Topic: Friendship

"Dandy and Dazza are different in so many ways. Dandy is a best in show sort of hound. Dazza is a rough and tumble sort of mongrel. Can these very different dogs ever be friends?" -- Back cover.

Franky can't wait to move to his new town -- although he wishes he didn't have to leave his best friend Dani behind. But everything changes after the storm, when strange green lightning and powerful thunder crash down on the town. From that night on, the kids who live on Franky's street start to ...

Four walls. One window. No way to escape. Seventeen-year-old Hannah Gold has always been treated like a grown up. As the only child of two New York professionals, she's been traveling the world and functioning as a miniature adult since the day she was born. But that was then. Now, Hannah has bee...

Sometimes, the world is too much for Mona Starr. She's sweet, geeky, and creative, but it's hard for her to make friends and connect with other people. SMona's struggle with depression takes on a vivid, concrete form. Mona calls it her Matter. The Matter gets everywhere, telling Mona she's not go...

When three college besties meet three hot guys in Vegas, anything could--and does--happen.

Morgan Pickford is keen to please his dad. But sometimes the simplest of things are the hardest to achieve. A life-affirming novel exploring masculinity, friendship and family from an internationally acclaimed, bestselling Australian author... Two things that are true and one that is a lie: I thi...

Thirteen-year-old Morgan lives with his dad and his older brother, Mitch. He hasn't heard from his mum since she left when he was two. He works hard on his football skills, striving to meet his father's high expectations and 'be a man'. But what that means isn't always clear-cut. When Morgan make...

Townsville, 1942. Young women aged 16 and over are obliged by law to join the war effort and longing to escape the humdrum poverty of oceanside Blueholm Bay, Emma Hatton reaches the bustling wartime mayhem of Townsville. Befriending charismatic Cassie O'Byrne, Emma believes her adult life has fin...

Emily Ryan has gone up in the world since her arrival in Sheffield. She had found work as a buffer girl polishing cutlery for the city's famous trade and with the help of a friend, Nell, Emily eventually set up her own buffing business employing people she used to work with. Married to Thomas Tri...

Isabel, born into the British Raj, and Asha, a young Hindu girl, both consider India their home. Through mischance and accident their stories intersect and circumstances will bring them from the bustling city of Delhi to the shores of the Andaman Islands, from glittering colonial parties to the s...

Together can they overcome hardship, poverty, and disaster? Anny Woodvine's family has worked at the ironworks for as long as she can remember. The brightest child in her road and the first in her family to learn to read, Anny has big dreams. The moment she is asked to run messages to the big hou...

For Dash Candoo, every day is wild! Dash and his friends Rob and Greta are used to unusual things happening at their school, Swedhump Elementary. But even they pay attention when their invisible principal, Mrs Rosebank, announces that they have a special guest: Ms Aqualina, the owner of the new A...

Eleven-year-old Maxwell is always, always in trouble. Roaming the town with his beloved pet dog Monster (who he rescued as a puppy from being run over) as a way to escape his parents' constant sniping at home, he's a menace to the neighbours and teachers at school. While visiting an elderly neigh...

Dash Candoo's Monday is filled with adventure -- during breakfast battling scallywags and the Devil Cat and then at school, confronted with Total Mayhem Situations involving an assortment of missing objects.

On the day of his big performance, Frank wakes up with the hiccups. And they just won't STOP! Helped by his best friend, Daisy, Frank tries every trick in the book - holding his breath till he nearly passes out, getting someone to give him a fright - but still the hiccups won't go away. In desper...

It seemed simple at first folding one lie over the next. She had become expert at feathering over the cracks to ensure her life appeared the same. But inside, it didn't feel fixed. It happened the day of the Moon Festival. It could have been left behind, they all could have moved on with their li...

When a friend is sad, you do everything you can to cheer them up, but what if that friend is the moon? When Billy looks out his window one night, he decides to invite the moon to stay. But the moon doesn't realise the effect it has on Earth and coming to stay might turn things topsy-turvy.

'The shark was pale, shiny grey and quite magnificent. Hypnotised by the creature's eyes, like large back discs, he was hardly aware of other people gathering tightly around him.' In 1978, 12 year old Toby heads to the coast on a longed-for summer holiday. Almost invisible to his newly-wed father...

When someone is taken away, what is left behind? All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend and her tormented wondering about whether she could have stopped it. When Till, now twenty-three, senses danger approaching again, she flees her past and the hovering...

The most unexpected friendships really can transform your life. Malli is unable to speak outside her own home. The highlight of her life is a weekly phone call with her younger brother, Surya, who is studying in Australia. When Surya misses their call for the first time, Malli’s quiet life is thr...