her wrong!
Set in the 1800s, this is a story of a girl's survival on a deserted island.
Many thousands of people died in this dreadful plague which struck Europe in the
middle of the seventeenth century.
Edith, whose mother is on the Board of Governors at a workhouse, visits the place and
meets Rosie, an orphan always in trouble.
A funny look at famous people.
My Story
Bluegum
This is the journey of Shade, a silverwing bat, who has many adventures with his friend,
Marina.
A fascinating account in Diary form of a specific time in New Zealand's history when
5000 USA marines trained near Whangateau.
A story for more mature readers about the tentative friendship between Linda and old
Mrs Pugh in the nursing home.
Following a car accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion has to
recover with the help of her family.
When the animals take over Manor Farm from their drunken master, all seems to be
perfect as everyone is equal under the Seven Commandments. Circumstances change
as the pigs gradually become more equal than others!
A thrilling story of an encounter with a mythical Maori creature, Pouakai, which threatens
the livelihood of the family farms.
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When Ash meets Charlie in the music shop, he is amazed when the new teenager
suggests they form a band. Charlie has managed to collect enough people for a blues
band, and the keyboard player is Erin, a girl Ash has always been interested in.
OSWALD, Debra
Blue Noise
OSWALD, Debra
The Fifth Quest
OSWALD, Debra
The Redback Leftovers
OTTLEY, Reginald
By the Sandhills of Yamboorah
OTTLEY, Ted
Code of Deception
OVEREND, Jenni
Stride's Summer
PALLOTTACHIAROLLI, Maria
PALMER, Tom
Tapestry
Off Side
PALMER, Tony
Break of Day
PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
Against the Spin
Legends
Chasing the Break
Legends
PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
Clearing the Pack
Down the Line
In the Zone
On the Buzzer
Over the Wall
Raising the Bar
The Final Lap
The Legends
Rosie flirts with the value of friendship and the need to resist the surreal world of
television.
Imagine the worst soccer team that you can think of and then triple it. This is a
description of the debut of the Redback Leftovers.
A young boy lives and works on a station in the middle of the desert, and is befriended
by the cook. A classic survival story set in the outback.
A mysterious fire at Jake's school leads to the discovery of a plot against three
generations of Jake's family, involving virtual reality, war criminals and drug running.
With Stride's father dead, the family must recover but when mum decides to sell their
house, Stride cannot cope, so he and his dad's cockatoo, Ferd, head tor the hills. But it
is bushfire season.
This biography traces five generations of an Australian Italian family.
Foul Play
Danny Harte is a football (soccer) fan and wants to be a detective. He uses his detective
skills to solve a crime involving a young African player.
The struggle between the Japanese and Australian forces in New Guinea are paralleled
with the struggles a young man faces in his home town.
A series of sporting books aimed at boys. Each book tells a different story about a
different sport.
Every year at Sandhurst School, the students compete to be the school's Sporting
Legend in the best out of eight sports. Who will be the Legend of the Surf? Mitchell
Grady, the new boy, or Travis Fisk, the school bully.
A series of sporting books aimed at boys. Each book tells a different story about a
different sport.
A series of sporting books aimed at boys. Each book tells a different story about a
different sport.
Another in the Legends series, where Mitch must make up his mind whether to compete
in the Legensds or the national snowboarding competition
A series of sporting books aimed at boys. Each book tells a different story about a
different sport.
A series of sporting books aimed at boys. Each book tells a different story about a
different sport.
A series of sporting books aimed at boys. Each book tells a different story about a
different sport.
A series of sporting books aimed at boys. Each book tells a different story about a
different sport.
A series of sporting books aimed at boys. Each book tells a different story about a
different sport.
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PANCKRIDGE,
Michael
Toby Jones and the Mystery of
Time Travel
PAOLINI, Christopher Brisingr
PAOLINI, Christopher Eldest
PAOLINI, Christopher Eragon
PARK, Min-Seo
Blazin Barrels No 1
PARK, Ruth
Callie's Castle
PARK, Ruth
PARKER, John
Playing Beatie Bow
Sucked Out
PARKER, Vic
100 Great Poems
PARRY, Glyn
Stoked! Real Life, Real Surf
PATERSON, A.B.
PATERSON, A.B.
PATERSON, A.B.
PATERSON,
Katherine
PATERSON,
Katherine
PATERSON,
Katherine
PATERSON,
Katherine
PATERSON,
Katherine
Mulga Bill's Bicycle
The Man from Ironbark
The Man from Snowy River
Bridge to Terabithia
Come Sing, Jimmy Jo
Lyddie
Parzival: the Quest of the Grail
Knight
The Great Gilly Hopkins
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Toby has an amazing ability to travel through time, back to the most famous cricket
matches of all. Along with Brett Lee, Australia's fastest ever fast bowler, Panckridge
writes another sporting series sure to please.
Inheritance Cycle
Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, along with his cousin, Roran, are fighting the might and
power of the Empire. Eragon has lost his sword and must track it down to retain some
of his power in the classic tale of good versus evil. The third book in the Inheritance
Cycle series.
Inheritance Cycle
An exciting sequel to Eragon in which he and his dragon and cousin, Roran, are part of
the battle in the fight between the forces of good and evil.
Inheritance Cycle
Hunting in the mountains, Eragon comes across a large stone which he takes home,
only to discover that it is a dragon's egg.
Set in a Wild West of the future you meet Sting, a wannabe bounty hunter and all that
goes with it.
Callie's Grandpa Cameron discovered a secret room in the roof of her house and it
becomes her secret hideaway.
Abigail finds herself transported into the past and meets a girl called Beatie Bow.
Lightning Strikes
That creepy eyeball is on the loose again. It has left the back of Old Grimmo's head and
is out for blood. Can Dan and Zainey capture it before it finds a new home?
An all encompassing collection of favourite poems from mainly the USA and England,
including the Ballad of Reading Gaol, Sea Fever and Sir Patrick Spence. The poems
are broken into groups such as War and Heroism, Distant Lands, Nature and
Christmas. Some longer ballad poems have selected stanzas represented in this book.
True Stories
A lightweight but informative and accurate book comprising chapters that alternate
between a humorous history of surfing and sensible advice from Dr Stoke. Excellent
illustrations by Jeff Raglus further emphasize the humour.
Mulga Bill joins the cycling craze - but can he actually ride?
When the man from Ironbark visits the local town for a shave, chaos ensues.
This epic tale of how a lad manages to capture a valuable runaway colt.
Jessie and Leslie are close friends who create a magical world for themselves, until a
tragedy happens.
Jimmy Jo becomes a great country and western singer and finds his family is not what it
seemed.
Lyddie is a survivor of hard times in a 19th century American cotton mill.
Parzival meets three mounted men in armour and is determined to have adventures in
the court of King Arthur. (Mature readers).
Gilly is a foster child who lives in the hope that her beautiful mother will come and claim
her.
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PATTERSON, James Maximum Ride
PATTERSON, James Daniel X, Watch the Skies
& RUST, Ned
PAULSEN, Gary
Hatchet
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Maximum Ride
This is the manga adaption of the James Patterson series. Maximum Ride is a modified
human young person. She has wings and a flock of friends. They are hiding and hoping
they do not get found but they are found by the Erasers. This is their story of survival.
This series is also available in standard novel format.
Daniel X
Second adventure of Daniel X, the teenage alien hunter, as he takes on the worst threat
the world has seen.
The only survivor of a light plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, Brian must learn to
exist among wild animals and find a way back to civilisation.
Hatchet Series 4. Brian decides he can't live a normal life and returns to live in the wild.
PAULSEN, Gary
Hatchet The Call
PAULSEN, Gary
Hatchet: the Return
PAULSEN, Gary
Hatchet: The Truth
PAULSEN, Gary
Hatchet: Winter
PAULSEN, Gary
My Life in Dog Years
PAULSEN, Gary
PAUSACKER, Jenny
Soldier's Heart
A Tale of Two Families: the Diary My Story
of Jan Packard, Melbourne 1974
PAUSACKER, Jenny
Death by Water
PAUSACKER, Jenny
Looking For Blondie
PAUSACKER, Jenny
The Perfect Princess
PAVER, Michelle
Wolf Brother
PEARCE, Philippa
PEET, Mal
Tom's Midnight Garden
Keeper
PEET, Mal
The Penalty
PEGUERO, Leone
Mervyn's Revenge
PELLEGRINO, Marge Journey of Dreams
Brian returns to the wild with a survival expert but another adventure begins when he is
struck by lightning.
Gary Paulsen describes the inspiration and real life adventures that have made his
books so popular.
Brian has not been rescued and is forced to adapt to living in the wild during winter.
Crime Waves
Chronicles of Ancient
Darkness
The author's real life adventures, and the dogs he shared them with, make fascinating
and absorbing reading.
Charley Goddard goes to fight in the American Civil War.
The 70's in Australia were a time of great social upheaval, and this is reflected in the
fictional diary of Jan Packard.
A murder weekend on a houseboat almost becomes a reality for Uncle. Just as well
Just goes with him.
Justine's uncle writes crime novels, but needs his special mascot with him to write.
When someone steals his mascot, Justine must help find it.
Orphan, Tab, who sweeps the streets in the magical city of Qentaris, meets a stranger
who she helps escape from the Archon guards. In return she finds out about the
mysterious perfect princess who went missing many years ago.
In the stone age forests of Northern Europe, Torak is told a story by his mortally
wounded father, which involves Torak setting out on a quest to find the Mountains of the
World Spirit. With an orphaned wolf cub as his companion he leaves his home.
Tom finds a wonderful garden that only appears when the clock strikes thirteen.
With the World Cup on a table between them, El Gato, the world's best goalkeeper tells
reporter Paul Fuastino his amazing story about the mysterious Keeper.
A teenage football hero disappears and Paul Faustino investigates coming up against
the occult and echoes of a terrible time of slavery.
Mervyn, a pampered cat, is left at home in the care of a neighbour when his family goes
on holidays. He can't believe it! Mervyn sets out to plot revenge but all his schemes
backfire.
Fleeing Guatemala after their village has been burnt down, one son is taken to fight in
the guerilla army, and the mother tries to keep her other son safe.
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PENNAC, Daniel
Dog
PENNINGTON, Kate
Tread Softly
PEPPER, Dennis
The Young Oxford Book of Aliens
PEPYS, Vicky
Spilling The Beans On Making It
In Fashion
Crimea: Michael Pope, 110th
Regiment, 1853-1857
D-Day: Lieutenant Jim Dodd,
Normandy, 1944
Trafalgar; James Grant, HMS
Norseman 1799-1806
U-Boat Hunter: Peter Rogers,
HMS Arun 1939-1945
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PERRETT, Bryan
PERRETT, Bryan
PERRETT, Bryan
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Picking out a dog in the shelter, the young girl soon tires of him when the family goes
back home, but the dog is able to teach the girl its real value.
A fascinating story of Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth the first, told from the point of view
of a seamstress taken by Raleigh to London to make him a cape worthy of the Queen's
attention. The plots and counterplots which littered the queen's reign are shown with
skill in this historical novel.
An excellent collection of classic and modern stories present speculations about the
nature of aliens.
A funny look at all the careers involved in the fashion industry.
My Story
My Story
A personal account of the horrific war fought between England and Russia, called the
Crimean War.
The invasion of Normandy seen throught the eyes of one of the participants.
My Story
James is a part of the famous battle against Napoleon Bonaparte.
My Story
Peter's diary records the fierce cold and the high seas of the North Atlantic as he works
on board the escort ship protecting the British convoys from the German U-Boats,
during World War 2.
Part of the Royal Horse Artillery, Bon was present at the momentous Battle at Waterloo,
when Napoleon was finally defeated.
It's the fisrt day of Kaitlin's first year in high school. Everything's different, but her old
friends from primary school are in her class, so at least she has someone to sit with.
Starting school in Iowa was at first a huge shock, but as Kaitlin settled in she became
aware of a strange boy in her class, Leon, a selective mute, who used to live in the
house she and her mother now rent.
It is the third term, grade six, and Kaitlin's teacher has switched table groups around.
Now Kaitlin's on a table with stuck-up Ashleigh and all the losers.
Third in the Ruby Clair series, this book follows the exploits of Ruby solving the mystery
of the ghost stalking one of her class mates.
Alex's sister Jamie is in grade six. She still plays with Lego, loves goldfish and wildlife
documentaries. Alex knows Jamie's never going to fit in at high school - unless she can
teach her to be "normal"...
