VIC - Prior Years

• Mao's Last Dancer
  This is my story. Here is my recollection of those years growing up in Mao's China. It is my family's history. It is my journey, from my earliest memories, through discovering dance, to my life in the West. History may record things differently, others may too, but the stories here remain as true t...
• Are We There Yet?
  For two glorious weeks we're going to forget about work, leave all care behind, run away from the empty routine of our lives and pretend we are Thelma and Louise, minus the assault and descent into a criminal vortex, of course.'Rach and Jules, two thirty-something gals, hit the road in search of th...
• Something About America
  Immigration in contemporary America is explored in a powerful lyric novel from award-winning poet Maria Testa. What happens to a dream divided? Draping colorful scarves around her neck, the thirteen-year-old from Kosova thinks of herself as a typical American schoolgirl, happy to blend into eig...
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author's non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive P.S. section about the history of the book, plus a ...
• Giant Horse of Milan
  Danny Da Vinci always said he was born with a pencil in his hand. His mum thought it felt more like a broom! Meet Danny and his friends, artistic adventurers who continually get themselves into trouble but always manage to extricate themselves by using their daring and ingenuity!...
• Life of Pi
  A stunning illustrated edition of the multi-million selling Man Booker prize-winner. In October 2005 Canongate launched a competition with The Times to find an artist to illustrate Yann Martela??s international bestseller. Soon the competition expanded as the Globe and Mail and The Age newspapers a...
• A Child Called It
  Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army co...
• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• Very Naughty Mother Runs Away, the
  Zed and Pink are a normal brother and sister except for one extremely strange thing their mum is a very naughty mother! In this side-splitting sequel to THE VERY NAUGHTY MOTHER GOES GREEN, we find the Very Naughty Mother back up to her old tricks. When she gets in trouble for hiding her brussel spr...
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  Chris is 15 and has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. The more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets...
• Hungry Ghosts
  Lesbian Buddha In Hollywood is the story of one woman's 20 year journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening. During this rite of passage, she discovers how to turn the pain of childhood sexual and emotional abuse into fuel for her own spiritual transformation. The journey begins in Part One: ...
• Playing with Fire
  When Nasser Hussain first met Duncan Fletcher, it marked the beginning of a partnership that was to transform the English cricket team. They injected steel into the team they gave it backbone. England became a hard team to beat - and they started to win test matches, at home and abroad. And yet Hus...
• UFOs
  - Background information to build content-area knowledge including: Scientific timelines, words to know, job descriptions, and seminal cases - Chapter Summaries and questions that recap the evidence: You're The Medical Examiner - Reading Cues and Clues: Prompts, call-outs, highlighted words, diag...
• Raising the Bar
  In April of 2000, Gary Erickson turned down a $120 million offer to buy his thriving company. Today, instead of taking it easy for the rest of his life and enjoying a luxurious retirement, he's working harder than ever. Why would any sane person pass up the financial opportunity of a lifetime? Rais...
• Viking it and Liking it Vol. 1
  Did you know that our word Thursday comes from the Viking god Thor . . . as in Thor's Day? Neither did the Time Warp Trio. Did you know that if you say Thursday over and over again too close to a certain magic Book, you will get sucked back two thousand years to the time of the Vikings? Neither did...
• The Hollywood Mission
  Life's a drag for Max Remy. Her mum is getting married to her sop of a boyfriend, Aiden. Her dad wants Max to visit him in Hollywood, but she's not allowed to fly there on her own. And her arch-enemy, Toby Jennings, is acting strangely at school. A weekend at Mindawarra with her friend Linden soon ...
• The Rainbow Fish
  With scales that really glitter, the fish in this book, despite his beauty is not happy. His pride and vanity drive all the other fish away. A wise octopus advises him that if he wants to make friends he must give away his shimmering scales which make him different from all the other fish....
