James Tadworthy lives in a post-holocaust society in which there are no wars, no crime no pollution, no disease and no work. Everyone lives in perfect harmony with their tamed environment and all knowledge is controlled by the Shepherds, a group who ...
As the son of an archaeologist, Mike often visits fascinating digs and meets interesting people. About the only thing he doesn't approve of in archaeology is learning Latin! Unfortunately, being accident prone, he regularly falls into time warps, int...
Mike and Alinea and their alien pet, Beeper, are expected to stay out of trouble during their holiday on an archeological dig somewhere in Central Australia.It is not their fault that they trigger a time gate in the cave of the dreaming. They have to...
Mike's father goes missing on a remote island. Mike, Alinea and Beeper travel through a time gate to find him. He is unconscious, they have to protect him during their desperate search to return home, escaping being dumped at the Intergalactic lost p...
John wants a horse. His parents are unsympathetic. Only Jenny understands, and shares her fat pony with him. As a result of one of their adventures, he gets Roanie, but then his problems really start. How can he earn money to care for his horse, when...
All John cares about is his blue heeler dog and horses--only he can't get his parents to understand the absolute necessity of owning a high-spirited Arab. When a horse that looks like a refugee from an equine slaughterhouse is given to him, John is t...
The most dreadful thing that can ever happen to a horse owner has happened to John and Berry. Their horses are lost, strayed or stolen Perhaps destination knacker-yard Or have unscrupulous thieves sold them? The two boys stumble from one misadventu...
Her love of God and love for a man led Delia down a path of thrills, chills and unexpected changes. Raised in a small town by a poor Irish farmer and his wife she was knowledgeable of many of life's ups and downs. As the oldest of twelve children she...
Belinda is an only child, and lonely. When her mother has to leave home to recover from her illness, her grandmother arrives to look after her. Belinda discovers to her delight that she has a very unusual grandmother and her grandmother's cat, a supe...
The school holidays have a bad start. Belinda's father doesn't arrive home and it is raining. The news is that his car went over the cliff into the surf beach, but there is no body. Belinda, her mother and Kate stay at Amanda's family beach house to ...
Simone has fallen in love, deeply and irretrievably, but not with a boy. The centre of her life is a pup she has rescued from death row. Love has filled her life with problems. She has to talk her parents into letting her keep him. She has made rash ...
Belinda's unusual grandmother, with her unusual cat, Senna, is looking after Belinda while her parents are away. Belinda is thrilled because unusual things always happen when grandmother comes to visit... And this visit is no exception, first the gir...
Some relationships are meant to be - but why doesn’t your family understand? If you have been going with someone since kindergarten and grown up together and it feels so right, it must be right. To split up leaves a big gaping hole in your life tha...
Ronnie and her girlfriends Katie and Jasmine think the new guy in the district is something special. It is odd though that he is never around during the day and unfortunate that his family is so unpleasant. No one believes the superstitious grandmoth...
A fairy princess bored with her existence breaks a few rules, gets into mischief, and ends up getting her wish never to be bored granted. Flesch Reading Ease 81.7Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 4.4...
Allie and her cousin Jennie are shocked at having to spend their holidays at the boarding house Mon Repose. Especially when they discover it is the most boring old place in the middle of nowhere. Then they meet Marilyn who has lots of lively ideas to...
Cindy Jones has a lot in common with Cinderella. She is about to acquire a nasty stepmother and two step sisters. Except Cindy believes in being constructive about problems. She takes up cooking so her father won’t be so taken in by anyone’s exce...
Rebecca had settled very happily to being a mortal child with her attendant Lord Be Thankful as her pet owl, but suddenly everything seemed to go wrong. The house goblins had all been stolen by the evil hobgoblins to be eaten.There were hobgoblins lo...
Amanda has great plans for the summer. There’s the new guy Drew in the surf club she would like to know much better. If only her plans weren’t always sabotaged by the Brat (her little brother Brett) or her new neighbor, Jeebie, who keeps doing in...
Rebecca has a new teacher, sneaky meanie Miss Baroom. The new teacher is a powerful and wicked witch, who prowls the district after dark riding a bewitched human called Emmaline.Why is a powerful wicked witch in their quiet district? With the help of...
Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS Billy’s grandmother moves to an Retirement Home for the elderly up in the hills. While cleaning her bush cottage for a tenant, Billy finds a ring among the rubbish. She slides it on her finger, quickly discover...
Jane Smith, is an unhappy, resentful eleven year old daughter of a single parent. Her escape from the unpleasantness of life is through another world. In it she is one of the powerful four Patrollers sworn to the service of the Princess in the Far To...
When the fairy queen swaps her new baby Willdom for the mortal's new baby Willyum, her daughter Dewdrop feels sorry for the mortal family she watches all the time. She rescues and returns Willyum back to his human family. When the fairy queen discove...
