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31-and-a-half things to know ... as you grow by Meg McKinlay
Category: Picture Books
From how to make a friend - and be one - standing up for yourself, the importance of looking up, award-winning author Meg McKinlay provides the seeds of good advice, and Nicky Johnston's illustrations prove to be the perfect examples, all wrapped up in a luxury hardback gift edition. There are so many w ...Show more
A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay
Category: Young Adult Fiction
In an isolated society, one girl makes a discovery that will change everything -- and learns that a single stone, once set in motion, can bring down a mountain. Jena -- strong, respected, reliable -- is the leader of the line, a job every girl in the village dreams of. Watched over by the Mothers as on ...Show more
Always Never Always (HB) by Meg McKinlay
Category: Children's
A poetic and quirky one-of-a kind classic-in-the-making, that encourages readers to explore their world, from two award winning creators.Always follow secret tracks –the paths that wind and wend through cracks.Never worry where they go.When you get there, then you’ll know.Meg McKinlay is a multi-award-w ...Show more
Annabel, Again by Meg McKinlay
Category: Children's
When Annabel leaves to go to Queensland, Livvy is crushed. So at her mother's insistence she embarks on a crazy fast-track plan for forgetting. But one year later, Annabel comes back. Livvy can't believe it. Forget all that forgetting! Now things are going to be just like they were before! Except they'r ...Show more
Annabel, Again by Meg McKinlay
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Australian
A humorous and touching middle-grade novel about the changing shape of friendship by multiple-award-winner Meg McKinlay. Livvy and Annabel have been best friends forever. Together, they've survived kamikaze magpies, wacky mothers and a nemesis named Summer. Together, they've carried their netball tea ...Show more
Bella and the Voyaging House by Meg McKinlay
Category: Junior Fiction
What's a girl to do when her house wo't go home? Bella and her house are off on another adventure, in the sequel to Bella and the Wandering House. Bella's house likes to travel, setting sail across the ocean while everyone sleeps. Bella's parents don't mind as long as the house is home by daylight. One ...Show more
Bella and the Wandering House by Meg McKinlay
Category: Junior Fiction
Her parents are too busy to notice, but even they can't pretend it's not happening when they wake up a few days later to find their house on the banks of a lake. Night after night, the house moves and the family wakes to a new location. When Bella realises that her room at the top of the house is built ...Show more
Catch a Falling Star by Meg McKinlay
Category: Junior Fiction
This coming-of-age story by multiple-award-winner Meg McKinlay is about loss and grief, dealing with change and fighting to hold on to what you can, while letting go of what you can't. It's 1979 and the sky is falling. Skylab, that is. Somewhere high above Frankie Avery, one of the world's first space s ...Show more
Definitely No Ducks by Meg Mckinlay
Category: Early Reader
Abby's class duck - Max - is banned from the school when it seems he has destroyed the papier mache Antarctica display the children have made for the most important assembly in the history of assemblies. Worse still, Abby's beloved teacher Mrs Melvino plans to leave with him! Abby and her friend Noah ra ...Show more
Drawn Onward by Meg McKinlay
Category: Graphic Novels
From the masterful pen of multi-award-winning Meg McKinlay and dynamic new illustrator Andrew Frazer, Drawn Onward explores shifting perspective and the inner voice. The text is a palindrome that takes readers from the glass half empty--"There is no light on the horizon and it is foolish to think you ca ...Show more
Duck! by Meg McKinlay
Category: Graphic Novels
A delightfully duckish picture book of farmyard disaster. Duck can see that something is falling from the sky. He tries to warn the other farmyard animals by telling them to "Duck!" but they won't listen ... A hilarious picture book of farmyard disaster by award-winning author Meg McKinlay and emergin ...Show more
Duck! (HB) by Meg McKinlay; Nathaniel Eckstrom
Category: Graphic Novels
Duck can see that something is falling from the sky. He tries to warn the other farmyard animals by telling them to "Duck!" but they won't listen ... A hilarious picture book of farmyard disaster by award-winning author Meg McKinlay and emerging illustrator Nathaniel Eckstrom.