Join Nancy Drew, along with Bess and George, as they search for missing student filmmakers and discover the deadly secret behind the local urban myth known as 'the
Demon of River Heights".
Set in a Roman camp in Britain at the time of the Fall of the Roman Empire, Minna finds
an abandoned foal and cares for him, risking her life for his safety.
Since his wife's death, Skiff's father has sunk into deep depression, allowing their boat
to fall into disrepair. Skiff is the one who takes risks to earn money for them to survive
and in so doing, shakes his father back into the land of the living
PERSHALL, Anna
Waterloo: Bob Jenkins, Royal
Horse Artillery 1814-1817
A Term in Year Seven
PERSHALL, Anna
Escape from Year Eight
PERSHALL, Anna
Two Weeks in Grade Six
PERSHALL, Mary K.
A Ghost at School
Ruby Clair
PERSHALL, Mary K.
Making Jamie Normal
Aussie Chomps
PETRUCHA, Stefan
The Demon of River Heights
PEYTON, K M
Minna's Quest
PHILBRICK, Rodman Lobster Boy
My Story
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PHILBRICK, Rodman The Fire Pony
Apple Signature
Roy and his brother are itinerant, not wanting to stay in one place long in case people
start asking questions. But their affinity with horses wins them respect from a farm
owner who asks them to stay.
PHIPSON, Joan
Good Luck to the Rider
Australian Children's
A story about the adoption of a foal and a girl's first year at boarding school.
Classics
PHOMMAVANH,
Thai-riffic!
Lengy would rather hide his Thai heritage as he begins high school, but through his
Oliver
mates and a great teacher he comes to grips with it.
PIERCE, Tamora
Alanna: The First Adventure
Song of the Lioness
The first in the series where Alanna, dissatisfied with the path laid out for girls of her
age, defies the family to become a knight.
PIERCE, Tamora
Bloodhound: the Legend of Beka Beka Cooper
The second book of the Tortall trilogy, featuring Beka Cooper.
Cooper
PIERCE, Tamora
First Test
Protector of the Small
Set in the days of knights, Kel is not allowed to train as a knight because she is a girl.
PIERCE, Tamora
PIERCE, Tamora
PIERCE, Tamora
In the Hand of the Goddess
Lioness Rampant
Terrier: the Legend of Beka
Cooper
PIERCE, Tamora
The Trickster
PIERCE, Tamora
The Woman Who Rides Like A
Man
Harriet Huxtable and the Trouble
with Teachers
Captain Underpants and the Big
Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger
Boy
Captain Underpants and the
Invasion of the incredibly
Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from
Outer Space
Captain Underpants and the
Perilous Plot of Professor
Poopypants
Captain Underpants and the
Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie
Woman
Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence
PIKE, Louise
PILKEY, David
PILKEY, David
PILKEY, David
PILKEY, David
PILKINGTON, Doris
Song of the Lioness
Song of the Lioness
Beka Cooper
Song of the Lioness
The second in the Song of the lioness series.
The fourth in the series
Beka joins the Provost Guards as a trainee, a Puppy. She is lucky, being positioned with
two of the best Dogs in the town, ones who would watch out for her and teach her.
When children go missing they investigate, but it is Beka's knowledge of the town and
its inhabitants that unravels the clues.
Alanna's daughter strives to make her own way in the world but is hampered by an
overly protective mother. All she wants to be is a spy, like her father. She is captured by
pirates who sell her to be a slave and must use all her wits to survive
The third in the series
Captain Underpants
Funny stories about the relief teacher, sent in to replace a favourite with the class, Mr
Penny.
A series of very funny stories about a school.
Captain Underpants
A series of very funny stories about a school.
Captain Underpants
A series of very funny stories about a school
Captain Underpants
A series of very funny stories about a school.
The extraordinary story of three young girls, separated from their family because of their
colour, who follow the fence line in Western Australia to return to their home, thousands
of miles away.
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PILKINGTON, Doris
PILLING, Ann
Home to Mother
Creation
PINI, Richard & PINI,
Wendy
PLUSS, Nicole
Elfquest: the Grand Quest. V1
Hope Bay
POND, Roy
The Mummy Monster Game
POVAH, Frank
You Kids, Count Your Shadows:
Hairymen and other Aboriginal
Folklore in New South Wales
POW, Tom
The Pack
POWELL, Martin
Alice in Wonderland
POWELL, Martin
The Wizard of Oz
POWELL, Martin &
COLLODI, Carlo
Pinocchio
PRATCHETT, Terry
Going Postal
PRATCHETT, Terry
Nation
PRESSLER, Mirjam
Malka
PRINCE, Alison
Anne Boleyn and Me: the Diary of My Story
Elinor Valjean, London, 15251536
My Tudor Queen: the Diary of
My Story
Eva De Pueblo, London 15011513
Bog Bodies: Mummies and
True Stories
Curious Corpses
PRINCE, Alison
PRIOR, Natalie Jane
Elfquest
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An abridged version of "Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence"
Creation stories from all over the world. There are tales from China, the Cameroons, Sri
Lanka, Norway, Ghana and Kenya; Greek and Norse Myths; stories from the Australian
Aboriginals.
This follows the adventures of elves, trolls and humans. In volume 1 when the
Wolfriders tribe lose their home they must seek a new home.
Every night Olga feeds the dolphins in the bay, and Possum helps, but when Olga's
sister is ill, Possum learns a lot more about the women.
Josh, Amy and Harry are inhaled into a computer game and become trapped in a
terrifying adventure relying on their wits.
A collection of stories, taken from interviews, that give an insight into the knowledge and
ancient beliefs of the Aboriginal people in NSW.
The pack is a story of a small group of children and dogs struggling for survival in a
world that has been in turmoil and is only just beginning to find its feet. Survival is up to
individuals who have the strength intellect and network to scrape together a living
Classic Fiction
Discworld
What would happen if you followed a white rabbit and it took you down a hole into
another world? How brave would you be?
The wonderful story of The Wizard of Oz ia retold in graphic format. Journey with
Dorothy and Toto as they are picked up by a cyclone and dropped into the land of Oz.
This is the retelling of a wooden boy puppet made by his father Geppetto. Pinocchio has
many adventures in his journey to become a real boy and not just a walking and talking
puppet.
Discworld (series) A con artist must chose between being hanged or reviving AnkhMorpork's postal service.
Mau, an islander, paddles to an isolated island as part of his coming of age ritual. While
there, his own island is devastated by a tidal wave and his community lost. He meets a
young girl on the island, shipwrecked while travelling, and together they must learn to
survive.
Malka is left with a family while her mother escapes the Nazi regime. Each searches for
the other, unaware of what has happened to them.
Elinor is a member of the Royal Court and close to the happenings of the court of Henry
V111
Eva is a lady in waiting to the great princess, Catherine of Aragon.
All the facts necessary to know about "dried, pickled and frozen preserved people" are
contained in this unusual book.
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PRIOR, Natalie Jane
Cleopatra
PRIOR, Natalie Jane
Mysterious Ruins: Lost Cities and True Stories
Buried Treasure
The Encyclopaedia of Preserved
People: Pickled, Frozen and
Mummified Corpses from Around
the World
Battle for Quentaris
The Quentaris
Chronicles
Beneath Quentaris
The Quentaris
Chronicles
Blackout
PRIOR, Natalie Jane
PRYOR, Michael
PRYOR, Michael
PRYOR, Michael
PRYOR, Michael
Bruno Trask and the Dark Lady's
Jewels
PRYOR, Michael
Nightmare in Quentaris
PRYOR, Michael
Quentaris in Flames
PRYOR, Michael
Stars of Quentaris
PRYOR, Michael
Stones of Quentaris
PRYOR, Michael
The King in Reserve
PRYOR, Michael
The Lost Castle
PRYOR, Michael
The Missing Kin
PUGSLEY, Chris
The Anzacs at Gallipoli: A Story
for Anzac Day
PULFORD, Elizabeth Blackthorn
PULFORD, Elizabeth Blackthorn's Betrayal
Extraordinary
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The story of the life of Cleopatra told partly in fictional form. It is a most engaging and
informative read.
From the True Stories series, here are tales of hidden treasure and lost temples deep in
the rainforests.
Descriptions of procedures and items such as Einstein's pickled brain will fascinate
older primary readers.
The Quentaris
Chronicles
The Quentaris
Chronicles
The Quentaris
Chronicles
The Quentaris
Chronicles
The Chronicles of
Krangor
The Chronicles of
Krangor
The Chronicles of
Krangor
The last in the excellent Quentaris Chronicles, where Nisha must use all of her strength
to stop the battle by two old foes, destined to destroy Quentaris.
Continuing the story of Quentaris as Nisha finds herself below Quentaris.
An intense, electromagnetic pulse strikes earth, grinding the world to a halt. Holly wakes
in the wreckage of a smashed car, next to her unconscious older brother. She sets out
on a dangerous and violent quest.
A world where humans live alongside elves, dwarves, werewolves and ogres. When
Bruno Trask, a young human boy, accidentally gets hold of one of the Dark Lady's
jewels, he finds himself on the run from the world's most famous, rich and influential Elf.
The Old Tree Inn is not doing well, few people are staying there and no one comes in
for meals any more. Nisha is determined to find out why.
Another iun the series of the Quentaris Chronicles, in which Nisha and her friend Tal
investigate a plot against the people of the city.
A missing star means Nisha and Tal are pitted against all the other treasure seekers in
the city bent on finding it. But Nisha and Tal can do without their biggest rivals, the
Voiceless Rin and his band of scary followers.
Jaq and four mysterious strangers attempt to solve the mystery of who is stealing the
stones.
Adalon and friends must rescue the young king before the queen finds him and puts her
own plans into action.
When Adalon's father is killed, he and his two friends must flee for their lives.
Adalon and his friends hope that the missing kin will come to their aid as they seek to
revenge Adalon's father's death.
An account of the military campaign at Gallipoli during World War One, and the
consequences for Australia.
When Alyana's father dies, she retreats to the forest, calling herself Blackthorn, wanting
to survive alone with her hunting skills.
A sequel to Blackthorn, the story of a young woman determined to be a warrior like her
father, but first she must travel deep into enemy territory, where she finds that she has
been betrayed.
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PULFORD, Elizabeth Castlecliff and the Fossil
Selling up his stepgrandmother's old castle is not as easy as he thinks when Jamie
Princess
becomes friendly with the girl next door whose passion is fossils.
PULFORD, Elizabeth Tussock
Kate is drawn to the tussock country when her father disappears.
PULLMAN, Philip
Northern Lights
His Dark Materials
When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, determine to
find him. Their quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North where a team of
scientists are conducting unspeakably horrible experiments. Book 1 of his Dark
Material.
PULMAN, Felicity
Ghost Boy
Froggy traces his family history with the ghostly help of Tad, who perished in the
smallpox epidemic of 1881.
PULMAN, Felicity
Shalott
A fantastical story linking the Arthurian legend with contemporary issues.
PULMAN, Felicity
Willows for Weeping
Janna is searching for her father, and allies herself with a band of pilgrims for safety, but
when one of their number is killed, she must reassess why all of these people are on
the road in these turbulent times.
PYERS, Greg
Jack Brown and the Trail of the Jack Brown
Jack and Molly are involved in a dangerous mystery at the zoo involving the smuggling
Python
of a python.
PYLE, Howard
The Story of King Arthur and his Dover Storybooks for
Legends and heroic tales are the focus of these stories.
Knights
Children
QUINTANA, Anton
The Baboon King
Morengaru, a man divided against himself and an outcast in the wilderness, must live as
an animal.
RAI, Bali
City of Ghosts
True story of the Amritsar Massacre by British troops just after World War One, when
tensions in India were at a boiling point, the Indians wanting independence from British
rule.
RANDALL, Bob
Stories from Country
Uncle Bob Randall tells some stories from gorwing up in Northern Australia.
RANDALL, Bob &
Nyuntu Ninti (What You Should
Uncle Bob Randall talks about Aboriginal culture and the importance of the land and
HOGAN, Melanie
Know)
family.
RANSOME, Arthur
Swallows and Amazons
This series is for sailing and boating fans who love adventures on the water.
REES, Celia
Sovay
Sovay puts on her brother's clothes and a handkerchief around her face to hold up the
coach in an effort to stop her father's arrest for treason. It is 1794 in England, and
anyone with ideas of revolution are sought out by the master spy Dysart.
