AustLit

'After a summer workshopping her feelings, Abigail starts Second Year at the Academy with a new attitude. But being nice isn’t easy... The competition is tougher than ever and opening up to people only results in getting hurt and making enemies. Abigail has always put ballet first. But could it be there’s more to life than dance?' (Publication summary)

'They've got the world at their feet, but have they got what it takes? Sammy Goldstein is the kind of guy who's every girl's best friend but finds the other boys at the Academy much more difficult to talk to. He becomes the third member of Kat and tara's pas de trois and it's a role that suits him perfectly. the only son in a conservative Jewish family, it's always been expected that Sammy will follow in his father's footsteps and go into medicine. Sammy broke his father's heart when he decided he wanted to be a dancer instead. As a result, Sammy now has to juggle the pressures of his faith and his family against those of the Academy. When Sammy arrives at the Academy he's considered a total outcast until Kat rescues him and makes him cool. Well, as cool as Sammy can be in his own unique way. While Sammy may wish to be more like the other guys, he always stays true to himself. Sammy immediately develops a massive crush on the bitch of First Year, Abigail Armstrong. He couldn't have picked a more difficult person to fall for, but who knows? He just might be the one to turn her into a nice person. In the latter part of the series Sammy is assigned a new roommate and makes his first real guy friend at the Academy. Sammy never knew he could have so much in common with anyone - but is it more than friendship he feels? ' (Publication summary)

'Jonty thinks he's attending a regular school, but he can't figure out why all his classmates are turning into well-behaved, brilliant students. When the perfect school turns into a perfect nightmare, no one is safe from the world's cleverest students.

'With two unlikely friends, Jonty sets about exposing the principal's dastardly plan, but will they just become part of his evil scheme too? It's a non-stop comedy adventure that makes you think - how far would you go to be top of the class?' (From the publisher's website.)

'When Emily and Daniel's parents send them on a rollicking pirate adventure holiday things go horribly wrong. there's something very weird about Captain Wetbeard's ship! A bald, farting parrot, a diet of chocolate-coated shrimps, plank-walking - these weren't in the holiday brochure!' (Publication summary)

'Waking up in a laboratory floating in space, five children and a furry brick realise they've been cruelly experimented on limbs have been added, looks changed and some really weird things happen to their bodies. Escaping the research station these Lab Rats embark on a hilarious action-packed mission to find their homes before the evil Professor Xanax and his nasty assistant, Bumface capture them again.' (Publication summary)

'Join The Wiggles and their friends for lots of fun and learning in the Wiggly Word House The Wiggles love to make up word games, riddles and rhymes. Can you think of a word that rhymes with Wiggles?' (Publication summary)

'The Lombardis were a highly talented family. They were trapeze artists and acrobats. They could do somersaults and make human pyramids in seconds. All except for Gino. He couldn't do a handstand without falling over and smashing something. Nothing goes right until the night, when Gino discovers a talent he never knew he had.' (Publication summary)

'On the lookout for the next big thing in food, New York trendspotter Peter Noirelle is drawn into his estranged father's culinary scam... Greque-en-Provence, a frightful fusion of French and Greek cuisine aimed at turning a tiny (and none too innocent) Provencal village into a money spinner. The primal forces of fate, farce and fondue are in the hands of something wickedly funny.

'Will anyone swallow it.' (Publication summary)

'Novel about Maureen - attractive, intelligent and happily married. When keeping a doctors appointment that no one knows about, she is told she has breast cancer. She adopts a 'sex and drugs' state of mind and embarks on a day of adventure and discovery. ' (Publication summary)

'Truth, like beauty, is only skin-deep.

'What would happen if an average-looking whitegoods marketing manager suddenly became the most beautiful man in the world? Would female colleagues beg him to father their children? Would a loopy idea to put works of art on the bench-top appliances become the greatest marketing success in history?

'Mousy Mark Boyd recreates himself as a man of stunning, lust-raising good looks - and the results go far beyond his wildest dreams. But with success comes jealousy and hatred, Can Mark survive the raging emotions his beauty provokes? Will he learn where true beauty lies - and still turn a profit?

'The Beauty Of Truth is a fearless send-up of the all-consuming power of marketing and the seductive allure of appearances. And it's what's been missing from modern literature: a celebration of domestic appliances.' (Publication summary)