Books - Children & Young Adult
Muffin Top
Kylie Limpid and her brother Ashton are in the middle of their rumba practice when things start to go wrong, at the exact moment she notices her brother’s muffin-top – and it’s hanging over the top of his pants! The …
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My Sunbeam Baby
The perfect gift for any new arrival
See my bouncing baby, jigging on my knee. Then snuggling for a story, just baby, book and me.
A gorgeous new picture book about how much we love our babies, from Emma Quay, …
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Night Beach
A gothic story about the very dark things that feed the creative process, from the winner of the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for young adult fiction.
Imagine there is someone you like so much that just thinking about them …
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Not a Cloud in the Sky
Come Fly with Bird, meet Cloud, and find a friendship as big as the sky.
From award-winning author and illustrator Emma Quay…
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Old Friends, New Friends
FROM THE BESTSELLING CREATORS OF FIRST DAY AND WHEN I GROW UP
A brand-new school year! I can’t wait!
Hang on … None of my old friends are in my new class ……
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One Step
At 15, Dylan is struggling. He’s struggling with his explosive acne that has declared war on his face, struggling with his pushy younger sister, struggling with his nagging mum and her lame and misguided attempts to ‘connect’ with him, struggling …
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Paper Bags & Dreams
Edie, a young Aboriginal girl, and Anglo-Australian Maggie live in a small country town, and their friendship is tested when Maggie leaves school. Edie and her younger brother Matty live with their grandparents, and so far have escaped the big …
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Poppy Wash
Poppy has the best job in the world — every day she washes all kinds of dragons at her Dragon Wash.
Poppy loves her job, but most of all she loves the dragons themselves. All that′s missing is a dragon …
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Purple Snow
Cockatoo has travelled all the way from Australia to Polar Bear’s home to see the white snow. But it’s not what he expects. When he invites his friends to see the Purple Snow that falls in Australia in summer each …
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Raw
Brett Dalton is a tough guy – hardened, angry, uncaring and always ready to use his fists. When the world hates you, you might as well hate it back…
But when Brett is busted by the cops for stealing and …
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Raw Blue
Carly has dropped out of uni to spend her days surfing and her nights working as a cook in a Manly café. Surfing is the one thing she loves doing … and the only thing that helps her stop thinking …
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Reggie and Lu
Reggie and Lu are best friends — most of the time. But they discover that, even when they’re not, making up can be lots of fun!…
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Rudie Nudie
A delightful celebration of those nudie moments between bath and bed time from award-winning author and illustrator Emma Quay.…
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Rudie Nudie Christmas
It’s Christmas Eve and two little rudie nudies are on the run again!
From bestselling author-illustrator Emma Quay comes the perfect book to share this holiday season.…
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Run, Kid, Run
Harrison and Jess would love to meet some of their favourites stars. When they have to spend the day at work with their Mum at the TV station, anything is possible.
Mum folded some money into Jess’s hand and told …
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Runcible Jones and the Backwards Hourglass
After every defeat, Lord Shambles returns stronger than before, and more determined to punish humanity. Having crushed all resistance on magical Iltior, he moves the war to Earth, an Earth that is on the verge of collapse.
Unfortunately, Earth’s weapons …
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Runcible Jones and the Buried City
In this adventure, Runcible and Mariam are in even worse trouble, for Lord Shambles has returned, stronger than ever. Once he finds the lost Citadel of Magic there will be no defence against his dreadful sorcery – and with it …
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Runcible Jones and the Frozen Compass
On a freezing night, Lord Shambles shatters the tower where the children are learning magic. Runcible, Mariam and their friends run for their lives. All Iltior now lies in the dreaded sorcerer’s hands and, as soon as he steals the …
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Runcible Jones: The Gate to Nowhere
In a world terrified of magic, a boy is abandoned to the worst school in the world, a place designed to crush all magic out of him – GRINDGRIM. But Runcible Jones has to learn magic, to uncover the …
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Saltwater Vampires
He looked to the sky, praying for rain, a downpour, some sign from the heavens that he should refuse the abomination contained in that flask. But all he saw was the bloated white face of the moon smiling down on