REES, Celia
The Fool's Girl
Violetta escapes to London with her fool, Feste, after the downfall of her kingdom.
There they meet William Shakespeare, who turns the story of Violetta's past into the
play, Twelfth Night.
REES, Gwyneth
The Mum Detective
Esmie tries to emulate her father, the detective, and solve crimes involving her family
and friends. She delves into things she shouldn't, causes mayhem between her father
and his girlfriend, and almost splits up her brother and his girlfriend
REEVE, Philip
A Web of Air
Mortal Engines
A prequel to the Mortal Engines series, telling of the secrets of flight, lost for thousands
of years.
REEVE, Philip
Here Lies Arthur
The story of how King Arthur became such a folk hero is told by Gwynna, the servant to
the bard, Myrdin.
REEVE, Philip
Horatio Nelson and his Victory
Dead Famous
A funny look at famous people
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REID, Sue
Mill Girl: the Diary of Eliza
My Story
Helsted, Manchester, 1842-1843
REID, Sue
REILLY, Matthew
War Nurse: the Diary of Kitty,
England 1940-1941
Hover Car Racer
REILLY, Matthew
The Five Greatest Warriors
REITER, David
Global Cooling
REITER, David
The Greenhouse Effect
RENNER, Clare
All Stars 4: Jess, Wing Defence
RENNER, Clare
All Stars 5: Sarah, Goal Shooter
RICHARDSON, Henry
Handel
RIDDEN, Brian
RIDDEN, Brian
RIDDLE, Tohby
RIGBY, Robert
The Getting of Wisdom
Blind Fear
Sweet Tea
The Great Escape from City Zoo
Glory Days
Goal
RIGBY, Robert
Goal
RIORDAN, James
Rebel Cargo
RIORDAN, James
The Sniper
RIORDAN, Rick
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Percy Jackson
Thief
Percy Jackson and the Sea of
Percy Jackson
Monsters
RIORDAN, Rick
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Eliza must begin work at the local mill in Manchester, at a time when there was little
work for anyone.
Kitty works as a nurse in the military hospitals in south east England in the first years of
World War 2.
Jason Chaser is given a scholarship to attend the world class Hover Car Racing
Academy in Tasmania, along with R2D2, his brother, they get into all sorts of dizzying
car races.
Seven Ancient Wonders and Six Sacred Stones continue the adventure with a small
group of people from all over the world, trying to stop the destruction of the earth, by
calling up the Five Greatest Warriors.
In this sequel to 'The Greenhouse Effect', the animals spread the word about how to
save the earth to other creatures in the city and the bush.
Tiger the cat meets up with other animals, some with magical powers, and learns about
saving the earth from great danger.
Jess's birthday present from her family is money, so Jess buys a ticket to see a hot new
group. The team has decided to have a bonding evening together, and when it falls on
the same night, Jess must make a decision
Sarah's mum has always bought her clothes, so when the rest of the team takes her
shopping she is amazed and so is Josh
A young girl is exploring how to lead the life she wishes while she is being expected to
conform in an all girls' school in Melbourne in the 1880s.
Another in the Crimewave series. A quick read.
Issues of racism, love and family grief will appeal to more mature readers.
Sepia drawings are a highlight of this escape adventure featuring four zoo animals.
Santiago Munez dreams of playing in the World Cup for Spain. He is based at an
English soccer club and has to stay injury-free as well as support his young brother to
follow his soccer dream.
A tie in with the film, this is the story of a young man who moves from Los Angeles to
England to play soccer
The amazing story of the Slave Trade told through the eyes of two of those involved, a
young African girl, kidnapped from her village, and an orphan boy following the trail left
by an African boy who dies in his arms.
Children were trained as snipers during the Nazi occupation of Poland during World
War II. This is the story of one of them, a girl, who probably killed several hundred
German soldiers.
Another adventure in the life of a half god, half man.
Percy Jackson is half man, half god. School in New York is quite normal, but when
some cannibal giants turn up, Percy and his friends know that their safety is under
threat.
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RIORDAN, Rick
Percy Jackson and the Titan's
Curse
The Lost Hero
RIORDAN, Rick
The Red Pyramid
RIPPIN, Sally
Just One Wish
RISSON, Toni
RISSON, Toni
Batty Business
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Continuing the series of Percy Jackson, half man, half god, and the adventures he has
in keeping things in order.
Heroes of Olympus
Another in the series in the style of the Percy Jackson stories, but with a different group
of heroes. All good fun and mixed up with loads of mythology.
The Kane Chronicles
Egyptology is more exciting than ever, as the Kane family become embroiled in the
House of Life, an Egyptian temple of magic that has lain secret for thousands of years.
Aussie Chomps
ROCKWELL, Thomas How to eat Fried Worms
RODDA, Emily
Cavern of Fear
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
City of Rats Deltora Quest
(Series 3)
Crumbs
RODDA, Emily
Dragon's Nest
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
Dread Mountain
Finders Keepers
Deltora Quest
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
Isle of the Dead
Return to Del
Rowan and the Bukshah
Deltora Quest
Deltora Quest
Rowan of Rin
RODDA, Emily
Rowan of Rin
RODDA, Emily
Rowan and the Keeper of the
Crystal
Rowan and the Travellers
Rowan of Rin
RODDA, Emily
Rowan and the Zebak
Rowan of Rin
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
Rowan of Rin
Shadowgate
Rowan of Rin
Dragons of Deltora 2
Deltora Quest
Arriving in a new country from China, Penny cannot understand her cousin's bullying
when she is supposed to help her fit into her new school. Only with the help of her old
grandmother and her gift of one wish, does Penny find a way through the trauma of her
first months in Australia.
Luke, Alex and Kevin find a new hideout, and an ancient giant bat.
When Luke and Alex discover a creepy man catching purple licking lizards from the
river in the middle of the night, they think it's a bit weird. But when members of their
football team begin disappearing, they realise that there might just be more to this than
meets the eye.
The humorous account of a $50 bet for Billy to eat fifteen worms.
The quest for the Belt of Deltora was successful, but although Lief is king and many
have returned to Del, the Shadow Lord still rules in the Shadowlands where many
Deltorans are enslaved.
Third in the series, Deltora Quest
Nobody believes Pete when he tells them it is his four-month-old baby sister who is
saying all the rude things. And it is the baby biscuits that are causing it!
Deltora Quest Series 3 - Book 1: The Shadow Lord makes life difficult for the people of
Deltora.
Fifth in the series, Deltora Quest
Whilst playing a computer game, Patrick is transported into a parallel world and invited
to participate in a TV game show.
Deltora Quest 3 - Book 3: Another exciting challenge for Lief and Barda.
Eighth in the Series, Deltora Quest
Title 5 in the Rowan series whereRowan is on a quest to save the village from a
proplonged winter
In book 3 of the Rowan series a person from Rin has to choose who will be the keeper
of the powerful crystal.
The second book in the Rowan series where Rowan must find out if the people from his
village have been poisoned.
Rowan and his fascinating, new-found comrades decide to attempt a rescue, when his
younger sister, Annad, is kidnapped by a fanged, flying grach.
Rowan is a child in Rin who must help save the village from the terrible drought.
Deltora Quest Series 3 - Book 2: Lief raises the lapis-lazuli and emerald dragons.
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The Key to Rondo
The powerful Blue Queen is on a quest to take over Rondo and using an enchanted
dragon, hopes to carry out her plan, but she reckons without the intervention of Leo and
Mimi, intent on re-entering the world of the music box to thwart her.
Deltora Quest
A colourful bestiary that depicts the terrifying creatures of Deltora's forests, mountains
and deserts.
Deltora Quest
Series 1 book 1 The gems from the magic Belt of Deltora must be found.
Deltora Quest
Number 2 in the second Deltora Quest series.
The Key to Rondo
An old music box, handed down in the family for generations, has rules which must be
adhered to. Leo's cousin, Mimi, is no respecter of rules and both children become part
of quest in the land of Rondo.
Deltora Quest
Deltora Quest Series 1 book 2: Lief, Barda and their unruly new companion, Jasmine,
are on a perilous quest to find the seven gems stolen from the magic Belt of Deltora.
RODDA, Emily
The Battle for Rondo
RODDA, Emily
The Deltora Book of Monsters
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
The Forests of Silence
The Isle of Illusion
The Key to Rondo
RODDA, Emily
The Lake of Tears
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
The Maze of the Beast
The Shadowlands
The Shifting Sands
The Sister of the South
Deltora Quest
Deltora Quest
Deltora Quest
Deltora Quest
RODDA, Emily
RODDA, Emily
The Valley of the Lost
The Wizard of Rondo
Deltora Quest
The Key to Rondo
ROHR, Ian
ROSE, Malcolm
Survival Against the Odds
The Tortured Wood
ROSEN, Michael
What's so Special about Dickens
ROSEN, Michael
ROSS, John &
BOOTH, Anna
ROSS, Stewart
What's so Special about
Shakespeare
Every Picture Tells a Story:
Adventures in Australian Art
The Original Olympics
ROSSELL, Judith
Jack Jones and the Pirate Curse
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets
Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows
ROWLING, J.K.
Ancient Greece
Sixth in the series, Deltora Quest
Number 3 in the series, Deltora Quest
Fourth in the series, Deltora Quest
Deltora Quest Series 3 Book 4: With the help of the last dragon, Lief goes on to Del,
where the fourth sister waits. Fear is ever present in this story as Lief knows he cannot
stop or evil will prevail.
Seventh in the series, Deltora Quest
The fantastic world of Rondo can be perilous, but Leo and Mimi know they can't keep
away. They have to play their part in the continuing battle to keep Rondo safe from their
deadly enemy, the remorseless Blue Queen.
Could you survive a helicopter crash inside an active volcano?
Rose has put Dillon in a position many kids have experienced, that of moving schools,
particularly if it has been mid-term. Adding the seemingly hostile school environment
with one of a dark, gloomy, wintry wood adds to the feeling of unease you feel as you
read the story
A brief outline of Dicken's life and works coupled with humorous drawings will give
readers a great introduction to this writer.
A brief outline of Shakespears's life and works coupled with humorous drawings will
give readers a great introduction to this playwright.
This picture book tells of Australia's History through works from the Australian National
Gallery.
Drawings, pictures and fictional stories make the facts of Ancient Greece come to life in
this book about the ancient Olympics.
Jack is pursued by a crazy bunch of pirates after his uncle dies leaving him the recipient
of a curse.
Second in the series of Harry Potter's amazing adventures at Hogwarts.
In the seventh and final book, Harry discovers what fate truly has in store for him.
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ROY, James
ROY, James
ROY, James
ROY, James
ROY, Jennifer
RUBEL, William
RUBINSTEIN, Gillian
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Once again Harry has found interesting facts at Hogwarts about his very mysterious
Fire
childhood and these bring him closer to the truth of Lord Voldemont’s hatred. Jeremy
Tosswill
Harry Potter and the Half Blood
The routines and landmarks of school life continue in spite of rising anxiety, stifling
Prince
security and the strange mist affecting both muggle and magical worlds. Book 6 of the
Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter and the Order of the
Harry is growing up in his magic and muggle worlds. He and his friends are again pitted
Phoenix
against the evil Lord Voldemort. The Order of the Phoenix must protect Harry and take
on those who abuse their power in the Ministry of Magic.
Harry Potter and the
Harry Potter
Book 1 Harry is living with his dreadful aunt, uncle and cousin when he finds out he is
Philosopher's Stone
the son of a famous wizard and begins at Hogwarts School of Wizardry.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Sirius Black, accused of helping Lord Voldemort in the killing of Harry's parents has
Azkaban
escaped from Azkaban and is thought to be trying to find and kill Harry.
Anonymity Jones
Anonymity's family is in disarray, but when her mother has her latest boyfriend move in,
she is concerned.
Billy Mack's War
A sequel to Captain Mack, this story takes us back to 1945, when Captain Mack is
released from the POW camp and must learn to talk to his son, Billy. Shortlisted in the
CBC Book of the Year 2005
Captain Mack
Danny has a difficult time at school. The school bully picks on him and Danny's friend,
Captain Mack, still thinks that he is a POW and wants to return home.
Hunting Elephants
Harry's family still grieves for his brother, Joel, who died twelve months before from
Cystic Fibrosis. They travelled to Harry's uncle's farm. Frank is known to be prickly, but
Harry finds out something that no-one knows.
Rescue Mission
Edsel Grizzler
Second in the Edsel Grizzler series.