What do you do when your parents say pets cost too much to feed and they're messy?So Jeremy gets a secret pet, hatched from a very odd large egg. It isn't messy and doesn't cost anything to feed. This is a most unusual nice and helpful pet and Jeremy...
When Billie, Charlie and their uncle are mysteriously transported to The Place of No Name, they find themselves in a land carved from nothing by The Traveller; lord and master of this strange world. With no way home and strict rules to obey, the dan...
Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS -- -- NOVELETTA Imprint-- What else could possibly go wrong? Geoff is sixteen and still at school. Julio is a seventeen year-old panel beater. Herbie is eighteen and already in the Air force. They have a common l...
Kate isn't clear who she is or how she had ended up, at fourteen, as an assistant teacher in the stuffy old bush school. Why is she suddenly living in a world that resembles one huge antique shop? Can she escape this unpleasant world she finds hersel...
Jenny has an older brother and a younger sister--and a father in the hospital. Feeling like she's always in the way or even invisible to those around her, she's sure nobody cares about her at all. Even as she seeks attention in all the wrong ways, ca...
Twins Gert and Phil realise there's sure to be trouble when the Morris family moves in next door. After the twins rescue kittens that the Morris kids have tried to drown and then vandalise their backyard, the war is on! In retaliation, the Morris kid...
An unsuccessful young man, John Scarlett, moves into a parallel universe in search of adventure. Unfortunately, he's lost his soul and memories to the ferry witch. Even more humiliating, he's tricked into becoming a sorcerer's apprentice by his ex-to...
Billy's grandmother moves to an Retirement Home for the elderly up in the hills. While cleaning her bush cottage for a tenant, Billy finds a ring among the rubbish. She slides it on her finger, quickly discovering she can talk and understand birds an...
Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS Billy's grandmother moves to an Retirement Home for the elderly up in the hills. While cleaning her bush cottage for a tenant, Billy finds a ring among the rubbish. She slides it on her finger, quickly discoverin...
The dreadful invasion by the sinister Black Duke and his thugs is bad news for the village. Raven the herbalist is ordered to communicate with a very odd alien captive or else. When she discovers that the plant based alien is the key to the destructi...
WEEKEND TERROR In the sleepy coastal suburb of Willow Cove, Thorny, Lou and Happy spend much of their free time swimming and surfing. When they see a speedboat ram Mr. Wilson's dinghy, their early morning swim becomes the start of a weekend of advent...
Three wizards have moved into Rebecca's district with their nasty hobgoblins. Why are they so helpful, giving free bags of potatoes to everyone? Rebecca finds out that the tainted potatoes keep all whom eat them under the spell of the wizards.Rebecca...
Of the thirty six stories in this book, some are traditional hauntings or possession of either people or machines. There are also unfortunate bargains done with creatures who don't always win and aliens sometimes friendly and sometimes not. The inevi...
Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS . . . UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT Two cousins receive a mysterious Internet message. They decide to investigate but are kidnapped before they can escape. Waking on a spaceship, they are taken to an alien planet ru...
Fairy princess turned mortal, Rebecca has a new cousin staying with her. Lianna and Prince Willdom are stolen by a troll while at the market. But Rebecca wants to know why, especially when she discovers that her cousin's loom was also stolen. Does th...
Fairy princess turned mortal, Rebecca discovers her horse Sally has unexpectedly given birth to a filly. Rebecca names the newborn Saturday. In the midst of joy, a monster tries to kill them. Protecting her horses isn't Rebecca's only problem. Hiding...
Deep in a dungeon beneath the streets of the Black City, three men await their fate. To escape, Rofe, a crusading knight, Olaf, the Barbarian, and Merc, 'Prince of Thieves', must put aside their differences and band together. They journey t...
45 year old widow, Amelia Martin, finds her life has fallen to pieces. Worse, she's one of three hostages kidnapped by bandits while holidaying in the Amazon jungle. When her children refuse to pay the ransom, Amelia acquires a ruthless wil...
Augustus Brown is a fun, rhythmically-rhyming picture-book, with a sweet story, imaginative illustrations and a highly unusual pet.
This book is not recommended for parents with arachnophobia, however, brave young kids will be captivated.
Dragons have arrived. One of them has eaten the district's cattle, which is not only a stomach-ache waiting to happen but is also against dragon law.The cowardly dragon hiding down by the creek is the only harmless dragon. Can fairy princess turned m...
Sherry is a single-parent streetwise kid, upset at being dumped on her father, his pregnant second wife and her twin half-brothers for the holidays. Sherry's continued efforts to try to be helpful end as disasters.Then her stepmother suddenly goes in...
In 1941, Darwin is bombed, and the war against the Germans and the Japanese gets alarmingly close. While those in the area are raising money for the war effort with backyard concerts, the kids on Bolton Road have their own ideas about how to help out...
What protection do females have from the social culture moulding the humans they develop into? The fourteen sharply perceptive tales in A Feminine Perspective celebrate the quiet courage within each woman's heart....