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Born: Established: Wurzburg,
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Germany,
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
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2 y separately published work icon Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows Denis Knight , Cristy Burne , ( trans. Ulrike Köbele with title Ellie Weeks & die verplanteste Weltrettung aller Zeiten ) Wurzburg : Arena , 2023 20485801 2021 single work children's fiction children's

'In a world of magic, can science save the day?

'Wednesday Weeks never wanted to be a sorcerer’s apprentice. She’d rather study science than magic. But when her cloak-wearing, staff-wielding grandpa is captured by a power-hungry goblin king, Wednesday must find a way to embrace her magical heritage and rescue him from the dreaded Tower of Shadows.

'Luckily, she’s not alone. Her best friend Alfie is a prime-number fan and robotics expert who’s all-in on Wednesday’s epic plan involving parallel universes, swords of power, and a wise-cracking talking skull.

'But it’s going to take more than science, magic, and the world’s cutest robot to take down this bad guy. Because the goblin king is playing for the ultimate prize – and Wednesday and Alfie just walked into his trap…' (Publication summary)
2 10 y separately published work icon Good Oil Love and Other Perishable Items Laura Buzo , ( trans. Mo Zuber with title Wunder wie diese ) Wurzburg : Arena , 2013 Z1487577 2010 single work novel young adult romance

'From the moment 15-year-old Amelia begins work on the checkout at Woolworths she is sunk, gone, lost ... head-over-heels in love with Chris. Chris is the funny, charming man-about-Woolies, but he's 21, and the six-year difference in their ages may as well be 100. Chris and Amelia talk about everything from Second Wave Feminism to Great Expectations and Alien but will he ever look at her in the way she wants him to? And if he does, will it be everything she hopes?' (From the publisher's website.)
2 11 y separately published work icon Dreaming of Amelia Jaclyn Moriarty , ( trans. Anne Markus with title Ein Sommer Der Ungeschminkten Lügen ) Wurzburg : Arena , 2012 Z1649544 2009 single work novel young adult

'Dreaming of Amelia is the story of Amelia and Riley. They're bad kids from the bad crowd at bad Brookfield High, and they've just transferred to Ashbury. Brilliant, mysterious and probably evil, they have the rich kids at Ashbury spellbound. But just who are Amelia and Riley? Tantalisingly aloof, they are somehow managing to have an extraordinary impact on all the HSC Ashbury students, and the staff.

'Told through memoirs written as part of the gothic fiction elective in the HSC English exam, Dreaming of Amelia is a story about ghosts, secrets, madness, passion, locked doors, femme fatales - and that terrifying moment in the final year of high school when you realise that the future's come to get you.'

(Publishers' website.)
8 6 y separately published work icon City of Lies Lian Tanner , ( trans. Anke Knefel with title Die Stadt der Lügen ) Wurzburg : Arena , 2011 Z1790161 2011 single work children's fiction children's adventure fantasy 'A gripping fantasy adventure: the exciting sequel to Museum of Thieves. Six months have passed since the Great Storm, and Goldie Roth is trapped at home again, this time by the invisible chains of love and guilt. But when Toadspit's sister Bonnie is abducted by a mysterious criminal called Harrow, Goldie must leave home in a bold attempt to rescue her friends ...

In the last few months she had had more than a dozen messages from the museum, asking when she was going to take up her position as Fifth Keeper. Tonight she would reply. 'Never.'

Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilful liar. She's supposed to be one of the keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt, along with her friend Toadspit. But although she desperately wants to be a keeper, her parents are ill and she will not leave them. Then Toadspit's sister Bonnie is stolen, and Goldie is forced into action. She and Toadspit follow the child-stealers to the neighbouring city of Spoke. Along the way, Toadspit is also captured, and Goldie discovers some dangerous secrets - secrets that the child-stealers will kill to protect. She will need all her skills as a thief and a liar if she is to survive and save her friends. But survive she must. Because the Fugleman has returned to Jewel, and the Fifth Keeper will soon be needed more than ever ...' (Publisher's blurb)
8 9 y separately published work icon Museum of Thieves Lian Tanner , ( trans. Anke Knefel with title Das Museum Der Diebe ) Wurzburg : Arena , 2010 Z1727356 2010 single work children's fiction children's adventure fantasy 'Goldie Roth lives in the city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime. But Goldie is both bold and impatient. She runs away to the mysterious Museum of Dunt, where she meets a boy named Toadspit and discovers dangerous secrets. A monstrous brizzlehound stalks the museum's corridors, and only a thief can find the way through its strange, shifting rooms. Goldie and Toadspit have a talent for thieving. Which is just as well, because the treacherous Fugleman has his own plans for the museum, plans that threaten the lives of everyone Goldie loves. And it will take a very bold thief to stop him.' (From the publisher's website.)
6 8 y separately published work icon Finding Cassie Crazy Jaclyn Moriarty , ( trans. Anja Hansen-Schmidt with title Der Tag der zuckersuben Rache ) Wurzburg : Arena , 2007 Z1080111 2003 single work novel young adult 'Year 10 is pretty crazy for best friends Lydia, Cassie and Emily, and when their English teacher starts the Pen Pal Project so that they can experience the Joy of the Evelope with boys from the scary Brookfield High, life gets even crazier. As Lydia turns into a secret agent and Emily a relationship expert, it is not so clear what is happening to Cassie. She is writing to someone but not even her friends know what is going on.' - back cover
5 14 y separately published work icon Checkers John Marsden , ( trans. Stephanie von Selchow )expression Wurzburg : Arena , 2000 Z366537 1996 single work novel young adult For years she dreamed of owning a dog. She got Checkers. He was an exuberant undisciplined mutt, with a heap of attitude. His white and black coat had passers-by pointing and laughing. It looked like a mosaic of tiles that had been smashed, then re-assembled. A bit like her life really. And somehow she has to piece it all back together. Only then might she understand why it fell apart in the first place. (Source: Trove)
4 9 y separately published work icon The Devil Latch Sonya Hartnett , ( trans. Anne Brauner with title Teuflische Stimmen ) Wurzburg : Arena , 1999 Z13032 1997 single work novel young adult He draws her close, envelops her as if with wings. She does not resist him or the kisses over her face when he tilts her chin up, she lets him, exposing the flesh of her throat. When she goes home that day she will wear the marks of the devil, the clinging smell of oil, the bruising of her neck. (Source: Trove)
2 4 y separately published work icon Trinity Street Sally Odgers , Wurzburg : Arena , 1999 Z546415 1997 single work novel young adult science fiction 'Tell and Camena were inseparable until the arrival of the mysterious Gerhardt. Now you can never see Camena without Gerhardt. Gerhardt is from the 27th century and on a mission - he wants high-IQ Camena for recovery into the future and the donation of her genes for the betterment of humanity.' 