Yellow Star
The story of Sylvia, a young Jewish girl who spent World War 2 in the Lodz ghetto.
The Stone Soup Book of
An anthology of stories from the magazine "Stone Soup," written by children and
Friendship Stories
featuring different types of friendship.
At Ardilla
Jen returns to Ardilla, a well loved old holiday home, and struggles to understand the
changing relationships between families and friends.
Beyond the Labyrinth
Two different endings, determined by a roll of the dice by the reader, make this story for
older readers unusual. This story is about an alien befriending a troubled human boy.
RUBINSTEIN, Gillian
Foxspell
A boy finds that he is drawn to the lives of foxes that live near his grandmother's home.
RUBINSTEIN, Gillian
Galax-Arena
RUBINSTEIN, Gillian
RUBINSTEIN, Gillian
Space Demons
Terra-Farma
RUBINSTEIN, Gillian
The Whale's Child
A gripping read that tells the tale of children kidnapped and forced to become
participants in a bizarre circus.
Four children battle the space demons in a dangerous computer game.
Sequel to Galax Arena, in which a group of children is transported to another world to
be circus performers.
A Japanese Australian boy has an affinity with the ocean. Set around Victor Harbour,
the story shifts to Japan where he is put in touch with the customs of his ancestors.
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Under the Cat's Eye
Signature Series: Jai is befriended by Seal and Hugo, two of the few students who resist
the conformist dictates of the headmaster, Mr Drake, and two servants, Kitty and
Roughly, also display unusual solicitude. When Hugo bravely confronts Mr Drake he too
is changed and Jai and Seal have to travel to other worlds in an attempt to stop evil
Drake.
When the Hipchicks went to War
Three girls go off to Vietnam to entertain the troops sent there from Australia during the
Vietnam War. The youngest is just 16, and what she sees changes her life. Based on
diaries and interviews, this most realistic story will thrill its readers.
Josie and the Michael Street Kids Aussie Chomps
Moving house and making new friends is not always easy.
RUSSON, Penni
Undine
RYAN, Chris
Battleground
RYAN, Chris
Twister
SACHAR, Louis
Holes
SACHAR, Louis
Small Steps
SACHAR, Louis
SACHAR, Louis
The Boy who lost his Face
The Cardturner
SACHAR, Louis
There's a Boy in the Girls
Bathroom
Land of the Blindfolded V1
RUBINSTEIN, Gillian
RUSHBY, Pamela
SAKURA, Tsukaba
SAXBY, Maurice
SAXBY, Maurice
The Great Deeds of Heroic
Women
The Great Deeds of Superheroes
SAYER-JONES, Moya Who Loves Lucy?
Walking to find herself in the sea, a sea she has never seen Undine feels it calling to
her. Her friend, Trout insists on being with her, and when she becomes angry with him,
she seems to summon up a ferocious storm over Hobart. Feelings and power beyond
any she has known make her aware that she is being called, and she must find out what
is happening to her. A Notable Book in the CBC Book of the Year 2005.
Code Red
Chris Ryan, ex SAS member, has written a dozen exciting books about fighting the war
in Afghanistan. Based on experience and knowledge, the books all have an edge of
realism.
Code Red
Ben and Angela's plane comes down, forcing them to flee into the Everglades. Lost,
they know a twister is about to bear down upon them, but they must reach the refinery to
warn them of an imminent terrorist attack.
The boys in the prison for "bad boys" must dig a hole in the desert each day as the
strange quest of the warder is revealed.
Armpit, fresh from Camp Green Lake must duck any situations where he could become
trapped, to avoid being sent back to prison.
David is cursed when he helps popular boys to harass an old lady.
When Alton is told by his avaricious mother that he is to be his elderly, blind uncle's card
turner, he has no idea that he would become a champion bridge player. A funny look at
families.
Bradley is known as the school bully but a new school counsellor slowly helps him to
respect himself (Mature Readers)
Land of the Blind Folded What if by touching someone you can see their future? Should you interfere?
Eighteen profiles of women through the ages are described in this book of essays.
A collection of exciting stories of heroic deeds through the ages.
Lucy's long running fight with big sister Jaynie and her girlfriend, Kylie, are written down
in diary format. Lucy loves to sit and write on her father's back yard platform, built to
watch the weather, but Lucy should have kept her eyes on her parents. Their
relationship is the one going awry.
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SCANDIFFIO, Laura Escapes
Ten perilous escape stories from around the world, include escaping over the Berlin
Wall in a hot air balloon, breaking out of prison and escaping from the Tower of London
in 1716.
SCARROW, Alex
Time Riders
Spine Breakers
Three young people, about to die in their various times, are rescued and given another
chance because they have special skills.
SCHEMBRI, Jim
The Lychee Conspiracy
Crime Waves
The rich suburb is being targeted by housebreakers, and everyone is confused about
who might be responsible until Sandra and Simone spot the local resturaunts delivery
people having a meeting.
SCHLITZ, Laura Amy The Night Fairy
The small fairy must survive on the ground after a bat damages her wings.
SCHOOLEY, Bob &
Kim Possible Vol 1
Kim Possible
Kim Possible is a typical high school girl who happens to save the world from evil villains
in her spare time. Then, it's back to her family and homework. Volume 1 is two stories MCCORKLE, Mark
'Bueno Nacho' and ' Tick Tick Tick'.
SCHOOLEY, Bob &
Kim Possible Vol 3
Kim Possible
Two stories in one book. Kim Possible and sidekick Ron Stoppable must stop Senor
MCCORKLE, Mark
Senior, Sr. from taking all the electricity in Europe. In 'Mind Games', Drakken and
Shego have stolen a top secret machine when Kim and Ron have their brains swapped
to each others' bodies.
SCIESZKA, Jon
The Stinky Cheese Man and
In this collection of traditional stories, the retelling does not resemble the original tales at
other Fairly Stupid Tales
all! The humour in this book is in its unusual design.
SCUTT, Craig
Captain Cook: Sailing off the Map The Beat
The story of Captain Cook should be well known to all Australians. This book tells the
story simply and with maps, diagrams and lists, and imagined conversations between
Cook and his crew.
SEDGWICK, Marcus My Swordhand is Singing
When people who should be dead are seen at night, and gypsies come to Peter's
drunken father for help, things about their past fall into place. A truly scary gothic thriller.
SEDGWICK, Marcus
Revolver
SERRAILLIER, Ian
SERRES, Alain
The Silver Sword
And Picasso Painted Guernica
SETO, Andy
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
SEWELL, Anna
Black Beauty
SHADOW, Nick
I Can See You
SHADOW, Nick
The Midnight Library - The Catch Midnight Library
Midnight Library
Alone in his cabin by the frozen lake, Sig's solitude is broken by a bear of a man looking
for his father. But his father's body is in the cabin and through the night Sig finds that his
father has cheated this man and he is about to exact his revenge, if not on the father,
then on the son.
A story of the Holocaust during World War II.
A beautiful picture book showing Picasso's famous anti war painting of the German and
Italian bombing of the town of Guernica in Northern Spain. Seen as a practice for WW2,
this book opens our eyes to the imagery Picasso used in this huge painting, and sets it
in the context of the times.
The graphic novel of the film, this is a visual feast about revenge, honour and duty in the
Ching Dynasty in China.
This challenging story of a horse takes the reader through Beauty's life with cruel
masters, and those who were kind, in an era when horses were used for transport.
Michael didn't want to move out of the city in the first place. And wandering around the
countryside in the dark really isn't his idea of fun...
Three scary stories in this book are the first in a series of books designed to scare and
horrify the reader.
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Voices
SHAKESPEAR, Wilma Netball : Steps to Success
& CALDOW, Margaret
SHAKESPEARE,
William
The Merchant of Venice
SHANAHAN, Lisa
My Big Birkett
SHEPPARD, Anna
Bushrangers
SHEPPARD, Barrie
Pat Rafter
SHILLITOE, Tony
Caught in the Headlights
SHILLITOE, Tony
Guardians
SHILLITOE, Tony
Passion
SHIPTON, Paul
The Pig Scrolls
SIMONS, Moya
SIMONS, Moya
SIMONS, Moya
Dead Average
Dead Funny
Dead Meat
SIMONS, Moya
SIMONS, Moya
SIMONS, Moya
Dead Scary!
Dead Worried!
Gypsy Magic
SIMONS, Moya
The Boy Who Would Live
Forever
Chilla's Apprentice
SIMPSON, Bruce
SIMPSON, Margaret
Mary Queen of Scots and Her
Hopeless Husbands
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Kate knows that somethign is wrong when she starts hearing voices in her head. But
she doesn't know what the voices mean, or what terror they will lead her to...
Steps to Success
This book covers netball skills and all aspects of the game to help you develop your
netball.
An abridged and graphic version of Shakespeare's play concerning debts owed in
Venice when a ship fails to return to port. Portia dons male clothing and defends her
husband in court agains Shylock, the moneylender.
When Debbie announces she is to marry the boy she has known for a month, Gemma
is appalled - not because of the short romance but because she is expected to be a
bridesmaid.
A cover of the life and times of the infamous bushrangers in Australia, including,
Michael Howe, Ben Hall and Mad Dan Morgan.
Young Achievers
Pat Rafter is a tennis champion who has won the prestigious US Open twice and has
been ranked number one in the world.
The crime of the city becomes much closer for Adam and his friends in a small country
town, as they discover first a body in a well, and then a drug crop.
A perilous fantasy series concerning the Kingdom of Thana, and the legendary Sword of
Abreotan. Mature readers
The Ashuak Chronicles A wonderful fantasy series about a world apart where the dragons are in jeopardy.
Mature readers
When a man is turned into a pig in Ancient Greece, he must make his way in the world,
avoiding at all costs those that realise he is a talking pig. Adventures abound as Gryllus
attempts to save the world as we know it.
We find out about Danny and his family in nine humorous stories.
More of the hilarious adventures of Danny Thompson, his family and friends.
Danny is an ordinary boy in an ordinary family who seems to attract amazing and funny
experiences.
Ten more funny stories about Danny and his family.
The third book in the series of funny stories about Danny and his sister Bub Tub.
To solve a local robbery, three children become detectives with the assistance of some
gypsy magic.
Aussie Chomps
A boy has no idea of who he is and why he does not grow old.
Brilliantly descriptive tale of life during the Depression in rural Australia. Many diggers
returned from the battlefields of World War I to be faced, a decade later, by one of the
toughest periods of Australian history.
A funny look at famous people
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The Great Death
SMILEY, Jane
Nobody's Horse
SMITH, Jeff
SMITH, Jeff
Out from Boneville
The Great Cow Race
SMITH, Martin
Blading
SMITH, Roland
Peak
SNEDDEN, Robert
Ancient Rome
SNICKET, Lemony
The Austere Academy
SNICKET, Lemony
The Bad Beginning
SNICKET, Lemony
The Ersatz Elevator
SNICKET, Lemony
The Hostile Hospital
SNICKET, Lemony
The Miserable Mill
SNICKET, Lemony
The Reptile Room
SNICKET, Lemony
The Slippery Slope
SNICKET, Lemony
The Vile Village
SNICKET, Lemony
The Wide Window
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Two girls, the only survivors of a plague which devastates their village in the Alaskan
wilderness, struggle to keep alive in the winter as they take their canoe down river to the
nearest settlement for help. They find it as deserted as their own and must make some
amazing choices.
A young girl in a fundamentalist family must learn to ride one of the horses that scare
her. Echoes of bullying, family relationships and learning to look after horses are strong
themes.
Bone
An adventure with the Bone cousins
Bone
Phoney Bone tries to make some money quickly on the Great Cow Race but it goes
disastrously wrong.
To the Limit
Advice to the beginner blader, whether young or old, on what equipment to use, where
to skate and styles of blading, competitions and sponsorship. Introduces sports that use
blading like hockey and speed skating.
Climbing Mount Everest with his father is an amazing punishment for being caught
climbing a skyscraper in New York, but someone, he has to do it.
Technology in the Time A look at the innovative tools and methods used by early Romans focusing on weaving,
of
metalwork, food production, transportation, and building.
A Series of Unfortunate The Baudelaire children find themselves boarding at the Prufrock Preparatory School.
Events
What is worse, Vice Principal Nero hires a new sports coach who he cannot be
persuaded is Count Olaf in disguise. The game is afoot once more!
A Series of Unfortunate A story of misery that engages the reader in irresistible adventures.
