Alex and the Alpacas Save the World

Alex and the Alpacas Save the World
Author: Kathryn Lefroy
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1925815420

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.

Alex and the Alpacas Ride Again

Alex and the Alpacas Ride Again
Author: Kathryn Lefroy
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2022-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1760991740

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.

Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse

Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse
Author: Jonathan Stutzman
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250789249

In the hilarious follow-up to Llama Destroys the World, author/illustrator team Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox give Llama another shot at saving the world...from himself, in Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse. Llama’s back and ready to destroy the world AGAIN... this time with his best camelid, Alpaca! Llama loves cooking. And baking. And, above all, eating. For breakfast, Llama makes one epic spread...as well as a big mess. But Llama hates cleaning. So by lunch, Llama has cooked up something really devious—an idea!—and by second lunch, Llama has cloned his most fastidious friend, Alpaca, to clean his house. And Llama doesn’t stop at just one clone. By dinner, the alpaca clones threaten to tidy the world into utter destruction—THE ALPACALYPSE* IS HERE! Will Llama be able to fix it all before dessert? *That’s “apocalypse” with an alpaca—get it?

Promise Me Happy

Promise Me Happy
Author: Robert Newton
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1760147125

I don’t know if it’s possible for people to change, not really. The way you’re made up, the important stuff, I reckon you’re born with that . . . when it matters, when it really matters, we are who we are. Nate’s had it tough. An abusive father. His mother dead. He’s done things he regrets. But he’s never met anyone like Gem. She’s a tiny piece of wonderful and she’ll change everything he knows about himself. Is this the beginning of happiness? Or is there more hardship around the corner?

Spider Lies

Spider Lies
Author: Jen Banyard
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781921361517

Connor thinks that something is watching him, as the weird new girl starts hanging out with him, while NASA scientist Herman Hatch, who is working on an experiment involving spiders, is worried when one of them goes missing.

Creepy & Maud

Creepy & Maud
Author: Dianne Touchell
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1921888962

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.'

Meet Me at the Intersection

Meet Me at the Intersection
Author: Rebecca Lim
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1925591719

Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir, and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Color, LGBTIQA+, or living with disability. The focus of the anthology is on Australian life as seen through each author's unique, and seldom heard, perspective. With works by Ellen van Neerven, Graham Akhurst, Kyle Lynch, Ezekiel Kwaymullina, 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 Alice Pung, this anthology is designed to challenge the dominant, homogenous story of privilege and power that rarely admits "outsider" voices.

Half-Blood

Half-Blood
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher: Bloom Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9781464220661

After her mother's murder, seventeen-year-old Alex returns to the Covenant, a school for pure and half-mortal descendants of gods, and begins intense training to combat daimons, but her training becomes complicated by a forbidden attraction to her pure-blood trainer Aiden and a revelation about her past.

Saving Jazz

Saving Jazz
Author: Kate McCaffrey
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1925163601

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. We know our kids are at risk of becoming victims of cyberbullying. But do we know how at risk they are of becoming perpetrators? This controversial new novel tackles cyberbullying from a whole new perspective.

Pure

Pure
Author: Jennifer L Armentrout
Publisher: Bloom Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781464220678

Alex longs for a normal life as a half-blood and grapples with her destiny as the second Apollyon, which is exacerbated by her infuriating connection to Seth and her forbidden feelings for pure-blood Aiden, all while she battles daimons and pures who threaten her survival.