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The gift
By Alison Croggon
Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child when her family is destroyed in war. She is unaware that she possesses a powerful Gift, a Gift that marks her as a member of the School of Pellinor. It is only when she is discovered by Cadavan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon, that her true heritage and extraordinary destiny unfolds.
Now, she and her teacher Cadavan must survive a punishing and uncertain journey through a time and place where the dark forces they battle stem from the deepest recesses of other-worldly terror.
 
Chasing boys
By Karen Tayleur
“Eric gives me his Eric smile as he strolls out the door. I know it’s the smile he uses on all the girls, but I can’t help my heart tripping over itself with excitement. I can't help staring after him as he leaves. When I turn back I see Gaston watching me watching Eric.
“‘Hey! What’s your name?’ Gaston calls out.
“‘Ariel,’ I say. No-one calls me Ariel. No-one, except Mum. ‘Ariel,’ I repeat. Gaston executes a perfect lip curl and says, ‘Well, see you tomorrow — Ariel Ariel.’”
A page-turning coming-of-age story for girls who don’t like pink.

Neverwhere
By Neil Gaiman

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
"A fantastic story that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares" (San Diego Union-Tribune), Neil Gaiman's first solo novel has become a touchstone of urban fantasy, and a perennial favorite of readers everywhere.

My big birkett
By Lisa Shanahan

Description : By turns hilarious and bittersweet, this fresh, engaging novel illuminates the hidden corners of suburban life, love and friendship.
In my family, when anyone rides the wave of their emotions, we say they're chucking a birkett. When the emotion drives out all common sense, we say they're chucking a big one. The telltale signs are: flaming cheeks, shortness of breath, bulging eyes and a prolonged illogical outburst.

Gemma Stone is convinced that it's always unseemly to chuck a Birkett and that it's actually insane to chuck one in front of a complete stranger. But that was before she fell in love with a boy who barely knows she exists, before she auditioned for the school play, before she met the family of freaks her sister Debbie is marrying into, before the unpredictable Raven De Head took an interest in her, and before she realised that at the right time and for the right reason, a Birkett could be a beautiful thing.

A sharply-observed, funny and bittersweet novel about testing your wings and finding your feet.

Eyewitness : Australians write from the front-line

Dragonlinks
By Paul Collins

The quest involves the recovery of missing links to a chain-mail vest allegedly worn by a god before he fell to ground. Both good and evil forces are after the missing links, which promise immense power to the successful claimant, the evil forces comprising mainly sorcerers while the good are based around an orphaned noble-girl, Jelindel. Jelindel quickly realises that she will have to pose as a boy to escape detection, and now as Jaelin, she and her new friends bumble their way across the countryside, caught up in the quest almost by accident. Jelindel is after the murderers of her family, while the others have little better to do than narrowly escape the evil mages pursuing them. There is a twist to the end of the story and many diverting sidetracks, which add to the story-line.

I’m being stalked by a moonshadow
By Doug Macleod
Did you know that grasshoppers hear with their legs?
And a pregnant goldfish is called a twit?
Seth Parrot knows hundreds of little facts like these, because his father tells them to him. What Seth doesn't know is:
• Where do you meet muscular girls?
• How do you make them fall in love with you?
• Would a different haircut help?
• Is credit card fraud a good idea?
• What on earth is a moonshadow?
By the end of the story, Seth will know the answer to four of these questions. They won't come from his father. They'll come from a very wise magazine called Dolly.
Skeleton Key
By Anthony Horowitz

Teenage superspy Alex Rider is enlisted by the national securi

Clair de Lune
By Cassandra Golds

Clair-de-Lune lives with her grandmother in the tippy-top of a peculiar old building. Every day she practices ballet, just like her mother before her—the famous ballerina who died when Clair-de-Lune was just a baby. Since that day, Clair-de-Lune hasn’t uttered a word.
Then one day the girl who cannot speak meets a remarkable mouse who can. Bonaventure dreams of founding a dancing school just for mice—but he dreams of helping his new friend, too. Soon the brave little mouse introduces Clair-de-Lune to a hidden world inside, and yet somehow beyond, her building—a world that slowly begins to open her heart. Maybe one day her dreams will come true, too.


ty services again - this time for a routine reconnaissance mission at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. But before long, Alex finds himself caught up in a terrifying chain of events that leads from the Chinese Triad gangs in London to an undercover assignment in Cuba. Alex begins to make chilling links between suspicious deaths, an illegal nuclear weapons deal and the plans of his host, Russian General Sarov, for the future of the world...


Red dog
By Louis Bernieres
Red Dog is a West Australian, a lovable friendly red kelpie who found widespread fame as a result of his habit of travelling all over Western Australia, hitching rides over thousands of miles, settling in places for months at a time and adopting new families before heading off again to the next destination and another family - sometimes returning to say hello years later.
While visiting Australia, Louis de Bernieres heard the legend of Red Dog and decided to do some research on this extraordinary story. After travelling to Western Australia and meeting countless people who'd known and loved Red Dog, Louis decided to spread Red Dog's fame a little further. The result is an utterly charming tale of an amazing dog with places to go and people to see. RED DOG will delight readers and animal lovers of all ages.


Edited by Garrie Hutchinson
This is the essential collection of the most vivid, exciting and informative Australian writing about war. Garrie Hutchinson has collected and edited a great range of front-lines stories from the variety of conflicts in which Australia has been involved. Contributors include Charles Bean, Osmar White, Alan Moorehead, Wilfred Burchett, Paul McGeough, John Martinkus and Tony Clifton.