AustLit

'It's Saturday morning. Auskick starts soon. But there's something wrong with Brendan's Fish...' (Publication summary)

'Sonya and Margo hear their grandmother talk about putting a blue rinse in her hair. They decide to do it for her, while she is asleep. They use food dye. Too much food dye. Oh dear. Blue Hair. Get the picture?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Dad saves a scruffy little dog from being runover. But whose dog is it?' (Publication summary)

'Crystal longs to be a mermaid, so her mother makes her a flashing, silver tail which she wears at the swimming pool. But it isn't like being a proper mermaid - that is until she decides to wear her tail to bed one night.' (Publication summary)

'Can Sam ever persuade her dad to let her have a cat?' (Publication summary)

'It's Mia's first party time at the fairy shop! She knows exactly what will happen because her big sister, Alice, has been to the fairy shop before–twice! But what happens when things don't go as Alice says? Grades 1-3' (Publication summary)

'Jessie would love to keep the tortoise in her backyard. But Mr Smith must belong to somebody. Will Jessie find the right home for him?' (Google Books)

'When Jock hears a duck squawking very early in the morning from the pond in the park near his home, he goes to look. But it isn't a duck squawking - it's a man with a duck whistle and he's a hunter. Can Jock save the little duck he's caught before it's too late?' (Publication summary)

'Tammy can't draw as well as Grace next door, but there's something she can do, and the ducks will help!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Emma can't have a pet as she lives in an apartment. Her mum loves pot plants and encourages Emma to think of having a plant as a pet. Emma isn't interested until one day, when a low-flying bird drops a poo in an empty plant pot and her mum tells her if she waters it a poo plant might grow from the seeds in the bird's dropping. Emma enters her poo plant into the most unusual pet category of her class pet show.' (Publication summary)

'Adam wants to be an astronaut. It’s all he ever thinks about. One day he discovers Mad Marvin and his amazing space bubble, and it’s for blast off!' (Publication summary)

'Tim's birthday present from his Aunt Ethel is a kitten. A very LARGE kitten.' (Publication summary)

'Rosie loves things that are red – and especially she loves fire engines!Her home is next door to the Merrivale fire station, and every week she helps fire chief Hamish MacTavish polish the fire engine till it shines.

'Rosie's billycart is painted to look like a miniature fire engine, but she's love a real one of her own. When Mum and Dad need to buy a new used car, she finds one in Col's Car Lot. It's just what she wants – but her parents have different ideas. Rosie thinks this is unfair. So when it's time to go with Mum and Dad to the Merrivale picnic, Rosie decides not to go, and she persuades her best friend, Ned, not to go either. While they are playing in the treehouse, they discover that there's a real fire in Hamish MacTavish's fire station – and Hamish is away at the picnic! Now it's Rosie to the rescue. ' (Publication summary)

'Childhood, family relations and the seaside all provide the backdrop to Joe's story.

'When Joe and his dad go to Great-Uncle Alan's beach house after the old man's death, Joe discovers a boat in the garage. He longs to take it out on the sea, and he gets his wish when he goes fishing with Dad and Great-Uncle Alan's elderly friend Bob. After the fun of the fishing, and eating the fish on the beach, the men decide that the boat should now belong to Joe.' (Publication summary)
 

The Seaport Junior Sharks football team is in trouble. The Sharks haven't won a single match in the last two seasons, their oval has been declared unsafe, and they don't have enough players to form a viable team. But Eddie Atlas is determined to save the Sharks (Libraries Australia).