MWF 2009 Schools Program Authors
The Billionaire's Curse
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Someone has stolen the world’s most valuable diamond and a constable lies unconscious in the British Museum, two sedative darts protruding from his backside.
Not something Gerald Wilkins knows or cares anything about. Buy or find out more →
Finnikin Of The Rock
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But th... Buy or find out more →
Tales From Outer Suburbia
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
CBCA Older Readers Book of the Year 2009
Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?
Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?
Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?
Shaun Tan, cre... Buy or find out more →
Specials: Uglies Book 3
$14.95 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
In this final book of the Uglies trilogy, Tally has been transformed from a repellent ugly to supermodel pretty. Now shes a super-amped fighting machine. Her mission is to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid. Bu... Buy or find out more →
The 10PM Question
$15.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Frankie Parsons is twelve going on old man, an apparently sensible, talented boy with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head:
Are the smoke alarm batteries flat?
Does the cat, and therefore ... Buy or find out more →
Where The Streets Had A Name
$19.99 – Trade paperback / Pan Macmillan
"I need to see Sitti Zeynab one last time. To know if I will have the courage to go ahead with my plan. The two nurses look frazzled and smile wearily at me. 'We must leave now,' they say in urgent tones. 'I won't be lon... Buy or find out more →
Screw Loose
$17.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
"I can catch tennis balls in my mouth!" - Matilda
"You may sneer, but they all adore me." - Chelsea Dean
"She's cute, but if she bites try rubbing her tummy" - Craig
R
"Go Cockies!" - A. Tarano - chick magnet
"I do own a... Buy or find out more →
A Ghost In My Suitcase
$16.95 – Paperback book / Puffin
The flute music stops, and my breath catches in my throat. Silence falls like a veil. Then I hear something - no, I feel it in my chest. 'Steady yourself,' Por Por whispers. 'It's here . . . '
When Celeste travels to Chi... Buy or find out more →
The Signal
$14.95 – Compact disc / Elefant Trax
URTHBOY is back!! The new album is called ‘The Signal’.
From humble beginnings with fellow label mates HERMITUDE in the Blue Mountains, Urthboy now commands attention as co-frontman for renowned hip hop crew THE HERD... Buy or find out more →
Shakespeare: The Most Famous Man In London
$18.99 – Paperback book / Black Dog Books Kids
Young,handsome and talented, actor and playwright Will Shakespeare’s plays are packing them in The Globe. He is without a doubt the most famous man in London.
But Will is more than a celebrity.
He is a skilled swordsma... Buy or find out more →
Tracey Binns Is Lost
$16.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
A funny and heartwarming story from the popular author of Tracey Binns is Trouble.
Tracey Binns is lost and the last thing she wants is to be stuck with Justin Zit-Face and her annoying teacher, Mr Gunning!
Tracey's scho... Buy or find out more →
Genie In Training: Tweenie Genie Book One
$16.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Poppy is just an ordinary girl. In fact, the only slightly strange thing about her is that she's great at squeezing into small spaces. So it's a pretty big shock when she finds a strange looking bottle on her 12th birthd... Buy or find out more →
Mr Chicken Goes To Paris
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
From the creator of Old Tom, Horrible Harriet and Fiona the Pig comes the unforgettable and riotous Mr Chicken! What's in store for Mr Chicken in the City of Love, and how will the Parisians react?
'The world's most beau... Buy or find out more →
Loving Richard Feynman
$17.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Catherine is a science-loving fifteen-year-old. Richard helped build the atom bomb. Catherine's just trying to survive school.
When your life is falling apart around y... Buy or find out more →
Inheritance
$21.95 – Paperback book / Currency
The Myrtle twins, Dibs Hamilton and Girlie Delaney, are turning 80. As the family gathers to celebrate, speculation grows as to who will be the one to inherit the family property, Allandale, when the ageing Farley Hamilt... Buy or find out more →
Growing Up Asian In Australia
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Asian-Australians are known to each other and the outside world by many labels: Quiet Achiever. FOB. Gangster Chigger. Mainlander. Banana. But are these labels based on some degree of truth, or only fiction? What is it l... Buy or find out more →
Bloke
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Jim Bloke's your typical Aussie, sort of. Being an orphan he's done it tough in the past, but he knows how to take care of himself and he has an affinity with life's important things. So when he takes a job as a sea-urch... Buy or find out more →
Love You Two
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
'Then something shifted. I don't know when what used to make me content began to make me cringe; when my adoration of her turned to irritation. Was it adolescence? Was it a mother-daughter thing?'
Pina's friends think sh... Buy or find out more →
Rooftops
$25.00 – Paperback book /
Debut novel from local Melbourne artist Mandy Ord. Buy or find out more →
Bombshells
$21.95 – Paperback book / Currency
Six monologues made famous by the diva Caroline O'Connor, exposing six women balancing their inner and outer lives with humour and often desperate cunning. They range in age from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow ... Buy or find out more →
Vulture's Gate
$15.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
It is 40 years into the future and the world is in turmoil. A plague has destroyed humans' ability to conceive females, or so Callum thinks until he meets Bo. A page-turning adventure unfolds as the pair rely on each oth... Buy or find out more →
Arrival: The Phoenix Files One
$16.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Luke is having a rough year. His parents split up. Then his mum moves to Phoenix, a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, and she drags Luke along with her. But Phoenix is no ordinary town. It was built from the ground up ... Buy or find out more →
The City And The City
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borl of the Extreme Crime Squad. Buy or find out more →
Jarvis 24
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Winner of the 2010 CBCA Book of the Year award for Older Readers.