Events
A Series of Unfortunate There is one elevator in the lobby of the apartment building but two on the penthouse
Events
floor. It is the second, the ersatz elevator, that Count Olaf uses to initially hide the two
surviving Quagmire triplets and then to snare the Baudelaires
A Series of Unfortunate The eighth in the series of stories about the hapless Baudelaire children, this time stuck
Events
in the most awful hospital one can ever imagine.
A Series of Unfortunate Hypnotism is the means by which Count Olaf intends to achieve his aim of getting
Events
control of the children this time, and it takes Violet and Klaus exchanging their roles of
family inventor and family researcher to stop him.
A Series of Unfortunate The second in the series of dark tales about the luckless Baudelaire children, in which
Events
the strangest things happen.
A Series of Unfortunate The 10th in the series of the Baudelaire family
Events
A Series of Unfortunate At the end of The Ersatz Elevator, Jerome Squalor (his wife having run off with Count
Events
Olaf) is willing to keep the Baudelaire orphans but only if they run away with him to
somewhere safe and definitely not if they insist on tracking down the Quagmire triplets.
A Series of Unfortunate Number three in the series about the unfortunate Baudelaire children, thie time
Events
grappling with a hurrican and leaches.
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A Crash Course in Forces and
Graphic Library
Using a character called Max Axiom, visit an amusement park and get information
Motion with Max Axiom, Super
about speed, acceleration, inertia, friction and gravitational pull. Max Axiom is the super
Scientist
scientist.
Choco * Mimi: Sweet and Stylish Choco * Mimi
In black and white, and reading from right to left, Choco and Mimi are friends and both
love fashion. The main story is about Choco having a 'crush' on a new boy.
Ash Road
A group of children have to battle a bushfire with only two elderly men to help them.
SOUTHALL, Ivan
SPINELLI, Jerry
SPINELLI, Jerry
SPINELLI, Jerry
Let the Balloon Go
Loser
Love, Stargirl
Stargirl
SPINELLI, Jerry
Wringer
SPRADLIN, Michael
The Youngest Templar
SPYRI, Johanna
ST JOHN, Lauren
Heidi
The White Giraffe
STARKE, Ruth
Captain Stella
STARKE, Ruth
Catland
STARKE, Ruth
Coming Out
STARKE, Ruth
STARKE, Ruth
Dead Red
Fill out this Application and Wait
Over There
STARKE, Ruth
NIPS Go National
STARKE, Ruth
Nips XI
STARKE, Ruth
Noodle Pie
SOHN, Emily
SONODA, Konami
A boy contracts polio during World War I.
Is Donald really the loser he seems at school?
Sequel to Stargirl, with a story of 'being different'.
Stargirl
From the moment Stargirl arrives at Mica High School, the students are enchanted, but
then they turn on her because she is so extraordinary.
The violence of the pigeon shoot disturbs Palmer and contrasts with his reaction to
bullies and to pets.
The Youngest Templar Tristan, an orphan brought up in a monastery, is sent to the Holy Land as an apprentice
to a Knight Templar.
Laurel & Gold
A young orphan girl must live with her grandfather in the Swiss mountains.
When Martine's parents die she is sent to her only living relative, a grandmother who
lives in Africa who she has never seen.
Aussie Chomps
With Stella's parents away overseas, she is left behind with her old Granny Bee. Bee
volunteers at an op shop in danger of being closed, so Stella has a mission.
Aussie Chomps
Rose stays with her dad and his new family for the first time. She meets the "catlady"
nextdoor.
Shorts
A debutante ball is a good way for the students to celebrate their last year of school.
Some believe it to be old fashioned and sexist but for one young man it provides the
perfect opportunity for him to come out.
Another of Angel's crime scenes when a body is found in the school tuck shop.
A year in the life of Hailee as she bumbles her way through casual employment while
saving money to go to Thailand. The reader learns a great deal about the pitfalls of
casual employment through the humour.
Flushed with their multicultural cricketing success in "NIPS XI", the team goes interstate
to watch the Aussie team practise on the holiest turf in cricket, the MCG. They are also
invited to an important cricket carnival.
The boys at North Illaba Primary School form a cricket team. The team includes
students from different cultures and they combine to celebrate their common interests,
not their diversities.
Andy is amazed at the sights and sounds he encounters in Vietnam on his first trip to
the country with his father, who escaped in the 1970's from a war ravaged place to the
safety of Australia.
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Orphans of the Queen
STARKE, Ruth
Saving Saddler Street
STARKE, Ruth
Stalker
STARKE, Ruth
Starstruck
STARKE, Ruth
Stella by the Sea
STARKE, Ruth
The Great Violin Fiddle
STARKE, Ruth
The Twist in the Tale
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Two orphan children are sent to Australia in the 1950's. Their unexpected separation at
Perth leave Hilly searching for ways to get back to her brother. She is sent to the
infamous Goodwood orphanage where she is subjected to all sorts of physical and
mental anguish, but through it all remains constant to her reunion. The Queen's visit to
Adelaide in 1954 gives her the occasion she needs.
Told through the eyes of two different waves of migrants, the school in Saddler Street is
a show case of the different groups who inhabit South Australia.
Finding a rose in her locker makes Tessa think romantic thoughts, but the roses are the
start of an obsessive fix by someone at her school.
When Angel begins his crime fighting career, he tries to sort out the backstage
happenings at a Junior Popstar Quest, little realising that crime exists amongst the nine
and ten year olds.
Smart Stella, sick of her penthouse lifestyle with ultra cool parents, decides to buy
herself a cubby house from a neighbour.
A great mystery in a series, in which a violin goes missing just before the big concert.
STEVENS, Mark
Short Stuff
STEVENSON, Robert A Child's Garden of Verses
Louis
Gemma finds an elixer for eternal youth during her school project on ageing but things
take a turn for the worse when she experiements on her parents.
When Penny's horse has to be put down, her father finds her another horse. Both she
and the horse have some way to go before each can be a confident rider and horse
again, but not before another girl at the stables tries her best to upset them.
When Shane falls from his motorbike, he exhanges his motorbike wheels for those of a
wheelchair, and his life is turned around.
This is an intergalactic adventure with unexpected characters and events.
For Jim there are few borders between the real and his imagined world. In the first
pages of this gentle story he avoids conflict by making wild claims, telling a teacher his
parents are dead as an excuse for poor dress and that his paleness is due to an
Icelandic background.
Ten quirky short stories, all with a twist.
The 64 poems in this collection evoke childhood. The verses are full of irony, wit and the
fantasy of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod.
STEVENSON, Robert Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Louis
The cursed Dr Jekyll finds himself transformed by a scientific experiment into the evil Mr
Hyde in one of the four stories in this book of Stevenson's classic horror stories.
STEWART, Alison
The Memory Shell
STEWART, Paul
Beyond The Deepwoods
Hannah is almost the same age as her sister, Sally, was when she died in a car
accident. Hannah is fearful that she is also somehow doomed, and her fear is
heightened by her parents who lovingly restrict her until she feels compelled to rebel
and lie.
Abandoned at birth in the perilous Deepwoods, Twig is brought up by woodtrolls. One
night, Twig does what no woodtroll has ever done before, he strays from the path.
STEPHENS, Delwyne A Horse called Darling
After Dark
Aussie Chomps
STEPHENS, Delwyne Wheels
STEPHENS, Michael
STEPHENS, Michael
A Flock of Blats
Mudlark
The Edge Chronicles
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The story of Charles Darwin's discoveries about evolution, his ideas and his adventures.
STEWART, Robin
Charles Darwin's Big Idea
STICH, Francesca
Tennis
STILLER, Laurie
Charlie Carver Stacks It!
STINE, Megan
Two of a Kind
Two of a Kind
STINE, R.L.
STOKER, Bram
Creepy Creatures
Dracula
Goosebumps Graphix
STONE, Jeff
Monkey
Five Ancestors
STONE, Jeff
Tiger
Five Ancestors
STORER, Jen
Tensy Farlow and the Home for
Mislaid Children
STORER, Prue
I Hate Sport
STOW, Randolph
STRATTON, Allan
Midnite: the Story of a Wild,
Colonial Boy
Chanda's Secret
STREATFEILD, Noel
Ballet Shoes
STROUD, Jonathan
STROUD, Jonathan
Ancient Rome: A Guide to the
Glory of Imperial Rome
Heroes of the Valley
STUTLEY, DJ
Operation Alpha Papa
Aussie Chomps
Sightseers
Bartimaeis Trilogy
Meet Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, a professional tennis player who won the French Open
when she was only 17 years-old. This comprehensive guide introduces young players to
all the basic skills, essential techniques and rules of tennis.
Quirky tales and scientific principles are included in the bizarre disasters that befall the
Carver family.
Mary-Kate keeps getting presents from Secret Santa. She is hopeful that it is the cute
boy, Carter. But the presents change from good to bad, so who is giving them to her?
RL Stine's Goosebumps series has been done in comic format.
An abridged retelling of the story of Dracula with striking, coloured illustrations and
detailed, historical background information.
The second in the "The Five Ancestors" series, where the five boys must take on a
difficult task to complete for the Grandmaster. Malao finds refuge with a band of wild
monkeys in his quest for the Shaolin Temple.
The Grandmaster gives his five pupils tasks to do before he dies. Each is most difficult
and takes all their skills to complete.
Dumped into the River Charon, hunted by an accursed river creature and betrayed by
the wicked Matron Pluckrose, Tensy Farlow is in mortal danger. She has no parents.
Worse still, she has no guardian angel.
To get a secondhand computer to replace her racketty manual typewriter, junior writer
and fashion devotee Karen agrees with her parents' demand to try out sport. Karen lives
in a family of sport maniacs and although she cycles and walks this is not enough for
them. So she and best friend Winnie try tennis, cricket & areobics.
This is the story of a bushranger in Western Australia who has four comical animal
friends.
Chanda's friends and family are dying around her. When her mother becomes ill she
disappears, rather than have her family find out she has AIDS. Chanda goes looking for
her. This is Africa today, where many people still believe that a sharman can cure you of
this appalling diesease.
Three orphaned sisters are sent to ballet school for training and are determined to make
their name famous.
An illustrated guide to the wonders of the civilisation of Ancient Rome.
When Halli plays a practical joke which backfires, ingniting an old blood feud in this
medieval world, he and his friend, Aud, go on a quest to find the murderer of his uncle.
Aaron unwittingly takes a photo of a murder scene, and becomes hunted by the killers,
unaware that he has connections to the SAS.
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To the Moon and Back: The
Amazing Australians at the
Forefront of Space Travel Plus
Fantastic Moon Facts
SUNDERLAND, Allan Refugee: the Diary of Ali Ismail
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Bryan Sullivan is an Australian astronomer and this is a combination of biography and
facts about tracking space travel. 2005 Shortlist - CBC Eve Pownall Award for
Information Books
SULLIVAN, Bryan &
FRENCH, Jackie
SUSSEX, Lucy
Revognase
My Story
The Quentaris
Chronicles
SUTCLIFF, Rosemary Eagle of the Ninth
SUTCLIFF, Rosemary The Black Ships Before Troy:
The Story of the IIiad
SUTCLIFF, Rosemary The Sword and the Circle
King Arthur and the
Kights of the Round
Table
SUTCLIFF, Rosemary The Wanderings of Ulysses
SUTCLIFF, Rosemary Warrior Scarlet
SUZUMA, Tabitha
Without Looking Back
SWANSON, Diane
Tunnels
SWIFT, Johnathan
Gulliver's Travels
Classics
SWINDELLS, Robert
Henry V
Shakespeare Today
SWINDELLS, Robert
Stone Cold
SYKES, Helen
The Champion & Other Stories
SYME, Marguerite
Hann
SYME, Marguerite
Hann
Burnt Out
The Wombat Chronicles
Smuggled to Australia to avoid persecution in Afghanistan, Ali Ismail is locked away in
the detention centre at Woomera. Here he longs for freedom, and escapes, fleeing to
Melbourne where his life is just as restricted as before.
The feud between the two main families in Quentaris, the Blues and the Greens, spills
over into the streets, and the soothsayers predict dire misery for the future.
A young officer in Roman Britain sets off to discover what happened to the Ninth Legion,
a legion that disappeared in the mists.
An illustrated story of Homer's Iliad that climaxes with the story of the Wooden Horse of
Troy.
A story of myth and the legend of King Arthur.
The story of The Odyssey fabulously retold by Sutcliff and republished for today's
readers.
In Bronze Age Britain, Drem must overcome his disability in order to pass the tribe's test
to become a warrior.
