Topic: Friendship

Hero doesn't feel like a hero, but sometimes she feels as if the universe is asking her to be one. When Aria, a mysterious boy who never EVER speaks, starts at school and is picked on by His Royal Thug-ness Doofus (Rufus), Hero and her bestie Jaz feel compelled to help. But they're far too chicke...

Being the smallest doesn't stop you having the biggest ideas. Eleven-year old Noah sneaks along on his big sister's geography field trip. Everything goes wrong! Six kids are marooned on an uninhabited island. Their teacher has vanished. They're hungry. Their phones don't work and Noah has broken ...

When Bernard the Robot's bottom starts to make funny noises, he decides it MUST be broken! So along with his friends, he sets off to find the perfect replacement. Perhaps a nice round cheese will work? Too smelly! Or maybe a red sofa? Too heavy! It's no use... nothing is quite RIGHT! What Bernard...

'Noni the pony is friendly and funny. Her shimmering tail is the colour of honey. She lives on a farm at Waratah Bay, and likes eating apples and carrots and hay.' Would you like to meet Noni? She loves to entertain the cows and play with the hens and the ducks, and her best friends are Zac Dog a...

Momo has lived in Town 99 her entire life. Her favourite place to eat is the Noodle & Bao food cart, run by her best friend, Bao, and Bao's grandmother, Noodle. When a fancy new restaurant opens nearby and threatens to drive Noodle & Bao out of business, Momo and her friends must band together to...

Noodle Bear is crazy about noodles. His best friend, Fox, brings him other delicious treats when he's a no-show at her party but he's so noodle obsessed that doesn't he notice them. And when he's run out of noodles, his only thought is to go to the big city and become a contestant on the TV game ...

"It's Norman's first day at Dino Day Care. Who wouldn't be nervous? First, Norman does what he does best: he makes himself invisible. But eventually he manages to find his courage, with a little help from a new friend and just a hint of magic"--

Wouldn't it be fun to have a friend living right next door to you? Well, as Norton discovers, it can certainly pose some challenges when that friend wants to borrow all of your favourite things. This is a story about setting limits and learning to accept your friends, flaws and all.

Jo used to be the perfect high-school girl class president, popular, bright and successful. But when nude photos of her were leaked to the entire school, her grades plummeted, her friends fell away and now she's a reckless, difficult social outcast. The girl who 'deserved' it. Then her former bes...

Lucy is just a regular teenager with regular worries -- homework, friends, getting home for dinner on time. Oh, and there's the small matter of how she's going to tell her mother about her unplanned pregnancy. When Lucy hears she's been enrolled in Drake's College, a school for students with magi...

I found you because I wanted to tell you. Jack is with someone else. He's got no intention of sending for you or the kiddie or seeing you ever again. Don't try to contact him, you'll never find him. All it takes is one message for Gemma's life to fall apart. A confirmation of all she's feared the...

One summer’s day seventeen years ago Edie and Joel meet. Their connection is instant and a friendship is born, although Edie can’t help but wish for more. But just as she builds up the courage to lay her heart on the line, one night changes everything. Edie’s moved on from the heartbreak of years...

Nothing But My Body is an eight-day journey through the mind of a young woman, a queer sex worker in Australia, as she navigates breakups and infatuation across just over a year. The unnamed narrator's voice is both fierce and vulnerable, defiant and tender, as she explores the interplay between ...

We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets. But now you know one of ours... Rules for being a maid: No smoking - No boyfriends - No visitors. And most importantly: be invisible... Corazon, Angel and Donita have all come to Singapore to work for a liv...

Hey, you - yes, YOU! Remember the time we went to the Land of Lost Things to look for my lucky rabbit's foot and then we got lost too? That was one of our most exciting, surprising and knuckle-headed adventures ever. What? You don't remember? Well, have I got a story for you! It all started like ...

Nura has worked all her life in the mica mines, earning just enough to keep her family afloat, and enjoy the odd delicious gulab jamun from the market. Some day she’s going to find the Demon’s Tongue, a legendary treasure buried deep in the mines, and her family will never have to worry about mon...

"What's better than a snack with friends? A snack surprise for friends, of course! When Snail spots a shiny crab apple high up in a tree, she can't wait to share it with her pals ... she just has to get it down first!"--

Courtney Cooper and Jupiter Sanchez have been best friends and neighbours since they were seven years old. And despite Courtney's best efforts to suppress it, he can't help being hopelessly in love with Jupe. But a relationship with the girl next door isn't in the cards because Jupiter has been o...

Kip is a quiet kid in a loud city. She's easy to miss and that's the way she likes it. Then, one day, Kip's quiet life is suddenly interrupted. Ten of her favourite characters have stepped out of their worlds and into hers. But what happens when a dragon-hunting rabbit leaves his comic strip? Whe...

When Ellinor addresses her best friend Anna, she does not expect a reply. Anna has been dead for forty years, killed in the same skiing accident that claimed Henning, Ellinor's first husband and Anna's lover. Ellinor tells her friend that Georg has died - Georg who was once Anna's, but whom Ellin...