Product Description: This is our day of reconfiguration, where the mist has wiped the sea from the very face of the earth and the sun is swaddled far from the reach of human eye... In this book, Andrew Fusek Peters describes an extraordinary year of wild swimming...read more

Product Description: A short mystery that's high on suspense! This is a perfect page turner if you want to finish a thriller in one sitting, especially for reluctant and struggling readers. Cool, edgy crime detective duo, Jas and Sam are teens who solve spine-chilling cases - using equal measures of humour and heroism along the way! 'High Stakes' is a humorous mystery about first love and vampires, and there's a lot at stake! Vladya Blud-chik is the new girl at Jas and Sam's school...read more

Product Description: A short mystery that's high on suspense! This is a perfect page turner if you want to finish a thriller in one sitting, especially for reluctant and struggling readers. Cool, edgy crime detective duo, Jas and Sam are teens who solve spine-chilling cases - using equal measures of humour and heroism along the way! In this mystery, 'The Crawling Hand', Jas and Sam hear a knock on the door of their detective agency...read more

Product Description: A short mystery that's high on suspense! This is a perfect page turner if you want to finish a thriller in one sitting, especially for reluctant and struggling readers. Cool, edgy crime detective duo, Jas and Sam are teens who solve spine-chilling cases - using equal measures of humour and heroism along the way! In this mystery, 'Sliced in Two', there's a ghost on the loose in the local woodyard and it looks like it's not just a ghost - it's a ghost that has been sliced in two by a wood saw! Sam keeps her cool but Jas is all of a dither as they try to solve the case...read more

Product Description: Who holds the seeds to save a sky-high world?Arborium is at risk, the sharpened blades of rival Maw poised to saw off its bark and branches. What can a poor plumber's apprentice armed with little more than a monkey wrench do to stop the chopping?Carved into a massive, mile-high canopy, the forest kingdom of Arborium stands upon the tallest of trees...read more

Product Description: An irreverent and humorous look at non-fiction topics through poetry that includes a range of poems that are old and new, familiar and fantastical, poems containing patterned and predictable language and ones with more challenging vocabulary.

Product Description: The Bush animals are fed up of Dingo dog's bullying and generate a storming idea to teach him a lesson. This traditional Australian 'Tale with a Twist' is retold by poet, author and storyteller, Andrew Fusek Peters, and delightfully illustrated by Anna Wadham...read more

Product Description: The Skateboard Detectives are on the trail of a missing diamond, but they're not the only ones. It's going to take some tight moves and death-defying free-running to keep one step ahead of the ruthless jewel-thieves...

Product Description: Covering a wide range of real-life issues, ranging from relationships and peer pressure to bullying and drugs, this exciting collection of poems, includes some that were specially commissioned. Readers will find plenty to laugh at, but also much to make them think; and some poems that are bound to disturb, perhaps even shock...read more

Product Description: The poems in this book explore the element's many guises, from the hot sun to fiery volcanoes, form the legend of Icarus to the Great Fire of London, and from fireworks in the dark night sky to the bright festival candles of Divali...read more

Presents a collection of poems about water, featuring such poets as Thomas Hardy, Federico Garcia Lorca, Polly Peters, and Jack Prelutsky.

Product Description: Wriggling worms, precious gemstones, green rainforests, parched deserts and dark caves all have their place in Earth, a collection that celebrates the natural world around us. Shape poems, funny and thoughtful poems, traditional and new poems, each very different from the next, and full of surprises, but all sharing an elemental link...read more

Product Description: From trickling stream to violent flood, from sparkling ice to acid rain, and form the bathtub to the open sea, the poems in Water look at the many contrasting faces that water takes in the world. Shape poems, funny and thoughtful poems, traditional and new poems, each very different from the next, and full of surprises, but all sharing an elemental link...read more

Product Description: When a Faberge egg is stolen and makes an appearance on the black market, Charlie's ex-con dad is an immediate suspect. But the Skateboard Detectives know that he's been set up, and they know just how to get the real criminals bang to rights...

Product Description: Mountain Lion terrorises all the forest animals, and preys on them for his supper. One day, they come up with a plan to try to protect themselves, yet they are not safe until Rabbit cooks up a cunning plan which brings them lasting freedom...read more

Product Description: From light-hearted and often hilarious poems about first love, relationships, and families to more serious works that deal with tough issues like death, self-harm, drug abuse, and bullying, this is an ideal collection for teenage readers...read more

There is a party on the train and all the animals are jumping aboard with their instruments. Follow the pace and rhythm of a locomotive as the party starts off slow and gets wilder and wilder then slows back down to a snooze at bedtime.

Presents a collection of poems about air, featuring such poets as John Foster, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jill Townsend, and Lisa Watkinson.