AustLit

'Cinnamon Stevens is a twelve-year-old sleuth who solves crimes in and around Melbourne. When Cinnamon's Year 7 class has an excursion to the old gold-mining town of Walhalla in Gippsland, trouble-maker Showy Daniels dares her to visit the out-of-bounds graveyard at night. It's an eerie and dangerous place. Showy has an 'accident'. His friends blame Meera, one of Cinnamon's besties. To stop Meera being bullied, Cinnamon must find out exactly what happened to Showy AND solve the mystery of a haunted theatre.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)

'Recently there has been a run of books about terminally ill teenagers who are angelic and brave. The one is different. It is written from the view-point of the main character, Adam Auttenberg, who is not heroic. He's a seventeen year-old boy who's lived with a benign brain tumour for most of his life. Without warning the tumour starts to grow. The novel begins with Adam back in what he calls his second home - the hospital. And the news gets worse. He is diagnosed with three month to live. Adam is a kind, sweet character, with a self depreciating humour.' (Introduction)

'Bronte Mettlestone is ten years-old when her parents, whom she hardly knew, are killed by pirates. In their will they leave extremely detailed instructions about a journey Bronte must take to deliver special gifts to her many aunts, along the way she has many wacky adventures wit water sprites, dragons and pirates. Each aunt tells Bronte a little bit more about her parents. She discovers that her father was a Spellbinder and her mother was a Whisperer. Bronte has inherited powers from both of them.' (Introduction)

'The sixth book in Morris Gleitzman's series about Felix Salinger which began with Once slots in after Soon. The war is over. Expecting to find some peace with his friends in Poland, Felix is aware that Zliv is tracking him with the intent of killing him. Felix is set upon and ends up in a hospital on an allied air base. There her accepts an offer to travel to Australia and become a sort of human good new story about the war.' (Introduction)

'Becki vanished from our Year 7 camp last night. Went missing. Completely disappeared. It’s up to me, Cinnamon Stevens, to solve the mystery. Only one small prob. Becki and I shared a tent and I have absolutely no idea what’s happened to her.

'(Note to self: May need to improve powers of observation if serious about becoming a super sleuth crime buster!) ' (Publication summary)