'This book transported me headlong into the Stone Age and returned me home with a bigger, warmer, wilder heart.' Sophie Kirtley

Friendship is tough in the Stone Age, especially when your best friend is part-Water Spirit…

Ever since Little Meg was chosen as the Sunhealer's Shadow, she has devoted herself to learning the ways of the Spirits. So when their anger sends a ferocious storm sweeping through her village, she fears it's her fault. By keeping the bones she was meant to offer up to them, Meg has put her people in terrible danger.

As the rain clears, Meg discovers a girl washed up on the shore, who speaks a strange language and scratches pictures in the sand. Little by little, the pair become friends. But if Meg wants to save her village, she must help the girl find her way home.

Their perilous journey will take them across the wild sea, to a place that only exists in legends. Will Meg survive to tell the tale?

An unlikely flock. The adventure of a lifetime.

Life can be tough when you’re a bird, especially for Beaky, Herman and Pidge. With the young jackdaw’s twisted beak, the crow’s broken wing and the pigeon’s fear of flying, survival seems impossible. Until, that is, they band together.

The trio set out into the wild, leaving the city far behind. But danger lurks at every turn… Will the three birds ever find a place they can call home?

Meet the funniest trio in town! Despite their differences, they ALWAYS have each other’s backs?

Blue prepares to read a poem to an audience of friends from around the neighbourhood. But just before he takes the stage, he’s frozen with stage fright. The gang decides to travel back in time to borrow a good luck charm from one of Blue’s poet ancestors in the hopes that holding it will make Blue brave. But once Blue gets one charm, he realizes he needs one more. And then another one. And then another one…will Blue ever feel bold enough to take the stage, or will these three friends be looping back in time forever?!

The Blue, Barry & Pancakes series is loved by early readers and includes themes like:  

• Friendship that embraces difference
• Fun teamwork
• Creative problem solving

Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters. But loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short, each death more tragic than the last.

Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sisters’ deaths were no accident. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers. Annaleigh isn’t sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who – or what – are they really dancing with?

As Annaleigh’s involvement with a mysterious stranger intensifies, it’s a race to unravel the darkness that has enveloped her family – before it consumes her too.

‘Eerie and haunting.’ Trang Thanh Tran, author of She is a Haunting

Sister, I hear you. I feel your hands in the dirt, beckoning. I will answer your call – I’ll return.

Soojin and Mirae have the rare ability to reanimate the dead. The sisters have brought back countless creatures, but always mindful of the warning never to resurrect anything larger than the palm of their hand.

When Mirae is found drowned in the river that cuts through their small, sleepy town, Soojin is beside herself with grief. She disregards every rule and uses her magic to bring her sister back. At first the pair revel in the miracle of being reunited, but Mirae soon grows tired of hiding from the world. She becomes restless and hungry?

As the town is rocked by a series of harrowing, unusual deaths, Soojin fears the sister she brought back to life isn’t the one she knew.

Trouble is brewing at the Odditorium, where the gateway to the Land of Fairy Tales is about to open. For, as Bess knows only too well, fairy tales are nothing like the ones from the storybooks. Queen Cinderella wants her stolen magic slipper back and nothing will get in her way.

It soon becomes clear that Bess’s only choice is to travel to the Land of Fairy Tales and face Cinderella. With her friends by her side, she is determined to finish what her grandfather started by venturing to the queen’s legendary castle of illusions.

But as Bess and her friends fall victim to a series of sneaky tricks and enchantments, time is running out in their quest to find their happily ever after. And there’s a chance they may never escape unless they defeat the evil fairy-tale queen once and for all…

Lucy Smith is on the run. Years in foster care have taught her to be smart, cautious. But when the kind-eyed Jamie Jameson and his “friend-not-friend” Daunis track her down and show interest in her case, Lucy begins to wonder if things could be different.

They tell her the truth about her father, and the family that has been hidden from her all this time. But Lucy is being followed. As the secrets mount and threaten to swallow her whole, Lucy must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to protect the people she loves.

Fourteen-year-old Ella walks with a limp. Some days, she feels like a laughing stock. Other days, like no one sees her at all. Quinn is fifteen, fancy and fearless. She’s run away from home with a bag of family jewels and big ideas about changing the world.  Jack is sixteen and doesn’t care about anything anymore – he’s already lost it all. And then there’s Sebastian, Quinn’s older brother. He used to be her hero. Until he became a traitor

A coming-of-age historical novel for teens from internationally bestselling children’s author, Anna Woltz.