Topic: Friendship

The boys from back home stand beside the bed, watching her bleed onto the white sheet. 'He only said to scare her,' one of them says. Sidney is happily married to her firefighter husband and thinking about having a child, but her life has been marred by psychotic breakdowns. Haunted by memories o...

15-year-old Lara Laylor feels like supporting character in her own life. She's Ashley's best friend, she's Hannah's sister-she's never just Lara. When new history teacher Mr. Grant gives her an unusual assignment: investigating the mystery of the Somerton Man. Found dead in on an Adelaide beach i...

All that we have is All That We Know. Meet Mareikura Pohe: she's in love with her best friend, though he's about to abandon her; and she's an accidental activist, though she never asked for the spotlight. Navigating self-diagnosed ADHD and a new relationship while reclaiming her language is no ea...

"Tic-tac-toe, three girls in a row. Nine years old and inseparable. Friends for life, or so they think... Best friends Syd, Rain and Brie grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in the stifling California desert, desperately wishing for a way out. When a deadly fire is set two weeks before the en...

1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childh...

Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of local teenager Joseph 'Patch' Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who is broken by her best friend's disappearance. Soon, she will eat, sleep, breathe, only to find him. Patch lies in a pitch-black room, all alone fo...

The Fair is the only good thing that happens every year. And Fiona Larson is the only person in town who's never been. She's pretended to go - but she's never been allowed. Because, before Fiona was even born, her sister died there. This year, everything will be different. Fiona is about to turn ...

California, 2003: A thirteen-year-old girl disappears from a party at Carlsbad's Turtle Lake. Discovered on the trunk of a nearby cottonwood tree is the word 'LIAR' graffitied in blood. Three teenagers went to the lake that night but only two came back. Later, they confess to murdering their frie...

"Year 9 can be tough for everyone, but for Tally it feels even tougher. Make-up, boys, social media, GCSE prep - why is everything starting to feel so different? Tally has always known that being autistic means some things are harder for her than other people. But becoming a teenager has left Tal...

All This Could be Different introduces us to Sneha. A recent college graduate freshly arrived in Milwaukee, she occupies her days with rote, stressful work as a young consultant for a battery production corporation. She is, as her boss reminds her, a "contractor, no benefits." Her nights are spen...

Health and wellbeing brought Olive, Elsie and Bree together. After five years, their bustling wellness centre is demanding expansion. A beautiful federation house nestled among the picturesque backdrop of their small town is the perfect place to grow their business. But they don't count on their ...

Like fireflies to the light, Mona, Benny and Jimmy are drawn into the elegantly wasted orbit of the Crystal Ballroom and the post-punk scene of 80s Melbourne, a world that includes Nick Cave and Dodge, a photographer pushing his art to the edge. Kirsten Krauth evokes the power of music to infuse ...

Once a promising young Chef, Charlie is now an unmotivated twenty-something who lives at home with him mum and stepfather while working at a movie theatre and living vicariously through his friend, Ben. His life takes an unpredictable turn however, when he finds himself falling for a local barist...

Nights have always been Auden's time, her chance to escape everything that's going on around her. Then she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he becomes her nocturnal tour guide. Now, with an endless supply of summer nights between them, almost anything can happen. . .

"Macca the Alpaca and his best-pal, Al, have been waiting for the perfect day to go on a picnic. But when the sun finally comes out, will their picnic go as planned or turn into an al fresco fiasco?" -- Back cover.

Macca and his best pal, Al enter a talent content. Shaking and shimmying, they give it their best and put on a performance to remember!

Always stay hopeful. That's my motto. You're probably thinking, He's a dreamer, that Wassim. What's he got to be hopeful about? He's ten years old and look at his life. Thanks, but it's not so bad. I've got a lot to be hopeful about. Specially now there's a person who can help me. A person called...

"A whimsical tale of wild discoveries, shared adventure, gentle wisdoms and the firm friendship of a girl and a duck, from the award-winning duo of Meg McKinlay and Leila Rudge." -- Back cover.

Hello! My name is Edie Eckhart and I'm eleven years old. I'm a little bit different. I have a disability called cerebral palsy, so I talk slowly and fall over a lot. It's never really bothered me because I've never known anything else. Edie Eckhart is Excited with a capital E to start secondary s...

Edie Eckhart is a little bit different. She has a disability called cerebral palsy, so she talks slowly and falls over a lot. But it has never really bothered her because she has never known anything else. This term, Eddie has a lot on her mind. Why is she the only one who doesn't know what she w...