Era Publications: 42 books

Drought, isolation and the likelihood that she will have to leave her home when the bank demands it back, are everyday things for Jacey Martin.

Herbertia is a gentle snake. She lives among a colony of snakes who believe they should be vicious and vile to protect themselves. The people of a nearby village wish to rid themselves of their vicious and vile neighbours. So three people are sent on a quest to move the snakes to another location, but come to grief in comical meetings with Herbertia.

Daisy Petal’s parents are not pleased when she brings home the class rats, Spick and Span. The Petals like everything to be perfect. They have won an award for Hygiene and All-Round Cleanliness, and a TV crew is on its way to interview them. What is to be done with the rats? What if they were to escape? Spick and Span tells the story of a family catapulted into a series of hilarious mishaps.

 Determined to know the truth about the gigantic creature in the cave and the piece of fabric bearing the international nuclear symbol of radiation, David and Andrew discovered in the limestone caves near old Rusty's farm, they decide to research their information and make some startling findings.

Twin sisters, Bec and Lizzie, do everything together. That is, until Bec gets sick and has to miss the school hiking trip the Odyssey. While Lizzie and her classmates are away, the world is watching the Apollo 13 space mission. As the days unfold, these 2 events strangely begin to follow a similar path...

Flinders House hasn’t won the House Cup in years. Barton House always wins. This year it’s time for a change that is, if David B, Cal and Masaru have their way.When the boys discover their favourite bike track has been taken over as a building site, a plan develops to uncover the secrets behind...

A village boy is sent to watch the sheep and to call if he sees the wolf. The boy tests the villagers by crying "Wolf!" They come running. He does it again, and again, but the third time the villagers don't believe him - and there really is a wolf this time.

Alice and her sister Poppy are excited about going to stay with their Aunt Hettie at Sparkle Bay. Aunt Hettie is a filmmaker, and Poppy dreams of getting a starring role in her next film. They are disappointed to find that their aunt’s place is on the edge of a lagoon called Slime Swamp and that they...

There’s a new kid at school and Ana doesn’t trust him. Nick is different from the other boys. And it doesn’t help that ever since he’s been around, stuff has gone missing. Then Ana and Nick are entangled in a chaos they can’t control will they have more in common than Ana realises? And when...

Amaterasu, the sun goddess, hides in a cave, high in the mountains. The earth is shrouded in darkness and the people of the earth are afraid. What can be done to coax the goddess out of her cave so that there will be light and warmth and happiness again? When the Sun Would Not Shine, based on a Japanese Shinto myth, tells why the natural world is like it is also a story about overcoming sadness.

In a storm-swollen river, a prince manages to cling to the floating trunk of a tree. But he is not pleased when he is joined on the log by three others trying to survive the storm and the flood: a snake, a rat and a parrot. Four on a Log, based on a Hindu myth, is a traditional story about gratitude, respect and justice.

Cain King is trouble. He is also big and slow. So when Cain challenges Ethan to shoot baskets, the stakes are high and Ethan is confident he can win. Ethan should have known better than to trust Cain. But Ethan also had a secret weapon his sister Grace. What they weren’t expecting was to be caught...

aitlin loves wild animals. She begs her parents to let her have an unusual pet. They turn down her requests for a panda, a camel and a boa constrictor. But they are happy to let her have a mouse. What they are not ready for is the kind of mouse it turns out to be. Hippopotamouse is a hilarious story about an imaginative girl and her extraordinary pets.

When Nick’s telescope arrives, his friends Caleb and Rosie get caught up in the excitement. The three decide to call themselves The Stargazers, and they work hard to construct an observatory in Nick’s backyard. They look forward to their first night of stargazing. But something interferes with their...