Jessi Hammond: 50 books

Elsie Parminter loves to keep informed about all the retirement home goings-on. And she loves to keep other people informed too – even if it’s not their business. So when she overhears a shocking confession, Elsie knows exactly what to do – tell someone! But why will no one believe her? It’s not like she’s intentionally gotten situations wrong in the past…

Cara lives in a home where her mother’s alcohol-fuelled violence is a daily reality. One day, after a beating, she discovers that her drawing of three lorikeets is now a drawing of two. Where the third lorikeet had been is a spatter of blood, and there’s a live lorikeet loose in her room. Does she dare use her newfound talent to help herself or will she make things worse…?

The King of Kaikara has decreed that helping or harbouring any magical creature is punishable by death. So when 20-year-old Orson finds a dragon’s egg and accidentally hatches it, he is in deep trouble. Unable to put little Sotari to death as his wife demands, he decides to try to find the dragons’...

Damien is almost blind. He does well at school, and looks after his own half-blind pony. He even found a way to help Brad, the school bully, to find his way past some of his own troubles. Now Damien needs help. He has a dream, a dream he's kept to himself for years. And the only one who can...

Five kids. Five different disabilities. Five lives about to be changed. Tamsin has been bounced from foster home to foster home. Now she's living on the remote coast of Tasmania, wondering if she's ever going to fit in anywhere. Lara has cerebral palsy. The doctors said she'd never walk....

When Bryn Maher learns that her next door neighbour's grandson, Jason Holloway, has been accused of something he claims he didn't do, she decides to help them by using her grandfather's watch to shift back in time and prove Jason's innocence – or not. Unfortunately for Bryn, this mystery...

Bryn has discovered that using her grandfather's pocket watch to help people is more complicated and dangerous than she thought, and has decided not to use it again. But when she learns that her friend Harley's young cousin disappeared without a trace over a year ago, she has to do something...

When Bryn Maher discovers her grandfather's lost pocket watch, she also finds she has inherited a special gift. Soon, with the help of her rescue kitten, Orion, and Harley, who works in an antique store, she finds herself involved in several terrifying and heartbreaking mysteries. When Bryn...