• The Punjabi Pappadum Indian Restaurant
  The legendary, mouthwatering Punjabi Pappadum is doing it tough against the flashy new Burger Barn. There's something sisnister going on and it's down to best mates Veejay, Dexter and Travis to get to the bottom of it. And that's not all they have on their plate. Ages 10-14....
• Pride and Prejudice
  Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich batchelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daugher, Elizabeth, but a bad account of him is given to El...
• TINTIN - EXPLORERS ON THE MOON
• Tintin in Tibet
• Little Jingle Says No!
  The Jingles are having a baby We'll call him Al,' says Mama Jingle.We'll call him Adrian,' says Papa Jingle.We'll call him Atticus,' says taller smaller Jingle.We'll call him Aladdin says middle Jingle.But little Jingle says NO!A warm and exuberant family story, perfect for alphabet play and readin...
• After the Death of Alice Bennett
  Before mum died, she told Sam that she would always be with him. On the day of mum's cremation, his sister Becky receives a text from a friend: 'Thinking about you. X'. Sam becomes convinced that the text is from their mother. Imagine if he could text back! When he finds mum's mobile phone and a 'c...
• A Fabumouse Vacation for Geronimo
  Sometimes a busy businessmouse like me needs a nice, relaxing vacation. But of all the rotten rats' luck - every time I tried to get away, disaster struck. My aunt Dizzy Fur's mouse hole caught on fire, my office was flooded, and our printing press broke down! When I was finally ready to depart, al...
• The Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong
  Sent to live with her strict Chinese grandparents, and uncertain of her future and where she belongs, Maeve fights to cling to her earlier life and find her true self. Where do you fit in when you're part Irish, part Chinese, part Australian? A warm-hearted story about teenage life in Australia now...
• Olivia
  The first full-length biography of the enduringly popular star of Grease Now approaching her 60th birthday, Olivia Newton-John grew up in Melbourne and still exudes star power and timeless glamour. She has sold 60 million records around the world, topped the charts in the US and the UK four times, ...
• Asterix and Obelix All at Sea
  In ancient Rome the slaves are revolting ...and not only that, they've stolen Julius Caesar's own galley, the finest warship in the Roman navy. Under their heroic leader Spartakis, the former galley slaves make for the little Gaulish village where Julius Caesar's old enemies Asterix and Obelix live...
• Bridie's Fire
  Bridie O'Connor's world is torn apart when her parents and baby brother die of hunger in the great potato famine. At the age of 11 she decides to leave Ireland for Australia, dreaming of a richer life. But life as a scullery maid is stifling for a girl with Bridie's fiery spirit. Age 10+. Australia...
• Ivy
  The only beautiful thing in Ivy's drab life is her glorious red hair. At a young age, her locks made her the target of Carroty Kate, a 'skinner'. She recruited Ivy to help her coax wealthy children away from their nannies so that she could strip them of their clothes - clothes worth a fortune in th...
• All That Glitters
  Seventeen year old Martin Graham loves and understands horses. Stable lad at the Travellers Inn just out of Guildford, he also longs to join the thousands making for the goldfields around Coolgardie. Ages 12+....
• Storymaze
  200 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT STORYMAZE 2 The Eye of Ulam1. It is written and illustrated by the FUNNIEST MAN in a small part of the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.2. It is a COMIC EXTRAVAGANZA printed with soy sauce on dolphin-free recycled tuna flesh pages.3. It contains drawings by an ILLUSTRATOR with ...
• The Fairy's Wings
  When Tania takes a beautiful little pair of wings from the garden, she makes someone very unhappy. Tania thinks it's a fairy, but according to Troy, fairies don't even exist. Who owns the wings then? And is someone trying to leave messages for Tania? A surprising, magical tale from the author and i...
• Race at the Rock
  It's a new school year at Sandhurst and the 70th Legends anniversary sports. School camp is held at Ghost Rock - a place full of surprises and intrigue. A new student at Sandhurst is set to make life interesting for everybody. Ages 9+....
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
  A high-intensity love story of two teenagers who fall into an accidental first date of music, laughter, heartache, confusion, passion, taxi driver wisdom ...and share the kind of night you want to never end, when every minute counts and every moment flickers between love and disaster. All to a kill...
