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Always Mackenzie by Kate Constable
Category: Children's | Series: Girlfriend Fiction
'I solemnly swear that I will never, ever be friends with Mackenzie Woodrow as long as we both shall live,' said Jem. 'Excellent,' said Mackenzie. Jem is a nerd, smart and forthright. Mackenzie is a golden girl, excelling at schoolwork, sport and drama, and popular with everyone. One night, at the Year ...Show more
Always Mackenzie by Kate Constable
Category: Teenage/Young Adult Fiction
Jem is a nerd, smart and forthright. Mackenzie is a golden girl, excelling at schoolwork, sport and drama, and popular weoith everyone. One night, at the Year 10 camp, Jem and Mackenzie strike up an unlikely friendship and are soon spending all their time together. But when camp ends, can Mackenzie and ...Show more
Cicada Summer by Kate Constable
Category: Young Readers
Something flickered at the top of the stairs. Eloise heard a voice call, 'I'm coming!', and a girl in a pale dress and a big sunhat came running, her fingertips slipping down the curve of the slim iron railing. Eloise went cold all over. She couldn't move, or breathe; her mouth was dry. At the bottom of ...Show more
Crow Country by Kate Constable
Category: Junior Fiction
From the author of the Chanters of Tremaris series comes a contemporary time travel fantasy, grounded in the landscape of Australia Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this place comes from Crow. And Crow has ...Show more
Dear Swoosie by Kate Constable
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Girlfriend Fiction
India can see the future, and Poppy has a past. And when they discover old letters in the school attic it seems destiny has a plan for them. Who is the mysterious Swoosie? What does she have to do with Poppy's high-school sweetheart parents, and India's mum? Does the past have the power to change the fu ...Show more
New Guinea Moon by Kate Constable
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A captivating coming of age story for younger teens, set in New Guinea around the time of independence. Julie has grown up not knowing her father, with just the occasional Christmas card and the knowledge that he flies planes for a charter company in New Guinea. When she comes to stay with him one long ...Show more
The January Stars by Kate Constable
Category: Junior Fiction
This thoroughly enjoyable novel about two sisters determined to help their grandfather will delight middle fiction readers of all ages. From the author of the bestselling and much-loved novels Crow Country & Cicada Summer. When twelve-year old Clancy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Tash, visit the ...Show more
The Singer of All Songs: #1 Chanters of Tremaris by Kate Constable
Category: Fiction
Book 1 of a captivating fantasy saga of adventure and magic, set in the extraordinary lands of Tremaris. In the world of Tremaris, magic is fading away. From the ice Wall of Antaris to the hostile streets of Mithates, to the forests of Spiridrell and beyond, Tremaris is a land divided.Calwyn knows nothi ...Show more
The Singer of All Songs (#1 Chanters of Tremaris) old ed. by Kate Constable
Category: Children's
Calwyn couldn't trust her eyes when she saw the unconscious stranger lying inside the great Wall of Ice. Somehow he had defied the magical chantments that protected Antaris from Outlanders. Was he a dangerous sorcerer, or just an injured man in need of healing? His eyes flew open; he began to sing.
The Taste of Lightning by Kate Constable
Category: Children's
A thrilling tale of adventure and romance, inspired by the true story of the Panchen Lama, who was abducted from Tibet. High adventure, romance, worldly ambition and magical power all come into play when three extraordinary young people escape from the Palace of Arvestel and flee on horseback, pursued b ...Show more
The Tenth Power - Chanters of Tremaris (Book 3) by Kate Constable
Category: Teenage/Young Adult Fiction | Series: Chanters of Tremaris Ser.
Calwyn used to be exceptional. She was the most talented of all the chanters of Tremaris, and she'd fought hard to become their leader. But then there was an accident, and the magic inside her went silent. Where there once was power, now there is nothing. Her whole life-the future she had planned with D ...Show more
The Waterless Sea by Kate Constable
Category: Fiction
This second book in the captivating Chanters of Tremaris fantasy series follows Calwyn and her friends to the desolate desert lands of Merithos in search of a group of kidnapped children who have the gift of chantment. Calwyn held her breath. For a long moment there was no sound but the faint tinkli ...Show more