Kids, Teens & YA

Ernie Dunlop was determined to become a doctor from an early age. Born in Melbourne, he was fascinated with both medical science and physical challenges. Whilst studying medicine he earned the nickname 'Weary' and gained a reputation as a dedicated...

Age range 9 to 12Perse is back with a new adventure. Follow her holiday antics in her fabulous diary.Perse is set for a fun and exciting holiday, but there's just one catch. The girls' annoying seven-year-old next door neighbour, Dillon Pickleton, is...

Hate mail Broken windows Graffiti A missing galah What does it all mean? Hairy Legs, the foul-mouthed, but much loved, pet shop galah has been stolen. The residents of Tompkin Park are devastated. None more, than Britt Brady, whose orderly life is thrown...

After Matilda eats some magical jelly babies that her grandfather has brought back from a boating trip to the Bahamas, she acquires the powers of invisibility. Her power lasts for a period of only 30 days. Ages 4-8

Age range 3 to 6Ava wears a different coloured dress for each type of day - red dress for hot days, a purple dress for rainy days and a blue dress for cold days. One whistling, whirly, windy morning, Ava and her puppy want to go out and play. But...

Matilda is extraordinary in everything she does but never more than when she eats the special food her grandfather brings her from his travels. The beans from Tibet allow her to fly through the air, the spinach from Spain gives immense strength and even...

Jake and his friends are a wildcard entry in the most famous race in the solar system - the Rocket Battles. Beating champion racers is not going to be easy...

Books one to four in this carefully researched series cover the development of the necessary grammatical knowledge, from the early years to the end of junior school in a practical and readily accessible form. These contain write-in activities.The Growing...

Eve is staying with her grandmother and her only choice in playmate is Oscar, the boy from next door. The lure of the forbidden attic in her Nan's house proves too much for Eve and Oscar and they sneak upstairs to explore. When Eve finds a small...

The Grammar Rules! series for Years 1–6 has been updated to support the latest version of the Australian Curriculum. The series features a fresh design, and new activities and units to support students learning to read, write, speak, listen to,...

The Grammar Rules! series for Years 1–6 has been newly adapted to align specifically with the NSW English Syllabuses, K–2 and 3–6. Each student workbook introduces and builds on foundational literacy skills and the important connection...

The Grammar Rules! series for Years 1–6 has been newly adapted to align specifically with the NSW English Syllabuses, K–2 and 3–6. Each student workbook introduces and builds on foundational literacy skills and the important connection...

The Grammar Rules! series for Years 1–6 has been newly adapted to align specifically with the NSW English Syllabuses, K–2 and 3–6. Each student workbook introduces and builds on foundational literacy skills and the important connection...

The Grammar Rules! series for Years 1–6 has been newly adapted to align specifically with the NSW English Syllabuses, K–2 and 3–6. Each student workbook introduces and builds on foundational literacy skills and the important connection...

Keek and Gidgi are the kayep ngooni (water brothers). They love to swim in the oceans and rivers. As the nal days of Bunuru creep closer Gidgi wants to go swimming one last time, against the advice of his mother and Elders. Can Keek stop his older...

Yonga the Kangaroo and Waitch the Emu have been good friends for a very long time. But Waitch has slowly started to grow envious of Yonga's beautiful snowy white coat. On a sweltering hot day Wiatch comes up with a devious plan to get Yonga's coat all...

Norn and Kaarda is a timeless story about community, power, equality and respect based on a Dreamtime Story of the Nyoongar People. Norn and Kaarda, by Alton Walley with illustrations by John Walley, tells the story of a Kaarda, a ferocious goanna that...

Age range 5 to 8"Did you know frogs can find their way home? It's called a 'homing instinct' ... no matter where they are, they know where they belong. I think I know how frogs feel."Eight-year-old Ella hates her new house. She wants to be back in her...

Get ready for chaos as Romeo Fortez, the cutest sloth EVER and the world's most fearless superhero, takes on another Weird-Warp mutant army!   The city that never sleeps faces a monstrous threat from the twisted genius of Professor Ian Weird-Warp...

New home. New school. New friends. And new enemies..  But as a ''witch-in-training'' fitting in isn't the easiest thing to do. When a malevolent spirit bent on revenge is released into the world things get dangerous for Courtney and those closest to...

Courtney Little never knew her grandmother but it seems Delia wants to make her presence felt. Dad isn't saying why he left Mixton Bay years ago, and now strange things are happening in her gransmother's old house.  When Courtney finds a mystical...

BEING WILDLY KIND is an infectious, fun and hope-filled book packed full of  ideas to build empathy and compassion in kids of all ages.Why just be kind when you can BE WILDLY KIND? BE WILDLY KIND to people! BE WILDLY KIND to animals! BE WILDLY KIND...

The stirring final book of the Averil trilogy finds the Taalian Alliance again threatened by evil. The sorcerer Malidon has captured the iron forges of Suther, stemming the flow of weapons to the rest of the world. Averil, now Aum’s Chief...

The fast-moving second instalment of the stunning Averil trilogy. Averil, returning from a trading expedition, is horrified to find that the Wise Woman Warrior Metria and Averil's sister, Ludella, have been kidnapped. Averil and a small band of warriors...

Averil discovers a world of wonder, sorcery and evil and is drawn into a battle between malevolent powers that threaten to change the world forever.

This hilarious, fact-packed joke book will have young readers laughing as they're learning. It features dozens of gut-busting gags that children can share with their friends, themed around the gross and gruesome aspects of the human body, along with...

Alana Oakley suspects her new neighbours are vampires. All the signs are there: they are deathly pale, too good at everything, and laugh derisively at vampire-lore with a knowing mwah-ha-ha. Khalilah, Maddie and Sofia hope Alana is right - everything...

Alana Oakley returns with her high-school mates - Khalilah, Maddie and Sofia to face new challenges as a Year 8 student at Gibson High and, as usual, Mum isn't making it easy. You'd think, after winning a song-writing contest and meeting the world's...

Alana Oakley is 12 going on 24. She has to be when her impulsive, accident-prone mother, Emma, attracts so much chaos. Alana's dad's passing three years ago has forced Alana to become the grown-up of the family, spinning the mother-daughter relationship...

Paint with Magic is a comical rhyming tale of an outrageous octopus, an aspiring artist and a multitude of beautiful sea creatures that come to life. When a child paints an octopus with magic paints, the octopus comes to life, keen to offer plenty of...