Patricia Bernard

Billy Shanghai Hamilton has been blackbirded-snatched by pirates in the Torres Strait and forced to work on a pearling boat. Greed for pearls drives men mad, and the seas are full of danger. Soon Billy is fighting for survival in a dangerous world of assassins, treasure hunters, deep-sea diving, underworld crime and mutiny.

Claw of the Dragon

My Australian Story

The glass walls are fracturing, and Oriacan war drums roll toward Megalopolis. Racing across the razor-edged Glass Teeth Peaks, Fish, Ari, Weed, and Branch carry one impossible demand: unite Megas and Zoners or perish together. Betrayed by rebel armies, trapped by shape-shifting priests, and shadowed by a god of molten glass, Fish must become more than a breaker of chains--he must forge the rules of a new world. Stand together, or watch prophecy turn to ash and the world to ruins.

Rule Changer

Sixteen-year-old Fish--white-haired throwback and embarrassment to his village--is shoved across the border into the Arid Zone and told to vanish. Survival means finding the outlaw brothers who want nothing to do with him, dodging rebel ambushes and Southern raiders, and learning the brutal rules of Megalopolis: the five-walled silver city that trades weather-control for the Zoners' food. Armed with little more than a flute, a hunting knife, and an unshakeable belief that the world's cruel divisions can change, Fish stumbles into a conspiracy for stolen Knowledge Chips--devices the Megas use instead of learning. If he can't outwit city guards, rival scavenger clusters, and the sinister High Mega who covets his strange green eyes, he'll lose far more than his freedom. Pushed over the wall, but never willing to stay in a box, Fish will either rewrite the rules--or die an Outcast.

Outcast

Kangaroo Kids

George thinks Mr McGinness and Mr Fysh are too cocky and too flaming young. But I reckon if you've been to war, flown flying machines and shot guns at other flying machines... then you can't be too young for anything. Jack McLaren's dream is to be an automobile mechanic. When his uncle offers him an apprenticeship in Longreach, Jack is soon on the first automobile ever to travel the Gult Track from Longreach to Katherine. The long trip to central Queensland heralds something new: the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service is about to be born.

Fords and Flying Machines

Goat Girl and Garden Boy

Five children held captive in an ever-changing forest, trapped by their own memory loss, face the battle of their lives to overcome evil and reclaim their birthright. Why do they only have some memories for one day? What is the purpose of the Three Moons' Song? Which of their magical gifts will allow the children to conquer the riddles of the imprisoned mermaid, the chained eagle and the frozen dragon? Adventure and danger abound as Lyla, Celeste, Lem, Chad and Swift face enchanters, murderers, shape thieves, monsters and slave traders to save all that is precious to them.

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