Topic: Friendship

What does your shadow get up to? Jack and his amazing magical shadow are the VERY best of friends who do everything together. But when Jack's shadow gets up to mischief and starts acting of its own accord, Jack gets the blame. He decides that he has had enough, and the best friends have a falling...

Lei Ling Wen is lonely. Bored of her demanding after-school schedule of tuition, study and violin lessons, she struggles to see eye to eye with her strict Chinese-Malaysian mother. When Lei Ling is befriended by elegant, worldly socialite Gigi Nu, she is enchanted by the realm of luxury and freed...

In 2016, fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm, when her grandfather is dying. With only weeks left together, her grandparents begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century. In 193...

When Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her dying grandfather, Wilhelm, and grandmother Romy, they share with her family secrets they had kept hidden for over fifty years. In 1939, two young girls meet in Shanghai, the ‘Paris of the East’: beautiful local Li and Viennese refugee Romy. They...

"When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently return...

Jamie Rambeau is a happy 11-year-old non-binary kid who likes nothing better than hanging out with their two best friends Daisy and Ash. But when the trio find out that in Year Seven they will be separated into one school for boys and another for girls, their friendship suddenly seems at risk. An...

Jamie McFlair's favourite band got a slot performing on the country's biggest talent show, but it went wrong thanks to Barry Bigtime (in an 'incident' involving a chocolate milkshake and worn underpants - don't ask). Barry is a music big shot, all round nasty man...and Jamie's Uncle. The next day...

"Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasp...

Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleepout. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan.

Jeanie's little brother Jake keeps annoying Jeanie, until finally she wishes him to disappear; unfortunately her friend Willow the genie (whose wish-granting powers are not exactly well controlled) is with her at the time, and now the girls have to figure out where Jake has gone and how to get hi...

The new student at Rivertown Elementary, Willow Davis, has a big secret. She is a genie! And the only person who knows that? Her new best friend, Jeanie Bell. Jeanie is starting to learn that she needs to be careful what she wishes for. But she can't stop other people from accidentally making wis...

Jeanie is so excited to take Willow camping for the very first time. And Willow is so excited she even promises she won't grant any wishes during the trip! Willow is a genie, after all. But the Willow meets Jeanie's camping friends, the Berriman twins. They aren't very nice to Willow, and they ho...

Although the Leaf Guild is the weakest, no one has reckoned with newcomer Jed Greenleaf's extraordinary ability to transform into a half-tree, covered over with bark. It just might be that this year Jed can turn over a new leaf in the history books, and bring glory to the decaying Guild and peace...

Bursting with vibrant colours and adorable illustrations, this story follows one little cat named Jeff as he imagines himself as a ferocious tiger in the jungle where he can be free from the rules of indoors! Escaping in his imagination to exercise his wild side, Jeff meets other animals in the j...

Francis has never had a friend like Jessica before. She's the first person he's ever met who can make him feel completely himself. Jessica has never had a friend like Francis before. Not just because he's someone to laugh with every day - but because he's the first person who has ever been able t...

While Milla's friends take big, brave jumps off the jetty, Milla stays on the blistering wood, scared of what lurks below. But when Milla accidentally falls off the edge, she discovers the beauty of the deep, dark sea - and her summer changes forever. Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville perfectly ...

Jimmy, Jack and Jane have something in common they all have a secret. The secret? ... They all think they are different from everyone else around them. The 3 become friends as they explore a new hobby, Taekwondo, and through the breathing and movement exercises that their Sensei teaches them, the...

Rose Jones is twenty-two, and has followed in her mother Molly's footsteps working with horses as a champion barrel racer. Hard on the heels of being dumped by her fiance, Rose is determined to chart her own path in life from now on. But meeting handsome bull rider Ty Parker wasn't part of the plan.

"What happens when fate sends you just the right person, at just the wrong time ...? Rose Jones is twenty-two, and has followed in her mother Molly's footsteps working with horses as a champion barrel racer. Hard on the heels of being dumped by her fiance Rose is determined to chart her own path ...