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.

'That ugly red fungus killed all the wheat for flour, killed all the oat, and sugar cane for sugar and golden syrup, along with all the grass for cows and butter. Killed just about every ingredient that me and Dad used to use when we made Anzac bickies. I don't think I'll ever see another Anzac bickie in my whole life.'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. But how can two ki...

From the multi award-winning Australian author of 'How to Bee' and 'The Dog Runner', another original and heartfelt middle-grade fiction adventure, exploring themes of loyalty, resilience, courage and the environment. Neoma and Jag and their small community are 'living gentle lives' on high ground surrounded by the risen sea that has caused widespread devastation. When strangers from the Valley of the Sun arrive unannounced, the friends find themselves drawn into a web of secrecy and lies ...

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...

WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARDONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIMEThe iconic, multi-million bestselling novel. An unmissable modern classic.'Joyous... Everyone should be reading it, including adults' Cressida Cowell, author of How to Train your DragonStanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Gree...

From international bestseller Karen M. McManus comes the explosive conclusion to the acclaimed One of Us Is Lying trilogy - now available in a bold new cover look complete with a inky black background and matching sprayed edges.Life hasn't been easy for the teenagers of Bayview. First they had to prove they weren't killers. Then outwit a vengeful copycat. Now, it's beginning again.At first the mysterious billboard seems like a bad joke:Time ...

'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing.' – Michael MorpurgoThere's a place where all the wildest stories began … The first novel in the award winning and globally best-selling Impossible Creatures series is the story of two children's epic adventure to transform the world.**Read the stunning sequel to Impossible Creatures: book 2,**The Poisoned King, ...

The World’s Worst Pets, from Children's author David Walliams.Marvel at Houdini, the magician’s rabbit. Take a trip around the world with Zoom, the supersonic tortoise. Gasp at the chaos created by Griselda, a grizzly bear with a big secret. And RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! It’s Furp, the monstrous goldfish!Good pets, bad pets, supervillain pets, pets as big as a house and pets that could eat you in one gulp – these are the most hilarious and horrendous animals around.