The Gorgon in the Gully: Pocket Money Puffins

Author: Melina Marchetta

Beyond the basketball courts and classrooms of St Raph's is a gully where everything disappears forever. Danny Griggs has heard stories about a creature that lives down there. So why does he volunteer to face the Gorgon when he's been petrified of everything all his life?

A gentle story about overcoming fear and looking at things from all angles, from best-selling author Melina Marchetta.

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Book Cover:  Quintana of Charyn
Melina Marchetta weaves an accomplished and satisfying fantasy of love, suspense and adventure in this final volume of the Lumatere Chronicles.\r\n \r\nSeparated from the girl he loves and has sworn to protect, Froi and his companions travel through Charyn searching for Quintana and building an army that will secure her unborn child's right to rule. While in the valley between two kingdoms, Quintana of Charyn and Isaboe of Lumatere come face to face in a showdown that will result in heartbreak for one and power for the other.
Melina Marchetta weaves an accomplished and satisfying fantasy of love, suspense and adventure in this final volume of the Lumatere Chronicles.\r\n \r\nSeparated from the girl he loves and has sworn to protect, Froi and his companions travel through Charyn searching for Quintana and building an army that will secure her unborn child's right to rule. While in the valley between two kingdoms, Quintana of Charyn and Isaboe of Lumatere come face to face in a showdown that will result in heartbreak for one and power for the other.
Published: 26/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670076246
RRP: $24.99
Book Cover:  Looking For Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta's stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl's story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls' school. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year she searches for Alibrandi and finds the real truth about her family – and the identity she...

Melina Marchetta's stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl's story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year...

Published: 05/10/1992
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140360462
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Piper's Son
Shortlisted for the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Young Adult Fiction and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature. Longlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Shortlisted for the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Young Adult Fiction and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature. Longlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Published: 01/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670074235
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Lumatere Chronicles: Books One and Two

An ebook bundle of the first two dazzling books in The Lumatere Chronicles,  Finnikin of the Rock and Froi of the Exiles , from internationally best-selling and award-winning author Melina Marchetta.

 

An ebook bundle of the first two dazzling books in The Lumatere Chronicles,  Finnikin of the Rock and Froi of the Exiles , from internationally best-selling and award-winning author Melina Marchetta...

Published: 31/10/2011
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742534381
Book Cover:  Froi of the Exiles
Gripping and intense, complex and richly imagined, Froi of the Exiles is a dazzling sequel to Finnikin of the Rock, from the internationally best-selling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, On the Jellicoe Road and The Piper's Son.
Gripping and intense, complex and richly imagined, Froi of the Exiles is a dazzling sequel to Finnikin of the Rock, from the internationally best-selling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, On the Jellicoe Road and The Piper's Son.
Published: 03/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670076086
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Finnikin of the Rock

 'A wonderful story full of hauntingly vivid characters and landscapes. The romantic touches are likely to cause swooning... This is addictive, highly recommended reading for teens and adults.'  Sydney Morning Herald

 'A wonderful story full of hauntingly vivid characters and landscapes. The romantic touches are likely to cause swooning... This is addictive, highly recommended reading for teens and adults.' ...

Published: 31/08/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143009870
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Froi of the Exiles
Gripping and intense, complex and richly imagined, Froi of the Exiles is a dazzling sequel to Finnikin of the Rock, from the internationally best-selling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, On the Jellicoe Road and The Piper's Son.
Gripping and intense, complex and richly imagined, Froi of the Exiles is a dazzling sequel to Finnikin of the Rock, from the internationally best-selling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, On the Jellicoe Road and The Piper's Son.
Published: 28/09/2011
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742534060
Book Cover:  Gorgon in the Gully: Pocket Money Puffin
Published: 22/09/2010
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742531373

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25 May 2012
Australian Society of Authors 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award - winner

All That I Am by Anna Funder has won the Barbara Jefferis Award.

The award is offered annually for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society”.

Anna beat fellow Miles Franklin contenders Foal's Bread and Cold Light.

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