Topic: Friendship

"The sleepy little town of Crater, NY is falling apart. The buildings are run-down, the streets are full of potholes, and the power is unreliable. However, it's the only home Lily Cole has ever known, and despite her protests, Lily's family will be moving away at the end of the summer. Now, Lily ...

A sea-soaked story of friendship, community and discovering what it means to carry home in your heart, from Carnegie Medal-winning author Katya Balen. On the Island of Ayrie, everybody knows everyone. They know each other's stories as they know every road, every hill and the coming of the tide. I...

February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as 'The Choir'. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss ...

You've been given the gift of life, now go live it. Gabby McPhee is the owner of The Tin Man, a chic new cafe and coffee roasting house in Melbourne. The struggles of her recent heart transplant are behind her and life is looking up - until a mysterious customer appears in the cafe, convinced tha...

Join Bill, Mazu, Tiny and Rocky as they race, climb and compete for glory in Cretacia's greatest sporting event: the Giganto Games! The prize up for grabs is a delicious, glistening golden pineapple - the tastiest you've ever seen. But as Bill becomes more and more determined to win, how far will...

Gillbert, the son of King Nauticus, and his friend Sherbert follow a mermaid on a series of adventures into unknown parts of the ocean and encounter alien invaders who are looking for a hot place to support their lifestyle.

Young Gillbert is the prince of the underwater world of Atlanticus. Together with his best friend Sherbert and mysterious new friend Anne Phibian, Gillbert is curious to where all these bottled messages floating throughout the ocean are coming from. Could the fiery Pyrockians from space have some...

Something fishy is going on! The Pyrockians, those fiery little invaders from outer space, are back and they're planning something seriously strange. And what exactly are they doing with an undersea volcano? Would you believe they're evolving into diamonds? It is up to the little merman, young pr...

Lottie is always in a hurry, rushing around ticking tasks off her to-do lists. Teddy is worried about his granddaughter - how can he make Lottie realise the things that really matter? With the help of Arjun, Geoffrey and Howard, the elderly reprobates in his Gin O'Clock Club, Teddy makes a plan t...

A joyful and touching story about exploring life outside your comfort zone that will help children to understand and celebrate the differences and disabilities within themselves and others. Giraffe and a Half believes her difference stops her from making friends, but can Bird and a Third help her...

'Find the thing the Witches call a treasure,' says Old Man, 'and you'll get back all those memories you're missing.' With a body made of wax, seaweed for hair and polished abalone shells for eyes, Corpse is bound to haunt the Witches' sea shack forever. She has no memory of the kid she was before...

From the day they first meet as teenagers Fern and Jessica are best friends. Despite their differences, they are there for each other throughout everything, navigating the difficulties of growing up and fitting in. That is, until Jessica crosses a line that Fern can't forgive. Now, more than ten ...

Lucy Crighton has moved back in with her gregarious parents - forced to deal with her mum's obsession with Cher, her father's unsolicited advice and her empty bank account. Luckily, she has her crazy best friend to cushion reality with wild nights at the local hotel and escapades in Japanese mud-...

When Freja and Tobias arrive in Claviers, Provence, it feels like home. The hilltop village is surrounded by olive groves, lavender fields and drifts of red poppies. The market square hides a world-famous patisserie and an antique merry-go-round. Pippin, their precocious young neighbour, and Vivi...

Being Queen is not all it's cracked up to be - all pageantry and no power, always lonely but never alone. Chess Raven is starting to realise that perhaps she wasn't 'The One? after all. Maybe she was just the last resort. When an opportunity arises to form an alliance with the royal family in Ven...

The Girl with the Dogs is a poignantly beautiful novella about what's really precious in life, from Miles Franklin Award-winning Anna Funder, author of All That I Am. Amid the debris of their friends' marriages, Tess and Dan have hit the middle years relatively unscathed. But Tess senses she's at...

Chloe Long has lost her smile. She's looked everywhere for it. (Under her pillow. Under her bed. Under her nose. Obviously.) She's tried everything to bring it back. (Her favourite cake. Her favourite gran. Her favourite joke. Obviously.) But nothing seems to be working! Until one night, somethin...

Matilda is a new girl at Pearl's school, but there's something really different and cool about her family - she has TWO dads! Pearl is sure that Matilda's family must be very different to her own but, as they become friends, she starts to discover that maybe Matilda's family aren't so different a...

Welcome to Newcastle, 1905. Ten-year-old Grace is an orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Cornwall, 1953. Winsome is a young bride, recently arrived from Barbados, realising the man she married might be a fool. London, 1980. Amma is the fierce queen of her squatte...

A lot has changed in the years since Ambrosia Wellington graduated from college, and she's worked hard to create a new life for herself. But then an invitation to her ten-year reunion arrives in the mail, along with an anonymous note that reads "We need to talk about what we did that night." It s...