Scar Town by Tristan Bancks
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
A missing father. A drowned town. A buried secret. Three friends on a dangerous mission to uncover the truth.Seven years after Old Scarborough was drowned, a house is emerging from the water. Will and his friends Dar and Juno dare each other to explore it.But when they find bones - and a stash of cash - ...Show more
Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth by Anna Fienberg
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Frances is in a new house in a new neighbourhood and going to a new school, but no amount of new can make her forget the old, sad secret dragging at her heart. Not the pictures of bacteria that she draws with painstaking precision, not even Picasso, the puppy with the long soft ears and the cute black c ...Show more
Once Upon a Tune: Stories from the Orchestra by James Mayhew
$40.00 AUD
Category: Information Books
Once Upon a Tune brings you six wonderful stories from many lands, all of which inspired great music. You can battle trolls with Peer Gynt in The Hall of the Mountain King; grapple with a magic broom in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, meet the evil Witch of the North in The Swan of Tuonela, sail the seven se ...Show more
The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell - From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Prize 'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination' Philip Pullman Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ...Show more
The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: The Grandest Bookshop in the World
Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just ...Show more
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
$17.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck - found floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matt ...Show more
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
$16.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Winner of the 2019 Caldecott Medal A lavish new picture book from Caldecott-winner Sophie Blackall that will transport readers to the seaside in timeless, nautical splendor! Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all arou ...Show more
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (#1 Nevermoor) by Jessica Townsend
$19.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Nevermoor
A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world-but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she is blamed for all local mis ...Show more
Secret Stories of Nature: A Field Guide to Uncover Our Planet's Past by Saskia Gwinn
$30.00 AUD
Category: Information Books
Nature holds fascinating secrets, from unusual features, to links between species, to insights into our amazing planets past - we just have to know where to find them. In this beautiful field guide to the secret stories of naturereaders are invited to journey around the world - through wild forests, ove ...Show more
How We Came to Be: Creatures of Camouflage and Mimicry by Sami Bayly
$20.00 AUD
Category: Information Books
Discover the secrets behind some of the natural world's most unusual creatures of camouflage and mimicry. Find out about the chameleon who changes colour to communicate with its friends, the burrowing owl who copies the sound of a fiercer animal to protect itself from threats, and the harlequin filefish ...Show more
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic: Discover history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks, and illusions by Tom Adams
$30.00 AUD
Category: Information Books
Welcome all rascals and tricksters to this marvellous miscellany of mischief and magic! This playful book explores the world of deception and trickery - both the good and the bad. Learn the secrets of infamous magic illusions and tricks and discover the stories of some of history's most notorious hoaxes ...Show more
Leaf-light by Trace Balla
$28.00 AUD
Category: Picture Books
This beautiful graphic novel is a stand-alone companion to Landing with Wings by CBCA award-winning author Trace Balla. Join Miri on her quest to help a rescued baby emu find its feet in the world, and as she connects to her community in joyful and unexpected ways. From the multi-award-winning creator o ...Show more