Topic: Friendship

Sam Kerr has only been playing soccer for a few months after switching from AFL and now her team are playing in the finals! Sam can't believe it! But when her best friend Dylan is appointed team captain. Sam is worried that his shyness might get in the way. Together with her other bestie Indi the...

"It’s official! Eleven-year-old Sam Kerr is a fully-fledged soccer tragic! So, when the school’s annual Sports Day comes around, she is disappointed when soccer isn’t on the list of activities. Sam goes on a mission to get her beloved game added to the program. With help from her best friends, In...

Sam Kerr is an Aussie Rules fan through and through. When she's excluded from her team, she doesn't know what to do. Netball? No thanks. Chess? Bleugh. Her best friends Dylan and Indi think she should flip from Aussie Rules to soccer -- and it doesn't seem so bad at first. The coach is OK. The te...

Setterpoo Sammy has a brilliant sense of smell. She can sniff out anything. When Sammy uncovers a fake forged painting and is dognapped by villain Monsieur de Noir, she needs Best Human Friend, Beanie, Robin the sheepdog and Mogpuss the cat to help her out. Together the friends must launch a resc...

London, 1798. Born into poverty, illiterate, eighteen-year-old Sarah Evans has been raised to believe she has no rights at all. She and her childhood friend, Lucy Burnes, struggle daily to find food and shelter, drawing strength and comfort from their friendship. When she is falsely accused and f...

Saskia Spark-Lee is a sparkle collector – shimmery rocks, glittery wrapping paper, even dewdrops off the leaves in her garden. Entranced with a classmate's shiny quartz stone, Saskia promises to trade her real diamond for it. The only problem is, she doesn’t have a diamond! But with the advice of...

Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn't catch her name, but falls for her anyway. When she suddenly disappears without saying goodbye, all Gary has to remember her by is the book she was reading: 'The ...

My name is Gary. I'm a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as anonymous would be unfair but to notice me other than in passing would be a rarity. I did make a good connection with a girl, but that blew up in my face and smacked my arse with a fish s...

UGH! After-school care, again? It's official: they've finally reached grade six, and Sunday Moon and her besties Ockie, Kirra and Lottie are Legends of the School! But no matter how legendary they are, as soon as the end of day bell rings they are MAROONED in after-school care at Club Koala. Day ...

Who are you when your other half is gone? Twelve-year-old Charli knows no other way of being than as a twin. But when her twin sister, Freya, succumbs to a lifelong battle with illness, Charli, consumed by grief, retreats into a tent in her backyard. Closed off from her family and friends, Charli...

When Emily Oliphant married John Stratten, she thought it was the beginning of an exciting new adventure, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the most eligible farmer in the district and pitching in to build a thriving agricultural business. Three years later, however, Emily sees her marriage for ...

Three escaped pensioners. One single mother. A road trip to rescue her son. The new emotionally compelling page-turner by Australia's Charlotte Nash In their tiny pale green cottage under the trees, Mallory Cook and her five-year-old son, Harry, are a little family unit who weather the storms of ...

On a beautiful island far away, on a sea that ripples with magic, Monty never knows what he might find. Monty, Tawny and friends receive some startling news: Scary Mary and her pirate crew are on their way, looking for a new island to call home. What can they do? Hiding is not an option, especial...

A collection of nine stories about love and life featuring best friends, princes, trolls, imaginary boys, and Simon Snow.

Twelve-year-old Autumn is a beastkeeper at Inglenook School for Magicians, which she secretly dreams of attending as a student. Instead, she must care for Inglenook's menagerie of dangerous creatures so the king's future monster hunters can study them. But when she isn't mucking out the griffin s...

Claudia doesn't know where she comes from. Sonia and Claude, her adoptive parents, don't want her knowing anything about her past - they won't even tell her how she got the burn that covers most of her face. But when she receives a mysterious message on her 11th birthday, everything starts to cha...

There is a new kid at Shipwreck Primary! But there's also something fishy about her. Can Finn the Shark and his buddies work out who she is, and could she possibly be the answer to their problems with Blake the bully? With Great White Shark teachers, treacherous undersea races and dangerous fishe...

Jamie Lee has packed a special surprise for her birthday to share with the other monsters. But what happens when her birthday feast gets out of control?

Luna's a ghost, so her classmates can't see how she feels when they accidentally leave her out of their games. Will showing her true colours help her - or scare them away for good?

Cooking is Pip’s favourite thing to do. But when she accidentally follows the wrong recipe, it’s a disaster … or is it?