Download or read book Alex and the Alpacas Ride Again written by Kathryn Lefroy and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her adventures in Tasmania, Alex is back home in Melbourne and ready for the next one. But Grandpa Jacob wants to keep Alex protected, and he wants her to go back to being a regular kid and forget that she is the saviour of the world. Why can't he understand that she's not normal, she's special? When things start to happen around the olive sapling housing Kiala's spirit, Alex sees her chance to prove how important she is, but at what cost? When Ivette, an unexpected arrival from America, tries to assert herself into the mission, Alex is left questioning herself and her abilities, as she attempts to put her trust in others.
Download or read book Alex and the Alpacas Save the World written by Kathryn Lefroy and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex is expecting a pretty boring summer. But when Mum takes her to visither mysterious grandfather on his farm in Tasmania, weird things start tohappen ... Weirdest of all? Her grandfather's pet alpacas ... who can talk!When things go from strange to scary, Alex must use all her brains, brawnand bravery in order to survive the sinister forces threatening life as sheknows it.
Download or read book Alex and the Alpacas Save the World written by Kathryn Lefroy and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex is expecting a pretty boring summer. But when Mum takes her to visit her mysterious grandfather on his farm in Tasmania, weird things start to happen ... Weirdest of all? Her grandfather's pet alpacas ... who can talk! When things go from strange to scary, Alex must use all her brains, brawn and bravery in order to survive the sinister forces threatening life as she knows it.
Download or read book Boy on a Wire written by Jon Doust and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicting the full spectrum of adolescent alienation, this engaging, coming-of-age narrative is a humorous blend of novel and memoir. A sensitive, quick-witted boy from a small town, Jack Muir adores his mother, yearns for affection from his father, and lives in the shadow of his accomplished brother. Sent to a boarding school at a young age, Jack must quickly decide what sort of person he will be—the type that succumbs to the pressure of bullies and the school system or the type that fights back, using clever banter and intellect to get by. With a unique and authentic voice, this darkly humorous tale portrays the road to depression as seen through the naiveté of youth.
Download or read book Meet Me at the Intersection written by Ambelin Kwaymullina and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir andpoetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ orliving with disability. The focus of the anthology is on Australian life asseen through each author's unique, and seldom heard, perspective.With works by Ellen van Neerven, Graham Akhurst, Kyle Lynch, EzekielKwaymullina, Olivia Muscat, Mimi Lee, Jessica Walton, Kelly Gardiner,Rafeif Ismail, Yvette Walker, Amra Pajalic, Melanie Rodriga, Omar Sakr,Wendy Chen, Jordi Kerr, Rebecca Lim, Michelle Aung Thin and AlicePung, this anthology is designed to challenge the dominant, homogenousstory of privilege and power that rarely admits &‘outsider' voices.
Download or read book Choices written by Dianne Wolfer and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisabeth's hand trembled as she lifted the jar of warm liquid. She wanted to run away and scream that it was all a mistake, but instead she took a deep breath and poured her urine over the plastic pregnancy tester. A few drops spilt on the bathroom tiles. She shivered. It was so unfair. They'd only done it a few times and it hadn't even been th...
Download or read book Creepy Maud written by Dianne Touchell and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious and heartbreaking, Creepy & Maud charts the relationship between two social misfits, played out in the space between their windows. Creepy is a boy who watches from the shadows keenly observing and caustically commentating on human folly. Maud is less certain. A confused girl with a condition that embarrasses her parents and assures her isolation. Together Creepy and Maud discover something outside their own vulnerability — each other's. But life is arbitrary; and loving someone doesn't mean you can save them. Creepy & Maud is a blackly funny and moving first novel that says; 'You're ok to be as screwed up as you think you are and you're not alone in that.'
Download or read book At My Door written by Deb Fitzpatrick and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deliveries do not come late on a school night. They don't come in a speeding car. And they don't cry. When Poppy Campbell's dad opens the front door to find a small, very distressed child clinging to a green blanket, the family try their hardest to do the right thing. They make the little girl comfortable, call the police, and look after her while the authorities search for her family.
Download or read book Have You Seen Ally Queen written by Deb Fitzpatrick and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 15 years old, Ally Queen is uprooted from her comfortable city existence and dumped in a small town. Her mother, witness to a hit-and-run, is suffering from post-traumatic stress, and the quiet country life is supposed to improve her emotional state. Instead, the move just seems to make things worse—for Mom, for Ally, for everyone. Ally misses the way things used to be; she misses playing with her dad and little brother. But she's a teenager now, and teenage girls don't go fishing even if they really like it. When Ally meets Rel, she feels like she's hit rock bottom, but first impressions can be deceptive. As she starts to relax into herself, Ally finds life doesn't need to be as hard as she makes it. This is an absorbing and poignant story of first love and self-discovery for readers both young and old.