(Publication summary)
2 3 y separately published work icon Jacob, the Boy from Nuremberg Ejnar Agertoft , Robert Ingpen (illustrator), Wurzburg : Arena , 1998 Z942145 1998 single work picture book children's
5 43 y separately published work icon Sleeping Dogs Sonya Hartnett , ( trans. Petra Koob-Pawis with title Schlafende Hunde ) Wurzburg : Arena , 1998 Z238800 1995 single work novel young adult (taught in 8 units) The misanthropic, sadistic father of five children, ages 12 to 25, Griffin Willow runs a trailer park on his dilapidated farm in rural Australia. Isolated from all outside influences, even the neighboring small town, the Willow family has created its own oppressive, sheltered, and decaying world. Despite abuse from their father and a silent, withdrawn mother, all five children live at home and help run the trailer park. Twenty-three-year-old Michelle and her younger brother Jordan have found solace in an incestuous relationship, which they carefully conceal from their parents. When Bow Fox, an itinerant artist, comes to stay at the park, their 15-year-old brother, Oliver, accidently reveals their secret. So begins an agonizing, irreversible progression of violence and betrayal. (Source: Trove)
9 11 y separately published work icon The Silver Brumby Elyne Mitchell , ( trans. Eva Grünert with title Der Silberhengst ) Wurzburg : Arena , 1996 Z175381 1958 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units) Thowra, the magnificent silver stallion, is king of the brumbies. He must defend his herd from the mighty horse, the Brolga, in the most savage of struggles. He must also save his herd from capture by man.
2 10 y separately published work icon Shadows of Time Patricia Wrightson , ( trans. Maria Rosken with title Magooya: im schatten der zeit ) Wurzburg : Arena , 1996 Z50612 1994 single work novel young adult fantasy United in their desperate longing to find a true home, two orphans, an Australian Aboriginal boy and a scullery maid from Parramatta encounter each other in 1798 and continue their search through space and time together.
4 15 y separately published work icon My Sister Sif Ruth Park , ( trans. Maria Rosken with title Schwester des Meeres ) Wurzburg : Arena , 1995 Z402977 1986 single work novel young adult fantasy

'Fourteen-year-old Riko manages to get her delicate older sister Sif and herself to their remote Pacific island home, where an American scientist who falls in love with Sif and discovers her connection with an underwater race creates complications in Riko's life.'

Source: Trove.
8 34 y separately published work icon Playing Beatie Bow Ruth Park , ( trans. Maria Rosken with title Abigails Zeitreise ) Wurzburg : Arena , 1994 Z47803 1980 single work novel young adult fantasy (taught in 5 units) When Abigail joins in the game of Beatie Bow she is transported back in time to a Sydney of the late 19th century where she meets the Bow family, whose fate she can predict, but which she is powerless to change.
2 1 y separately published work icon The Journal of Watkin Stench Meredith Hooper , ( trans. Renate Ahrens-Kramer with title Watzel Stinkers Tagebuch ) Wurzburg : Arena , 1991 Z849477 1988 single work children's fiction children's
2 2 y separately published work icon The Green Piper Victor Kelleher , ( trans. Anne Uhde with title Der Grunpfeifer ) Wurzburg : Arena , 1987 Z516560 1984 single work novel young adult
3 1 y separately published work icon Colour in the Creek Margaret Paice , ( trans. Hans-Georg Noack with title Dem Gold auf der Spur ) Wurzburg : Arena , 1982 Z830983 1976 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Riffe in der Torresstrasse Friedrich Gerstaecker , Wurzburg : Arena , 1981 Z1174268 1981 single work novel adventure
4 y separately published work icon Moon Filly Elyne Mitchell , ( trans. Friedl Hofbauer et. al.agent with title Das Mondfohlen : vom gefahrvollen Leben australischer Wildpferde ) Wurzburg : Arena , 1973 Z830347 1968 single work novel young adult Moon Filly grew up with another young foal and an intense bond developed between the two young horses. But the bond of loyalty is pushed to the limit in a terrible struggle between warring stallions and wild storms, when all the horses must fight to survive.
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