Penguin Books Australia

Young Josh is very brave.
He's not afraid of anyone or anything – except
 maybe the dark. Pirates worry him a bit, of course,
and so do boy-eating dinosaurs, and monsters
under the bed.  He's also just a little afraid of
dragons and vampires.  But other than those few
things, Josh is as brave as a lion.
Sort of.

When Josh comes to face to face with real-life trouble,
he begins...

Ally Queen , is fifteen, flat-chested and totally trapped in a tiny coastal town where the killer pythons are stale and there are only three types of people: bogans, surfies and spinach-munching hippies.  How could her parents have ever thought moving to Melros was a good idea?

'The best book on marriage and sex yet published.'
Psychotherapy in Australia

The greatest sexual pleasure and emotional fulfilment in a person's lifetime is possible in the middle and later years when he or she has developed a mature sense of self and found genuine intimacy with another person.  That's the exciting message of this daring and pioneering work that challenges couples to work together...

Big Girl Small is a novel for women of all ages; for every girl who is, or was, a teenager. Everybody needs a friend like Judy. She is whip-smart, hilarious, and her story is so real. She's a wonderful singer, full of big dreams for a big future—and she's a dwarf. But why is she hiding out in a seedy motel on the edge of town? Who are her friends? And why can't she face her family?

Peter is thrilled to be going to Greenland where his father studies climate change. But on the ice cap, Peter is troubled by a series of visions that both frighten and entice him. What is the strange red entwined circle he sees in the ice? Where is his dog trying to lead him?

Thea has never seen the sun. Her people, suspected of witchcraft and driven almost to extinction, have retreated to a secret...

There was once a crow who lived in a tree by a waterhole.  Each morning, she stared into the water, and saw another crow staring back. 

Hoping to become as wonderful as Crow-in-the-waterhole, Crow flies away to seek her destiny . . .

Fifteen-year-old Katey, aka Kid, goes to school in the Game – a 'school' run by corporate sponsors. Social networking is as natural as breathing, your online profile is everything, and striving to get ahead in the popularity stakes involves a careful navigation that could go wrong at any turn.

The corporations watch the students to spot the next trend and the kids vie with each other to be noticed...

'I'm sorry, but I don't want to live any longer. It's nothing to do with what you said, Dad, I'd made up my mind to do this ages ago. Mum, maybe it will help to think of your twins together again. 

Jan, I'm leaving you my blue cashmere sweater and all my books, even though they mostly belonged to you in the first place.

Louise, you can have my diamanté brooch and all my make up and any clothes...

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.

Lia and Cassie were best friends.  But something went wrong and Cassie changed.  Now Cassie is dead and Lia has thirty-three unanswered calls on her phone, thirty-three messages from her ex-best friend, all sent the day she died.

How did she die?  Why did she cut herself off?

While Lia searches for answers, she drives herself...

Seventeen-year-old Will is clever but he can't find answers to any of his questions after his mother dies in a car accident. His father seems to be drifting and his older brother stays away from home. And Will just can't get past being either angry or in tears. He finds his mum's old camera and begins taking photos that help him see thing differently.

When he meets sixteen-year-old Taryn he falls for...

Sex was a latecomer to the party of Malcolm's life, and when it did arrive, it didn't come dressed in any of the usual guises…

Malcolm is sixteen. With the mind of a science nerd, the body of a teenager, and an ambition to reconcile the two, he embarks upon his latest research project—sex. Join Malcolm on his journey, as he meets the cast of characters who will take him a little closer...

When the home of a little bent-wing bat colony is destroyed, Warambi finds herself separated from her family and forced to shelter in a rather unusual place.  Scary sounds are all around her.  Danger is never far away.  Will she find her way home?

UNTIL RECENTLY, JONAH'S LIFE HAS BEEN WONDERFULLY SIMPLE: SCHOOL, PARTYING AND SURFING WITH HIS MATES.  IT'S BEEN UNCOMPLICATED - LIKE RIDING THE PERFECT WAVE.  BUT THAT'S ALL ABOUT TO CHANGE.

This is the book I'd want to read if I had has a child with Down syndrome.  It's the book I'd recommend to parents who already have a child with Down syndrome, or for who prenatal testing has indicated Down syndrome, and they are wondering what on earth the future holds.  As a scientist working in the area of child health, I would also recommend it to all those people – teachers, health...

It only takes a few bloodstained moments for Tessa's life to change forever.  Her brother is dead, and her Mum is so deeply enmeshed in grief she might as well be too.  Tessa is left with no-one to turn to but Ned.  He's been her staunchest ally, privy to her deepest secrets.

But even Ned has a dark side.  Ned knows all Tessa's weak spots and he'll exploit every single one to keep...

Elisabeth has to make the choice of her life.   Seventeen and pregnant: does she sacrifice her dreams for a baby, or do something she's not sure she can live with?

Under pressure form her parents, she's juggling a boyfriend she's not sure she can trust, a best friend she keeps pushing away and her own indecision.   Something's got to give.

It's the hardest year she's ever faced.
What choice...

At eighteen, Anna is in limbo. She has decisions to make but stalls for time. Deferring her university studies in Australia, she visits her father in Shanghai.

Since its publication in September 2005, The Weather Makers has had a...