AustLit

'In 1941, Darwin is bombed, and the war against the Germans and the Japanese gets alarmingly close. While those in the area are raising money for the war effort with backyard concerts, the kids on Bolton Road have their own ideas about how to help out. Notices around the town warn that loose talk kills. Are spies passing information to the enemies right under their noses? Mable convinces Nancy, Janet, Fred and Lennie that catching spies is the best way to do their part. But will their efforts catch the traitors...or make the kids targets?' (Publication summary)

'WEEKEND TERROR In the sleepy coastal suburb of Willow Cove, Thorny, Lou and Happy spend much of their free time swimming and surfing. When they see a speedboat ram Mr. Wilson's dinghy, their early morning swim becomes the start of a weekend of adventure, mystery and terror. ... ' (Publication summary)

'Billy's grandmother moves to an Retirement Home for the elderly up in the hills. While cleaning her bush cottage for a tenant, Billy finds a ring among the rubbish. She slides it on her finger, quickly discovering she can talk and understand birds and animals, especially bossy ones like her grandmother's Siamese cat... Life will never be the same again.. 'Come on, ' the husky voice said crossly. 'We must hurry.' I stared at the cat. Did the voice come from the cat? The cat stared back. Grandmother always said Bast was intelligent, but talking cats! Was I going down with heat stroke? 'Bast?' 'Beloved of the Goddess, the ring has accepted you, ' the cat hissed. 'The ring, ' I repeated like an idiot. 'The ring...' the cat hissed. She stopped lashing her tail and stared at me with her mad crossed blue eyes. 'It gives you the power to understand and be understood by all creatures.' 'Like the Dr Doolittle who could talk to animals?' 'Never heard of him, ' the cat hissed. 'So I can understand cat language, ' I said. 'All creatures, ' the cat hissed.' (Publication summary)

'Jane's husband's relation had inherited the wealth of his ancestor whose wife had slept with the king. In a bid to redirect the fortune to her husband, Jane encounters the dangers of changing the past.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The school holidays have a bad start. Belinda's father doesn't arrive home and it is raining. The news is that his car went over the cliff into the surf beach, but there is no body. Belinda, her mother and Kate stay at Amanda's family beach house to be near where the car went over. Belinda thinks that her father maybe got washed up further up the coastline and perhaps could be sick or ill somewhere in the back country. The girls discover how unusual their three kittens are. When held, all animal speech can be understood. So with the help of the kittens the three girls spend their wet school holidays searching. There is a helpful dog, grouchy possums and a dopey old horse involved before Belinda's father is found at last.' (Publication summary)

'Belinda's unusual grandmother, with her unusual cat, Senna, is looking after Belinda while her parents are away. Belinda is thrilled because unusual things always happen when grandmother comes to visit... And this visit is no exception, first the girls learn of the missing Will that will save old Miss Higgins, then the petrified gryphon on Miss Higgins' roof accidentally gets woken. If a hungry, angry gryphon wasn't bad enough, Belinda and her friends learn that they must find the gryphon's missing ankh, because it might know the location of the Will, and it won't rest till the ankh is found...' (Publication summary)

'Belinda is an only child, and lonely. When her mother has to leave home to recover from her illness, her grandmother arrives to look after her. Belinda discovers to her delight that she has a very unusual grandmother and her grandmother's cat, a superior Siamese called Senna is equally unusual. Belinda's life suddenly becomes full of friends and adventures. She learns to fly a moth eaten carpet to visit her mother, turn a big black bear back into her father and saves Senna from certain death. ' (Publication summary)

'What else could possibly go wrong?

'Geoff is sixteen and still at school.

'Julio is a seventeen year-old panel beater.

'Herbie is eighteen and already in the Air force.

'They have a common love - skydiving.

'Nothing seems to go right for Geoff - he has to go behind his over-protective mother's back to even watch. But no way she will permit him to jump!

'The boys' barbecue sparks a bushfire... and no one is pleased and when a jumper commits suicide, his mother hears part of a conversation... and jumps to the wrong conclusion. When a white powder she finds in his back pocket is not what she thinks, it is the last straw!

'Maybe he should leave home ...

'An adventure story set around the sport of skydiving!' (Publication summary)

'When Lejon, a dwarf friend of George, is invited for dinner but doesn't arrive, two royal dwarf guards accuse George of stealing and betraying Lejon, their royal heir. In return they steal Willyum, threatening to keep him until George returns Lejon. ' (Publication summary)

'Billy’s grandmother moves to an retirement home for the elderly up in the hills. While cleaning her bush cottage for a tenant, Billy finds a ring among the rubbish. Sliding it onto her finger, she quickly discovers she can talk and understand birds and animals, especially bossy ones like her grandmother’s Siamese cat...

Life will never be the same again!' (Publication summary)

'When Billie, Charlie and their uncle are mysteriously transported to The Place of No Name, they find themselves in a land carved from nothing by The Traveller; lord and master of this strange world.

'With no way home and strict rules to obey, the danger increases when they discover that girls and trouble makers are ‘unloosed’—disintegrated, unbound, liberated, gone to God. Where they disappear to, nobody knows, but they are never seen again.

'The newcomers have a deadly secret that must be kept at any cost. Billie is a girl!

'Escape is the only option they are interested in; and they need to do it fast. They don’t know who they can trust. There are eyes and ears everywhere. And Billie can’t seem to control her smart mouth. She’s sure to get herself into strife one way or another.' (Publisher's blurb)