Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger

The year is 1859 and the goldfields are filled with diggers – and danger! Orphaned twelve-year-old Tigg is the Bandicoot Bushranger, the youngest bushranger on the Ballarat goldfields in 1859. When a robbery goes wrong, Tigg must flee in disguise as one of the tens of thousands of Chinese men and boys braving heat, thirst, […]

All the Beautiful Things

A new heart-wrenching, impeccably researched historical novel for middle-grade readers. The Nazis want everyone to be the same. If you’re different, you don’t belong. Not belonging is dangerous… Anna’s little sister, Eva, is frail and needs time to learn new things. She has a huge heart and a gift for loving, but Hitler doesn’t value […]

Howzat Pat (Book 1): Dare to Bowl

A NEW illustrated adventure series created by Australian Cricket Captain Pat Cummins, Dave Hartley and Serena Geddes! I’m Pat Cummins and I love playing cricket. I love it so much that I sleep with my bat! There’s BIG NEWS in my family – we’re moving from the coast all the way to the mountains and […]

The Wonder of Little Things Young Readers Edition

A First Nations Elder shares his extraordinary story of finding kindness in the midst of prejudice, and joy in living life to the full. Welcome to my story I didn’t learn a lot in school, not in the classroom, anyway. But I learned a lot from life. ‘Always remember you’re as good as anybody else,’ […]

Lani and the Universe

Lani Scrub has a plan: study hard and become a double PhD like her idol, celebrity scientist Kit Galway, who wrote The Meaning of the Universe, a handy reference book for well, everything. Lani’s life plan is tracking well until her mum decides on a tree change. And Lani is somehow coerced to leave their […]