Katrina Nannestad

THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING AUSTRALIAN WRITER KATRINA NANNESTAD Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that she will keep her brother and sister safe. But sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things. Sometimes to survive, you must become a wolf. Bestselling author Katrina Nannestad returns with her most masterful novel yet - a book to crack open your heart, a book to light you up inside, a book to love.

We Are Wolves

When orphaned, 10-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmotherin a remoteisland village, she brings joy and laughter into her grandmother's life, and ends up changing the climate of the whole town and finding a new family. "

When Mischief Came to Town

Red Dirt Diary 3

Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ... Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My sister pokes her bruised face out from beneath the table and shouts, 'Run, Sasha! Run!' So I run. I run like a rabbit. It's spring, 1942. The sky is blue, the air is warm and sweet with the scent of flowers. And then everything is gone. The flowers, the proud geese, the pretty wooden houses, the friendly neighbours. Only Sasha remains. But one small boy, alone in war-torn Russia, cannot survive. One small boy without a family cannot survive. One small boy without his home cannot survive. What that small boy needs is an army. From the award-winning author of We Are Wolves comes the story of a young boy who becomes a soldier at six, fighting in the only way he can -- with love. But is love ever enough when the world is at war?

Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief

Red Dirt Diary is the hilarious tale of eleven-year-old tomboy Blue Weston, who lives with her family on a property outside Dubbo.

Red Dirt Diary

Red Dirt Diary 2

Blue about Love

The third adventure in this incomparably witty and charming series from award-winning author Katrina Nannestad. How absolutely splendid! Dust the doorknobs. Polish the silver. Roll out the red carpet. The Queen is coming to Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers for tea! Nothing, absolutely nothing, could possibly spoil this right royal moment. Except for the return of scheming villain, Pig McKenzie ... and the arrival of a strange, harsh woman called Thistlebloom ... and the fact that the Inspector of Schools has promised to close the doors of Groves forever if the Queen's visit does not run smoothly ... Oh deary, deary me! Nothing ever runs smoothly at Groves! Someone needs to take control. Someone clever, brave and practical. Someone with big ideas and an even bigger heart. Someone named Olive. But does our beloved heroine have what it takes, or is this the end of Groves, once and for all? Ages 8-12

Olive of Groves and the Right Royal Romp

The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad. I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl. I am. I am. I am. It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in full flight when eight-year-old Zofia Ulinski is kidnapped by the Germans. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, just like the other Polish children taken from their families and robbed of their names, their language, their heritage. But when Zofia is adopted into a wealthy and loving German family, it is easier, it is safer to bury her past, deep down, so everything is forgotten. Until the Polish boy arrives. And the past comes back to haunt her. From Katrina Nannestad, multi-award-winning author of We Are Wolves and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief, comes a story about family lost and found, and the choices we make when we don't have a choice at all. AWARDS Notable - CBCA Younger Reader's Book 2023

Waiting for the Storks

The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in elegant Paris where she meets Pierre, a talented but anxious artist who cannot bear to give up his paintings, even to sell them. He's miserable and poor. His customers are cross. Mim knows they're here to help Pierre. To calm him down. To turn him into a successful artist. To make him truly happy. If only Mim could find him the right book. If only Dad would stop getting muddled and giving everyone the wrong book. The glistening new adventure from award-winning author Katrina Nannestad and beloved illustrator Cheryl Orsini.

Mim and the Anxious Artist (The Travelling Bookshop, #3)

Manchmal ist es gut, wild zu sein. Manchmal muss man es sogar sein. Liesl hat ihrer Mama versprochen, auf Otto und Mia aufzupassen. Sie ist die Älteste, sie hat die Verantwortung. Um nicht der Roten Armee in die Hände zu fallen, schlagen sich die drei Geschwister im bitterkalten Winter alleine durch die Wälder und Sümpfe Ostpreußens, immer auf der Suche nach Nahrung und einem Unterschlupf für eine Nacht. Als sie eines Tages auf drei verwahrloste Jungen stoßen, die ihnen vom Kriegsende und dem Tod Hitlers erzählen, sind es auch diese drei, die Liesl die Augen öffnen: »Ihr seid wild, Wölfe wie wir.« Und Liesl muss den Jungen recht geben. In einer Welt, in der Kinder auf sich allein gestellt auf der Flucht sind, müssen sie zu Wölfen werden, um zu überleben. Wölfe lassen sich nicht erwischen. Wölfe geben aber auch nicht auf. Und manchmal geschieht ein Wunder. Ein spannender Kinderroman über das bewegende Schicksal der Wolfskinder

