Meet Cleo, a little girl with a big imagination - a memorable character created by children's book legends Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood.WINNER: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2015Cleo desperately wants a necklace. Her parents say special presents are only for birthdays but Cleo doesn't want to wait. In the second story, it's her mum's birthday and Cleo doesn't know what to give her - until she has the best idea of all.Delightful, warm ...

‘They have bayonets,’ whispered Ralph. ‘This is no parade drill.’ We drew back more tightly into the shadow. A soldier beat his fist on the door. David Bellamy fears the strange new land of New South Wales, its inhabitants and its wild creatures. He fears the Governor himself: the swearing, cursing Governor Bligh. Then on the anniversary of British settlement in Sydney, 26th January, 1808, David and his new friends, Kitty and Ralph, witness the military march on Government House from the s...

Fourteen-year-old Andrew is an aspiring palaeontologist and otherwise regular school kid. His older sister, Anna, is a university activist who passionately believes she can make a difference. Rosa, an East-Timorese refugee with nowhere to go, faces an uncertain future as she waits for her asylum case to be heard.Compelled by passion and youthful idealism, and against her parents’ wishes, Anna hides Rosa in her parents’ house, drawing Andrew in to help. Andrew now has to k...

When two ragamuffins stumble across a bookin the dust their world begins to change.The familiar becomes fantastical, themundane becomes magical, and a fracturedcommunity finds a focus.Set in a dreary, underprivileged, contemporaryworld, Look, A Book! is an exhilarating whirlthrough the magic of imagination that leaves thereader in an vertiginous trance.

In this delightful companion to The Cleo Stories: The Necklace and the Present, Cleo comes up with ingenious ways to make a new friend and find a pet.SHORT-LISTED: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2016Cleo's best friend is away, her parents are busy, and there's nothing to do but count raindrops - or tidy her room. Just when she thinks she'll never cheer up, Cleo has an idea. In the next story, Cleo longs for a pet but her mum and dad say no...

It’s the 1980s and thirteen-year-old Mick Jamieson is at school in suburban Sydney. He hates it and can’t wait till he’s old enough to leave. Home life isn’t much better: his mum’s dead, his dad’s a truck driver based in Queensland, and Mick’s stuck living with his elderly nan. When his new history teacher puts on a production of the musical ‘Oliver’, Mick auditions. Will this be one of the worst decisions he’s ever made—or maybe the best?Critic Agnes Nieuwenhuizen, writi...

Meet Cleo, a little girl with a big imagination – a memorable character created by children's book legends Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood. In the first Cleo story, Cleo desperately wants a necklace. Her parents say special presents are only for birthdays ... but Cleo doesn't want to wait. In the second story, it's her mum's birthday and Cleo doesn't know what to give her – until she has the best idea of all. In the third story, Cleo’s best friend is away, her parents are busy, and there...

Two girls with two very different lives come together in this beautiful and moving story of friendship and family, by a major new voice in girls’ fiction.Meet Maya. She has a cosy, comfy life with her slightly hippy mum and dad by the sea in Cornwall. But as an only child, Maya feels smothered by her parents’ love and longs to be a given more freedom and independence; but what Maya wants more than anything is a sister.Meet Cat. She’s never known her dad and her mum’s an alc...

Third grade brings lots of surprises, but one thing hasn't changed a bit--Harry and Sidney are still sworn enemies. And their relationship only gets worse when Sidney accidentally kills Harry's pet spider. But Harry comes up with a horribly funny way to get revenge during a class trip to a creepy copper mine.

Harry leads a mission to place cobwebs all over school, shows the class how to make green slime, and stages a "deadly skit" that has everyone on the edge of their seats.

It?s a busy time in Room 2B?an ant observation project is beginning, Miss Mackle is teaching square dancing, and class pictures are being taken. Then one of the fish from the 2B fish tank goes belly-up! Is Harry to blame?

On New Year’s Eve, Cal is chased down the street by a crazed man with a deadly warning: They killed your father. They’ll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days! Forced into a life on the run, Cal finds himself hunted by ruthless criminals and the police. Somehow he must uncover the truth about his father’s mysterious death and solve the Ormond Singularity, a secret from the past, before the year is up. But who can he turn to when the whole world seems to want him dead? The clock is t...