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Just You Wait!
Royal Highness College has dungeons and a dragon. It also has a school bully, Prince Roderick, and Eleanor True is growing very tired of him. But she knows a trick or two, and she's prepared to wait . . .
Holiday of a Lifetime
When her parents announce the family is going on the Holiday of a Lifetime instead of renovating the kitchen, Anna is convinced it will be one Potential Disaster after another. She wants to believe the lucky seahorse charm her gran gave her will be protection enough but when her gran falls ill and her dad must fly home, Anna begins to question her belief in luck. It's in Finland when the thing Anna has feared most actually happens-A Real Life and Death Situation-and it's up to Anna to save her brother and sister.
Bushranger Bill
Bushranger Bill loves his Tourmaline Lil, and brings her treasures from far and near to furnish the bower he has built for her. But others have eyes for Lil, especially the bad Captain Bluff, who snatches her away. Bushranger Bill has right on his side, and a clever plan as well, and so he dons a cunning disguise to trap the evil Captain Bluff. As the felon discovers . . . 'When you go thieving you can sure get into strife, But you've got to take the consequences - that's the law ... Such is life.'
The Loaded Dog
Gold miners Andy, Dave and Jm are sinking a shaft at Stony Creek. After an unsuccessful day's fishing, they decide it would be easier just to blow the fish out of the water. But ther young dog becomes curious about their experiment, with explosive results!--Cover.
Me, Oliver Bright
When Oliver Bright has a project to do on his family, he finds out just how much life has changed since his grandpa and dad were young. A warm-hearted look at families and memory, and the adventure of growing up-no matter when you were born.
Me, Oliver Bright
"I live in a city by the sea. Me, Oliver Bright Sydney Australia the World, the galaxy. Oliver Brights project on his family shows just how much life has changed since Grandpa and Dad were growing up, from horses to cars, from sleeping on the back verandah with the mosquitoes to having your very own bedroom..." Provided by publisher.
Angel Creek
In her new falling-down home, in her new street, in her new suburb, Jelly waits for high school to begin. She can only feel happy up in the branches of the old apricot tree and by the creek at the back of the house. One night, Jelly and her cousins spot something in the creek's dark waters. At first they think it's a bird, but it isn't...it's a baby angel with a broken wing. And they decide to keep it. But soon things start to go wrong, and Jelly discovers that you can't just take something from where it belongs and expect that it won't be missed. Sally Rippin's Angel Creek is a book about growing up: being brave and selfish and tough and scared. It's a book about an angel. But not the sweet variety. It's a book about the things that change and the things that always stay the same.
Chenxi and the Foreigner
Is falling in love with a stranger what it means to be a foreigner?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. In an exotic environment, her life seems both better and worse- she loves learning Chinese painting but can't cope with being a foreigner, or with the chaos and heat of the city.Then the last thing she could have imagined happens- she falls in love with Chenxi, a young, mysterious fellow painter whose secret life in art and counter-revolutionary activities fascinates Anna. Their affair is passionate and fraught.Sally Rippin writes with a natural flair and an insider's voice about the torment of a teenager on the verge of adulthood. She evokes the thrills and spills of being a foreigner in the topsy-turvy world of China.Chenxi is a remarkable novel for young adults that confronts adolescent sexual experience, pregnancy and cross-cultural questions in an extraordinarily vivid and compelling story.
Nancy Bentley
Nancy Bentley was bitten by a snake on the shores of Port Arthur in Tasmania. There was no medical help nearby so Nancy’s father rowed her out to the HMAS Sydney in the bay. In 1920 women were not allowed on naval vessels. In order to comply with regulations Nancy Bentley was enlisted into the Royal Australian Navy. Nancy was six years of age and the first female to be inducted into the Royal Australian Navy. The Navy looked after her for eight days before discharging her because she was 'required by her parents'. A moving and fascinating true story.