• Cairo Jim and the Alabastron of Forgotten Gods
  A seemingly ordinary vase is stolen from the Greek Archaeological Museum by a figure swathed in mystery. But the vase - an ancient alabastron - holds a potent force that must not be allowed to escape, and it's up to Cairo Jim and friends to track down the thief before it's too late....
• Swan Song
  Mitch lives with his ranger father in the beautiful Coorong National Park in South Australia and often helps his father with his work protecting the wildlife, especially the waterbirds, of the region. One day Mitch finds an abandoned swan's egg and takes it home, despite his father's disapproval. W...
• Life Bytes
  Following the hugely successful Destination Unknown, this is another collection of 14 prize-winning stories selected from the entries for the Tim Winton Young Writers Award. Written by 6-17 year-olds, Life Bytes are stories about real life situations and experiences - school pranks, bullying and te...
• India the Showstopper
  India the circus elephant is an absolute whiz on the mouth organ. She's the star of the show, and she knows it. But when a tough circus re-trainer, Oswaldo the Magnificent, arrives to teach everyone new tricks, India does something very BAD.Losing her place in the limelight shows India a thing or t...
• Olivia Saves the Circus
  Olivia remembers her trip to the circus very well. The performers were out sick, so she had to do everything. She... rode on a unicyclejumped on a trampolinejuggled five balls tamed lionsand flew through the air. Step into the ring with Olivia, where the lights are dim, the color soft, and a ...
• Bend it Like Beckham
  Jess just wants to play football, but her wedding-obsessed parents have other ideas so she hides it from them. But when Jess and her friend Jules join a ladies team and get spotted by a talent scout, it all kicks off!...
• The Big Game
  The footballing heroes of Wendy Jenkins' successful first novel, Killer Boots (1996), are back in force with another terrific story based around Australian Rules Football. The Dockers are in the finals for the first time and Greg gets himself to Melbourne for the match against Geelong. Once there h...
• In the Zone
  The action heads to the mountains as Mitchell and Travis do battle for the legend of basketball. But with a major snowboarding competition happening at the same time, Mitchell will have to draw on all his will power to resist the temptation to do battle on the slopes rather than the court. Ages 10+...
• Indo Dreaming
  Goog's best mate Castro vanished into the Southern Ocean, but his body was never found. So Goog flies north, to Indonesia, chasing the ghost of his dead friend. He hooks up with Niagara and together they set off on a wild, gritty surf odyssey. A vivid, enigmatic novel for anyone who has the spirit ...
• Mr Noah and the Cats
  When Mr Noah eats late one night his wife blames his reslessnes on indigestion. Noah disagrees and tells her that God is going to flood the Earth and that he is to build and ark and gather two of every animal. But when collecting the animals Noah doesn't realise he has picked up two stowaway cats. ...
• House of the Scorpion
  MATTEO ALACRaN WAS NOT BORN HE WAS HARVESTED. His DNA came from El Patron, lord of a country called Opium -- a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, ...
• Lirael
  Sequel to the spellbinding, award-winning fantasy adventure, SABRIEL. Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother and ignorant of her father's identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her large, extended family living in the Clayr's Glacier. She doesn't even ha...
• Seventh Tower: Castle
  The world of The Seventh Tower is a remarkably intricate one, rich in detail and intrigue. Together, Tal and Milla must unravel the castle's mysteries - and find a place for themselves. For ages 9 to 12. Author is an Aus ... Also available as second-hand book from $10.00...
• Inkheart
  Meggie loves books. So does her father, Mo, a bookbinder, although he has never read aloud to her since her mother mysteriously disappeared. They live quietly until the night a stranger knocks at their door. He has come with a warning that forces Mo to reveal an extraordinary secret - a storytellin...
