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And then there were shots ... Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight. Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by the buzz of a bullet, didn't meet us. After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps. Don't cry. Don't snitc...h. Get revenge. So he gets in the lift with Shawn's gun, determined to follow The Rules. Only when the lift door opens, Buck walks in, Will's friend who died years ago. And Dani, who was shot years before that. As more people from his past arrive, Will has to ask himself if he really knows what he's doing.
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Aussie children love to hear all the Classic Fairy Tales, then let them listen to them on this CD read by an AUSTRALIAN,(no American or British accents here). The stories are told in classic style, with warmth and humour, with the added bonus of a song to go with each story. This... unique new release features 3 times ARIA Winner Peter Combe, pioneer
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The first book in a thrilling new series that has been a hit around the world. Featuring monsters, creatures and weird, surgically engineered characters, the novel summons up an unusual fantasy world. Set in the world of the Half-Continent - a land of tri-corner hats and flintloc...k pistols - the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is a world of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered people. Foundling begins the journey of Rossamund, a boy with a girl's name, who is just about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor. What starts as a simple journey is threatened by encounters with monsters - and people, who may be worse. Learning who to trust and who to fear is neither easy nor without its perils, and Rossamund must choose his path carefully. enough secrets, promises, and mystery to create impatient demand for part two. Booklist (starred review)
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Eleven-year-old Grace only knows one world - the world of her mum and dad and twin brothers, and the strict religious community they belong to. But when her dad is thrown out of the church for asking questions, Grace is torn. How can she stay in the church and keep her family tog...ether?
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Five years have passed since the Skandians and the Araluans made their treaty, and Will has finally become a Ranger, with his own fief to look after. He soon learns that even sleepy little islands have problems to keep him on his toes.Then he and his old friend Alyss are thrown i...nto a terrifying new adventure, investigating the truth behind rumours of sorcery in a remote northern fief. As he stands in Grimsdell Forest, with the horrific, ghostly Night Warrior looming over him, Will must ask himself one question: is there a rational explanation ...or does sorcery really exist?
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An exhilarating epic of a triumph of the heart. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns that small can beat big. Armed with this knowledge, he resolves to take on the injustices of his country, and sets his heart on becoming the welt...erweight champion of the world. Peekay starts to take boxing lessons, makes new friends, collects cacti and plays the piano. Above all, he learns to think with his head and then with his heart. Peekay discovers that nothing can defeat the determination to be true to yourself: this is the power of one.
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A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s. A Chinese proverb says, Falling leaves return to their roots. In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate ...triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family.
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Take one Shakespearan tragedy: Macbeth. Add Andy, Danny and Lisa - the JUST trio, whose madcap exploits have already delighted hundreds of thousands of readers for the last ten years.
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Award-winning NZ author Kate De Goldi has imbued her latest book with all the wisdom, humour and family chaos you could wish for. The 10pm Question is a novel that challenges any kind of age category and will appeal to pre-teen, teen and adult readers alike. Brilliantly narrated ...by Stig Wemyss.
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The hilarious wacky new series from Australia's number one bestselling children's author, Andy Griffiths. This is the first in a new four-book series of stand-alone novels all set in an imaginary school where crazy things can happen, and often do! Pencil of Doom, book two in the ...series, is scheduled for a simultaneous release with the print edition in September. Andy Griffiths is the immensely popular author whose book, Just Shocking! reached new heights of popularity in 2007. This year will be even bigger with the launch of this new series and the sequel to The Cat on the Mat is Flat. It doesn't take Henry McThrottle long to realise that Mr Brainfright, his new teacher at Northwest Southeast Central School, is rather unusual. His last teacher would never have fallen out of the window-twice-or taught Class 5C how to skid on banana peels. But Henry's got even stranger things on his mind On a trip to Principal Greenbeards office, he discovers that there is buried treasure on Skull Island, which is somewhere in the school! Henry and his friends Jenny, Gretel, Newton and Jack set out to find a chest filled with gold, jewel-encrusted goblets and pieces of eight (whatever they are). But soon their secret is out, and everyone has treasure fever. Can they find the buried treasure, beat the bully, catch the villain and save their teacher, Mr Brainfright?
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