AustLit

'A hilarious and relatable story that perfectly captures all the messy, glorious chaos of a baby's first year, from two of Australia's best-loved TV and radio personalities.

This is the story of my family - first-time Mum, first-time Dad, and me. I'm a first-time baby. 
We've never done this before... but I think it's all going smoothly.

Sometimes parenthood isn't picture-perfect. But from first nappy change to first words, it's full of love, laughter and unexpected moments.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'What would you do if you found a money tree in your house? An intriguing concept explored with great humour and verve, by the author of the Roxy Ran series, Tiffiny Hall

'Twelve-year-old Maxine Edwards is used to insects coming through the gaping floorboards in her bedroom, not notes of money. When she pulls out the first fifty-dollar note, she can't believe it.

'Maxine comes from a family that overflows with love, but isn't blessed with a lot of money. Maxine's mother has two jobs and her dad teaches Philosophy.

'As more and more money continues to poke through the cracks in Maxine's bedroom floor she discovers a money tree in the basement. A real life money tree sprouting ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred dollar bills from its thick, lucrative branches.

'Maxine's family has just moved to a new area, so there's a new house, a new school, and Maxine's father has taken a job teaching at her school. Their new neighborhood is affluent, but the house they rent is mysteriously super cheap.

'Maxine and her sister Fleur never have the cool things the other kids at school take for granted, and they are embarrassed about their run-down house. Maxine thinks money will solve all her problems. Finally she will be rich, popular and cool! But as the money tree grows, greed also flourishes and as it becomes harder to hide the secret from her parents Maxine she realises being rich doesn't equate to happiness. Especially not for a family whose currency is love.' (Publication summary)

'France is a Taekwondo champion – training for the Olympics. She talks to her guardian angel, Sam, about everything – but their relationship is ambivalent. She relies on him, and sometimes she would like to kill him – but how do you kill an angel? Sometimes she thinks the only thing she has control over is her body, but how can she be sure when food ‘talks’ to her all the time? And alongside her gruelling training regime, she also has to deal with her younger sister – who is sixteen going on thirty.

'When France meets Harley, a would-be-clairvoyant, she starts to wonder if her life is heading in the right direction. He’s cute, but can her growing attraction to him banish Sam from her mind for good?

'Funny and feisty, this is a novel about fighting your demons…and guardian angel, too.' (Publisher’s blurb)

'The town of Lanternwood is under attack. There's a Tigon, a monster that is half-dragon, half-tiger, on the loose. Roxy is being hunted by a fire-breathing army and her best friend Cinnamon has been kidnapped. It seems that everyone Roxy loves has been cursed and it's up to her to save them. Somebody wants revenge. And when life couldn't be more dangerous, Roxy loses her powers and all seems lost, particularly when she is plagued by ferocious nightmares that entwine her fate in a quest, not only to hunt down the Tigon, but also to find her estranged father. Forced into a life on the run, Roxy is chased out of town by the Tigon's fire-breathing army. The search for her father means Roxy must try to stay alive as the friends Roxy once trusted betray her. And what awaits her is more horrifying than any of the terror she's suffered so far. ' (Publisher's blurb)