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. More »
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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... 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... More »
Review
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... More »
The 10PM Question
$17.95 (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 ... More »
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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... More »
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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
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"Go Cockies!" - A. Tarano - chick magnet
"I do own a... 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... 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... More »
Shakespeare: The Most Famous Man In London
$18.99 (Paperback book / Black Dog Books )
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... More »
The Night Garden
$27.95 (Hardcover book / Abc Books )
One night while Sally is staying at her grandmother's old house, she discovers a mystical garden in the backyard. Transformed from neat hedges and flower beds, to twisted shapes and creatures, the garden is now a place f... 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... 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... 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?
Description
'The world... 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... 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... More »
Growing Up Asian In Australia
$27.95 (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... More »
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Love You Two
$18.95 (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... 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 ... 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... 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 ... More »
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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. 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 ... 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... More »
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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... 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... More »
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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... 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... 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... 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... More »
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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... 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... 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. 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'... 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... 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... More »
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Romulus, My Father
$25.00 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
The award-winning and best-selling account of Raimond Gaita's father's life has been turned into a feature film, starring Eric Bana.
Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came t... 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... 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... More »
Everything Beautiful
$11.95 (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... 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... More »