HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2005
The big river rolls past our town, takes a slow look and rolls away.
Life for Harry means swimming in Pearce Swamp, eating chunks of watermelon with his brother and his dad, surviving schoolyard battles, and racing through butterflies in ..
Isaac is running from his old life when he steps off the bus in a small town. He doesnt plan on sticking around and has nowhere to stay, but a local caf? owners kindness offers him a chance to change his story. Then Isaac meets Sophie and learns hes not the only one wanting to repaint his life. ..
The sun is shining and today feels like an adventure, only one I can go on whenever I want because I have a bicycle and friends and a city just waiting to be explored.With their new teachers help, the kids in Class 5D ride to school together in a bicycle bus. Olivia can fix a puncture in two minutes..
My hand in his stops trembling, for a moment. When the paths of a runaway teenage boy, an old hobo and a rich girl intersect in an abandoned train yard, each carries their own personal baggage. Over early mornings, long walks and cheap coffee they discover, no matter how big or small, its the simpl..
There are worse things than school. Luke sleepwalks through his days wagging school, swimming at the reservoir and eating takeaway pizza. That is until Charlotte shows up.Rumour is she got expelled from her city school and her family moved to the Blue Mountains for a fresh start. But when Lukes invi..
Please, sir. The apple isnt rubbish . . . its for the birds. In a country town, in a school just like yours, the kids in Class 6A tell their stories. Theres Mick, school captain and sometimes trouble-maker, who wants to make the school a better place, while his younger brother Jacob just wants to fl..