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As Fast As I Can by Penny Tangey
Category: Junior Fiction
One girl. One dream. A few hurdles. Ten-year-old Vivian is determined to win a medal at the Olympic Games one day. Problem is, she hasn't found a sport she's any good at yet. But everyone says if you work hard enough you can achieve anything, right? So when Vivian discovers she has a talent for cross co ...Show more
Aussie STEM Stars: Creswell Eastman: The man who saved a million brains by Penny Tangey
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Aussie Stem Stars Ser.
Creswell John Eastman AO is the Clinical Professor of Medicine at Sydney University Medical School, Principal of the Sydney Thyroid Clinic and Consultant Emeritus to the Westmead Hospital. Eastman is an endocrinologist and has directed or conducted research and public health projects into elimination of ...Show more
Clara in Washington by Penny Tangey
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Clara is in Washington. Living in Washington D.C. is meant to be all politics, glamour and great conversations but what do you do when you don't have the words to join in, or the knowledge to ride the subway, or you're scared someone will mug you and a million other disasters could be just around the co ...Show more
Granbad by Penny Tangey
Category: Picture Books
A funny, feel-good picture book about a grandad doing the wrong things for the right reasons. My grandad is a rebel. We call him Granbad. Granbad doesn't believe in rules like screen-time limits or healthy snacks. But he does believe in saving the planet. When a protest to protect native forests doesn't ...Show more
Loving Richard Feynman by Penny Tangey
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Catherine is a science-loving fifteen-year-old. Richard helped build the atom bomb. Catherine is just trying to survive school. When your life is falling apart around you, is talking to a dead physicist normal? Catherine thinks so, but it isn't until ...Show more
Stay Well Soon by Penny Tangey
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Stevie has a lot of dreams...more friends at school, better drawing pencils and a pony. If only she had her dream horse, her life would be better and the other horse-mad girls would talk to her. When her brother is taken to hospital, Stevie's dreams seem further away than ever. Suddenly her after-school ...Show more
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