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2012

SILHOUETTE (14+ - 300pp)

Thalia Kalkipsakis

Hardie Grant Egmont, Australia

Scarlett is ambitious. She loves the blisters, the hard

work and the strict regime of her final year at the dance

academy. But when she gains an illicit role in a music

clip and meets charismatic musician Moss, she is

exposed to another world; a world without restrictions.

As she becomes more entangled in Moss’s world,

Scarlett begins to lose her control, and a dark secret

from the past threatens to her destroy her completely.

Scarlett must find herself, or lose everything.

THE MESSENGER BIRD (YA - 264pp)

Rosanne Hawke

University of Queensland Pres, Australia

“When you first realise the unfairness and

randomness of death it eats into your thoughts like

acid”. Never before has Tamar felt so alone. Her

older brother is dead, her mum’s gone away and her

dad’s so wrapped up in restoring their ancient

farmhouse he avoids talking about the things that

really matter. With no interest in school or friends,

and plagued by nightmares about her brother, she

wanders around her life in a daze. Even friendly

new neighbour Gavin can’t get through to her,

despite his eager attempts. When Tamar discovers

an old handwritten sheet of music and allows herself

to play piano again, she meets gifted violinist

Nathaniel, a man from her house’s past who may

just hold the key to her future. With no one else to

turn to, Tamar is unwittingly drawn into a journey

through time and music.

I’LL TELL YOU MINE (YA - 264pp)

Pip Harry

University of Queensland Press, Australia

Kate Elliot isn’t trying to fit in - that’s the whole

point of being a goth, isn’t it? Everything about her -

from her hair to her clothes - screams different and

the girls at her school give her a wide berth. How can

Kate be herself, really herself, when she’s hiding her

big secret? The one that landed her in boarding school

in the first place. She’s buried it down deep but it

always seems to surface. But then sometimes new

friends can sneak up on you in the most unlikely of

places. Like Norris Grammar Boarding School for

Girls, where’s she’s serving a life sentence, no parole,

because her parents kicked her out. So, how do you

take that first step and reveal your secrets when

you’re not sure that people want to see the real you?

YA

SHIFT (YA - 288pp)

Meredith Badger - Hardie Grant Egmont, Australia

Everyone knew two things about Miranda before she’d

even started at school. The first was that she had no

parents - they were dead. And the second that she’d killed

them. Olive and her best friend Ami love to mock the cool

group and their boring jock boyfriends. And it’s

particularly entertaining watching the new girl Miranda –

a forgettable waif, with eyes so pale they’re like mirrors -

try to get in with them. Entertaining, that is, until things

start to get creepy. Olive becomes convinced that Miranda

is leeching the beauty from the most popular girl in

school. Miranda seems to be growing stronger and

glossier as her victim gets so weak she ends up in hospital.

Either Olive is losing her grip on reality, or those crazy

rumours are true. Maybe Miranda is a killer. But who

would believe Olive? She has her own dark past, and

sometimes she sees things that aren’t there... Rights sold

in the UK, US, Canada (English language) & Germany

A NEW KIND OF DREAMING (YA - 276pp)

Anthony Eaton

University of Queensland Press, Australia

A special reissue of an Australian classic

ten years since first published.

“To live here, you have to learn that life is a balance

between being a wanderer and being a lost one”.

Jamie Riley has hit rock bottom. Busted for stealing

cars, he’s been shipped off to serve time in Port

Barren, a stinking hot town stuck between the desert

and the sea. The minute he gets off the bus, he can

feel something is not quite right - the town has a past

it doesn’t want to share. After being warned that

this is his last chance before jail, Jamie resolves to

serve his time and get out. But when he discovers

an old, wrecked boat on the beach and starts asking

questions, it becomes obvious that local cop Elliot

Butcher has it in for him. As Jamie gets closer to the

truth, things start going wrong around town. With no

one else to blame, he realises surviving Port Barren

is going to be way harder than he thought.

ONE LONG THREAD (YA - 252pp)

Elinda Jeffrey

University of Queensland Press, Australia

”To produce one long thread of silk, a weaver must

never allow the silkworm to fully transform or ever

emerge from the cocoon into the light”. Ruby and

Sally Moon are twins, cut from the same cloth but as

different as night and day. While Sally is bold and

adventurous, Ruby is quiet and creative. When

divorce splits their family in two, and Sally moves

with their mother to the Northern Territory, Ruby

holds onto the thought that one day her family will be

complete again. But when tragedy strikes, wrapping

Sally in a cocoon from which she might never escape,

Ruby learns that love is never simple but one of the

many tangled branches in her family tree.

YA

OBSESSION (12+ - 256pp) Catherine Kalengula, Hachette France

Gisèle, A 19 year old dancer moves to New

York in the hope of starting a career in

Broadway. When she fails her audition, her

dream crumbles. But the owner of the

Theater notices her and offers her a job as a

maid, allowing her to use the stage to

practice off-hours and watch the rehearsals.

Soon, strange phenomenons start occurring

around Gisele. She is told that a young

dancer has committed suicide in the theatre

40 years ago. Could the presence enlacing

her and the voice she hears while she dances

on stage be the one of a ghost?

THE PHOENIX FILES SERIES (11+ / 320pp/title)

www.thephoenixfiles.info

Chris Morphew - Hardie Grant Egmont, Australia.