• Abhorsen
  Beneath the earth, a malignant force lies waiting, greedy for freedom from its ancient prison. As the Old Kingdom falls once more into a realm of darkness and terror, the people look desperately to the Abhorsen, the scourge of the Dead, to save them. Yet Abhorsen Sabriel is lost, missing in Ancelst...
• Listening to Mondrian
  This one time, listening to Mondrian has let me go beyond the prison bars.And if you've escaped once, I reckon, you're always able to break free, oneway or another...The characters in these compelling stories explore who they are, and howthey fit into their family, their community and their world. ...
• Mrs. Honey's Glasses
  The misfortunes of Mrs Honey's Hat have made young readers laugh for more than a decade. Now, they can follow Pam Adams's lovable grandmother in three new adventures: a dream adventure with pirates, a hilarious foreign holiday and the mystery of the missing glasses....
• Snow, Fire, Sword
  Dewi has never ventured beyond her village in the highlands of Jayangan, where she lives a comfortable life with her father, the respected village healer. But one day while working in the rice fields, she stumbles across Adi, and apprentice sword maker, alone and hiding from the bloodthirsty bandit...
• The Pig in the Pond
  A picture book about a pig who gets very hot and jumps in a pond, much to the surprise of the resident ducks and geese....
• Mr. Gumpy's Outing
  "Mr. Gumpy's scow becomes a miniature ark when he takes two children and one each of various domestic animals for a ride".--Kirkus Reviews. Full color., Boston Globe/Horn Book Award; Kate Greenaway Medal; New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book; Parents' Choice Award for Paperbacks...
• Little Wing
  Dear YouYou are here. I don't know how I know that this is the beginning of you. I just do. I should be afraid. But what I feel is, we can do this. You and I.When she was pregnant, Emmy had such high hopes for the future. But what happens when you can't love the baby you thought you'd adore?Sometim...
• Tintin and the Picaros
• In Ecstasy
  A best friend sinks into a quicksand of teenage addictions. Sophie and Mia have been best friends for most of their 15 years. Sophie is popular, so when she suggests they try ecstasy Mia figures it can't hurt her own chances with the in crowd. Mia is elated when the drug lives up to its name an...
• Blue Noon
  The Midnighters have emerged victorious from their greatest challenge. They now know much more about the secret history of Bixby and, with the halfling dead, the Grayfoots' link to the darklings has been severed. But the cost is high. Rex's horrific experience in the desert has left him damaged, pa...
• ABC of Australian Animals
  Australia is home to some of the world's most fascinating and unique wildlife. Ever since European explorers first landed on our coasts more than 300 years ago the rest of the world has been enthralled by Australia's animals. This is an informative guide to Australian animals, and their habitat and...
• ABC of Australian Birds
  Australia has some of the most beautiful and colourful birds in the world. In this book we are introduced to the unique Black Swan, the fascinating Golden Bowerbird, and the vivid Jacana which lays its eggs on lilypads and walks on water! For ages 7 and over....
• Awesome!
  Magical paintings and fantastic video stills, unreal plastic blow-ups and intricate models. This is the stuff for switched-on kids which captures the imagination and shows new ways to appreciate today's art. For ages 10-16 years....
• Let's Eat!
  Using a selection of common signs, these enchanting drawings help parents and their children communicate in sign language. Sparking an interest in sign language, putting an end to communication struggles, and enjoying greater understanding between child and parent are just some of the positive step...
• Blabbermouth
  Rowena Batts has no voice, but she is the world's biggest blabbermouth. She's just started at a new school so life's a bit of a challenge, her new friend Amanda is Pretty cool, but that Darryn Peck is a total pest. Rowena's dad is an apple farmer and aspiring country and western singer, but he just...
• Just Disgusting!
  TRADE EDITION: Take the disgusting quiz and find out! Do you do any or all of the following: pick your nose, talk in burps or wee in swimming pools? Do you ever wear the same undies two (or more) days in a row? Do you wish you knew the most disgusting thing in the world? Do you think Brussels sprou...
