The China Coin

Author: Allan Baillie

Allan Baillie's masterpiece – an exciting journey into China set against the background of Tiananmen Square.

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Book Cover:  Outpost
Life on the remote moon Ord is dangerous.  Random eruptions in the ice, extreme cold, loneliness and loss: it's all Dece knows. Until one day he sees a mysterious object caught in the rings of the nearby gas planet, Cotal.
Life on the remote moon Ord is dangerous.  Random eruptions in the ice, extreme cold, loneliness and loss: it's all Dece knows. Until one day he sees a mysterious object caught in the rings of the nearby gas planet, Cotal.
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143305927
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Outpost
By Allan Baillie
Life on the remote moon Ord is dangerous.  Random eruptions in the ice, extreme cold, loneliness and loss: it's all Dece knows. Until one day he sees a mysterious object caught in the rings of the nearby gas planet, Cotal.
Life on the remote moon Ord is dangerous.  Random eruptions in the ice, extreme cold, loneliness and loss: it's all Dece knows. Until one day he sees a mysterious object caught in the rings of the nearby gas planet, Cotal.
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742534572
Book Cover:  Krakatoa Lighthouse

Suddenly there was a trench across the beach, about ten meters away from the fishermen, where before there had been nothing but flat sand.  The fishermen moved quickly away as the trench heaved grey ash across the sand.  They sprinted when it hurled black rocks at them.

Kerta didn't want to go to Krakatoa.

He knows that a dark spirit, Orang Aljeh, is there and he is terrified he might wake...


Suddenly there was a trench across the beach, about ten meters away from the fishermen, where before there had been nothing but flat sand.  The fishermen moved quickly away as the trench heaved grey...

Published: 02/03/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143303596
RRP: $17.95
Book Cover: The Excuse: Aussie Bites
On the way to school, Pete comes across an alien whose spaceship has broken down. But will the teacher believe this excuse?
On the way to school, Pete comes across an alien whose spaceship has broken down. But will the teacher believe this excuse?
Published: 04/08/1997
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140386592
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Cat's Mountain
Cat scooped leaves to add more over her body and then lay still. She could hear crashing from above . . .

When Cat is dropped off at her grandmother's hut in a remote part of the bush, she suddenly finds herself on her own.

What has happened, and what can she do? Piecing together clues, Cat starts making sense of things . . . but not the sort of sense she was hoping for.

A gritty, thrilling adventure...

Cat scooped leaves to add more over her body and then lay still. She could hear crashing from above . . .

When Cat is dropped off at her grandmother's hut in a remote part of the bush, she suddenly finds...

Published: 06/02/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143302292
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Little Brother
The shots were so close they seemed to explode inside Vithy's head. He threw himself to the ground and clapped his hands over his ears . . .

It's Cambodia. The killing machine that is the Khmer Rouge is in power. Vithy has lost everyone and everything he loved – except his older brother, Mang. They've escaped from almost certain execution, but the brothers become separated and Vithy is left alone...

The shots were so close they seemed to explode inside Vithy's head. He threw himself to the ground and clapped his hands over his ears . . .

It's Cambodia. The killing machine that is the Khmer Rouge is...

Published: 05/04/2004
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143301745
RRP: $17.95
Book Cover:  Treasure Hunters
The long barrel of a skeletal gun coughed streams of fire into the night. In a few moments the deck of the fishing boat burst into flame.

Pat has joined his father on an old boat off the coast of a troubled Indonesian island to search for treasure. But as they follow a trail of clues to the world's richest shipwreck the violence on the island coils around them.

In this powerful, action-packed thriller...

The long barrel of a skeletal gun coughed streams of fire into the night. In a few moments the deck of the fishing boat burst into flame.

Pat has joined his father on an old boat off the coast of a troubled...

Published: 01/08/2002
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742281568

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08 Feb 2012
USBBY annual list of outstanding international books

Selected for the 2012 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children and young adults.

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