So far, Marc E. Jarvis has lost a white football boot, a school tie and a best friend. But there's more in store for him when he completes Work Experience... Buy or find out more →
Bruising: A Boxer’s Story
$32.95 – Paperback book / Vulgar Press
Bruising is the story of Merz’s long love affair with the art of boxing - from throwing and receiving her first punches - to competing in an Australian amateur title fight and beyond. Boxing opens her to new ideas about ... Buy or find out more →
The Greatest Blogger In The World
$16.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Charlie Ridge has one small goal in life - to be the Greatest Blogger in the World.
The internet has been in a frenzy since a competition began to win the website address www.thegreatestbloggerintheworld.com, and Charlie... Buy or find out more →
Into White Silence
$24.95 – Paperback book / Woolshed Press
During the winter of 1922, the Exploration Vessel RAVEN became trapped in the Antarctic icepack, entombing 28 men aboard it through the dark, polar night. INTO WHITE SILENCE tells their story - a story of a lost past, of... Buy or find out more →
Just Macbeth
$14.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Take one Shakespearean tragedy: Macbeth.
Add Andy, Danny and Lisa – the Just trio, whose madcap exploits have already delighted hundreds of thousands of readers for the last ten years.
Mix them all together to create o... Buy or find out more →
Miss McAllister's Ghost
$18.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR HELICOPTER MAN
When Cassandra and her brothers climb the garden wall hoping to spot the ghost in the old hollow-eyed house, they have no idea what awaits within. Suddenly, and... Buy or find out more →
The Push
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Love is just about the only hold anyone can have over another person; if you have that, nothing else is necessary.
'Is she - was she with Johnno?' asked Erica. 'It doesn't work like that,' Trish said. 'It's more . . . fl... Buy or find out more →
The Beginner's Guide To Living
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Seventeen-year-old Will is clever but he can't find answers to any of his questions after his mother dies in a car accident. His father seems to be drifting and his older brother stays away from home. And Will just can't... Buy or find out more →
Third Transmission
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Six of Hearts is sealed inside a torpedo, blasting his way at 300 kilometres an hour towards a warship. His mission: to steal canisters containing a weaponised strain of the SARS virus. If he fails, ChaoSonic will use th... Buy or find out more →
Hey Joe
$18.95 – Paperback book / Vulgar Press
Hey Joe, written by Michael Hyde, is the story of Jimi Thorn, a young man who has been brought up almost solely by his mother, Molly. His father Joe Thorn played a prominent role in the anti-Vietnam War protests, but see... Buy or find out more →
Sunblind
$14.00 – Paperback book /
A surprising and very likely award-winning debut collection from an established Melbourne performer. Over 300 copies sold since its launch in November 2008! This one is special... and it's printed on top quality 100% rec... Buy or find out more →
Grace
$19.95 – Paperback book / Viking
From the bestselling and award winning author of Once, Then and Boy Overboard comes the story of Grace Hillgrove.
In the beginning there was me and Mum and Dad and the twins.
And talk about happy families, we were bounti... Buy or find out more →
Outside In
$16.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
The cool group at school is not as luminous as it seems. Sure they appear to have it all, but there are problems lurking just below the surface.
Beautiful Jordan is struggling to cope because of her newly divorced parent... Buy or find out more →
Shadowboxing
$27.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Michael's working-class Catholic family live as though under siege, surviving poverty and violence, as well as his father's drinking and rage. Set against this darkness, Michael is a Huck Finn character, with the Yarra R... Buy or find out more →
How To Ditch Your Fairy
$17.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
At New Avalon, everyone has a personal fairy - some less desirable than others: Charlie's fairy ensures that she always has a car park, which seems to pale in comparison to Fiorenze's all-the-boys-like-you fairy. Hilario... Buy or find out more →
Wardragon: Jelindel Chronicles Book 4
$23.95 – Paperback book / Ford Street Publishing
Wardragon is the culmination of the soaring saga of The Jelindel Chronicles. Finally Jelindel, with her allies, Zimak and Daretor, has tracked the alien mailshirt across two radically different worlds. Buy or find out more →
Don't Start Me Talking: Lyrics 1984 to 2004
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
There is something unique and powerful about the way Kelly mixes
up everyday detail with the big issues of life, death, love and
struggle-not a trace of pretence or fakery in there.' - Neil
Finn
'At its best, Paul Kelly'... Buy or find out more →
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
$23.95 – Paperback book / Red Fox Books
Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us . . .
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his count... Buy or find out more →
Tender Morsels
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. It is a tale of journeys and transformations, penetrating the boundaries between male and female, reality and myth, con... Buy or find out more →
Last Of The Braves
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
ALEX banged on the windscreen with his fists, wolf-whistling and howling . . . 'We are the bravi, Ces. No one has a clue about who we are.'
Under the influence of his idol, the hot-headed seventeenth-century Italian pain... Buy or find out more →
A Riddle Of Green: The Legend Of Little Fur Book Four
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
'The words of the deepest foretellings are riddles that want solving.'
'A riddle,' Little Fur echoed, and the word tasted tricky and complicated on her tongue and in her mind.
'Only in understanding the riddle can its so... Buy or find out more →
Everything Beautiful
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
I believe in Chloe and chocolate. I believe the best part is always before. I believe that most girls are shifty and most guys are dumb. I believe the more you spill, the less you are. I don't believe in life after death... Buy or find out more →
The Big Picture Book Of Human Civilisation
$32.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
With stunning images and a child-friendly text based on the latest scientific research, the award-winning author of The Big Picture Book sets out the biggest milestones in human history since the last great Ice Age.
In w... Buy or find out more →