Topic: Friendship

Rabbit wants to make pancakes all by herself, but she has lost her recipe book! So Rabbit stirs in syrup, strawberries, cheese and tomatoes . . . but the mixture looks dreadful! Is Rabbit's pancake picnic ruined? Perhaps she just needs a bit of help from her friends!

Lately Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. Turns out he's Mr. Charles, her dad's new boss at the oil and gas company, and he's alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage,...

Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot throug...

"When Rainbow Fish meets a new friend, Humbert, he isn't sure what to think. Humbert tells all kinds of strange stories: Somewhere at the bottom of the ocean there's a plug! There's a blue whale living near here . . . and he's going to eat up all of our food. But before Rainbow Fish and his frien...

Ten-year-old Ray Grey lives in the magical kingdom of Celestia, high in the sky! Ray is a trainee Cloud Weatherling and one day her magic will help to control and look after all the weather on Earth. That is, if Ray can learn how to use her magic properly! One day - on the night of the Solunar Ec...

Ray is getting used to life as Rainbow Grey - she now has ALL the magical weather powers at her fingertips, although she hasn't quite mastered them yet! When all of the cloud creatures start disappearing, including Ray's own beloved cloud cat, Nim, Ray and her friends have a mystery to solve. Ray...

Tessa wants a grandma – she’s never had one before – so she sets off to find a grandma who can dance, and sing, and bake yummy cookies. Will Tessa ever find the perfect grandma to love and play with? Find out in this charming story about how one kind gesture can change someone’s life.

Randy is ready for his next adventure. He's excited, his bag is packed...But wait, what's this? Nobody said anything about a travel companion! There's a new horse in town, and he's claiming to be Randy's best friend. Dandy can't wait to set out on an adventure for two, but Randy isn't impressed, ...

Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son, her one release comes at her town's Northern Soul nights, where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the classics. Dinah has an especial hero: Bucky Bronco, who recorded a string of soul gems in t...

Book number 3 is here, in the stupendously rat-tastic Ratbags series from the award-winning, bestselling author and funnyman, Tim Harris. Humans have had enough of rats and their ratbag ways. Even Mr Pecky has stopped giving them pizza. But things get taken to a whole new level when robot minks ...

The Ratbags have their hands full when a toddler ratbag crashes into town. But where did he come from? Between the muffin mayhem and hairy heists, can Jigsaw and his friends find the missing parents in time? Or will they have to deal with the dreaded dummy spit?

Let's face it -- rats are mischief. Rats are rule-breakers. Rats are ratbags. They're all the same. All, that is, except one... When Jigsaw runs into two of the most ratbaggy Ratbags known to rats, his orderly world is turned upside down and he pulls off one of the best pizza heists EVER! Will hi...

The Ratbags are on holiday on the trash-filled Scum Island, where everything is just how the ratbags like it - terrible! Even cats are kept in line by a high-flying falcon, who puts on a show for the ratbags! But when Cracker is carried away to the falcon's lair, Jigsaw starts to worry... is the ...

Tim Hogan and Gerard DuBois were childhood friends in antebellum Georgia, but their lives took very different paths after the Civil War, with DuBois becoming an outlaw and Hogan a deputy marshal. Now, in 1890, both men are middle-aged - and Hogan is charged with hunting down the companion of his ...

Three young people and a one-eyed raven join forces to fight against the oppressive regime that restricts the gift of reading to an elite few and aims to squash magic. Getwin is a bookbinder working from dawn till dusk with her mother at Raven's Eye Bookbindery. Joane is a scribe, living in a mon...

"We've been told over and over we're the generation that waits for the world to recover. We endure the heat. We endure the storms, the wrecking floods, the long droughts, the days of smoke as fire burns, coz this is what the honoured earth does when she's trying to recover." Shelby and her best f...

Olivia Santos is determined to win the National School Book Club Award for her school - she just has to come up with an original idea for a school library book club and recruit students. Luckily, she's the mastermind behind The Paper Hearts Society, a book club that she runs for her friends. Whe...

"When Aleisha discovers a crumpled reading list tucked into a tattered library book, it sparks an extraordinary journey. From timeless stories of love and friendship to an epic journey across the Pacific Ocean with a boy and a tiger in a boat, the list opens a gateway to new and wonderful worlds ...

Middle-class, clever and white, Nick is a child of privilege while his best friend Andie is the daughter of Indo-Chinese refugees. Despite their very different backgrounds, they share a conviction they can change the world for the better. At the outset, Nick is pushing papers in a dead-end job wh...

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that’s a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn’t go back for the funeral, a...