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Bleakboy and Hunter Stand Out In the Rain by Steven Herrick
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction
Jesse is an eleven-year-old boy tackling many problems in life, especially fitting into a new school. Luckily he meets Kate. She has curly black hair, braces and an infectious smile. She wants to 'Save the Whales' and needs Jesse's help. But they haven't counted on Hunter, the school bully, who appears ...Show more
By the River by Steven Herrick
$17.95 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction
This memorable novel in verse, a USBBY Outstanding International Book, reveals the tough and tender sides of a young boy growing up in a small, sleepy river town in Australia. Harry swims in the swamp, eats watermelon with his brother and dad, survives schoolyard battles, and rac ...Show more
Cold Skin by Steven Herrick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Paperback Fiction
A page-turning read about father-son relationships and the many ways of being a man. Eddie doesn't want to be in school; he wants to work in the mines. But his dad won't go down in the coal pits, and he won't let his sons go either. Nothing much happens in the town of Burruga, except for fights at the p ...Show more
Do-wrong Ron by Steven Herrick
$14.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Books
HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2004..He's do-wrong Ron..who does the wrong things at the wrong time..or the right things at the wrong time..or the wrong things at the right time...until he finds Charlie..the guinea pig who looks like an oversized rat..and they meet Isabelle..who is ...Show more
How to Repaint a Life (CBCA Honours 2022) by Steven Herrick
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A powerful prose novel from one of Australia's most awarded authors.Isaac is running from his old life when he steps off the bus in a small town. He doesn't plan on sticking around and has nowhere to stay, but a local cafe owner's kindness offers him a chance to change his story. Then Isaac meets Sophie ...Show more
Lonesome Howl by Steven Herrick
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction
Jake's dad saw the wolf, before Jake was born. They say wolves don't live in this country, yet in the night Jake hears it howling, long and lonely...When Jake and Lucy hike to Sheldon Mountain in search of the wolf, Jake is out to prove his dad right or wrong; Lucy is escaping her father's cruelty. Both ...Show more
Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend by Steven Herrick
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction
In a country town, in a school just like yours, the kids in Class 6A tell their stories. There's Mick, school captain and sometimes trouble-maker, who wants to make the school a better place, while his younger brother Jacob just wants to fly. There's shy and lonely Laura who hopes to finally fit in with ...Show more
Spangled Drongo, The by Steven Herrick
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: UQP Storybridge Ser.
Twelve-year-old Sam has soccer fever. He lives with eccentric Auntie Amshara and Ronaldo his dog. His best friend is Goose, Captain of the local soccer team...that is, until soccer crazed Jessica Bowles moves next door. Sam soon discovers that there's more to life than just soccer...In this gently comic ...Show more
The Bogan Mondrian by Steven Herrick
$19.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult
'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 Luke's invi ...Show more
The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction | Series: UQP Young Adult Fiction Ser.
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, it's the simple gi ...Show more
The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick
$24.95 AUD
Category: Audio/CD
This special audio issue of a bestselling and award-winning Australian classic from popular author Steven Herrick is a life-affirming look at humanity, generosity and love. '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 ...Show more
Tom Jones Saves the World by Steven Herrick
$16.95 AUD
Category: Children/Teenage Fiction
I hate that wall Every time I go for a bike-ride Mum says, "Stay within the walls". So I ride around in circles. Like a circus animal. It's a prison. A prison for kids. Dumb things become important when you're old. At least that's what Tom reckons: like living in a guarded gated community, filling the t ...Show more