Louis studies dance in Paris, and is worried about the separation of his parents and his
father's inability to cope with this change. But when on holiday in England with his father,
he sees a poster with his name and face on it as a missing person, and things begin to
unravel.
Ten true stroies of human drama beneath the ground include people escaping when the
tunnel falls in on them, struggling to dig out miners trapped in a mine and escaping
through the sewers of Berlin.
Abridged retelling of the unforgettable, thought-provoking and wickedly funny voyages of
Gulliver to unusual lands. This edition is filled with beautiful illustrations and detailed
historical information.
A retelling of the famous play by Shakespeare, which shows Henry V at the battle of
Agincourt in France.
This is a story for older readers about homeless young people in London and the
dangers of living on the streets when a serial killer strikes, preying on the homeless.
Mature readers
Helen Sykes has combined a selection of stories by some of Australia's best known
authors.
The Ash Wednesday bushfires in the Adelaide Hills, are recreated through the eyes of
one young family.
The wombats of the We Work Wonders (Earthmoving) Company have amongst their
employees emus who try very hard to please and frogs who take industrial action.
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Fruits Basket No 1
TAN, Shaun
Tales from Outer Suburbia
TAN, Shaun
The Arrival
TAN, Shaun
The Lost Thing
TANGEY, Penny
Loving Richard Feynman
TAYLEUR, Karen
All Stars 2: Bree, Centre
TAYLEUR, Karen
TAYLEUR, Karen
Liar!
Manners
TAYLEUR, Karen
Promises!
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Fruits Basket
Part of a series. Teen comedy/romance for 13 plus. This Fruit Basket is based around a
young orphan girl who gets involved in the Sohoma family.
A book of short stories about life in the outer suburbs infused with humour and subtlety
and illustrated with the most amazing drawings and paintings that drag the eye in for a
closer look again and again.
What is it like to move from your home, your family, your country? A silent graphic novel
of the highest order.
An allegory of responsibility, conformity and courageous social isolation told with
humour.
Catherine is a nerd and a loner, and when her father gives her a poster with teh words
of a famous physician, "What do you care what other people think?", she writes to him,
pouring out all that she thinks.
Bree must adjust to her new family, a stepmother, Helen and her two children. When
strange phone calls occur, she blames Stella, the leader of the group in her school who
talk about her when she passes them, but on finding out where the calls come from, she
must make amends with Stella
David Mortimer Baxter David Mortimore Baxter's habit of telling lies gets him into many funny situations.
All you need to know about manners and their use, along with humorous stories about
what happens when they are not used.
David Mortimer Baxter knows the competition is heating up for the job of class captain.
TAYLEUR, Karen
Secrets
David Mortimer Baxter
TAYLEUR, Karen
TAYLOR, Barbara
Short and Scary: a Whole Lot of
Creepy Stories and other Chilling
Stuff
Castles
Discovery
TAYLOR, Mildred D
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
TAYLOR, Theodore
The Cay
TELGEMEIER, Raina Kristy's Great Idea
TENNAPLE, Doug
Ghostopolis
TENNYSON, Alfred
Lord
THIELE, Colin
The Lady of Shalott
Aftershock!
THIELE, Colin
Blue Fin
Babysitters Club
Graphix
When David keeps his friend's secret for a month, everyone is impressed and tell him
their secrets as well. But he doesn't want them.
A series of 50 short stories have scary themes at their heart. A comic strip by Andy
Griffiths and tales from Carole Wilkinson, Gabrielle Wang and Suzanne Gervay add to
the mix.
In the Discovery series, this book outlines the main features of a castle, and then gives
instructions of how to build your own.
Being a coloured girl in America's South during the 1930s teaches Cassie much about
prejudice and hatred.
Phillip a twelve-year old boy and an old Negro man must help each other survive as they
float at sea after a torpedo attach on their ship.
How the Baby Sitters Club began
When Garth is accidentally sent to ghost world, he finds he is the only one who can
save the residents from their evil ruler.
This poem inspired many great writers and artists.
Takeaways
Tracy is puzzled by strange mind-pictures which suddenly appear before her. Tracy
senses they are premonitions preparing her for the great danger ahead. But what kind?
And when? The exciting sequel to Shatterbelt.
Snook joins his father on a tuna fishing expedition and disaster strikes.
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Brahminy
THIELE, Colin
Dangerous Secret
THIELE, Colin
Emma Keppler
THIELE, Colin
High Valley
THIELE, Colin
Jodie's Journey
THIELE, Colin
Magpie Island
THIELE, Colin
Pannikin & Pinta
THIELE, Colin
Pinquo
THIELE, Colin
THIELE, Colin
Poems in my Luggage
Storm Boy
THIELE, Colin
Sun on the Stubble
THIELE, Colin
THIELE, Colin
Sun Warm Memories The Colin
Thiele Reciter
Swan Song
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The bird hung in the air above the river. It was the first time Luke had ever seen a
brahminy kite or sea eagle. He didn't know then that a helpless abandoned chick would
soon change his life.
Who is the stranger in the mysterious green utility truck in the National Park? An
exciting story about the smuggling of native birds and animals.
Emma lives in the Barossa Valley in the 1920's. She wants to go to high school against
her father's wishes.
Jamie Judd's family must move from their home in a remote valley as it is to be made
into a dam and flooded to supply water.
Jodie had just won a Junior Show Jumping Championship. It was a moment that
nothing could ever take away from her. She was not to know that she was about to be
struck down by a crippling disease, presenting her with more challenging hurdles than
any she had just overcome.
The story of a magpie raised on the Eyre Peninsula who becomes stranded on an
island. Humans intervene to help him have a happy life.
The pelicans at Lake Eyre leave for the coast when the lake dries up. Pannikin and
mother, Pinta, leave a little too late with the other members of the family!
The emotional story of Pinquo, a fairy penguin, who lives in a penguin colony in South
Australia.
A wide variety of Australian poems, some humorous, reflective, serious and wise.
Storm Boy has a fascinating life along the seashore with his friend, Hideaway, and the
pelican, Mr Percival.
Colin Thiele Classics
A boy growing up in the Barossa valley must leave the farm and his family to go to
school in Adelaide.
A collection of 66 poems from the master story teller, Colin Thiele, revealing his insights
into a range of topics from Australia.
Takeaways
Mitch struggles to provide a natural environment for two pelicans and a black swan.
THIELE, Colin
The Hammerhead Light
Colin Thiele Classics
THIELE, Colin
The Mystery of the Black Pyramid
THIELE, Colin
The Sea Caves
Takeaways
THIELE, Colin
The Shadow on the Hills
Colin Thiele Classics
THIELE, Colin
THIELE, Colin
The Valley Between
Timmy
Colin Thiele Classics
THIELE, Colin
Wedgetail
Takeaways
THIELE, Colin
Wendy's Whale
Takeaways
Tessa grows up within the sight and sound of the lighthouse at Hammerhead, and gets
to know the old keeper well.
Mark had been warned: the Black Pyramid was not the sort of place people go to.
Nobody knows its secrets - until the day Mark unleashes its terrifying power.
Sam and Nick are exploring an old shipwreck when they discover a hidden cave in the
cliffs nearby. Without warning the roof of the cave collapses behind them and they are
trapped.
Bodo stumbles across a recluse living in the hills near his home in the Barossa Valley.
More stories about Benno and his life in the 1920's in the Barossa Valley.
Denny, almost twelve, is as timid and insecure as the Timmy, the baby hare he has just
found. This is a story of their friendship and the many adventures they have.
Andy is fascinated by wedgetail eagles. One day a ranger brings him an orphaned
eaglet so tiny that is seems unlikely to survive.
A yong girl living on Kangaroo Island has exciting adventures with a pod of whales.
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This basketball manual introduces basic skills, equipment, players and rules.
"One for all, and all for one!" Is the rally cry of the three musketeers and their battles
with the scheming Count Richelieu, the most powerful man in France. This is an
adapted version of the story.
Casey moves from America to the Australian Alps with his family and learns to fit in and
make friends through his love of horses.
The Dragons
The stories of King Arthur are turned upside down in this funny reworking of the takes of
this king, beset with dragons and and unlikely hero from the kitchens.
A young boy mourning his dead grandfather, a seafaring adventurer, tries to find
Atlantis.
Following the tragedy of war, loyalty abounds as Oskar awaits the return of his family.
THOMAS, Ron
THOMAS, Roy &
DUMAS, Alexandre
Getting into Basketball
The Three Musketeers
THOMASON, Mark
Moonrunner
THOMPSON, Colin
Excalibur
THOMPSON, Colin
Looking for Atlantis
THOMPSON, Colin
Staircase Cat
THOMPSON, Colin
The Floods: Neighbours
THOMPSON, Kate
Switchers
THORPE, Ian
THORPE, Leonie
Live Your Dreams
The Sheep on the Fourth Floor
TOLBERT, Steve
Escape To Kalimantan
Rave
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
Tales from the Perilous Realm
The Fellowship of The Ring
The Lord of the Rings
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
The Hobbit
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
TOMLINSON,
Theresa
TONKIN, Rachel
TREECE, Henry
TREVASKIS, Ian
The Return of the King
The Two Towers
Child of the May
TSUDA, Masami
To The Goldfields
Horned Helmet
Golden Scarab
Kare Kano: His and Hers
Circumstances V1
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
Hopscotch
The Flood family is not your usual family. They sound more like the Adam's family of TV
fame, and certainly not the sort of neighbours anyone wants living next door. When the
neighbours annoy the Floods they find out about their witchy powers
An Irish girl and her strange companion save the world from freak weather by using
their ability to switch into animal forms.
An inspiring message from Ian Thorpe about living your dreams.
Anna's mother works in an animal hospital, but, unknown to Anna, this means
experiments on the hapless animals which are eventually killed. But mum is a
vegetarian, so Anna cannot reconcile the two aspects of her aloof mother's life.
Father and son become embroiled in saving orang-utans after seeing them poached
while on holiday in Indonesia.
Four classic tales from the author of "The Lord of the Rings".
The first book of Tolkien's classic, "The Lord of the Rings", in which the young hobbit,
Frodo, is bequeathed a magical ring from his Uncle Bilbo and learns that he must take it
into the land of the Dark Lord, Sauron.
Hobbits are small but heroic people who live in The Shire in Middle Earth. Bilbo
Baggins, a hobbit who lives in Bag End, goes on a quest with the wizard, Gandalf.
Third in the series The Lord of the Rings
second in the series The Lord of the Rings
A revolt against King John's rule with characters, including Robin Hood and his men.
This book depict many aspects of life in the Victorian goldfields of 1850.
A novel set in Viking Britain.
Sequel to the popular 'Medusa Stone', 'Golden Scarab' takes the search further into the
mysteries of ancient Egypt.
Yukino Miyazawa worked hard to be perfect, a perfect student and athlete at her high
school. But what happens when someone else is more perfect? Manga style - right to
left to read.
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TUCKER, Alan
TUCKER, Alan
TUCKER, Alan
TUCKER, Alan
TUCKER, Alan
TUCKER, Alan
TUCKER, Alan
TULLOCH, Carol
TULLOCH, Richard
TULLOCH, Richard
TULLOCH, Richard
TURNBALL, Ann
TURNER, Ethel
TWAIN, Mark
TWAIN, Mark
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Atomic Testing: Woomera 1953 My Australian Story
Anthony and his mother go to live in Woomera with his father, after Anthony has spent
time in Townsville Hospital, recovering from Polio. Woomera is not the place his mother
wants to be. Anthony revels in his new surroundings but becomes aware of the security
issues when he draws rockets for his friends at school.
Battlefield
My Australian Story
With his brother in a POW camp held by the Japanese, Barry trains himself to be ready
to enlist when he turns 18, to go and rescue Jack. When the Japanese prisoners stage
a break out in 1944 from the POW camp nearby his farm at Cowra in NSW, Barry is
ready. Based on a true incident in Australia's history.
Cyclone Tracy: the Diary of Ryan My Story
The events of December 25, 1974 are vividly brought to life in this recreation of a boy's
Turner
diary of the last term of 1974 when he meets a hippie for the first time, falls in love and
survives a cyclone in Darwin.
Homelands and Frontiers
Tracing the clashes between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the
Europeans who tried to move them from their land.
Iron In The Blood: Convicts and
Australia's colourful and violent convict past is vividly recreated showing that prison
Commandants in Colonial
settlements were some of the most brutal places in the world. The darker side of
Australia
Australia's history raises many questions about crime and punishment, and use and
abuse.
