WINNER OF THE 2019 AUREALIS AWARD FOR BEST CHILDREN'S FICTIONSHORTLISTED: CBCA 2020 Awards, Book of the Year, Younger Readers'We're gonna starve if we stay here,' Emery said. 'If we're gonna go, best go now.'And he said it like going was something easy. Like all we have to do is walk away.Ella and her brother Emery are alone in a city that's starving to death. If they are going to survive, they must get away, upcountry, to find Emery's mum. B...

WINNER: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2018WINNER: 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's LiteratureWINNER: 2018 New Zealand Book Awards, Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior FictionSometimes bees get too big to be up in the branches, sometimes they fall and break their bones. This week both happened and Foreman said, 'Tomorrow we'll find two new bees.'Peony lives with her sister and grandfather on...

Across the Risen Sea is an action-packed, compelling and heartfelt middle-fiction adventure, set in a post-climate change landscape, from the multi-award winning author of How to Bee.'It's one of them days when everything is off. A hot sweaty night in Rusty Bus means we kids is all grouchy-tired. Me and my best friend, Jaguar, is trying to cool down by taking turns at dipping in the sea pool. Him standing on the sea wall made from car frames a...

Bastienne Scull is nearly twelve years old and lives a simple life as an apprentice to the Witnesser of Miracles in a small village mostly populated by women and girls. Basti knows that miracle-hunting is a lot like mystery-solving, and her little world is full of wonder and intrigue and unexpected adventure. A supremely enjoyable middle grade novel from the multi award-winning, bestselling author of How to Bee, The Dog Runner and The Raven's Song.

Dimension6 magazine takes you on a journey beyond the borders of the real. Our second annual collection features stories from some of the best Australian and overseas writers working in the field today. Jason Fischer ' Everything is a Graveyard' - Post-apocalyptic V8s in a ruined Adelaide destroyed by prehistoric drop bears. What more do you need to know?Bren MacDibble 'Tooth' - Backpacker horror a toothsome treat? Look no further.Chris McMahon 'Time Pump' - Marooned in the...

'This is how we have to live now.' Shelby and her best friend Davy live quiet low-tech lives in a closed community that is made up of exactly 350 kind, ethical people living on exactly 700 hectares. When they climb through a hole in the perimeter fence to venture into the surrounding jungle, what they find is more astonishing than anything they could have imagined. And when Shelby realises the terrible danger that is unfolding, it will take all of her daring and determination to ensure the...