Download or read book The Mimosa Tree written by Antonella Preto and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a beautifully written, heartfelt look at the effects of breast cancer and the loss of a loved one to the disease. It's the summer of 1987, and Mira is beginning her first year at university. She has a radical new haircut, and an all-black wardrobe: she should be having the time of her life. But, it's hard for her to get excited about anything when she's being smothered by her crazy Italian family, enrolled in a course she's not interested in, and expecting nuclear warfare at any moment. Even a new best friend and the magnetic boy from art class can't wipe away the image of a looming mushroom cloud—her mother has breast cancer. Mira's world is about to explode, but it's not the skies she should be checking.
Download or read book The History of Mischief written by Rebecca Higgie and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jessie and her older sister Kay find a book called The History of Mischief,hidden beneath the floorboards in their grandmother's house, they uncover asecret world. The History chronicles how, since antiquity, mischief-makers haveclandestinely shaped the past &– from an Athenian slave to a Polish salt miner andfrom an advisor to the Ethiopian Queen to a girl escaping the Siege of Paris. Jessiebecomes enthralled by the book and by her own mission to determine its accuracy.Soon the History inspires Jessie to perform her own acts of mischief, unofficiallybecoming mischief-maker number 202 in an effort to cheer up her eccentricneighbour, Mrs Moran, and to comfort her new schoolfriend, Theodore. However, noteverything is as it seems. As Jessie delves deeper into the real story behind theHistory, she becomes convinced her grandmother holds the key to a long-held familysecret.The History of Mischief is about the many things we do to try to escape
Download or read book Saving Jazz written by Kate McCaffrey and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasmine Lovely has it all – the looks, the grades, the friends. But when a house party spins out of control, Jazz discovers what can happen when your mistakes go viral ...
Download or read book Beautiful Monster written by Kate McCaffrey and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the perspective of a teenager, this chilling psychological thriller follows Tessa as she copes with the blood-stained event that changed her life forever. Set in Perth, Western Australia, this gripping novel demonstrates how Tessa clings to anorexia and to her sinister, imaginary friend, Ned—her greatest support and her staunchest ally who is privy to her deepest secrets—in an attempt to deal with the loss of her brother and the resulting change in her parents.
Download or read book Shutterspeed written by A. J. Betts and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Betts offers young adult fiction at its best, successfully engaging a poetic literary aesthetic' Australian Book Review.... Living alone with his silent father and the shadow cast by his long-dead mother, Dustin waits. All he wants is to slip under the radar and survive what's left of high school; get through his work at the photo lab, get by. Beyond that lies real life. Then one Sunday, a single photo gets stuck in the processor and it changes everything. The bike in the picture is decent, for once, a Ducati Monster 620, cherry red. The woman beside it is striking too. What begins then as an innocent curiosity in Terri Pavish, her photography, her freedom, her speed, becomes something else, and the past swings full-circle to haunt him.
Download or read book Origin written by Jennifer L. Armentrout and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Four of the bestselling Lux series Daemon will do anything to get Katy back. After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he's facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure. All Katy can do is survive. Surrounded by enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. After all, there are sides of Daedalus that don't seem entirely crazy, but the group's goals are frightening and the truths they speak even more disturbing. Who are the real bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen? Together, they can face anything. But the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be standing on? And will they even be together? Read the entire bestselling series! #1: Obsidian (from Katy's point of view) #2: Onyx (from Katy's point of view) #3: Opal (from Katy's point of view) #4: Origin #5: Opposition Oblivion (Books 1-3 from Daemon's point of view) CAN BE READ FIRST OR AFTER KATY'S POV! Prequel: Shadows (Dawson's story)
Download or read book Smuggler s Curse written by Norman Jorgensen and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Read’s life takes a surprising – and alarming – turn when his mother sells him to an infamous smuggler plying his trade off the north-west coast of Australia in the closing days of the 19th century. From terrifying encounters with cut-throat pirates to battling the forces of nature in a tropical typhoon, from dining with head-hunting guerrillas to making meals of monkey stew, Red is in for a hair-raising adventure that may cost him his life.
Download or read book Sentinel written by Jennifer L Armentrout and published by Bloom Books. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 NYT bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes the final book in her beloved Covenant series.