Side By Side
Investigating the relationship between Aboriginal people, British colonists and European
missionaries.
The Bombing of Darwin: the
My Story
Strong family and community ties are tested in this fictionalised account of the days
Diary of Tom Taylor, 1942
prior to the bombing of Darwin.
Too Many Captain Cooks
A picture book that shows the history of early Aboriginal and European encounters
along the Australian coastline.
The Heart of the World:
Modern Library
An informative, fully comprehensive book, capturing one of the world's most intriguing
Antarctica
continents.
Body and Soul: A Musical Play
Tension abounds as relationships are tested among a group of talented athletes.
Space Demons: The Play
Stage adaptation of Rubenstein's novel in which a computer forces children to face their
own demons.
Stage Fright: Plays Based on the
The scripts for the stage adaptations of four of Paul Jenning's popular stories.
Stories of Paul Jennings
No Shame, No Fear
When Susannah goes to the house of the printer in the nearby town in a Quaker
community, she and the son of the household become attracted to each other. The love
story is secondary however to the story of the Quakers and their adherence to their
beliefs in a time when they were often jailed for holding them.
Seven Little Australians
A story of family life in Australia during the nineteenth century.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Puffin Classics
Set on the Mississsippi River, Huckleberry Finn sets off with his friend Jim.
Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer, orphaned, living with his aunt and younger brother in a small town on the
Mississippi in the 19th century is the ultimate boy’s boy. If he is not in trouble he is
thinking up means to be in trouble.
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The Roman Mysteries Flavia and her companions chase the young man they found with a knife standing over
the body of Flavia's father. An historical crime mystery, one of a growing series with
hugely authentic and detailed background details.
Two families' lives intersect when Ellie and her mother go to the Dawn Service at Anzac
Cove to remember their grandfather.
Ruth is an outcast at school, with no friends, then along comes Shay. Shay is forthright
and encourages Ruth to do her homework, but all is not right at Shay's house
URAL, Serpil
Candles at Dawn
URE, Jean
Sugar and Spice
VALENTINE, James
Jumpman
VALENTINE, Jenny
Finding Violet Park
VAN ALLSBURG,
Chris
VAN ESSEN,
Susanne
VAN ESSEN,
Susanne
VAN RIJCKEGHEM,
Jean-Claude
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
VANDER ZEE, Ruth
Erika's Story
VAUGHAN, Brian K.
Runaways Pride & Joy
Runaways
VAUGHT, S.R. &
REDMOND, J.B.
VEJJAJIVA, Jane
Assassin's Apprentice
Oathbreaker
VENERO, Armano
The Ghost of Deadman's Beach
After Dark
VERNE, Jules
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Indiana Illustrated
Classics
The hilarious adventures of Theodore, a time jumper from the year fifteen billion and
seventy three. He has hair that changes colour, a coat that talks to him and keeps him
informed of important details like the weather and what he should be eating.
When Lucas finds an abandoned urn with Violet's ashes, he wants to return them to
their rightful place, and in the meantime, finds his father.
Fantasy black and white illustrations provide inspiration for readers to create stories of
their own.
Josie cannot take advice from anyone, especially not her parents and grandmother, but
her future self, Josephine, makes herself known.
Bella is taken by the thylacine in the specimen jar in the museum, and it haunts her
waking hours.
An exciting recreation of the life of Marguerite of Flanders who died in 1406. A fighting
spirit led her to make decisions for herself, and not allow herself to be restrained by her
father or the church.
The appalling story of a child thrown from a trainload of people bound for the death
camp at Auschwitz reminds us all of dictatorship at its worst, when a whole group of
people were eliminated. That this child survived is a wonder and the bravery of the
people who found her bringing her up as their own, will bring tears to everyone's eyes.
A Trick of the Light
The Tiger Project
With a Sword in my Hand
The Happiness of Kati
A group of teens' lives are about to take an unexpected turn when they discover that
their parents are all secretly super-powered villains. The shocked teens find strength in
one another. Together they run away from home and straight into the adventure of their
lives - vowing to turn the tables on their evil legacy.
Aron knows he owed allegiance to the guild before anything else, but in his eyes his
family comes first.
Kati lives with her grandparents in a Thai village and she always wonders where her
mother is.
After Dark 27: Jodie trying to get over a broken love affair, meets a beautiful but
mysterious man on Deadman's Beach and learns that the locals think he is a ghost who
returns to comfort others who have suffered for love as he has done.
An expedition to destroy a terrifying sea monster becomes a mission involving a visit to
the sunken city of Atlantis in a giant submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by the
mysterious Captain Nemo.
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A true account of the author's time spent as a prisoner in the Belsen concentration
camp from 1943 to 1945. In a straightforward manner, the author describes the fear and
uncertainty of this time. The book is simply written and easy to read.
Dicey, as the older sister, has to struggle to keep her family together with no parents to
help her.
A parallel is drawn between Jose and the other people of East Timor during the invasion
by Indonesia, and the spirit of Uncle Adolfo's fighting bird.
A delightful tale centering around a mythical Australian creature.
Feolf is a loyal knight who becomes a wolf on nights when the moon is full.
"Premonition" are a band hoping to make it big, but they need somewhere to practise.
Tom suggests the old warehouse, but Billy has a bad feeling about it. Tom is angry,
thinking Billy is putting it on, but as his anger grows, a shadow falls.
VEROLME, Hetty
The Children's House of Belsen
VOIGT, Cynthia
Homecoming
VONDRA, Josef
WAGNER, Jenny
WAGNER, Jenny
WAITE, Judy
No-name bird: a story of East
Timor
The Nimbin
The Werewolf Knight
Shadow
WALKER, Sue
Arnie Avery
WALLACE, Karen
The Man with Dragon Eyes
WALLIAMS, David
The Boy in the Dress
WALSH, Pat
The Crowfield Curse
WALTERS, Celeste
A Certain Music
WALTERS, Celeste
WANG, Gabrielle
Treading the Boards
A Ghost in my Suitcase
WANG, Gabrielle
The Garden of Empress Cassia
WANG, Gabrielle
The Pearl of Tiger Bay
WARD, Glenyse
Wandering Girl
Virago Upstarts
WARREN, Johnny &
ABELA, Deborah
WATSON, James
The Game of Life
Jasper Zammit Soccer
Legend
Talking In Whispers
High-Low
Lady Violet Winters
Arnie's family has never been the same since his brother died, and now things are
worse because the shcool bully is out to get him.
Lady Violet sees a man with tiger eyes at a reception for the unveiling of a portrait of her
friend. When the portrait and the artist disappear, Lady Violet finds herself looking for
the strange man she saw, knowing him to be involved.
Dennis loves to dress up, and when he befriends Lisa he has a friend with the same
interest. But dressing up when he goes to school causes mayhem. A delightful story
about being different.
Finding a hob in the forest is the start of Williams' awareness of another world. The
monks had buried an angel centuries before, and a leprous man wants William to help
find the burial place.
Elise is a solitary child living in the Vienna Woods. She gradually forms a friendship with
an old, deaf composer. This charming story celebrates the power of music.
Being in the class play is a disaster, but more fun than Tom thought it would be.
Celeste travels back to China to visit her grandmother, Por Por. The visit is more
dangerous than expected when Celeste finds out that Por Por is a ghost catcher.
Mimi has mysterious and powerful pastels and can draw a garden so beautiful and
magical that real people are transported inside it. But, it would be very unfortunate if the
ancient pastels were to fall into the wrong hands.
Annie and her family move to Tiger Bay and she becomes interested in the mystery of
the old hotel, the Pearl.
Following an Aboriginal mission upbringing, Glenyse is sent to work as a domestic on a
rich West Australian farm.
Jasper is a bit of a dreamer. Imagining a broadcast of his own soccer brilliance he
wakes to find he has headed an own-goal.
Set in Chile, this is a political thriller which takes the reader on a physical and emotional
journey into a military coup.
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WEATHERLY, Lee
Child X
Jules is used to hearing her parents fighting, but tonight it is different. Her father leaves
and the next she knows he is in all the papers, fighting for the money owed him bringing
up a child not biologically his.
WEBSTER, Jean
Daddy Long-legs
Classic Library
An enchanting story, set in a boarding school, of an orphan's attempts to identify and
come closer to her benefactor.
WEEKS, Sarah
So B. It
A delightful story about Heidi trying to find out where she came from. Her mother is
mentally disabled and cannot tell her, so she resolves to find out herself.
WEISS, Ellen
Shrek: The Novel
A contemporary fairy tale of a monster from the swamp.
WERLIN, Nancy
Impossible
Finding herself pregnant after the prom, Miranda finds that she is the fifth generation to
do so, each girl becoming owned by the Elfin Knight. She decides with the help of her
boyfriend to make a stand, and not allow this to happen again.
WERLIN, Nancy
The Killer's Cousin
David goes to live with his uncle in Boston after his acquittal of the murder of his
girlfriend, but the death will not stay out of his head.
WESTERFELD, Scott Leviathan
A mixture of the true events of the first days of World War 1, mixed up with the fantasy
of machines built partly from mechanical means and partly from human tissue is one to
amaze.
WHEATLEY, Nadia
A Banner Bold : the Diary of
Rosa goes to the Ballarat goldfields with her parents in 1854 in the lead up to the
Rosa Aarons, Ballarat Goldfield,
Eureka Stockade.
1854
WHEATLEY, Nadia
Five Times Dizzy
Starlight
A Greek family run a deli in Newtown in Sydney, but Ya Ya the grandmother is
homesick for Greece.
WHEATLEY, Nadia
Going Bush
A delightful story of a class going on a trek around Botany Bay with local experts to
show them how it used to be, filled with drawings, photos and sketches by the children.
WHEATLEY, Nadia
WHEATLEY, Nadia
WHEATLEY, Nadia
WHEATLEY, Nadia
Lucy in the Leap Year
Luke's Way of Looking
Papunya School Book of Country
and History
The House that was Eureka
WHELAN, Gloria
First Girl
WHELAN, Gloria
Homeless Bird
WHITE, Ellen
Emerson
Voyage on the Great Titanic: the My Story
Diary of Margaret Anne Brady,
1912
Lucy's whole world is her home and her father and their life together.
A chance visit to the local art gallery has wonderful repercussions for Luke.
A unique and fascinating account of the history of Western Desert communities from an
Indigenous perspective.
A very fine novel about the working-class struggle, connecting events in Depressiontime Newtown with contemporary problems.
Leaving home after her mother gives birth to another girl, Chu Ju knows if she stays her
new sister will be sold. Set in modern China, this story is of one girl's survival in difficult
times.
Married at 13 to a boy she has never seen, Koly finds that er dowry has been used to
take the boy to the Ganges where a cure is expected. Now a widow, Koly is treated
worse than a slave, until her parents in law abandon her is a city for widows, where she
must beg in the streets to survive. A stranger takes her to a place where widows are
able to take some control of their own lives.
In 1912 Margaret is told to wear something warm under her life belt as the Titanic starts
to sink.
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WHITE, T.H.
WHITTOCK, Martyn
WHYBROW, Ian
WHYBROW, Ian
WICKES, Annette
WIEGLE, Matt
WILD, Margaret
WILD, Margaret
WILD, Margaret
WILDE, Oscar
WILDING, Valerie
WILDING, Valerie
WILKINSON, Carole
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The Sword in the Stone
Essential Modern
A mythical story of Arthur and his quest led by Merlin, the sorcerer.
Classics
Visiting the Past: Colosseum and Visiting the Past
A marvellous history book showing the rise of Rome and the decision to build the
the Roman Forum
Colosseum. The plans, raising the money, many photos and descriptions of its use
make up the book. A wonderful read.
A Baby for Grace
Little Encyclopedias
A Baby for Grace
Aliens Stole My Dog
Books for Boys
Strange things keep happening to David. It began when he found a CD-Rom in the
school playground, then there was a spaceship in his garden and now his dog, Hairy
Spice, has disappeared.
The Drop Kick
Born into a sports mad family, but not good at sport makes it hard for Duncan. He is
promised a dog if he can kick a winning goal. With the help of his Grandfather and
persistence he wins through.
Romeo and Juliet
No Fear Shakespeare This is a graphic novel adaption of Shakespeare's 'Romeo & Juliet'. It is the story of two
Graphic Novels
young lovers who belong to families who do not get on. The language is still that of
Shakespeare in parts. Also in the series is Macbeth and Hamlet.
