Round the Twist
10 best books like Round the Twist (Paul Jennings): The Nargun and the Stars, Taronga, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, The Ghosts of Belfast, The Haunting, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life, Space Demons, This I Know: Notes on Unraveling the Heart, The Red King, Hattie and the Fox
Few books had as profound an impact on me when I was growing up. This haunting tale of a lonely boy discovering an ancient stone Nargun, a creature straight from Aboriginal mythology, on his uncle's rural property had me spellbound. It still does. Wrightson, who died in 2010, was criticised for using...
| Author | Victor Kelleher |
| ISBN | 0140326316 |
Two years after the Last Days, Australia has become a dangerous place, and a battle-ground for survival.Ben, who has a telepathic ability to control animals, leads a hazardous existence in the bush west of the Blue Mountains. Hopeful of a less brutal life, he escapes to Sydney - only to be further disillusioned....
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
| Author | Arianna Huffington |
| ISBN | 0804140847 |
In Thrive, Arianna Huffington makes an impassioned and compelling case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world.
Arianna Huffington's personal wake-up call came in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eye -- the result of a fall brought on by...
| Author | Stuart Neville |
| ISBN | 1569476004 |
Sooner or later, everybody pays.
Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered. Every night, on the point of losing his mind, he drowns their screams in drink. His solution is to kill those who engineered their deaths.
From...
| Author | Margaret Mahy |
| ISBN | 0140363254 |
If I could use one word to describe this novel... it would be - odd. Which makes it genuinely discordant and spooky for a psychological drama, dotted with very beautiful chilling descriptions... but the strange choice to make the novel carry itself entirely on dialogue means it runs out of steam very...
| Author | Thomas Moore |
| ISBN | 0060922249 |
SECOND REVIEW, MARCH 2008:
There will be many revisions of this review because I will probably have to read and re-read this book for my entire life just to fully absorb it.
Freaking Thomas Moore. He grabs my soul where no other nonfiction spiritual author has managed. The other night, I...
| Author | Gillian Rubinstein |
| ISBN | 0140321993 |
Space Demons (Space Demons Trilogy, #1), Gillian Rubinstein
Space Demons is a book by Australian author Gillian Rubinstein. First released in 1985, the young adult science fiction novel is the first of the 'Space Demons' trilogy. The book was awarded the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers...
| Author | Susannah Conway |
| ISBN | 0762770082 |
Part memoir, part creative journal, This I Know chronicles Susannah’s journey through bereavement and healing, taking the reader on a ride into the possibilities of unravelling — and healing — her own life too. It’s a guidebook of sorts, a collection of thoughts and theories, with creative...
| Author | Victor Kelleher |
| ISBN | 0803707584 |
Any more, fantasy novels are expected to be enormous epic-length ordeals -- look at the works of Tolkien, Martin, Goodkind, Rothfuss, and others. I have nothing against a long book, but too often authors feel that for their fantasy to be compelling it has to be massive, and often that leads to packing...
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 1416903089 |
One of my favorite picture books to use in a chicken or farm story time. Has been very well received. 5/9/11
Tonight one of my regular toddler attendees, had a grand time repeating the animals responses to Hattie's pronouncements. One of the older kids ran to get our fox puppet for the story. 4/10/12
My...
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 0152000763 |
Oh, Mem Fox. I'm really not sure about the message this book sends to children. I *think* it is supposed to be that trying is more important than succeeding and that your parents will love you even if you fail. What it actually says is that working mothers ignore and neglect their children and that the only...
Came Back To Show You I Could Fly
| Author | Robin Klein |
| ISBN | 0140342540 |
Seymour's life is anything but perfect. Bullied, neglected and caught up in family dysfunction, he's drowning in all the issues life keeps throwing at him. Angie, an older girl with charisma, charm and beauty, provides hi a new friend and a voice of understanding. When I was younger I wasn't entirely...
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1566563313 |
The ‘Watertower’ is essentially a graphic novel or visual text, making use of both words and art to impart the story. The books itself centres around two boys who decide to explore an old water tower, which towers over the small mid American town of Preston. The Water tower dominates the town, standing...
| Author | Maya Angelou |
| ISBN | 1400066124 |
For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with...
