Browse by category
Across the Risen Sea by Bren MacDibble
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade/Upper Primary
'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 and rocks on lookout for crocs, me swimmi ...Show more
Australia's Wild Weird Wonderful Weather by Stephanie Owen Reeder; Tania Mccartney (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Environment
Age range 5+Did you know that, in 2009, a massive dust storm in Australia blew red dust and sand all the way to New Zealand, where it turned the glaciers pink? That, in 1899, Cyclone Mahina plucked dolphins out of the ocean in Far North Queensland and deposited them on cliff tops? That it snowed at Ulur ...Show more
Before the Beginning by Anna Morgan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Schoolies week: that strange in-between time when teenagers move from school into the adult world. It's a week when anything is possible, and everything can change. Grace is questioning everything she thought about herself, and has opted not to join her clique of judgemental friends for schoolies, inste ...Show more
Beyond Belief (Heroes of the Holocaust) by Dee White
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade/Upper Primary
Inspired by the true story of Muslims who saved the lives of Jewish children in the Second World War. In 1942, in the Grand Mosque in Paris, 11-year-old Ruben is hiding from the Nazis. Already thousands of Jewish children have disappeared, and Rubens parents are desperately trying to find his sister. Ru ...Show more
Busy Beaks: Australian birds by Sarah Allen (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Spend a day with Australia's most vibrant and unique feathered friends. Full of splashing shorebirds, clattering cockatoos, parading penguins and greedy galahs, Busy Beaks is the perfect introduction to birds of all shapes and sizes.
Catch Me If I Fall by Barry Jonsberg
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade/Upper Primary
Ashleigh and Aiden are thirteen-year-old twins who promise to always look out for each other. Aiden is more dedicated to the task than Ashleigh, but when it comes to matters of life and death, they both exhibit a fierce protectiveness that will change the course of their lives. 'We've been worried about ...Show more
Colin Cockroach Goes to Caloundra by Chris McKimmie
$24.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Age range: 4+ Past the mountains where the dinosaurs used to roam. Past the big pineapple. Surfin' at the beach. Dancin' at the disco. Making new friends. Missing old ones. Colin's accidental holiday has to come to an end. He needs to go home and find his family.
Coming Home to Country by Bronwyn Bancroft
$24.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Voices
Run to the creek, perch on a rock, slip into clear crystal water. An visual and lyrical depiction of coming home to country from acclaimed author and illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft.
Dry to Dry: The Seasons of Kakadu by Pamela Freeman; Liz Anelli
$26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Nature Storybooks
This Nature Storybook follow-up to the award-winning Desert Lake is a stunningly illustrated and extraordinary story of the yearly weather cycle and attendant changing wildlife of Kakadu National Park, from the Dry to the Wet to the Dry again. In the tropical wetlands and escarpments of Kakadu National ...Show more
Future Girl by Asphyxia
$24.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Piper's mum wants her to be 'normal', to pass as hearing and get a good job. But when peak oil hits and Melbourne lurches towards environmental catastrophe, Piper has more important things to worry about, such as how to get food. When she meets Marley, a CODA (child of Deaf adult), a door opens into a ...Show more
Hello Jimmy by Anna Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
One day, a parrot appears on the doorstep. His name isJimmy. Dad thinks Jimmy is amazing. He's loud, he's funny and he's full of surprises! But Jack doesn't like surprises. Not at all...
I Saw Pete and Pete Saw Me by Maggie Hutchings; Evie Barrow (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
When you are small you can see things that grown-ups are too busy to notice . . . Everyone walks right past Pete - except for one little boy. He notices Pete's drawings, and big smile, and soon he has a new friend. When Pete gets sick, the boy wants to help. But how do you help someone get better when ...Show more