Category: Junior Readers | Series: Polly and Buster
From Australia's best-selling female author, Sally Rippin, comes Polly and Buster - a brand new junior fiction series about the magic of friendship. Who ever heard of a witch and a monster being friends? Everyone knows that witches don't mix with monsters. Witches ...Show more
Category: Middle Readers | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
A brilliantly rich and strange fantasy adventure that will make us all believe in monsters - be they good, bad or somewhere in between. It is a well-known fact that fairies are born from a baby's first laugh. What is not as well documented is how monsters come into being ... This is the story of a creat ...Show more
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Red Read Adventures Ser. | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Expelled from school, he is whisked off by Captain Black Bowen, one of the most infamous smugglers ever to ply the coast of northern Australia in the early years of the twentieth century. Together they battle demon storms, crazed pirates and killer diseases while hunting down a great lost treasure. Non- ...Show more
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Unmapped Chronicles | Reading Level: 7.5 Kids First Reader
'Adventures are unpredictable and often terribly badly behaved - a bit like pickled onions if you've ever tried to fork one on a plate - but they have a way of unlocking people and turning them upside down so that all the astonishing things fizzing around inside them start to tumble out...' Elev ...Show more
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous Malamander creep… Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows t ...Show more
Category: Middle Readers
The Middler is a gripping story of forbidden friendship, loyalty and betrayal set in a near-future world. 'I was special. I was a hero. I lost the best friend I ever had.' Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in Fennis Wick, enclosed and protected from the outside world by a boundary, beyond which the Quiet W ...Show more
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Storm Keeper Quartet
Catherine Doyle's stunning middle-grade debut, an evocative tale of ancient magic, bravery, and family bonds."Fans of Harry Potter or Percy Jackson can add Fionn Boyle as a generous and brave hero from the Emerald Isle." - School Library Connection When Fionn Boyle sets foot on Arranmore Island, it beg ...Show more
Category: Middle Readers
From the author of the multi-award-winning and bestselling How To Bee comes an intense and thrilling new adventure. '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 broth ...Show more
Category: Junior Readers | Series: Toffle Towers | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Toffle Towers hotel has been run by a Toffle for over one hundred years - and it's about to be inherited by the next generation. Chegwin Toffle is only ten years old. But he isn't going to let that stop him from turning this run-down hotel into a success. Chegwin is determined to transform Toffle Towers ...Show more
Category: Middle Readers
An action-packed middle-grade story that explores friendship, bullying, and living with a disability Ian and Warren, better known as Sticks and Ranga, are best friends. They live on the same street, go to the same school and love the same things, like skateboarding and PlayStation. When new kid J ...Show more
Category: Middle Readers | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
"Red Read's life takes a surprising u and alarming u turn when his mother sells him to an infamous smuggler plying his trade off the north-west coast of Australia in the closing days of the 19th century. From terrifying encounters with cut-throat pirates to battling the forces of nature in a tropical ty ...Show more
Category: Middle Readers
This coming-of-age story by multiple-award-winner Meg McKinlay is about loss and grief, dealing with change and fighting to hold on to what you can, while letting go of what you can't. It's 1979 and the sky is falling. Skylab, that is. Somewhere high above Frankie Avery, one of the world's first space ...Show more
