The first in a series of three hilarious and moving novels that tackle a number of issues arising out of surfrat Lockie's topsy-turvy teenage world.
An award-winning, beautifully written story of a family coping after the death of their father. New beginnings and friendships are sensitively explored in this moving and uplifting book.
A classic story that has been turned into a classic movie. In an old book, Bastian discovers a magical world that is wasting away; his quest is to save it.
Four racy and wittily amusing medieval stories about the brutal world of Crusaders and Cathars, monasteries and castles.
Through the chant of the playground game, Playing Beatie Bow, Abigail is transported back to the nineteenth-century world of the Rocks area in Sydney to discover a very different world exists beneath the surface of her home territory. An Australian classic.
Is it owl or angel, this stranger Michael finds sharing the garage in their newly-acquired house? Only the imaginative and adventurous can go on the strange journey which Michael takes... Winner of the Whitbread Children's Award and the Carnegie Medal.
When Andrew tries out a prototype computer game, he expects a challenge. What he doesn't expect is to be fighting the game from the inside out. Compelling science fiction from one of Australia's finest talents.
A moving story of a young girl's search to establish her identity in a new family and community. The magical dog Thunderwith becomes her talisman.
Master storyteller Morris Gleitzman's moving and funny story of Colin Murford's determination to cure his brother's cancer, leading him to London to visit the Queen - a journey with unexpected results.
Paterson's novel is typically gutsy, challenging and realistic. Jess learns through tragedy that building a bridge enables him to face a deep loss and to look forward, in this sensitive and thoughtful story about handling the death of a friend.
An action-packed fantasy adventure in which feisty Kestrel and her twin brother Bowman embark on a quest to free the Manth people from the power of the Mastery. Gripping, pacey reading.
Believing herself the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust, Ann leads a lonely existence until the stranger appears. As this newcomer recovers from the effects of radioactivity, his domineering personality threatens Ann's lifestyle, and her very life.