• Australia Locked Up
  Our prisons, detention centres and camps have housed convicts, POWs, Aborigines, women, children, refugees and asylum seekers. This is a clear and honest account of punishment and imprisonment in Australia, from the open jail of early Sydney to today's detention centres. For ages 10-14....
• It's True! Crime Doesn't Pay
  Psst! It's true! This is the best book on CRIME you'll ever read!Did you know that maggots can help solve crimes? That right-handed criminals run away to the left when they leave a crime scene? That the people who are best at detecting lies are not police but mothers?Once you had to catch a crook r...
• The Great Gatsby
  Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the "Jazz Age" firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of colour, and how these contribute to a seamles...
• The Faber Book of Greek Legends
  An anthology of 25 stories of classical heroes and heroines from 11 authors, including Charles Lamb, Andrew Lang, Rosemary Sutcliff and Roger Lancelyn Green. This edition is suitable for readers of 11 years and over....
• It's True! a Bushfire Burned My Dunny Down
  Psst! It's true! This is the best book on BUSHFIRES you'll ever read!Lou lost the soles of his feet. Shannon lost his outdoor dunny. Lucky lost her ears. Simone saved Lucky's life and Kelley saved the dirty washing.A firestorm fuelled by roaring winds can turn everything in its path to ash. Houses ...
• I Spy Funny Teeth Schrd
  Scholastic Readers are designed to support a child's efforts to learn how to read at every age and and every stage -- based on the best resesearch about how children learn to read. All-new, easy-to-read riddles by Jean Marzollo are paired with fun photographs culled from the best-selling I Spy b...
• The Binna Binna Man
  Shanell says that the Binna Binna Man is a bogeyman the old people made up to scare the kids. Her cousin is not so sure. He has a spirit guide that keeps him strong when he's in danger, so he knows that there's more to the world that Madonna and McDonalds. But when he has to rescue Shanell by himse...
• Big Rain Coming
  Everyone and everything is waiting for the rain. Rosie's kids, the panting dogs, the fat green frogs, and Old Stephen - for he predicts its arrival. But when will the big rain come? Shortlisted for 2002 Washington (State) Children's Choice Picture Book award. Ages 3-6....
• Black Water
  The wind, blasting up over the horizon from the south, carried with it the coldness of polar ice, and wielded it like a sword. Already the waves at the Heads would be heavy and huge, Farren knew, the gale rising so fiercely that there'd be wives down at the wharf waiting and praying for the bo...
• The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition
  The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" is among the most enduring document...
• Blast Off!
  Who could have believed that a toy robot made in Japan from scrap tin would one day fetch nearly $70,000 at a Sotheby's auction? Blast Off! chronicles the golden era of space toys, an age of imagination unbound by the more mundane realities of space travel ushered in by Sputnik and the Space Age. C...
• The Lovely Bones
  My name was Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her...
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  Harry Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon's house, which he thinks is normal for someone like him, whose parents were killed in a 'car crash'. He is bullied by his aunt and uncle, and his fat, spoilt cousin Dudley, and lives a very...
• The Last Day
  A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever...
• Antarctica
  A beautiful large-format history of a surprisingly fragile Eden. 'A journey to Antarctica changes your life. It forces you to take a long hard look at the state of our planet and its last wild places!Antarctica promises man the chance to do something that he has never done before -- commit to the p...
• Pearls
  A book with the luster and allure of its subject, Pearls is the most spectacular volume ever produced on this prized gem. Blending history, science, and the jeweler's art to celebrate these natural treasures - as in Abrams' hugely successful Amber - this lavishly illustrated volume, shimmering with...
• Beowulf: A New Translation
  Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem....
• The Iliad
  One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector...
• Weather
  In the tradition of Above the World and Inside the Body, this unique contemporary reference book takes the reader inside the weather as we experience it, from the outer atmosphere to under an umbrella. Weather explores not only the nature of extreme conditions such as hurricanes and tornadoes, but ...
• Necropolis
  From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mo...
