"We are the storm and the stillness."Indigo Michael isn't like other kids. And her mum isn't like other mums. Life for people like them isn't meant to have meaning—it's just something to survive in whatever way you can.When her mum abandons her, Aster's Aunt Noni becomes her foster parent. Suddenly Indigo has a new 'family'—one she didn't ask for and isn't even sure she wants.Then she meets Liam. He graffiti's revolutionary words across the world, words tha...

From acclaimed authors Kate Foster and Kate Gordon, a special story about being kind to others... and yourself.There are people everywhere who need help, who might seem okay on the outside but aren’t on the inside. People whose whole entire day can be changed ...Josh wants a friend but he doesn’t know how to find somewhere to belong …Ollie wants to express herself but doesn’t want to be noticed …Small Ac...

Sometimes Xavier wakes up feeling hopeless. Every new doctor this will fix it. Removing him from school this will fix it. The therapy group this will fix it. And his dad moving out. Maybe, this will fix it. His daily affirmations seem to be helping, yet the black dog never really goes away. But Xavier has a plan. Enlisting the help of best friend Aster, he tries to convince his dad to turn the family sheep farm into a therapy retreat for the group session kids. But he is up against decades...

Tasmanian teenager Tessa is found in the bush with scratches on her back and no memory of what happened or how they came to be there. What are they? What do they mean? When students at her school start disappearing, Tessa knows she must find out—whatever the cost.A gripping paranormal mystery that draws on stories of the Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, a creature believed to be extinct. First published in 2011, it was followed by a sequel, Vulpi....

WINNER OF THE CBCA 2021 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERSI can't let go of them—the good, right things—because if I do I'll turn into a cloud and I'll float away,and a storm will come and blow me to nothing.Eleven-year-old Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesn't think she's special at all. If she was, her mother wouldn't have left.Each day Aster must do a good, right thing—a challenge she sets herself, to make someone els...

Do you ever look at the sky and think that's where we belong? Like maybe the world is the wrong way around and we're meant to be up there, floating?Sixteen-year-old Therese lives in a small town on a small island. Her Aunt Kath calls her Tiger. Her friends call her Resey. The boy she loves calls her Champ. She's a lot of different things for a lot of different people.Therese has always had her feet on the ground. She's running through high school, but someone in her life is...

You said we could write anything we wanted. The first thing that came into our minds. Blue fish, red fish, green fish.Clementine Darcy is floundering. She wants to be the kind of fish who swims to the swish of her own fins - upstream, not simply carried along by the current.But she is finding the swirling waters of school and home difficult to navigate: her friendship group is splintering, her brother Fergus won't leave his room, her sister's life is not as perfect...

Can you really expect to find love when you come from a rich but heartless father who won’t pay a ransom to your kidnappers? Especially when that love is found burning in the amber fire of your protector’s eyes?Can you walk away from the one you are hired to protect, when loving her seems to be putting her in more danger, but she is everything you’ve been searching for?Can Callie and Jackson find a way back to true love after having to overcome everything life throws at them?...

When Maddy discovers a love note scrawled on the toilet cubicle wall at work, she decides to go on a quest to find out who wrote it and to see if, just maybe, it was intended for her.This sweet Christmas holiday romance set in Hobart, Tasmania, is just the thing you need to ease into the festive season this year. BYO cup of hot chocolate and slice of cake!

Temora Tempest thought she was just a normal girl, but after making a wish on her twelfth birthday, she learned the truth: She's a wordspinner, a magical storyteller from another world, learning her craft in a tower that reaches to the clouds. But with the villainous Wordsnatcher on the loose, turning the Wordspinners wordless, the fates of both the worlds are at risk. When the mysterious Literati take over Lyfthelm Tower, Temora knows something is wrong.As her power grows, Temora ...

On Christmas Day, Connie Chase opens the twenty-fifth door on her advent calendar, eating the last chocolate as she tries to swallow the memory of her former love, Viggo MacDuff. His dazzling green eyes are everywhere; from the Christmas tree to the promise of eternal love in a sprig of mistletoe, Connie sees only her hopeless gaze reflected back at her, trapped inside an all-too-shiny bauble. When she finds that even Christmas festivities can’t erase the pain of her first heartbreak, she ...

Do you ever look at the sky and think that’s where we belong? Like maybe the world is the wrong way around and we’re meant to be up there, floating?Sixteen-year-old Therese lives in a small town on a small island. Her Aunt Kath calls her Tiger. Her friends call her Resey. The boy she loves calls her Champ. She’s a lot of different things for a lot of different people.Therese has always had her feet on the ground. She’s running through high school, but someone in he...