Galax-Arena

Author

Dorothy Wall

Blinky Bill, the mischievous anthropomorphic koala, is well known around the world through the TV cartoon and movies, but the book version is a little darker. He runs away from home several times and constantly disobeys his mother, who of course beats him when she catches him - this would have been a normal...

Author	Jackie French
ISBN	0805038892

This was one of my favourite novels when I was in primary school. I read it so many times. I loved Barbara. I loved the time travel theme and reading about what things were like during the depression. Interesting stuff. The characters felt so real to me. I've probably read this book more than any other book....

Author	Wendy Orr
ISBN	0440227739

The car accident changed everything. Before, Anna knew who she was and what she looked like. But now she's a stranger to her family, her friends, and herself. She is no longer the pretty, popular girl who loves karate. Her body now betrays her, and she knows it will never be the same. All the layers that made...

Author	Stephanie S. Tolan
ISBN	0380733196

In a world of random violence and multiplying militias, four brilliant young misfits are thrown together in a group home for troubled youth. Isolated by their special abilities, Miranda, Doug, Taryn, and Elijah are unable to cope in a society that regards them as freaks.

But in the experimental...

Author	Gloria Skurzynski
ISBN	0689867859

Imagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images.Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes, high intelligence, and physical superiority....

Author

Lucy Adlington

The gripping sequel to hugely successful THE DIARY OF PELLY D. It?s ten years since the terrible war in the cities that took Kat and Tanka?s parents. A new life in the New Frontier beckons them, far from bullet holes and bomb craters. New Frontier people are building a fresh, liberal society, without the...

Author	Robin Klein
ISBN	0195546490

The original and the best! And how fabulous was old Mrs. Bettany? I recall watching Penny Pollard on the ABC as much as reading her, too - can't recall if they were episodes on Kaboodle, or a series all of its own.

(Aha! Google to the rescue, as usual!)

Re-read May 2012 and I swear, I read...

Author	Gary Crew
ISBN	1863301135

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

On 4 June 1629 the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the Western Australian coast. By the time help arrived over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter...

Author	Libby Hathorn
ISBN	0340739886

Lara feels completely alone after the death of her mother. She is an intruder in her father's new family, living far away from all that has been familiar. How can she find acceptance and love in this harsh place? Will the hostile Gladwyn and her kids ever really allow Lara to be part of the family she so longs...

Author	Ann Halam
ISBN	0553494147

When Sloe was tiny, her Papa disappeared and she and her mama went to live in a prison camp in the snowy north, in a time and place when there are no more wild animals. Mama’s crime: teaching science, and her dedication to the hope that the lost animal species can be reborn. To Sloe, Mama’s secret work...

Author	Emily Rodda
ISBN	0688105165

"Patrick seems to be in luck when he's invited to be on a television game show, `Finders Keepers.' The only problem is that...there's no such game show. But when the boy tunes in on Saturday morning, he's pulled through the television into a parallel universe....Patrick makes friends, rescues lost...

Author	Victor Kelleher
ISBN	0091826063

Des and Hannah and their children are a normal close-knit family or so it seems. And their young son, Sam, for all his brilliance, gives every sign of being a normal little boy. Then, quite suddenly, exactly a year after the death of the middle child, Laura, Sam starts to act peculiarly. His strange behaviour,...

Author

Isobelle Carmody

The Gathering is the first book by Isobelle Carmody that I have read. I read it because I was teaching a year 11 English class who were studying it at the time. I had to finish it quickly so that I could be of assistance to the students in their analysis tasks and as it is a full length, small-text novel, I thought...

Author	Elizabeth Honey
ISBN	0375805788

I have a strong memory of sitting on the carpet listening to Mr. Merritt, my year 6 teacher, read this out loud to the class, doing the voices extremely well and laughing along with the rest of us (and at the more adult specif bits, which reading now, are very well done- the Cellulites lol). I was sniggering...

Author	Paul Jennings
ISBN	0140376356

03/12/2011 - just received a copy via readitswapit! So excited to read these again :)

Thoughts as of 06/12/2011 -

Pink Bow Tie - aha, the "Age Rager" which can make people become older or younger. Very short (or perhaps I just haven't read a PJ short story in a while?) but also very Paul...

Author	Tim Winton
ISBN	0140347348

Author: Tim Winton
Illustrator: Stephen Michael King
First Published: 1991

Tim Winton:
Tim Winton is one of those Australian-Authors-Everyone-Should-Know. He's a name in Australian literature. And he writes Big Concept books. "Cloudstreet", published in 1991, is a chronicle...

Author	Sally Murphy
ISBN	0763659215

John lives for that satisfying clink of dominoes as they topple in a perfectly timed rhythm of his own design. His sister thinks he’s a dork, but all he cares about is setting the world record for knocking down dominoes -- that and hanging out with his best friends at school. But when his closest friend,...