Squishy Taylor and the Mess-Makers

Summary:  An apartment full of questions on a street full of mysteries. What's the best way to sneak onto a film set? Why do grown-ups trust you more when you're carrying a baby? Is a pizza even a pizza without mozzarella? What do you do when everyone hates your hero? (Back cover)

Bogwoppit

Summary: When Aunt Lily marries the lodger and goes to America, orphaned Samantha is packed off to her Aunt Daisy, who lives in a grand house at the Park. Snooty Lady Daisy Clandorris has no time for children. Lucky for Samantha, then, to discover the small, furry creature living in the cellar; a bogwoppit - believed extinct - up till now

The Marvels

First edition
Told in two stand-alone stories, the first nearly 400 pages of continuous pictures, and the second in text. Inspired by the Dennis Severs' House in London
Summary: The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits and ghostly presences, captivates Joseph and leads him on a search for clues about the house, his family, and the past

Awful auntie

Summary: Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta and her giant owl will stop at nothing to get it from her. Luckily Stella has a secret - and slightly spooky - weapon up her sleeve

Violet Mackerel's formal occasion

Summary: Mum has lost her basket of knitted things. Violet wants to make Mum feel happy again. And she may just have the perfect plan: a surprise formal occasion just for Mum

Little red Henry

First edition
Summary: Little redheaded Henry is ready to do things for himself. But is his family ready to let him? (Book cover)

Penelope Crumb follows her nose

Summary: Penelope Crumb has a brother so awful he must be an alien, a mum who draws body parts and a missing grandpa, nobody in the family has seen him since Penelope's father died. So Penelope and her friend Lizzie Maple set off across town to find Grandpa Felix, skipping school, taking trains and calling every F. Crumb in the phonebook. But what is Grandpa Felix doesn't want to be found

Rabbitmagic

 Other Title: Rabbit magic
Originally published in 2009
Summary: Lottie discovers an unhappy, magical rabbit at Netherbridge's other pet shop (the non-magical one), and is determined to rescue him. Jealous, her dachshund, Sophie, sulks and runs away from home. Then Lottie has a dream. Her long-lost father is still alive -- and he's headed for Netherbridge

Five children and it

Summary: Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane have discovered an enchanted creature in their gravel pit. The grouchy Psammead is able to grant them wishes! Unfortunately, his unpredictable magic often goes hilariously wrong, and the children soon find themselves in all kinds of trouble

Welcome to moldy manor

 Other Title: Welcome to Mouldy Manor
Translation of: Una tremenda vacanza a Villa Pitocca
Summary: Rancid rat hairs! I'd been spending so much money lately, I had none left in the bank! Even worse, when my grandfather found out, he sent me off to Moldy Manor. There, miserly Uncle Stingysnout would teach me to be better at saving. How terrible! Could I learn to be less wasteful without going crazy

Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck!

New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator
Summary: Andy really does love his Aunty Elsie, but she insists on grabbing him and giving him a big kiss, first on one cheek and then on the other, every time she sees him. And Andy hates it. So he hides. But every time Aunty Elsie finds him out. Then, when Aunty can't come to see him for a while, Andy starts to miss her - and her great big kisses.  Suggested level: junior, primary

The soldier's gift

Contains factual information on the First World War in Europe
Summary: Emily knows her big brother, Tom, wants to leave Hillside Farm and go overseas to the war, but Emily doesn't want him to go. "Everyone else is going," said Tom to Emily when their uncle was gone. "That's not a good reason," said Emily.  A story of one family's courage and endurance during the First World War, the terrible losses at Gallipoli and a time that changed Australia forever. (From back cover)

Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival

Little Mei asks her grandfather about the Dragon Boat Festival

The Aunties Three

Summary: 'Pack up your games, dismantle your toys, practise your manners and muffle your noise. Straighten your face, where your smile used to be, for coming this way are The Aunties Three!' Watch the mayhem unfold as three bold aunts enter the house of three unruly children who try their very best to welcome the guests for tea

The Day My Father Became a Bush

Summary: Before he becomes a bush, Toda's father is a pastry chef. He gets up at the crack of dawn to bake twenty different sorts of pastries and three kinds of cake. Until, one day, everything changes. Fighting breaks out in the south and Toda's father has to go there to defend his country. Luckily he has a manual called 'What every soldier needs to know'. This tells him how to hide from the enemy by using branches and leaves to disguise himself as a bush. Toda remains in the city with her grandmother but even there it's no longer safe. She is sent to stay with her mother who lives across the border. Toda's journey is full of adventure and danger. But she doesn't give up. She has to find her mother. (Publisher)

Sam the Cat: a true story

Summary: Sam lives very happily in a tumble-down house with Jane and Ian. But when Jane and Ian bring home a baby boy, not only does the baby get all the attention, he even steals Sam's name! Sam is so cross he decides to leave home

Time Out

Along a country road Kit runs to escape his loneliness. Then a great darkness - and the whole world has changed.
Where is Kit now? Things are the same, yet different. Kit still runs but he not longer runs along. His school and home are the same, yet different too.
And who is the bony, edgy girl who seems to like him? How does she know that the race they have to run together will change everything?
A novel full of suspense from popular author David Hill for teenage readers.

Swashbuckler

ISBN duplicated on pbk. ed
Unhand that innocent young traveller, you blackguard, or I'll run you through and leave your carcass here for the birds to pick clean.

Meet Anton. Kids think he's a fruitloop because he talks like a pirate. But new boy Peter McNeill needs a friend and the boys soon discover they have the same problem - their dads. Peter's father has gambled away all their money, but Anton's dad... now that's a different story.

Some things just have to be faced up to and it takes courage. It take a hero who laughs at danger, a warrior willing to battle dragons. It takes a swashbuckler!

Me and the School (un) Fair

This title is seventh in the pet-tastic series about ten-year-old Indie Kidd and friends!It's all hands on deck when Miss Levy announces plans for the School Fair. Indie Kidd soon sets to work, rallying round her furry friends at the Animal Rescue Centre to create a Petting Zoo. But not everything goes according to plan...Indie's fab theme for the Fair is pipped at the post. And she gets paint on her best jeans. And her dad's winning raffle ticket lands Indie a cringe-worthy bedtime story from her own teacher! It all seems more like a School Un-Fair! But all is not lost: the Petting Zoo is such a run-away success that the bumper takings are ultimately split with the Paws for Thought Rescue Centre. Hooray!

Parrot Park

The Murphys live at 53 Parrot Park, Dublin. There's Mammy, Rory, Anna and Mary (the twins), Cormac, Catherine and Susan (who is only one - she is full of smiles and listens to nobody). Whether they're mowing the lawn, getting rid of pesky headlice or hunting down UFOs, everything is an adventure with the Murphy family.