Sonya Hartnett

Struggling with insecurity stemming from her cruel-spirited and fickle friends and her own adolescent awkwardness, 14-year-old Plum worshipfully emulates a glamorous young wife who lives in her 1980s Australian suburb, unaware that the woman hides a personal agenda. By the author of Surrender.

Butterfly

This is a romantic tale about a young girl's love for a boy named Feather. At the beginning, Maddy comes home to find a teenage boy sitting in her living room. She does not know him, but tells the boy the story of her life and her life with Feather. At the story's end we find the boy is Maddy's unborn child and she is dead. Ages 13+. Winner of Children's Book Council of Australia Awards: Book of the Year - Older Readers 2008. Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - SE Asia and South Pacific 2008.

The Ghost's Child

Under the cover of darkness, two brothers cross a war-ravaged countryside carrying a secret bundle. One night they stumble across a deserted town reduced to smouldering ruins. But at the end of a blackened street they find a small green miracle: a zoo filled with animals in need of hope.

The Midnight Zoo

Sent to the English countryside for safety during World War II, Cecil and Jeremy find themselves in the company of a young refugee named May with whom they encounter two mysterious boys in the ruins of a nearby castle. By the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award-winning author of Surrender.

The Children of the King

The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand and self-combustion. Adrian watches his suburban world, but there is much he cannot understand. He does not, for instance, know why three neighbourhood children might set out to buy ice-cream and never come back home ...

Of A Boy

As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan, realizing that only the most extreme measures will rid himself of Finnigan for good. Reprint.

Surrender

One bright spring morning in the woods of France, a soldier, blinded by the war, is found by a little girl named Coco, and her older sister Marcelle. In return for their kindness, the soldier tells the sisters marvellous tales, each story connected to the keepsake he carries in his pocket: a perfect, tiny silver donkey. As the days pass and they struggle in secret to help the soldier reach home, Coco and Marcelle learn the truth behind the silver donkey, and what the precious object means: honesty, loyalty, and courage. This is a joyful and enchanting novel for all ages.

The Silver Donkey

Thursday's Child

"First published by Penguin Group (Australia) 2014."

Golden Boys

While the residents of his town concern themselves with the disappearance of three children, a lonely, rejected nine-year-old boy worries that he may inherit his mother's insanity. Reprint.

What the Birds See

When Oliver Willow makes friends with an outsider interested in discovering his family's secrets it leads to violence

Sleeping Dogs

Surrender by Sonya Hartnett

Hannah and her hands, named Sadie and Ratz, regularly get into trouble, especially when younger brother Baby Boy is around.

Sadie and Ratz

Set in the French countryside during World War I, this gently told fable of a lost soldier, heroic children, and a steadfast donkey explores rich territory in a tale of kindness, loyalty, and courage.

A Novel for Children

Gümüs Esek

Helena Ridelberg

Fjäril

A gentle exploration of a child's realisation that it is her individual differences and creativity that make her special, with stunning illustrations by the talented Gabriel Evans that delicately and sensitively convey the child's emotional journey. A young child describes her qualms about going to school and how hard she finds asking the teacher for help, how she feels shy about making friends, not being funny or a fast runner. But through her love of art, a conversation with her mother and her observations about nature she comes to see that being different might not be a bad thing after all. I lay down and put my nose in the grass. The grass was dotted with yellow flowers, but blue ones grew there too. I rolled over and looked at the trees and the clouds, and thought about things for a while. 'Not all clouds are white,' I said, and Piccolo looked at me. 'Not all trees are tall. Not all birds are brown. Not all cats are tabby like you, Piccolo. Some are black. Some are orange. Some are calico.' Piccolo swished his stripy tail. I plucked a flower and showed it to him. 'This flower isn't yellow, but it isn't wrong. It is what it's supposed to be. No one would want it to be yellow. Everyone would say it's lovely just the way it is.' A beautifully told story about being happy in yourself for who you are from one of Australia's finest writers.

Blue Flower

Louie has finished with her old life, and stepped into a world of sinners. For her, nothing is going to be the same again. This darkly funny, disturbing novel explores a lawless world where morality is a nuisance, everything can be bought, and the prices paid are high.

All My Dangerous Friends

A delightful story from the award-winning team who brought us Come Down, Cat! that celebrates friendship, courage and the value of those we love. When Nicholas finds a silver coin in the garden, he tells his cat, 'I can buy liquorice with this!' Nicholas loves liquorice more than almost anything. 'Stay home, cat,' he says, and sets out for the shop. But as Nicholas walks down the street he hears a voice he knows . . .

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