When Nonna (grandmother) arrives from Italy to stay with Mum, Dad, Paul and Mark everyone has to make adjustments. Paul finds a kissing Nonna a total embarrassment and Mark discovers his clothes never ...
Tim has one big worry: he's the smallest person in his class. Molly, the tallest, is also the school bully – she invents the hated nickname "Tiny Timmy".
Maybe a magic growing potion would help? Tim ...
After Dad's death, the Fowler family move to Alderley, on the city outskirts. Mum, Paul, Kim and little sister Jess quickly settle into their new lives. The local creek, surrounded by tall trees and ...
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When Maddie lived in Vietnam, she was called Mai Linh. Her older brother, Mitchell, was known as Minh. They were given their new names when they came to Australia and went to Boundary Park school. Mad ...
It's bad enough being the smartest kid in the school, but when you're a girl, and when your father still thinks it's a man's world, and when you never learned to back down from an argument, it's even ...
Short Listed CBCA Book of the Year Awards 1996
"Cease and desist! Stand fast and release your prisoner!" – Peter, a new boy at Park Ridge school, is thankful to be rescued from the school bullies by ...
What do radishes, postcards from overseas, a dinosaur plant and a cure for warts have in common? They all play their part in some very unusual happenings, after the Witch (alias Liz) moves into the ho ...
Ten stories which recapture the world of childhood. Simple pleasures and excitements – going to the drive-in; the dancing class; staying with Nana at Christmas; choosing books at the library – are rec ...
Ollie spells t-r-o-u-b-l-e! He's also passionate about animals. Together with Mum, Dad, sister Alana, older brother Nathan and assorted pets, Ollie lives in tropical Cairns, above the family's very ow ...
New neighbours move in next door to Trent and his family, in a little town nestled below the hills of the Burra Range. The Teboitabu family has come from Kiribati, in the Islands, and Trent and Joseph ...