• Survival
  When her Field Base is mysteriously attacked, Dr. Mackenzie Connor must flee for her life. Joining forces with an alien archaeologist, she escapes to his planet on a quest to find a defense against the unknown aggressors before they launch a full-scale invasion of Earth....
• Water Babies
  Whilst cleaning a chimney, Tom, emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and hot and bothered he slips into a cooling stream, falls asleep and becomes a Water Baby. After an arduous quest to the Other-end-of-Nowhere he achieves his heart's desire....
• In Union
  Twelve-year-old Christian Phillips doesn't think he will make the junior rugby team. When his parents give him a pair of footy boots before the trial - a gift from his late grandfather, a staunch Wallabies fan - Christian is still not convinced. Ages 8-12....
• Flushed
  When we consider the everyday amenities that really make a difference in our well being and happiness, surely good plumbing must rank near the top. But rarely do we take the time to appreciate the engineering marvels that bring clean water into our homes with the turn of a tap and that take our was...
• France
  "Time Out's" experts have traveled the length and breadth of France in search of the country's most perfect places, selecting 30 of its most inspiring destinations and showing readers the loveliest hotels, best places to eat and drink, and most compelling sights and landscapes, from remote Corsican...
• The Lost Boy
  In the stifling Australian heat of October 1993, a campsite the size of a small town was spontaneously created at a lonely desert roadhouse by the side of the Stuart Highway, which links Darwin with Alice Springs. The 1200 men and women who swagged on the unforgiving ground beside their horses, car...
• Mind Games
  What makes a winner - in business or in sport? Why do some people consistently break sales targets, cross the line first or hammer the ball in the net with pinpoint accuracy? Natural talent and disciplined training are vital. But with two equally matched professionals, something else makes the diff...
• My Family and Other Animals
  In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father. First comes Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar via Harrods pet department. He slept i...
• The Book of Everything
  Thomas sees amazing things that no one else can see: tropical fish swimming in the canal, sparrows playing bright trumpets and frogs wriggling through the letterbox. When his father hits his mother, Thomas sees the angels cover their eyes and weep. He writes it all down in The Book of Everything, i...
• Z for Zachariah
  Nuclear war has devastated America, except for the valley where Ann Burden has been living alone - until Loomis, a scientist in a radiation-proof suit, arrives. She hopes they will be companions but his behaviour towards her becomes threatening as he attacks her and then cuts off her food supply an...
• The Nightmare Game
  Hope has gone. Warren saw her being taken from her prison under their father's house but was too scared to intervene. Now he wishes he'd been brave enough to stop Rob, Emma, and Tom kidnapping her. His father is furious, but it's the behaviour of Warren's normally-cowed mother that's most frighteni...
• Come Away from the Water, Shirley
  On a day trip to the seaside, Mom and Dad settle down in their deck chairs to snooze the day away, while for Shirley, it's a chance to set sail for uncharted seas. "Come away from the water, Shirley," caution her parents. But Shirley has already set out on an adventure, where she enc...
• Hostage
  Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex, Amber. Five kids, who are a highly-skilled squad to help in the international fight against evil. Flying to Alaska to investigate reports of illegal dumping of toxic waste, they must dive into an icy river, cross the harsh landscape on snowmobiles and mobilise their caving ski...
• The Cabbage Patch Pong
  When the neighbours are forced the sell their farm, Chris is desperate to own the cows he has been milking. But Chris's dad cannot cope with the idea. Then, one moonlit night, Chris sneaks out and follows the cow, Petal, on a wild rampage, only to discover a crop of motherless cabbage patch babies....
• Zoo
  Kids won't be able to resist the animals in this GIANT fold-out flap book. Five different animals -- rhino, crocodile, giraffe, zebra, and lion -- are described in fun riddle-fashion. When they know the answer, readers fold out the extra-large flaps to reveal the animal in its habitat. Objects and ...
• Belvedere Dreaming
  Belvedere the koala dreams of the city and all its marvels. He has planned to go there for a long time and his journey is organised down to the last detail. But he is missing one very important thing: a companion! Somehow, no one is quite right ......