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Pageturners: books you can't put down
Younger Fiction
- Sharon Creech, The ghost of Uncle Arvie
- Uncle Arvie wants Danny to make his three wishes come true. The only problem is that Uncle Arvie is a ghost and before he died he had a stroke that mixed up all his words, so how is Danny supposed to find out what the wishes are?
- Paula Danziger, Amber Brown is feeling blue
- Amber Brown has got to the stage where she is proud of having a colour for a name, so that when a new girl arrives, and her name is Kelly Green, Amber Brown has very mixed feelings.
- Terrance Dicks, The pyramid incident
- Matt and his father are investigators but not your usual investigators. They investigate peculiar incidents where perhaps something has happened which can't be explained.
- Philip Gwynne, The worst team ever
- Jimmy's new to town and new to the footy team. But that doesn't mean he can't see that something is horribly wrong the team's not that bad, but why does the coach want them to lose?
- Jon Scieszka, It's all Greek to me
- The Time Warp Trio travel again this time back to Ancient Greece and feuding gods and goddesses.
- Jacqueline Wilson, Lizzie Zipmouth
- Lizzie doesn't want to live with her new stepdad and his two boys, so she decides to zip her mouth and not say anything!
Older Fiction
- Allan Baillie, Wreck!
- A devastating cyclone, two children trapped on an abandoned wreck and something aboard!
- Dyan Blacklock, Comet vomit
- Short and startling stories ranging from intergalactic environmental police to a giant shark in the local waterhole.
- Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the graveyard
- Why were there no graves at that end of the graveyard where only the rowan tree grew? And what's been disturbed that's been hidden there all these years?
- Terry Deary, Horrible histories series
- Helen Dunmore, Brother brother, sister, sister
- Tanya's got four new brothers and sisters. Four babies x six nappies = twenty-four nappies a day. It might be good maths practice but as far as Tanya's concerned that's all the babies are good for.
- Jackie French, Hitler's daughter
- It's just a story isn't it? A story told by a girl to two children waiting at a bus stop. A story about a young girl growing up in wartime Germany, a girl who is kept hidden away from the people.
- Morris Gleitzman, Gift of the gab
- It starts off as a normal week for Rowena - a car full of stewed apples, a police cell, a desperate struggle to keep Dad off national TV. Then her world turns upside-down.
- Keith Gray, Creepers
- It was the longest creep in the village - twenty-five houses in a row, no bends, no kinks, no cover. But Jamie was the best Speed Creeper around, and with Jamie as his Buddie, anyone could make it.
- Andy Griffiths, Just crazy
- Just take the Crazy Test on the back of this book to find out if it's the right book for you.
- Jonathan Harlen The cockroach war
- It's amazing what winning $40 million can do to some neighbours. But the Judge children, Toby and Emma, have soon had enough and prepare to launch their secret weapon on the Cadwalladers next door.
- David Harris, Fortress
- What deadly secret lies behind the walls of the formidable Fortress? Who is the sinister Scarface and what is he plotting?
- Will Hobbs, Ghost canoe
- Nathan the lighthouse keeper's son is searching for clues to the whereabouts of a shipwreck survivor when he stumbles across clues to an ancient treasure
- Elizabeth Honey, Don't pat the wombat
- A pioneer camp, assorted teachers, Class 5/6C, and a wombat or two anything could happen.
- Iain Lawrence, The wreckers
- A village where evil people pray for a shipwreck and the death of any survivors but one young boy survives the wreck. Can he escape the murderous wreckers?
- Janice Marriott, Green slime dinner time
- When Monster advertises his big sister for sale, he's banished to his dreaded Aunt Mildew's spooky house.
- John Marsden, Creep street, Cool school
- It's up to you you have to choose which path to take.
- James Moloney, Swashbuckler
- Peter is new to the school. When the local bullies threaten him, swashbuckling Anton rescues him, but Peter's not quite certain where this new friendship is going to take him.
- Michael Morpurgo, Kensuke's kingdom
- A sailing trip around the world goes horribly wrong, and Michael finds himself stranded on a Pacific island.
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The boys start the war
- From dead fish to dead bodies, floating cakes to floating heads, the outrageous tricks continue first by the boys, then the girls until it's too late!
- Jenny Nimmo, The Rinaldi ring
- Eliot, still coming to terms with the death of his mother, is sent to stay with cousins. But Mary Ellen, whose fianc was killed in the First World War, comes to haunt him to get Eliot to right a terrible wrong.
- Garth Nix, The fall
- First in the Seventh Tower series. Tal lives in the mysterious Castle, where a strict hierarchy of ranks controls his every move. But when his father disappears, his life is turned upside down, and a desperate quest to steal a Sunstone becomes even more perilous.
- Gary Paulsen, The rifle
- The story of a rifle, from when it was first made in colonial America, through the time of the American Revolution, down to the present day when something happened
- Willo Davis Roberts, The absolutely true story: how I visited Yellowstone Park with the terrible Rupes
- Limitless junk food and a holiday in Yellowstone sounds great to Harry and Alison. But reality kicks in Mr Rupe has to be the world's worst driver, Mrs Rupe leaves all the child-care to Allison, and some strange men are following the rented motorhome.
- Robert Swindells, Last bus
- Andy and Chris have been out for the day, but when they catch the last bus home, their journey turns into a nightmare.
- Jacqueline Wilson, The dare game
- Tracy Beaker is back, and living with her foster-mum, Cam. But things aren't working out quite the way Tracy thought they would, so she revives the Dare Game.
Don't forget
- Gillian Cross Wolf
- On the edge
- Morris Gleitzman Any titles
- Brian Jacques Redwall series
- Paul Jennings Any titles
- John Marsden Tomorrow, when the war began series
- Gary Paulsen Hatchet
- Terry Pratchett Discworld series
- Johnny and the dead
- Tim Winton Lockie Leonard titles
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