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A moving and inspiring story about how we remember the past from two of Australia's most acclaimed picture book creators, Gary Crew and Shaun Tan. Whe...
Nobody in Preston could remember when the watertower was built, or who had built it, but there it stood on Shooter's Hill -- its iron legs rusted, its...
Sarah narrates a tale of her life with 'Mama', a woman who takes in babies for profit, and as these babies mysteriously disappear, Sarah's suspicions ...
‘A tale which will hold its listeners spellbound.' Kerry Green, SUNDAY REVIEW When an archaeology student, hoping to learn about his Aboriginal heri...
Originally published in 1986, this novel for teenagers focuses on the friendship between two boys alienated from authority. The author received the Ji...
Picture story book about the part every created thing plays in the universe. By an award-winning children's writer whose novel TStrange Objects' was t...
THE VIEWER tells the peculiar story of a boy whose obsession with curious artefacts leads him to discover an strange box at a dump site. It proves to ...
In the spring of 1891, thirteen-year-old Sam Silverthorne is left in the care of his heartless Aunt Bertha as his father, Sir Arthur Silverthorne, Orn...
The Extinction of the Thylacine
Rosie never liked Elias Churchill, and she liked him even less when he trapped the last tiger-wolf ever to be seen. Thylacine was the proper name for ...
'Are you lonely here?' her mother asked. 'Never,' Alice said. 'Not while I am friends with the lyrebird.' Alice has spent her life living on the outsk...
This tale draws heavily on the myth of Tithonus and Eos, and man's quest for immortality. Joachim is a young boy captivated by the mystery which surro...
The CBCA Award-winning bestseller
The 25th anniversary edition of this landmark novel, in which a chilling modern mystery is entwined with one of Australia's most brutal and intriguing...
There's a myth in Esperance that's been around for years, apparently going as far back as the arrival of the first Europeans. Locals think there's a h...
Combining the genres of adventure, fantasy and social realism in one story, Gary Crew's latest work follows the fortunes of modern day teenager Johnny...
Picture book for primary school-age readers. Two children encounter a shadowy beast that lives in the depths of the sea. Christopher is blind, though ...
‘All cops have stories that pass unrecorded, that never make it into their daily casebook ... phantasms that no language can objectively record ...�...
This is the true story of the Eilean Mor lighthouse. It took four years to build but its light shone for just one. The lighthouse keepers stationed th...
An astonishingly original novel for adults from the multi award-winning children's author, Gary Crew 'I lived many lives beneath that piano ... I hear...
Following his invention of the light bulb and recorded sound, Thomas Edison turned his genius to the invention of a doll which could both speak and wa...
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The night the first wild child was captured, I was woken from my sleep by the sound of car doors slamming. I opened my eyes; lights were flashing acro...
Children's picture storybook based on an historical incident. In 1890, the British East India passenger liner 'Quetta' struck an uncharted rock in the...
Children's picture storybook. Arno lives in the middle of his parents' junkyard and tends to smell a bit. He's a loner who consoles himself with makin...
Sam sets off to Madagascar and the exotic isles of the Indian Ocean in search of a shell whose deadly venom could provide the antidote for all known t...
YA. Australian. Family mystery. Recommened. 12 yrs+...
A Book of Antipodean Hours
Book for older children about mysterious happenings in New Canaan, a place cut off from the world by sea and swamp. Written by the author of TStrange ...
In December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift in the Atlantic. She was in full sail and in seaworthy condition, but had no crew aboar...
Troy Thompson, a grade six student at Daggaburra State School, writes poems in order to win contest prize....
Picture book adventure for older child readers. When Lachlan and Tara discover the bones of a pterodactyl on a neighbouring farm, they call a paleonto...
Paperback edition of a picture storybook for children, first published 2000. On the advent of her 10th birthday, the young narrator explains her fathe...
Few people know that boys as young as ten years old were transported to Australia as convicts early last century. Even fewer know that a special boys'...
Fiction for young readers based on real historical events. Tells the dreadful story of what really happened to the passengers and crew of the 'Charles...
Picture storybook telling the story of three friends who sail their homemade boat down the local creek. The journey becomes an inner voyage for Audrey...
A simulation of Troy's writing folder for Grade 5-6 at Daggaburra Primary, where Ms Kranke tells her students the local newspaper is offering a week's...
Meet Venny -- a tall, good looking sixteen year old Australian boy who hates schoolwork and just wants a good life and a flashy car. Meet Saffron -- a...
On holiday with his parents, fifteen-year-old Damon is bored. His parents drag him to an art gallery, but after cruising around for a while, he return...