Hachette Australia: 432 books

If you ran away, you'd show your family that you can't be pushed around,' Merryl challenged me. 'It doesn't have to be forever - just for a few days. But I bet you haven't got the guts to stand up to them.' I knew what she was trying to do. I wanted to resist and be sensible, but part of me was drawn...

The Western Wildcats are in trouble. About the only good thing you could say for their goalkeeper, Smokin (so called because he?s never without a Chupa Chup in his mouth!), is that he?s got a newish pair of gloves. He keeps taking off for the toilet or he?ll go to the canteen or home?right in the...

The life of young Kelly-Jane is turned upside down when her Aunt Hilda Bock comes to stay. Kelly-Jane is ten-and-a-half years old and thinks that life can?t get any worse. The kids at school don?t like her, her teacher is mad with her and even the school principal thinks she?s a loser. And...

What would you do when your life has been turned upside down? Charlotte Daye is alone and angry. She has been physically abandoned by her mother and emotionally abandoned by her father. It seems nobody cares about her anymore. And her world is changing so fast. Her best friend tells her all...

Edwina begins a journal in order to leave evidence should there be a murder inquiry. With Edwina?s father away in Antarctica, brother Julian hopeless as usual and Gran thinking she is sixteen again with World War II going on, Edwina must cope alone. The school front is not much better. Girls begin...

Eric Underwood, also known as Spaghetti Legs and Pizza Features, serves up the final course in the pasta trilogy: Lasagne Brain. Eric would love to be an intellectual and here he unexpectedly takes the journey from boyhood to manhood, and the only question he wants to ask is: can he go back? With...

Long, long ago, a small ornithopod tries to survive as a plant-eater in a land of carnivores. Today, twelve-year-old Ellie Honeywell regards herself as an amateur palaeontologist. Ellie thinks she?s more familiar with ancient fossils than teenage boys, so when Tom Hart invites her to a fossil dig...

Enough waterwave taffeta for a lifetime of weddings, always in apricot, matching shoes and a sugared almond under your pillow so you can dream of the man you love. Olive laughs wildly and counts the expensive plates as they hit the wall. But she can't hide her desperate struggle to piece together...

In this sequel to the bestselling NIPS XI, the cricket team, together with coach Spinner McGinty, are in Melbourne to compete for the Harmony Cup, and Lan has a lot on his mind: a new star batsman with something to hide, a mystery from Spinner?s past, conflict with his best mate, Izzy, and his fast...

This is a story about iconic Australian writer Stella Miles Franklin, namesake of two major literary prizes, during her brief but formative time as a governess in rural New South Wales. Teenager Stella Miles Franklin has to work to help support her family. Stella is unhappy in her job and longs for...

While on work experience with a TV news crew, 16 year-old Cobey Miles suddenly finds herself in front of the camera covering a breaking news story about two bodies being uncovered in the ice. She proves an instant hit and her burgeoning modelling career starts to skyrocket. But when she sniffs something...

Sara?s family is unusual to say the least ? they?re also confusing and really embarrassing. Her older sister thinks she?s Dorothy from THE WIZARD OF OZ and her older brother repeats words like an echo. Sara?s problems increase when she is teased by the school bullies and has to cope with a...