A few days at the beach, camping with your family. Sounds like a good time, right? Maybe, but don't forget to factor in: * the motobike riding bogan * an older sister in love * a tent which is suffering a spiritual crisis * a surfer named Gnarly who's idea of fun involves exfoliating sparkplugs! For Nathan Nuttboard, this could be an interesting few days.
Grade seven is not going well for Nathan Nuttboard. His mother is filling his sandwiches with pet food, his friends are crazy, his teacher is full of 'interesting' ideas and, when he is publicly dumped by the most popular girl in the class, he reckons things can't get any worse. But then he's unexpectedly - and unwillingly - cast as the lead actor in the school's end-of-year play and he soon realises that there are a lot worse things than pickle and catfood sandwiches... But all the world's a stage and, even if it means having to kiss your ex-girlfriend in front of your friends and family, the show must go on. The third book in Anthony Eaton's Nathan Nuttboard series is a funny, heart-warming and honest look at school, family, friends and the things that really matter.
When Vinnie's sister is killed, he runs away from the accusing eyes of his father to the isolation of the bush. There, he must answer a question . . . was it his fault? In 1943, German soldier Erich is captured and interned in an Australian prisoner-of-war camp. Despite everything he's grown up believing, Erich must now learn to coexist with his sworn enemy and, in doing so, he begins to question his father's beliefs. Amid the rain-soaked forests of South Western Australia, these two young men's lives collide, changing them both as they struggle to escape their painful memories of fireshadow. Some battles are imposed on us, some fought within. 'A moving story.' West Australian 'Engrossing and affecting.' Viewpoint
After arriving in the remote western Australian town of Port Barren to live in a foster home, seventeen-year-old Jamie is unaccountably drawn to an abandoned boat, where he hears the voice of a dead young girl that leads him on a dangerous quest to uncove
When you've run from the past, you have to stand and face the future ... Dara, her brother Jaran and their cousin Eyna have grown up among the Clan; their lives are peaceful as they eke out an existence in the towering forest below their escarpment home. But when the ghosts of a dead civilisation reach out to haunt them one final time, they and their family must set out, on an unmapped path across a dying land. Walking daywards, always into the sun. Daywards is the highly anticipated conclusion to a powerful trilogy from award-winning author Anthony Eaton.
Teenager Larinan Mann finds that he does not fit into the conformist society he lives in. Set in a post-apocalyptic Australia, where people have adapted to climate change by building domes attached to massive towers sheltered from the sun's rays. This world is now under threat of collapse. Suggested level: secondary.
Poor Kate! Forced to live in a pokey little cave at the bottom of her horrible Aunt and Uncle's Garden. Then one day the telephone rings... A funny, exciting (and slightly disgusting) story about lost fortunes, lost parents and mysterious puzzles that will leave you guessing and gasping.
"When you have nowhere left to run, sometimes the only place is the sky...Saria is the last of her kind, the final child to be born in the Darklands, a quarantined expanse of outback desert, contaminated generations earlier by the remote and mysterious Nightpeople. Spirited away at her birth before the Nightpeople could remove her from the genetic pool, Saria, now in her early teens, is called before the Council of Dreamers to be used as a bargaining chip. There she discovers the truth about her own past, and that of her people. Nightpeople explores a society turned in upon itself and a future which readers will find both alien and disturbingly familiar.'This is an outstanding novel, the best work to date from a writer who has already won the Premier's Award: superb writing, a thoroughly engrossing story, and utterly credible characters trapped in a future world that is as fascinating as it is dangerous. A page-turner if ever there was one!' - Van Ikin"
During the winter of 1922, the exploration vessel, Raven, became trapped in the Antarctic icepack, entombing twenty-eight men aboard it through the dark polar night. Into White Silence tells their story, a story of a lost past, of a tragic future, of ice, ambition and madness. It captures the terrible, fascinating beauty of Antarctica, both as it was then and as it is today and is a journey into the mind of every person who has ever set foot upon those ice-bound shores.
