Penguin Books Australia

Buster is a lively Jack Russell
Tiger is a feisty white and ginger tom
Rose is a faithful Collie

Robert and Lucy Edwards love their pets more than anything; but the threat of the Second World War forces them to flee to Devon - leaving their animals behind. And as the air raid sirens sound over London, the frightened animals are sent to be put down.

Buster, Tiger and Rose make a daring escape but...

Is death the end . . . or only the beginning?

Ethan Wate always dreamed of leaving the stifling Southern town of Gatlin.

But he never dreamt that finding love with Lena Duchannes would drive him away. Lena is a Caster girl whose supernatural powers unveiled a secretive and cursed side of Gatlin, so powerful it forced him to make a terrible sacrifice.

Now Ethan must find a way to return to Lena - and...

Is falling in love the beginning . . . or the end? Beautiful Creatures , a beautiful new young adult book by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl.

In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets . . .

There is a girl.
Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. 
Lena Duchannes.

There is a curse.
On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's...

From the Newbery Medal–winning author of When You Reach Me

When Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy club recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to...

There was once a caterpillar who lived all alone.  Everything around Caterpillar seemed large and strange, and she was full of fear. 

Determined to escape any possible danger, Caterpillar hides away in the safety of her chrysallis.  There, she finally discovers the inner strength she needs to truly live. 

Her fears discarded, she emerges triumphantly as Butterfly to enjoy all the...

Jake  knows he's going to be AWESOME at soccer. 

He'll be super-fast and much too tricky for the other players. 

He'll fire the ball at goal like a cannon . 

But what if soccer isn't as easy as Jake thinks?

His dribbling looks like bad passing and his passing looks like bad dribbling.

The ball just won't do what he wants. 

Will Jake ever have a great...

About the Book

Lilli's family is moving from the bush to the city, and Lilli is sure she'll be horribly lonely.  She'll miss the mangoes, she'll miss her cousins, and most of all she'll miss her Nan.  But Nan sends a special friend south with Lilli, a secret Shadow to look after her.  And Lilli discovers life in the city isn't so bad after all.

An illustrated first chapter book showing...

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When Annie's dad promises her a beach sports car she imagines a bright red hotrod with racing car stripes.  All her school friends will be so jealous!  But it will take a lot of work to turn Dad's battered old bomb into the car of Annie's dreams.  Then again, hard work can sometimes make the rewards seem so much sweeter.

An illustrated first chapter book about using your...

About the Book

Sometimes grown ups tell scary stories to teach kids a lesson.  And sometimes those scary stories turn out to be true.  Sarah, Jay and Rene find out the hard way what sort of tale their nan's woordatj story is when they wander off into the bush despite her warnings.

About the Waarda series

About the Book

The magic fair has a lot more than just fairy floss and fun rides, it has cakes that jump and pies that fly.  Enter - but beware!  Kayla and her cousin Peter soon find out that not all the surprises are nice ones.  When Peter is mean to Kayla the Fair takes matters into its own hands in a very unusual way.

About the Waarda series

Frogmouth isn't like the other birds.  She doesn't want to live in the trees.  Frogmouth is in search of something more.

Frogmouth travels the land hunting for a new nesting place, but nothing feels right.  On her way, she helps other animals find their true homes, but still she searches.  Only when she meets Moon and hears his intriguing offer can she finally find her true home...

The First World War was only meant to last six months.

When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight.  The men took their place in a line of trenches that spread through Belgium and France from the North Sea to the Swiss Alps.  Beyond the trenches was no-man's land, an eerie wasteland...

After many waves of feminism, where are we?  Are young women really either massive sluts or helpless dolls?  And anyway, what's the definition of a slut?

The Little Dinosaur recreates a truthful and poignant story of a little dinosaur that lived millions of years ago in the land called Gondwana. It was cold, even in summer in Gwondana, and dark all day and night during winter.  The little dinosaur moved in a herd to protect her from other meat-eating dinosaurs. But after she fell and hurt her leg and she struggled to keep up, and one day, by the...

Puggle the orphaned baby echidna is taken to a tall house on a hill to live with lots of other rescued bush animals. Little by little, he thrives and grows, until the time comes for him to return to the wild.

A 2011 Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book - Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Mother and Father Koala are suspicious of the OTHER bears.  They don't like the pandas and they don't trust the polars.  The black bears are noisy and the brown bears have big teeth.

But all their grumpiness melts away, watching the littlest bears at play.

An eloquent tale about tolerance and acceptance that will appeal to old and young alike.