Beast
Jamie is being bullied at school.
Fox
Dog and Magpie become friends when Dog's goodness helps Magpie to enjoy life
again. When Fox arrives, there is an uneasiness about the relationships.
The House of Narcissus
The house of Narcissus, the most beautiful house in Venice, repels all who try to live in
it. It loves itself, and trying to see itself in the river, is drawn further towards it. But when
a cat reveals the house in all of its decay, it opens its doors to all.
The Happy Prince
A collection of Wilde's stories that include "The Selfish Giant" and "The Happy Prince".
The Bloody Tower: the Diary of
Tilly Middleton, London, 15531559
The Queen's Spies: the Diary of
Kitty Lumsden, 1563-1566
Alexander the Great
WILKINSON, Carole
Black Snake: the Daring of Ned
Kelly
WILKINSON, Carole
Dragon Moon
WILKINSON, Carole
Dragonkeeper
WILKINSON, Carole
Hatshepsut
My Story
Tilly lives in the greatest castle in England, at once a fortress and a palace, but also a
prison, and in the 1550's a place of fear.
My Story
Kitty's family becomes involved in the plot to kill Queen Elizabeth the first and put Mary
Queen of Scots on the throne of England.
A great story of Alexander, who once conquered the known world from Greece to Egypt,
India to Germany. Told in episodes, some fictional, but most history, the story grabs
attention as we find out more about this astonishing man
Offers historical insights, without glorification, into the life of the outlaw as told by
characters present at the various events in Ned's life. Supported by archival
photographs, press clippings and quotes from correspondence and other documents.
The third and final book in the 'Dragonkeeper' series where the Chinese slave girl Ping
delivers the dragon safely.
Ignorant, ill-nourished slave girl Ping is cajoled, duped, encouraged, and given
friendship by the last imperial dragon as he makes his slow painful way across China to
the ocean.
The amazing story of the first female pharaoh is told with maps, diagrams and lists
along with imagined conversations to make it as accessible as possible to its audience.
The Beat
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Ned's own words come across the years to tell of why he did what he did. Written in the
days before he was hanged.
Romose 2 Series: Ramose, heir to the throne of Egypt, has, despite his present tough
circumstances, the luck of Riley. Here he survives a flash flood that kills many of his
fellow tomb workers (a fascinating scene pointing out how some had never seen rain
previously) and is kidnapped by tomb robber......
Ramose Series
Romose 1 Series: Ramose is the Pharoah's heir, an indulged boy whose subjects aren't
even allowed to look at him directly. However with his two older brothers dead Ramose
is all that stands between the throne and the present Queen's ambitions for her son.
WILKINSON, Carole
Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter
WILKINSON, Carole
Ramose and the Tomb Raiders
WILKINSON, Carole
Ramose Prince in Exile
WILKINSON, Carole
Ramose, Sting of the Scorpion
WILKINSON, Carole
WILKINSON, Carole
The Dragon Companion: An
Encyclopedia
The Garden of the Purple Dragon Dragonkeeper
WILKINSON, Carole
The Night we Made the Flag
WILKINSON, Carole
The Valley of Tombs
WILKINSON, Lili
The Not Quite Perfect Boyfriend
WILLIAMS, Jane
All the Questions you Ever
Wanted to Ask Adam Goodes
WILLIAMS, Marcia
WILLIAMS, Marcia
WILLIAMS, Marcia
WILLIAMS, Marcia
WILLIAMS, Sean
Bravo, Mr William Shakespeare
Greek Myths for Young Children
King Arthur and the Knights of
the Round Table
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Castle of the Zombies
The Fixers
WILLIAMS, Sean
Planet of the Cyborgs
Ramose Series
Girlfriend Fiction
The Fixers
Ramose 3 Series: With his companions the slave girl Karoya and Hapu an apprentice
tomb painter Ramose learns more and more about the everyday life of Egypt. He has
plans for many reforms when he becomes Pharoah but to reach his goal seems almost
impossible.
An encyclopedia of information to augment the dragon keeper series.
This sequel to "Dragonkeeper" continues Ping's adventures looking after the dragon Kai
in ancient China.
A picture book which imagines the night making the Eureka Flag on the Ballarat
Goldfields, when the miners, sick of the intimidation by police, built the Eureka Stockade
and fought for their rights.
Ramose must run for his life to escape his brother's fate, that of being killed by his
father's second wife, allowing her son to be the next pharaoh. Ancient Egypt in all of its
glory is brilliantly brought to life in this thrilling survival story.
Not wanting to be left out, Midge makes up a boyfriend who lives in England, but when
this boy appears, he quickly realises what's going on and blackmails Midge into lying for
him so she won't be found out.
A well-conducted interview with a great footballer and role model for indigenous kids,
reveals everything you would want to know about Aussie Rules footballer, Adam
Goodes, in a beautifully presented book.
Seven retellings of Shakespeare's plays in a comic book format.
A comic book style is used to retell Greek myths for children.
A comic strip retelling of some of Britain's best loved stories.
This is the story of some of Robin Hood's adventures done in a comic book format.
Ollie finds himself at Eo's Castle, not a place for the fainthearted, but with his psychic
typewriter, all he wants to do is get back home.
The second in the series of stories about Ollie trying hard to repair the damage done by
The Fixers, who have made holes in a parallel universe.
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Bad Girls
WILSON, Jacqueline
Bed and Breakfast Star
WILSON, Jacqueline
Clean Break
WILSON, Jacqueline
Cookie
WILSON, Jacqueline
Double Act
WILSON, Jacqueline
WILSON, Jacqueline
Dustbin Baby
Eating Words for Breakfast
WILSON, Jacqueline
Hetty Feather
WILSON, Jacqueline
WILSON, Jacqueline
Lola Rose
Midnight
WILSON, Jacqueline
My Secret Diary
WILSON, Jacqueline
My Sister Jodie
WILSON, Jacqueline
The Diamond Girls
WILSON, Jacqueline
The Illustrated Mum
WILSON, Jacqueline
The Lottie Project
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Mandy is being picked on by Kim and her henchwomen, Melanie and Sarah. Not only is
she singled out for bullying but the girls disparage her mother who is much older than
the rest of the mums. Mandy's life changes when, trying to get away from the girls, she
runs out in front of a bus and is allowed to stay at home until school breaks up.
Elsa does her best to cheer up her family by telling jokes, but no one seems to laugh
much any more - not since they lost their lovely house and had to move into a bed and
breakfast hotel.
The effects of their parent's break up on the three siblings is realistically told in this
funny story with a harsh basis of truth.
Cookie's father is a bully but it takes all of her ability and that of her mother to gain the
courage to leave him and start again. There are some funny moments in this book, but
much is familiar as the man puts down his wife and daughter.
Ten-year-old twins Ruby and Garnet are going through a bad patch. Since their mother
died three years ago they and their father have lived with Gran but all that is to end.
April was put in a dustbin at birth but survived and grew up with adoptive parents.
An anthology of stories and poems to support Book Aid International, a charity
distributing books to the developing world.
Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her desperate mother leaves her at the Foundling
Hospital. Hetty must first live with a foster family until she is big enough to go to school.
Will she ever find her real mother?
Jayne leaves home and a difficult family life when she wins money on a scratchit.
Partly told in diary form, this story tells of Violet who wishes her life was better than it is,
making a wish at midnight that her favourite author will help her.
Popular Jacqueline Wilson has delved into her diary at 14, and used entries with
panache, along with many family photos of herself and her friends, to produce a diary of
the author's teenage years, about 'dating, dancing, dreams and dilemmas'.
Pearl and Jodie's lives are thrust unerringly into the spotlight when their parents begin
new jobs at the posh Manchester College. Pearl, once Jodie's follower, is now the one
making new friends and leaving Jodie behind.
The four sisters have moved into a new estate, but their house is rundown and in need
of repair. As they wait for mum to come home from hospital with their new baby brother,
they must make the place welcoming, but other things intervene.....
Two young sisters cope with their mother's extreme behaviour for a very long time by
themselves. This is a perceptive tale of a vivid but emotionally unstable woman from the
viewpoint of her youngest daughter, Dolphin, who, along with her sister Star, struggle to
maintain their small family and keep their troubles hidden from "the Social".
Charlie hates history, but gets very involved in the project where she must imagine waht
life was like for a girl her age going out to work in Victorian times.
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Prayer for the Animals
WINES, Jacquie
You can Save the Planet, 101
Ways you can make a Difference
WINSTON, Robert
What Goes on in my Head?
WINTON, Tim
Blueback
WINTON, Tim
Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo
WINTON, Tim
Lockie Leonard, Legend
WINTON, Tim
Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster
WOLFER, Dianne
Border Line
WONG NG, Eva
Chinatown Girl: the Diary of
Silvey Chan, Auckland, 1942
WOOD, David
The Witches: Plays For Children
WOODWARD, John
WRAY, Sarah
Dinosaurs Eye to Eye: Zoom in
on the World’s Most Incredible
Dinosaurs
The Trap
WRIGHT, Joshua
Goom
WRIGHT, Rachel
You've got Blackmail
WRIGHTSON,
Patricia
WRIGHTSON,
Patricia
A Wisp of Smoke
Shadows of Time
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This book is not only a plea for animals that are endangered or on the brink of
extinction, but also a celebration of all the wonderful creatures we share the world with.
A brilliant book filled with little and big ideas for kids to use at home and in the
classroom, to help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, wasteful habits and so
reduce our carbon footprint.
Wonderfully inviting book of all sorts of information about your brain and its goings on.
Abel is a strong, sensitive character who is passionate about diving. More than a story
about a boy and a blue groper called Blueback.
Lockie and his family have moved to a new town. Lockie thinks that his teachers don't
like him and he can't stop thinking about the prettiest girl in the school. This is a recipe
for disaster!
The further adventures of Lockie Leonard amidst adolescent issues and strong family
relationships.
The third in the series of Lockie Leonard books, set in WA, and full of life, they have
been reprinted to coincide with the television series on the ABC.
When her father is sent ot the Nullarbor as a sparrow shooter, Cassie is terrified at
leaving her friends in Perth to go to town where the only other person under 30 is 3.
My Story
The authentic background of wartime New Zealand gives this book an extra substance
as it shows Silvey learning about how her Chinese family came to be in New Zealand.
Seven short plays explore interesting ways of portraying characters to excite and shock
audiences, with lots of guidance on delivery and stage directions.
All sorts of wonderful information about dinosaurs filled with fact boxes, lively
illustrations, maps and a good index and glossary.
Luke goes to a camp for clever kids, not realising that three kids vanished from the
place several years before. He gets the first coded message and is drawn into
something he can't control.
When the necromancer, Pernikous creates a monster to be at his beck and call, Goom
was the last thing he had on his mind. Goom does not take orders and eventually
throws Pernikous down the well - but he returns!
Trying to get her mother not to go out with her teacher, and then finding a blackmail
note sent to him, at the same time avoiding a girl who wants to mash her brains, makes
life even messier for Loz and her friends.
A quiet Saturday night suddenly turns very rowdy for old Mrs Piggot when the fire
brigade arrives.
An orphaned girl and an outcast Aboriginal boy become involved in a spiritual journey at
the time of European settlement in Australia.
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American Born Chinese
YE, Ting-Xing
Throwaway Daughter
YOLEN, Jane
Jason and the Gorgon's Blood
YOSHIZUMI, Wataru
Ultra Mania
ZUCKER, Jonny
Summer Trouble
ZUSAK, Markus
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
ZUSAK, Markus
Underdog
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Three apparently unrelated tales come together with an unexpected twist. Winner of the
Michael Printz Award.
An unwanted girl child born during China's one child policy is given to an orphanage
where she is adopted by a Canadian family.
A reworking of the Greek myths has Jason as a young boy, kicked out of his parents'
home to make way for the pigs, trying to unite Prince Acastus and his friends to stop the
poisonous gorgon's blood from destroying their civilisation.
Based around high school, relationshiips and popularity and throw in some magic in the
form of a bumbling witch. For girls. Manga style format.
Stone Arch Realistic
Full Flight - Tom is horrified that his American cousin, Ben is coming to stay for the
Fiction
summer holidays. This tale of friendship and bullying reaches its climax when an
unexpected kung-fu expert saves the day.
In this mature novel for secondary students, desperate times force two brothers to
resort to dubious means to help support the family.
Cameron Wolfe suffers agonies of self doubt because he believes that he is an
underdog.
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