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Easter Bilby is excited to join his friends for Banjo Frog's Concert Spectacular.

But something's wrong.

Can Easter Bilby help his friends and save the concert? ...

Atlantic (Tic) Brewer never knew her father, a hydrologist who died at sea before she was born. Tic's small home on the Edge is threatened by rising seas as sixteen-year-old Tic prepares to attend a ground-breaking science academy. There she meets Phish and Lee, who like her dedicate their lives to saving all humanity. ...

In the exciting sequel to Code Blue, Atlantic (Tic) Brewer returns to the North East Science Academy and things go from bad to worse. She can’t seem to stay out of trouble, and when her past catches up with her, it will take help from all of her old friends, and some new ones, as well as nerves of steel for Tic to survive. ...

Evie is a spirit girl. When her island home is devastated by bushfire, she emerges from the shelter of her cave to discover her community has lost all hope. But Evie refuses to believe that hope can be destroyed alongside homes and livelihoods. 'The fire may have taken many things, but the fire can never take everything,' she says. ...

Grandfather Shark is very old and a little bit grumpy. But when robbers arrive in his seaside town, he hatches a plan to stop them. ...

It's February 1942 and the Second World War is raging.

Japanese planes are bombing Darwin, Australia fears an invasion, and the train track leads straight through the desert to Adelaide. Fourteen-year-old Rosemary Lister begins a diary to share the upheavals and tensions of her new life in the country, storing memories for her father, missing in Singapore. ...

Wild Whiskers and Tender Tales takes you behind the scenes of native Australian wildlife conservation, into the hearts of the people who commit their lives to rescuing, protecting and nurturing some of our most beautiful and endangered species. ...

Jake Phillips doesn't break the rules because he's a troublemaker. He breaks them because he thinks the rules are stupid. But some rules aren't meant to be broken.

Haunted by memories of fear and violence, Ursus has never known kindness.

An accident sends Jake to an afterlife where pets go to await their human companions. ...

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Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories is a unique anthology of essays, interviews, and stories written by children and young adults. The stories are the finest of hundreds collected through a nationwide schools competition in 2002. ...