Penguin Random House Australia: 1771 books

What about all that stuff you keep reading about: the moonlit walks, the red roses, waves softly kissing the sandy shore? It doesn't exist. Does it have to be a problem just because you don't want to hold your mother's hand anymore and you're not ready to hold anyone else's? Before you try to give yourself a hickey tonight, read this!

Charmwood High and Year 8 plans to turn the school play, 'Romeo and Juliet' into a rock musical. Everything's moving along until someone mentions Equal Opportunity. There aren't enough roles for girls in this production. For the Narrator, Peter Nutt, Equal Opportunity means more opportunities...

Margaret Clark invites you to come into her Parlour - and die! Mike and Kristy have been packed off to Camp Star by their mother and it's the original camp from hell. Dumb Leaders blowing whistles and jumping around in shorts, gross food, beds like concrete and everyone going feral: the usual good...

A brilliantly funny novel by the author of Ghost on Toast and Hold My Hand - Or Else!, for kids who are sick and tired of health food. All junk food is banned from the school camp. So Spoonhead, Amy Yui, Trash, Zits and some of the others think up outrageous ways of getting round the authorities....

Sam Studley's a bit older and wiser than when you met him in 'Hold My Hand - Or Else!' but it's a pity he can't say the same for his fifteen year old sister Leanne.No one seems to know where she is. Some kids are saying she's got AIDS and some are saying she's been abducted. Some are saying she's...

Friends, school, clothes. all your questions answered. A book about the importance of Friendship'My best friend suddenly won't talk to me and I don't know why. Yesterday, a group of my so-called friends sniggered when I walked past. What's wrong with me? We all need friends. Without them, life...

Take an everyday girl - short, with freckles, mud-puddle eyes and the kind of mind Sherlock Holmes would kill for - and you have the heroine of another light-hearted whodunit for Independent Readers. Laura's adventurous grandmother sends her a birthday charm to add to her silver bracelet, just...

Night Works is the story of fifteen year old Sophie, and her friends Mel and Kate. Told through Sophie's diary entries, the story highlights the girls' problems, families, boyfriends and everyday school lives. The power of friendship helps them face the world knowing they're not alone. In the tradition...

'If David Sedaris had got married and had kids, he would have been Reservoir Dad. Fall-on-the-floor funny, sharp, witty and just a little bit sexy.' Kerri Sackville, Best Australian Blog 2013 judge A sharply funny, fresh and irreverent chronicler of real life in today's parenting trenches,...

Emmah is young and beautiful, with the world at her feet. She is also a true survivor ... Emmah Money's life story is a remarkable one. During a night out, an acquaintance noted Emmah's resemblance to some friends of his. This observation would prove to have a profound effect on Emmah's...

Nothing could prepare Imogen Clark for the shock of discovering that her daughter was a heroin addict. "I discovered that my daughter was a heroin addict at 7.25 pm on Tuesday, February 13, 1996... I'm not very proud of the next couple of hours. I would like to be able to write that I gathered...

There are many factors affecting a child's personality and the adult they become, yet the least understood but most emphatic influence on personality is birth order. Why is it that children in a family can share the same gene pool, a similar socio-economic environment and experience similar...

In the world of sport surfing is unique… unique in that it never was a sport in the first place and for most surfers today, still isn’t. Born from the Hawaiian love of the ocean — and their love of taking days off when the waves were good — surfing swiftly crossed the cultural membrane into...

I'm Tom Weekly. You think you've made mistakes? I've made more. Every single word in this book is true. I do know someone with the worst case of nits in history. Stella Holling used chocolate to trick me into kissing her again. My sister, Tanya, truly is an evil genius. And as weird as it sounds,...