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A wonderful children's novel by two stellar writers featuring Shelby and Phoenix, living 100 years apart yet unexpectedly joined across time - and each make the discovery of a lifetime that has the potential to upend their worlds.We've been told over and over we're the generation that waits for the world to recover. We endure the heat. We endure the storms, the wrecking floods, the long droughts, the days of smoke as fire burns, coz this is what the honoured earth does when she's trying to recover.Shelby and her best friend Davy live quiet low-tech lives in a closed community that is made up of exactly three hundred and fifty kind, ethical people living on exactly seven hundred 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 past does not repeat itself.

The Raven's Song

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 and rocks on lookout for crocs, me swimming, then we'll swap places. We's always doing things as a team, him and me. We's gonna be the best fisher people and the best salvagers on the whole of the inland sea one day.'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 that endangers the way of life of their entire community. Soon daring, loyal Neoma must set off on a solo mission across the risen sea, determined to rescue her best friend and find the truth that will save her village.Across the Risen Sea is another thrilling adventure for young readers from the bestselling author of How to Bee and The Dog Runner.

Across the Risen Sea

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. But how can two kids travel such big distances across a dry, barren, and dangerous landscape? Well, when you've got five big doggos and a dry-land dogsled, the answer is you go mushing. But when Emery is injured, Ella must find a way to navigate them through rough terrain, and even rougher encounters with desperate people...

The Dog Runner

The latest winner of the Ampersand Prize is a genre-smashing hostage drama about 14-year-old Tamara, who's faced with an impossible choice when she falls for her kidnappers.Yet this is no ordinary kidnapping. Tamara has been living on a star freighter in deep space, and her kidnappers are terrifying Crowpeople – the only aliens humanity has ever encountered. No-one has ever survived a Crowpeople attack, until now – and Tamara must use everything she has just to stay alive. 

In the Dark Spaces

A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live.	Sometimes 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 a fruit farm outside the city. In a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. All Peony really wants is to be a bee. Life on the farm is a scrabble, but there is enough to eat and a place to sleep, and there is love. Then Peony's mother arrives to take her away from everything she has ever known, and all Peony's grit and quick thinking might not be enough to keep her safe.How To Bee is a beautiful and fierce novel for younger readers, and the voice of Peony will stay with you long after you read the last page.

How to Bee

Cody has practised being his super hero Zip Velocity for so long that when Zip Velocity needs his help to catch the villain, Baron von Hairy, Cody is ready, willing, able, and sneaky enough to outwit the villain and teach Zip Velocity a thing or two about small super heroes.

The Adventures of Zip Velocity

Antonio hates anchovies but his family loves them. It's not long before he has hundreds under his bed all drying and sticking together in strange shapes. He uses his anchovies to make a giant model circus and charges kids 50c to see it. But the day of the big circus reveal the anchovies start to move!

Anchovy Circus

There's a gecko in the chalk box! All the kids have seen it but Mr Mooney has not. No matter how high they push their hands up or how loudly they "Oooh!" Mr Mooney won't pick someone to tell him. Then the gecko gets loose and the class can't sit still any more!

Go Go Gecko

Matt's dad loves to fish but Matt hates it. When Matt's dad makes Matt go fishing with him, Matt tries sneaky ways to keep the fish from biting.

No Fishing

When an alien falls to earth in Cody's backyard he thinks it will make a great pet. His neighbour Josh points out a few problems with keeping aliens as pets as he puts out the flames on Cody's garden shed. But Cody wants to try introducing his new pet to his mother anyway.

There's No Such Thing

Gweep is a tiny alien with BIG plans. Tim has to convince him he's just too small to take over the whole planet.

Take Me to Your Leader

If you stick out your thumb, be careful who you hitch a ride with. Hoping for a lift to his dad's place, Oz is instead picked up by Mack and her robotic offsider on their regular intergalactic delivery run. Mack's not a happy pilot, and before long Oz is chasing pet alien poo in zero gravity, blasting mud creatures and making a risky delivery to the Free Zones. There really is no place like home.

Intergalactic Deliveries Inc

Dinnertime is boring at Jess's house until the dinner guest arrives. He is a cheeky galah who calls himself Rocky. Jess's mother is not as happy as Jess to see a parrot at the table and things get very messy!

The Dinner Guest

Jazza would like a 'normal' mum - one who spends time with him and picks him up from school on a scorching day. Instead Jazza fends for himself because his mum is too busy caring for abandoned pet dragons. When one of the dragons explodes - they're a bit loose with their bodily functions - Jazz makes a discovery that will change his life and the future of SPlatterby Dragons Home

SPlatterby Dragons Home

Holly and Kurt REALLY want a pet dragon but owning a pet that eats furniture and sets fire to houses is not easy.

A Red Hot Pet

Meep zaps Tim to his planet to fight a terrible beast. Tim doesn't want to be a hero but he has to save the King!

The Beast of Moogill

Ernest is meant to be on the way to school camp, but when he winds up at the swim meet can he save the day?

Honestly Ernest &amp; Ernest's Mice Mischief

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