Topic: Friendship

For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone have been in an online book club, but they have never met face to face. Until now... Determined to enjoy her imminent retirement, Adele invites her fellow bibliophiles to help her house-sit in the Blue Mountains. It's a tantalising opportunity to sp...

For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone have been in an online book club, but they have never met face to face. Until now... Determined to enjoy her imminent retirement, Adele invites her fellow bibliophiles to help her house-sit in the Blue Mountains. It's a tantalising opportunity to sp...

Exploring Ramadan through the eyes of a Muslim child, this graceful and authentic story illuminates the sense of belonging to both the community and the universe that this month of fasting, prayer and reflection brings, as well as the sense of accomplishment that springs from sacrifice. This mont...

Marcus and Delilah couldn't be more different. He is as big as she is tiny. As angry and lost as she is tremendous and brave. But they share a dream: to own a dog of their own. So when a mystery pup turns up in the empty house next door, Marcus can't believe his luck. He visits him every night an...

Brooklyn, New York, Bea has grown up in the heart of the Irish community, always hearing stories of home. When she discovers a letter from her younger self, written years before, it sends her deep into her own family history. Kilmore Quay, Ireland. Years earlier, Lucy Mernagh leaves her much-love...

"Monday is a nine-year-old girl being home-schooled by her father Bob in Sydney. Due to her terminal illness, Monday's only contact with the outside world is her weekly visit to the hospital. Monday's imagination is captured by the Moon Rock (Uluru) which she believes will heal her and desires to...

Could you be a true rider? When Amara started riding at the Moonlight Stables Riding School she never expected that the horses there could do magic! Rose can harness the strength of earth, Tide has the abilities of water, and Ember has fire power! Amara is delighted when Ember chooses her to be h...

When a huge storm damages the stables, Jill is worried that she'll have to close down the Moonlight Stables Riding School -- permanently! Amara and the other True Riders are determined to not let that happen, and with the help of their elemental horses they set about to raise the money needed to ...

It's the Christmas holidays and the True Riders are preparing for their final competition of the year, the Mounted Games Cup! They've been training hard, but everything keeps going wrong! First , the friends get caught in unexpected fog which nearly injures Alex and his pony, Rose. Then, there ar...

Moose is the most fantastic storyteller. Every night, he sits with his family around the fire and tells an enchanting story. But, one evening, Moose can't think of a single tale he hasn't told before! What he needs is a book of stories. What he needs is a library! With help from his family and fr...

Caitlan is convinced she's going to die. Two years ago she was a normal 20-something with a blossoming career and a plan to go travelling with her best friend, until a fatal car accident left her with a deep, unshakeable understanding that she's only alive by mistake. She deals with these thought...

1950. After her marriage went badly wrong, Dolly Taylor returned to Rotherhithe from America. She is now helping her best friend, Penny, to walk again after she contracted polio. Not able to have children of her own, Dolly envies Penny for having a beautiful baby daughter, Gail. Penny's husband, ...

Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed. In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckagea...

After winning the spelling bee grand final at Sydney Opera House, India's life is returning to normal. But then a special delivery arrives in Yungabilla, inviting her to the UK for the International Spelling Bee. But how can India go without her family by her side? The Yungabilla community might ...

Kit is excited to prove her worth as a Moth Keeper, a protector of the lunar moths that allow the Night-Flower to bloom once a year, but she quickly finds that life as a Moth Keeper is not what she imagined it would be.

David and Laetitia Brunelle and Sylvain and Tiphaine Geniot are inseparable friends and next-door neighbors in a pretty, tranquil suburb. Their sons Milo and Maxime, born in the same year, grow up together as close as brothers. But when Maxime is killed in an accident, their idyllic world shatter...

The death of her mother and the increase in air raids leaves Ellie alone and in danger. It's not long before she is forced to leave her beloved Liverpool behind and cross the Mersey to seek refuge in the countryside. But as the war takes comforts away, so too does it bring new opportunities; for ...

Sam, a fearless young girl raised outside of her Maori culture, is determined to fulfil her mission of connecting with her mountain in the hope they can heal her from the cancer she battles. Along the way she meets some misfits and new kids in town. Mallory, hoping to find friends, any kind of fr...

A heart-warming story of friendship and courage from an exciting new debut picture book illustrator. Mountain and Cloud are the BEST of friends. They do everything together! When an enormous storm blows Cloud far, far away, they're lost without each other. Can the two friends face their fears and...

Subject: Mouse and Mole are the best of friends. But when a shooting star zips across the sky, they both want it for themselves. Could this be the end of a beautiful friendship?