Ein berührender Roman über eine Flucht im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Wir sind Wölfe

'Exciting, imaginative, charming and very, very funny' - Judith Rossell, award-winning author of WITHERING-BY-SEA on OLIVE OF GROVES 'Oh deary, deary me!' Mrs Groves cried. 'It really is! Right here! On the front porch to my esteemed Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers!' She was quite flabbergasted at the sight of it. Finally, however, she managed to get the words out. 'It's a ... a ... What is it? Not a naughty boy. Not a talking animal. Not even a circus performer. Oh me, oh my! It's a time traveller!' When last we met Olive, she had defeated school bully and all-round nasty swine, Pig McKenzie, and proved her acrobatic skills, earning herself a place at Groves. But when a twelve-year-old time traveller lands on the doorstep, trouble is just a minute away, and soon Olive is off on an adventure as big as time itself ... Ages 8-12

Olive of Groves and the Great Slurp of Time

Lucia Masciullo

Little girls who adore a boarding school romp, who love humorous, snappy, sharp heroines, have a penchant for scrapes or who have ever dreamt of running off to join the circus will fall in love with Olive of Groves. Ages: 8+ Olive lives with her beloved grandparents in a small, isolated community. Her grandparents have scrimped and saved to send her to boarding school where she can meet kids her own age. It's not exactly what Olive expected, in fact, Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers isn't what anybody really expected! Faced with disappointing her grandparents, Olive, who is not a boy nor a talking animal, pretends to be an acrobat so that she can stay on. Now she has a month to learn how to leap, somersault and overcome her fear of heights. With exploding lamingtons, a vicious school bully, talking animals and new faces, can Olive leap over these obstacles, become an actual acrobat and find a place to fit in? Ages 8+

Olive of Groves

The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in a pretty Dutch village where she meets Willemina, a kind and gentle child, who is being bullied by a girl named Gerda. Mim knows they're here to help Willemina. To change her life. To make her strong and brave and happy. If only Dad would find her the right book. If only he would stop giving everyone else the wrong book! From the beloved author of The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome and We Are Wolves comes an enchanting series for young readers.

Mim and the Baffling Bully (The Travelling Bookshop, #1)

The Travelling Bookshop

I'm designing a dress. A fabulous dress for Mrs Dawson. My name's Charlotte, but you can call me Lottie. I'm a fashion designer. At least, that's my thing this week.--Provided by publisher.

Lottie Perkins, Fashion Designer (Lottie Perkins, Book 4)

Illustrated novel for readers aged five to eight. Designed for newly independent or reluctant readers. Recounts the daily life of a one-room bush school called Bungaloo Creek through the eyes of 10-year-old Josie Simpson and her ex-city teacher Mr G. Author has taught at a bush school. This is her first book. Illustrator regularly contributes to 'School Magazine' and illustrates the Crazy Tales series.

Bungaloo Creek

The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived on a charming Greek Island, where a wedding is about to take place. Everyone is excited - everyone, that is, except the bride and groom. Mim knows they're here to help Anjelica, the bride. To stop the wedding. To set her free to follow her dreams. If only Anjelica would read the right book, the one Mim gave her. If only she would stop reading the wrong book. From award-winning author Katrina Nannestad and beloved illustrator Cheryl Orsini comes an enchanting series for young readers.

Mim and the Woeful Wedding (The Travelling Bookshop, #2)

He's the world's vaguest novelist. She's a shy and unusual child. Together, they're travelling the world, one book a time. 'QUITE SIMPLY THE BEST SORT OF READING PLEASURE FROM THE FIRST PAGE TO THE LAST' -- Raven's Parlour Bookstore For the first ten years of Freja's life, she and her mother Clementine have roamed the Arctic in search of zoological wonders. Happy, content, together. Freja and Clem. Clem and Freja. But now, everything is changing, and Clementine must send Freja away to live with her old friend Tobias, a bestselling crime writer and, quite possibly, the most absent-minded man on earth. Tobias isn't used to life with a child, and Freja isn't used to people at all, but together they'll stumble into an Italian adventure so big that it will change things forever ... Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad returns with a delicious new series about family, friendship and finding yourself. AWARDS Notable Book - CBCA Book of the Year Awards Shortlisted - 2018 Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards

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