Sally Rippin

In her new falling-down home, in her new street, in her new suburb, Jelly waits for high school to begin. She can only feel happy up in the branches of the old apricot tree and by the creek at the back of the house. One night, Jelly and her cousins spot something in the creek's dark waters. At first they think it's a bird, but it isn't...it's a baby angel with a broken wing. And they decide to keep it. But soon things start to go wrong, and Jelly discovers that you can't just take something from where it belongs and expect that it won't be missed. Sally Rippin's Angel Creek is a book about growing up: being brave and selfish and tough and scared. It's a book about an angel. But not the sweet variety. It's a book about the things that change and the things that always stay the same.

Angel Creek

The Midnight Feast: Billie and Jack go camping in the backyard, but they find out it may be too scary all by themselves.

The Bad Butterfly & Other Stories

In this exploration of dyslexia, ADHD and neurodivergent people, best-selling author Sally Rippin asks: What happens to kids who don't learn how to read? And how can we help?

When Sally Rippin discovered her child was struggling to read, the best-selling children's author assumed it would sort itself out over time. She couldn't have been more wrong. Her son's dyslexia and ADHD went unsupported for years, leaving him further and further behind his peers, and labelled as 'difficult' by an education system that couldn't easily cater to neurodivergent kids. By the time Sally learned how to advocate for her child, it was - almost - too late.

This extraordinary book for parents is about how we learn to read and what can happen if we don't, through the eyes of a parent who started out by doing everything the wrong way. Through meticulous research, interviews with educational experts and conversations with neurodivergent adults, Rippin shares her brilliant and eye-opening insights into how we can help all kids find the joy in reading, and advocate for them within our schooling system. After all, they say school isn't for everyone, but if everyone must go to school - then why not?

How We Learn To Read and What Can Happen If We Don’t

Wild Things

Lucia Masciullo

It's 1956 . . . and Lina dreams of being a writer, but her strict Italian parents have other ideas. Now that she's won a scholarship to an expensive girls school, Lina has other troubles, too. To fit in, she must keep her home life a secret, and even her best friend Mary can't know the truth. But how long can Lina keep her two worlds apart? Meet Lina and join her adventures in the first of four exciting stories about a passionate girl finding a place to belong.

Meet Lina

Sienna and her twin have just moved house and started at a new school. Sienna is popular and her twin is shy. Sienna is outgoing and her twin is sensitive. But there is one other difference . . . Sienna's twin is a boy!

Twin Trouble

The Billie B Brown adventures are perfect for girls who are desperate to begin reading but are bored by daggy school readers! The new girl at school won’t stop copying Billie! It is so annoying. What can Billie do?

Billie B Brown: The Copycat Kid

Is being best friends enough to save a whole town? Polly and Buster have always believed that witches and monsters can be friends, but it seems no-one else agrees. With the witches furious and the monsters in uproar, their whole town is heading for a war ... and yet no-one realises that a much greater menace lurks nearby. Can Polly and Buster bring everyone together in time to save their town from the biggest danger of all? The thrilling finale to the much-loved Polly and Buster trilogy, written and illustrated by award-winning and best-selling author Sally Rippin.

Polly and Buster BOOK THREE

The Search for the Silver Witch

Centers friendship, family and emphathizing with others; about holding on to what is right in the face of peer pressure; themes of kindness and integrity; and author of the popular Billie B. Brown and Hey Jack! emergent reader series.Is being best friends enough to save a whole town?&nbspPolly and Buster have always believed that witches and monsters can be friends, but it seems no one else agrees. While the witches are furious and the monsters are in uproar, a much greater menace lurks nearby. Can Polly and Buster bring everyone together in time to save their town?

Polly and Buster

When Billie B. Brown goes to preschool, every day is a super-duper adventure!

Billie's Outer Space Adventure

Craig Smith

Babies have fun doing such daily activities as waking up, eating, getting clean, and going to sleep. On board pages.

