Penguin Books Australia

On the verge of her fourteenth birthday, Plum knows her life will change. But she has no idea how.

Over the coming weeks, her beautiful neighbour Maureen will show her how she might fly. Her adored older brothers will court catastrophe in worlds that she barely knows exist. And her friends -  her worst enemies - will tease and test, smelling weakness. They will try to lead her on and take her...

The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand and self-combustion. Adrian watches his suburban world, but there is much he cannot understand. He does not, for instance, know why three neighbourhood children might set out to buy ice-cream and never come back home . . .

Watch out, Baby Boy!

Sadie and Ratz are on the rampage!

The animal swerved into the bracken, its smooth long tail slippin g away. Satchel listened a minute for any sign of it but it was gone. . . He wondered what its name had been, who had o wned it, what hard history had left it alone here...

When a series of arson attacks grips the town...

As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years that have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small town and distant parents ensure that he is never allowed to forget the horrific mistake he made as a child. He has only two friends – his dog Surrender, and the unruly wild boy Finnigan, with whom he made a boyhood pact. 

One day a man invented the best toy in the world. 

He gave the toy to his son.  The boy thought the toy was marvellous.  It could do anything!

But as time passed, the boy started to wonder about the toy.  Was it really the best toy in the world?

'The sky was pitch, and gashed by lightning; loutish waves rose and slumped heavily as mudslides.   At a moment when she was filled with desperation, Maddy opened her mouth and yelled for Feather.   And half-expected him to appear, because she wanted him to so much.'

Maddy yearns for her life to be mystifying, to be as magical as a fairy story.   And then one day, on the beach she...

As the days pass and they struggle in secret to help the soldier reach home, Coco...

Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute...