Barry Jonsberg

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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From the bestselling multi-award-winning author of My Life as an Alphabet and A Song Only I Can Hear comes another wonderful middle fiction novel that is warm, upbeat, intriguing and wholly absorbing. I don't tell Mum and Sam anything about my weeken...

• Jun-2005
• / Suspense
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From the moment Miss Payne (“The Hound of the Baskervilles, the English teacher from Hell. The Pitbull!”) walks into their classroom, Calma and Kiffo know she will have to go. After doing a bit of, well, teacher stalking, they are amazed to disco...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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From Book 1: Three friends. One slim chance to beat the streets. But even when you fight your way out by any means necessary, cold hard cash is still no guarantee you'll escape . . . Secret. Penny. Isis. Two sisters, one best friend. Between neg...

• Feb-2007
• / Suspense
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Calma Harrison is in love. Not just with herself, but also with the handsome checkout guy at Crazi-Cheep. So stocking shelves at the Crazi- Cheep seems like the perfect job--until that annoying customer tries to hold up the store. . . . And then t...

• Jan-2008
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-2008
• / General Fiction
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Michael Terny is at his seventh school in four years and he knows that whatever he does, he will be ridiculed and pushed around. Michael is the fat kid. But Michael is also a lucid dreamer -- he can recognize when he is dreaming and make the dream un...

• Apr-2010
• / General Fiction
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I'm miserable and sixteen. In that order.' Sixteen can be a tough time. And it's almost unmanageable for a wisecracking boy whose temper is white-hot. As a consequence he is sentenced to a time-out with his reclusive grandfather in a primitive shack ...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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A third wacky adventure with Blacky the farting dog -- between giant bully boys, unintelligible Scottish camp instructors, and the need for thermal underwear, can the boys find the last remaining Tasmanian tiger? Blacky's back, sme...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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A free trip to the Northern Territory! Sounds good, thinks Marcus -- "Mucus" to his sister Rose. But when his best friend Dylan joins the family holiday, mayhem is not far away. Blacky the farting dog, back in his second adventure, has a...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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When Marcus is woken by a dog doing a poo on his bed, he is understandably upset. And Blacky (the dog) has other surprises in store. Soon Marcus and his disruptive friend Dylan are on a mission to rescue God - a sick pygmy bearded dragon - from the l...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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My name is Holly Holley and I have given up routines.Holly hates her name, her looks and her life. She isn't in with the right crowd and she has little hope of dating the gorgeous Raph McDonald. With Cassie staying, she has to move out of her bedroom...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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The boy sat in the branches of the fifth tree on the left, his scuffed boots dangling. Leah turned her eyes up. His face was heavily freckled, his eyes large, brown and almond-shaped. His hair stuck out at wild angles. 'Hello,' she said. Sixteen-year...

• Oct-2013
• / Literary
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HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2014This isn't just about me. It's also about the other people in my life - my mother, my father, my dead sister Sky, my penpal Denille, Rich Uncle Brian, Earth-Pig Fish and Douglas Benson From Anoth...

• Apr-2014
• / Action Adventure
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Pandora Jones wakes in an infirmary - her body weak, her memory providing only flashes of horrific scenes of death. She soon discovers that her family has succumbed to a plague pandemic which almost wiped out humanity. Pan is one of the survivors who...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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Candice Phee isn't a typical twelve-year-old girl. She has more than her fair share of quirks, but she also has the very best of intentions and an unwavering determination to make sure everyone around her is happy. That includes you. Because you'll l...

• Oct-2015
• / Action Adventure
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A compelling new young adult series set in a near-future post-pandemic world that is alive with action, intrigue, courage, betrayal, and retribution 
Pandora Jones wakes in a hospital -- her body weak, her memory providing only flashes of...

• May-2016
• / Action Adventure
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Pan is still struggling to distinguish between her dreams and reality. Her memories hold more questions than answers and she doesn't know who to trust. She forms an unlikely alliance with Jen to try to make sense of everyone's haunting similar memori...

• Oct-2016
• / General Fiction
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Pandora Jones's problems appear insurmountable. She must convince her team that nothing is as it seems and that they must escape and expose The School to save the world from the plague she unwittingly inflicted on it. The only things Pan has on her s...

• Nov-2017
• / Thriller
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Game theory has brought me to this point and I must follow where it leads. Even though this is not a game. Jamie is a sixteen-year-old maths whiz. Summerlee, his older sister, is in the grip of a wild phase. Tensions at home run high. When Summerlee ...

• Jun-2018
• / General Fiction
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When Rob starts getting mysterious texts from an unknown number, he has to make a decision -- stay under the radar, or risk being exposed in a way he’s not prepared for -- in this “stirring” (Booklist) middle grade novel that’s perfect for fa...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-2023
• / Fantasy
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Twins Ashleigh and Aiden have always promised to protect each other, but after an accident on a school trip, Aiden starts behaving strangely. Are they just growing apart, or is something more sinister going on? In a future Australia ravaged by c...