Category: Picture Books (Hardback) | Series: Tiger and Friends
Featuring one of the key characters from the bestselling Tiger's Roar, Rabbit's Hop is Rabbit's 'origin story' - a celebration of recognising your strengths, accepting help, encouraging others and enjoying friendships and sport. Another funny and inspiring picture book by AFL Premiership player, Alex Ra ...Show more
Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers | Series: Polly and Buster | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Is being best friends enough to save a whole town? Polly and Buster have always believed that witches and monsters can be friends, but it seems no-one else agrees. With the witches furious and the monsters in uproar, their whole town is heading for a war ... and yet no-one realises tha ...Show more
Category: Reference
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsiderat ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
The one he loves most, is the one he knows least Thirteen-year-old Michael Parsons is dealing with a lot. His father's sudden death; his mother's new husband, Glen, who he loathes; his two younger siblings, who he looks after more and more now his mother works extra shifts. And then one day, Michael w ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a 'Living Treasure', in Before I Forget Geoffrey Blainey reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent in rural Victoria, from Terang to Leongatha ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller
A darkly addictive fast-paced thriller about a hidden secret, a missing person and a string of unsolved murders, by a rising star of crime fiction.
Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Finding a million dollars in your backyard - every kid's dream, right? That's what me and my best friend Toby thought too. Jumping castles at school. Lollipops for our adoring fans. Wearing sunglasses indoors ('cos that's what all the millionaires do). There's a lot you can get with a million dollars. ...Show more
Category: Young Adult
I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart. In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most po ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside town, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-wife Julia. It's a picturesque village filled with vacationers and well-off locals, but there's something darker behind the scenes: a qu ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Gripping, moving and brilliantly creepy, this is an outstanding new psychological thriller.If you leave a door half-open, soon you'll hear the whispers spoken...Still devastated after the loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake move to the sleepy village of Featherbank, looking for a fresh ...Show more
Category: 6-9 Years Younger Readers | Reading Level: 7.5 Kids First Reader
Ten-year-old Evie has a talent. A SUPERTALENT.Evie can TALK to animals and HEAR their thoughts. Pretty amazing, isn't it? One day at school, Evie sets Kahlo the rabbit free from her too-small cage. Evie knows she's done A Good Thing . . . but it lands her in BIG trouble. Evie's dad and Granny Flora say ...Show more
