The Truth Cookie

Author	Cathy Cassidy
ISBN	0141383275

Gone are the days when Ginger was an outsider, always on the fringes of friendship. She's swapped puppy fat and pigtails for make-up and hair straighteners and never looked back - until now. Ginger and Shannon are best mates, but when they befriend lonely Emily, everything changes. Even the saxophone-playing...

Author

Patrick Carman

I read “The Dark Planet” by Patrick Carman. I thought that the book was extremely good. The story always kept me wanting to read more and not stopping until I was done. The book was about a young boy, Edgar, who lived on a planet called Atherton. Atherton was created by a scientist to see if it was possible...

Author	Jacqueline Wilson
ISBN	0385610122

Pearl and Jodie are sisters. Pearl is the younger one, small, shy and anxious. Jodie is nearly three years older, bold and brash and bad and Pearl adores her. When their parents get new jobs at Melchester College, a Victorian Gothic mansion, the girls spend a bizarre summer holiday in the boarding school...

Author	Cathy Cassidy
ISBN	0670060682

Scarlett's in trouble at school. Again. With black fingernails and dyed ketchup-red hair, she's not your average twelve-year-old Londoner. So her mum—sick of trying to get her into another school—ships Scarlett to her father's cottage in Ireland. Having to learn Gaelic in a one-room schoolhouse...

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	Leanne Hall
ISBN	1921758643

I really liked Leanne Hall's debut novel This is Shyness . The world that Hall created was phenomenal - a perpetually night-bound suburb called Shyness where the sun has stopped rising; the relationship that blossoms wildly over the course of 24 hours between two strangers from opposite sides of...

Author	Carole Wilkinson
ISBN	1742030629

Dragon Dawn
Prequel to the Dragonkeeper trilogy

Danzi is not quite 1000 years old. He’s a youngster in dragon terms.

His old and infirm Dragonkeeper has just died. The dragon is sad at his friend’s passing, but also looking forward to some solo adventures.

There...

Author	T.A. Barron
ISBN	0142419265

A DANGEROUS RISK...

Merlin's world of Avalon faces destruction, and Merlin himself has disappeared. Only one possible savior remains - Basil, the once-tiny lizard who has become the greatest dragon of all time. But even as he enters into battle, Basil knows his struggles have only begun....

Author	David Colbert
ISBN	0425205630

A quick read about the world of Narnia that offered an interesting take on C.S. Lewis' Chronicles. I feel like this is more aimed to a younger audience and seems to have a certain agenda behind it. The book did impart some fascinating information¸ but it felt a little light on and seemed to gloss over some...

Author

Kate Constable

From the author of the Chanters of Tremaris series comes  a contemporary time travel fantasy, grounded in the landscape of Australia 

Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from...