Red

From award-winning writer and journalist Felicity McLean, comes Red, a spirited, sharp, snarling and striking contemporary retelling of the Ned Kelly story. It’s 1989 and fourteen-year-old Ruby ‘Red’ McCoy dreams about one day leaving her weatherboard house on the Central Coast of NSW, where her best friend, Stevie, is loose with the truth, and her […]

All About Worries and Fears

There can be a lot to worry about when you are little, from monsters under the bed to Monday’s maths test, but one person’s scary spider is another’s perfect pet, so how can we learn to stop everyday fears and worries from growing out of proportion or even overwhelming us? This book helps children understand […]

The Rhyming Alphabet

A lively cast of characters from aardvarks to zebras decide to disrupt and rewrite an alphabet book to make it more fun. Rhyming text and appealing illustrations combine perfectly to bring the story of big blue bear, elegant eel, fabulous flamingo, snazzy snail and talented toucan to life as each animal claims its rightful place […]

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

Part mystery, part coming of age story, The Van Apfel Girls are Gone is set in a distant suburb on the encroaching bushland, over the long hot summer of 1992. It’s the summer of the school’s Showstopper concert. The summer Tikka never forgot. The summer the Van Apfel sisters disappeared. Blackly comic, sharply observed and […]

A Ring Through Time

A page-turning young adult historical romance that will entrance girls aged 13 years plus. Allie Bennett has moved to Norfolk Island with her family, and as the texts and phone calls with her friends back in Sydney dwindle, Allie feels increasingly alone. The instant attraction that occurs between Allie and her classmate, Noah O’Brien, is […]