Puffin at Penguin Books Australia: Puffins: Perfect for All Ages

SO MANY BOOKS
SO MUCH VARIETY!
CONFUSED?

Selecting the Perfect Puffin is easy with this range of new and classic children's titles for you to choose from, grouped by age.

Each age group has specific needs. The following provides some simple guidelines to help you make your choice...

6-8 Years of Age
We want to build their confidence
At this stage, children should be fed books with large, clear type and a mix of illustrations, and text with a vocabulary that is lively and entertaining.

9-12 Years of Age
We want to captivate and maintain their interest
Books should be accessible and not strictly educational. Find books which have that all-important humour and/or 'street cred'.

13 Years Plus
We want to relate to teenagers.
For teenagers the world can be a challenging mix of confusing emotions. Books can offer solace as they are a reliable source of information on a variety of relevant issues. Not to mention the entertainment value!

Making a Selection
Each child is an individual.
Use our age-grouping as a starting point. Don't discount books outside your child's range, as age does not always reflect reading ability and interest level. Start with these specially selected titles, but remember that you can also search Puffin's complete online catalogue by age range for further books to tempt your child.

Age 6-8 Building Confidence
Age 9-12 Captivating and Maintaining Interest
Age 13+ Relating to Teenagers

Age 6-8 Building Confidence

	*Hannah Plus One* Gleeson Libby RRP $14.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140380903 ISBN-10: 0140380906
When Hannah learns her mum is expecting another baby, she is convinced it will be another set of twins, leaving her the odd one out. Here is the moving sequel to Skating on San d.

	*Singenpoo Strikes Again* Jennings Paul RRP $12.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780141300993 ISBN-10: 014130099X
Scott knows that Singenpoo can read. But will he be able to prove it? The competition is on... The hilarious sequel to The Paw Thing.

	*The Twenty-seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race* Lurie Morris RRP $14.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140342970 ISBN-10: 0140342974
This funny, exciting and best-selling story takes you behind the scenes as eight-year-old Edward trains for the greatest swimming marathon of all!

	*The Bugalugs Bum Thief* Winton Tim RRP $12.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140347340 ISBN-10: 0140347348
What happens when everyone's bums in the whole town are stolen? And how do you get them back? A wacky story fro m an award-winning author.

	*The Fairy's Wings* Rubinstein Gillian RRP $9.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140389555 ISBN-10: 0140389555
When Tania takes a beautiful little pair of wings from the garden, she makes someone very unhappy. Tania thinks it's a fairy, but Troy insists that there is no such thing as fairies. Who owns the wings then? And is someone trying to leave messages for Tania? A surprising and magical tale from the creators of the award winning The Giant's Tooth and The Pirate's Ship.

Age 9-12 Captivating and Maintaining Interest

	*Surfing Mr Petrovic* Bowles Colin RRP $17.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140386417 ISBN-10: 0140386416
Eleven-year-old Tao loves hanging around with his mates. He used to like surfing with his dad, too, until Dad left home to live with a fashion model. And his mum has a new boyfriend, with altogether too-brainy kids. When Mr Petrovic enters the scheme of things, he becomes the focus for Tao's anger.

	*Greylands* Carmody Isobelle RRP $18.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140387490 ISBN-10: 0140387498
The powerful story of a young boy, Jack, searching for the truth about his mother in the bleak time after her death. One night Jack enters the Greylands – a world where there is no colour, no noise, no laughter – a place where only the wounded can enter.

	*Wicked! (single Volume Containing All Six Parts)* Gleitzman Morris, Jennings Paul RRP $19.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780141300474 ISBN-10: 0141300477
Something very weird is happening to Dawn and Rory. And it's not just their new step-family. Slurping slobberers want to suck their bones out. Strange steel sheep want to smash them to pieces. Giant frogs want to crunch them up. Cruel killer creepers want to squeeze the life out of them. Their parents can't help them. Dawn and Rory are on their own. It's wild. It's wacky. It's WICKED!

	*Bumface* Gleitzman Morris RRP $14.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140387971 ISBN-10: 0140387978
Bumface! that's who Angus wants to be. He dreams of being bold, brave, wild and free. Like the pirate in the stories he tells his younger brother and sister. Instead, Angus is just plain tired from changing nappies and wiping food off walls. His mum calls him Mr Dependable, but Angus can barely cope. Another baby would be a disaster. With characteristic wit, Morris Gleitzman weaves an unpredictable, hilarious and finally moving story about kids trying to make sense of an adult world.

	*Hating Alison Ashley* Klein Robin RRP $17.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140316728 ISBN-10: 0140316728
'Utter loathing and hatred,' I said. 'I wouldn't even be on the same bus as you . . . If I could have caught a virus in time.' Erica Yurken knew she was destined for great things. Never in any doubt about her own genius, she felt superior to everyone at notorious Barringa East . . . that is, until Alison Ashley turned up.

	*Seven Little Australians* Turner Ethel RRP $17.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140347333 ISBN-10: 014034733X
'Without doubt Judy was the worst of the seven, probably because she was the cleverest.' Her father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible – but seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at their rambling riverside home, Misrule. Step inside and meet them all – dreamy Meg, and Pip, daring Judy, naughty Bunty, Nell, Baby and the youngest, 'the General'. Come and share in their lives, their laughter and their tears.

	*Madame Doubtfire* Fine Anne RRP $12.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140373554 ISBN-10: 0140373551
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard are used to domestic turmoil and have been torn between their warring parents ever since the divorce. All that changes when their mother takes on a most unusual cleaning lady. But there's more to Madame Doubtfire than domestic talents. Madame Doubtfire inspired the highly successful film Mrs Doubtfire.

Age 13+ Relating to Teenagers

	*Deadly, Unna?* Gwynne Phillip RRP $19.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780141300498 ISBN-10: 0141300493
'Deadly, unna?' He was always saying that. All the Nungas did, but Dumby more than any of them. Dumby Red and Blacky don't have a lot in common. Dumby's the star of the footy team, he's got a killer smile and the knack with girls, and he's a Nunga. Blacky's a gutless wonder, needs braces, never knows what to say, and he's white. But they're friends... and it could be deadly, unna? This gutsy novel, set in a small coastal town in South Australia is a rites-of-passage story about two boys confronting the depth of racism that exists all around them.

	*I Am The Cheese* Cormier Robert RRP $17.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780141300511 ISBN-10: 0141300515
Adam Farmer is on a journey – he has to get to Rutterburg with a parcel for his father. But as he travels, he starts to remember the events leading up to this point, memories which are also being prised out in gruelling psychiatric interviews. What is the secret of Adam Farmer? And what will happen when he finds out? 'A stunning read . . . undeniably compulsive to the last line on the last page' Sunday Times

	*Looking For Alibrandi* Marchetta Melina RRP $19.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140360462 ISBN-10: 0140360468
A stunning debut novel. This is Josephine's story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Multi-award-winning, bestseller and now a feature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic.

	*Junk* Burgess Melvin RRP $14.95 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780140380194 ISBN-10: 0140380191
An uncompromising, true-to-life story of two teenagers drawn into the destructive world of drug addiction and prostitution. This tour-de-force should become the definitive teenage novel on this subject.