Hush Baby Hush

Welcome to the School of Monsters: the funniest, silliest and most accessible series for first readers! Start by reading only the last word on every line and work your way up to reading the whole story. With tumbling rhymes and an infectious sense of humor, School of Monsters is guaranteed to spark a love of reading!

Frank Is a Big Help

Billie really wants to win the school hat parade. She has made lots of amazing hats! But when Billie gets stuck in bed with a horrible cold, will her hat parade plans be ruined?

The Hat Parade

Billie's going to a wedding! She's got the perfect outfit, and she can't wait to see all the fancy decorations. But what happens when the wedding doesn't live up to her dreams?

Billie B Brown #27

The Wonderful Wedding

Jack’s best friend got the solo that hewanted, and he’s a bit mad. But whenthings go wrong on concert night, canJack save the day?

The Scary Solo

Billie and her friends dare each other to explore the spooky house at the end of the street. They are sure it’s haunted. Sooo scary! But if anyone can handle ghosts, it’s Billie B Brown!

Spooky House

Is falling in love with a stranger what it means to be a foreigner?At eighteen, Anna is in limbo. She has decisions to make but stalls for time. Deferring her university studies in Australia, she visits her father in Shanghai. In an exotic environment, her life seems both better and worse- she loves learning Chinese painting but can't cope with being a foreigner, or with the chaos and heat of the city.Then the last thing she could have imagined happens- she falls in love with Chenxi, a young, mysterious fellow painter whose secret life in art and counter-revolutionary activities fascinates Anna. Their affair is passionate and fraught.Sally Rippin writes with a natural flair and an insider's voice about the torment of a teenager on the verge of adulthood. She evokes the thrills and spills of being a foreigner in the topsy-turvy world of China.Chenxi is a remarkable novel for young adults that confronts adolescent sexual experience, pregnancy and cross-cultural questions in an extraordinarily vivid and compelling story.

Chenxi and the Foreigner

Roman réunissant neuf aventures mettant en scène Lili B Brown, une fillette espiègle. Des illustrations en noir et blanc accompagnent ces histoires de lecture facile, dont certains mots sont rehaussés en caractère gras. Langage populaire. À noter que des activités sont proposées en fin d'ouvrage. [SDM].

Le Grand Livre de Lili B Brown

Kids LOVE Hey Jack! Join in with this hilarious blockbuster series from the award-winning Sally Rippin, author of the Billie B Brown and School of Monsters series! It’s Jack’s turn to look after the class toy for the weekend! But things don’t go as he planned. Will it be a disaster? Jack is a friendly, everyday kid who loves playing soccer and always tries to be brave. Each down-to-earth story in the series follows Jack on a fun new adventure that kids will love and relate to. Each book is carefully designed with word art and illustrations, and there are no mountains of text or super-tricky words to intimidate the early reader. So join the fun and read along!

The Special Guest

Kids LOVE Hey Jack! Join in with this hilarious blockbuster series from the award-winning Sally Rippin, author of the Billie B Brown and School of Monsters series! Jack has found some insect eggs in his backyard. He can’t wait for them to hatch. But what’s inside? Jack is a friendly, everyday kid who loves playing soccer and always tries to be brave. Each down-to-earth story in the series follows Jack on a fun new adventure that kids will love and relate to. Each book is carefully designed with word art and illustrations, and there are no mountains of text or super-tricky words to intimidate the early reader. So join the fun and read along!

The Backyard Mystery

Jess gets slimy and sticky like glue. Don’t get too close or she’ll stick to you! Jess can slip and slide all over the school – but when it’s too hot, things get a little sticky. Will she find a way to keep cool? Welcome to the School of Monsters: the funniest, silliest and most accessible series for first readers! Start by reading only the last word on every line and work your way up to reading the whole story. With tumbling rhymes and an infectious sense of humour, the weird and wonderful students at the School of Monsters are guaranteed to spark a love of reading!

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