An electrifying six-book series catapulting readers into a creepy locked down

desert town, built by an all-powerful corporation and populated by people that

can unwittingly mutate and travel in time. Rights sold in the UK, US/ English

Canada, Brazil and Turkey.

When 15-year-old Luke Hunter moves to the new town of Phoenix he soon

realises that this is no ordinary town. There are no cars, no phone or internet

connection and a private security firm instead of the police. At first Luke thinks

this is as weird as it gets, but then he and his friends receive a coded message.

The whole town has been locked down and someone in Phoenix is plotting to

wipe out the human race. The clock is ticking and there are only one hundred

days until the rest of the world is destroyed.

5th

title now available! The time for pretending is over. The town centre is now

a concentration camp, and the last free people in Phoenix have been forced into

hiding. Luke and Jordan have just two weeks to find the answers that could save

the human race - but the one man who could help them is still unconscious.

Who or what is Tobias? Can Jordan protect Luke from being murdered, even

though she’s already seen it happen? And how can they do anything to save the

world when the town is guarded by a dense surveillance network? The clock is

still ticking. There are 14 days until the end of the world.

5th title

now

available

ENIGMAE DIARIES (12+/289pp)

Lynda A Calder (Little Steps Books,

Australia)

Fourteen year old Cassandra Jessica Reid is

friendless and hates school. She enjoys

mathematical problem solving and keeps a

diary with a secret code that she created

herself. Transported to another world through

a time portal in her school playground, she

finds herself in a futuristic world that has

survived atomic wars and where the

population is divided between the rich and

modern rulers and the populous living a more

primitive existence. The head of the rebellion

of the populous is a woman who knows all

about Cassandra and prophesies that she will

save the world. Soon Cassandra will discover

that she is in fact her future self.

11-12+

LITTLE STORIES (Cross-over) Manfred Schlüter & Alexandra Junge

30 little stories for big thoughts

72pp, Mixtvision Verlag, Germany

(colour illustrated throughout)

30 short stories that reflect life

precious moments and big questions.

From the day a child comes to the

world to an island falling in love, a

flower scared at opening up to the

world and a city that holds its breath

for a moment. Magical…

THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY

OF PETE MCGEE (10+ - 124pp)

Second title “Day of the Zombie

Knights” to be published in May 2012.

Adam Wallace, Jojo Publishing Australia

A boy with one arm who dreams of

becoming a great knight. His mother,

dying from a mysterious illness, the

only one who believes in him. An evil

king hungry for power at any cost.

Two servants of the king, in love but

torn apart. Evil invisible monsters who

kill for fun. A magic flower that will

change all of their lives. There’s good

versus evil. There’s magic. There’s

love, there’s adventure and there’s lots,

lots more!

SOMNIAVERO (10+ - 64pp/title)

Anja Stürzer & Julia Dürr

Mixtvision Verlag, Germany

One story, five books (64pp/title)

Each told from the perspective of a different character!

2122. Jochanan and his parents live in a futuristic and

dystopian society, where mankind has only survived

thanks to technological means but lives without the

freedom and comforts of our current world. The only

way to escape temporarily this dreary environment for

the privileged is to time travel and go back to the past,

when it was still possible to see live animals, feel the

wind, experience nature and freedom. During one of

those travels, ten year old Jochanan is separated from

his family and finds himself stranded in Eastern

Germany in 2031. With new friends and brothers

Merlin and Michael and illegal immigrant Akascha at

his side, he has to reach Berlin and the Brandenurger

Tor, where a time gate will open at midnight in four

days, and should lead him back into the future. Trying

to avoid being uncovered and followed by ambitious

scientist Dr. Paulus, who is obsessed by the idea of

catching a time traveller, will he make it home?

ORACLE IN THE MIST

(10+/150pp)

Linda Maree Malcolm

Jojo Publishing, Australia

When Bobby’s grandmother, was

thirteen, she and seven friends

disappeared for a period of six days.

Bobby is determined to solve the

mystery of the missing children, with

the help of her new, wary friend

David. Join them on an adventure

where an evil workhouse oracle and

her orc slaves threaten to overrun the

idyllic island paradise which has now

become their new home.

10+

PENELOPE APP (9+/303pp)

Cornelius Elmore Addison (Wivern Digital, UK)

View a presentation of the book HERE

Penelope is the first in a series of e-novels for the 9+ released under the Addison’s Tales Digital Book Label. The heroine is a writer’s cat who

teams up with her squirrel friend Knuckles (a self-styled lover of picnics and not a fighter) and an untrustworthy gnome called Boris Bones in a

bid to track down Penelope’s long-absent father Tessello. In the process of attempting to find him and reach the sea through the Caverns,

Penelope encounters strange soothsayers hidden in dungeons, court intrigues, the mentally-unstable prince of a vast pirate clan, subterranean

monsters and an encrypted note held in the citadel of the gnomes that is believed to be the key to finding the next Core - a sunken star that gives

light to the underworld.

Produced by Wivern Digital, Addison's Tales is the world's first digital book label developed especially for mobile devices. Each

approduction will include original music, animations and transmedia elements for a very new kind of interactive reading experience,

including animated musical interludes (where characters might begin to sing - just like they did in The Hobbit) called Enlivened Rhymes

apps, enabling the reader to hear the author's melodies as he intended them to be heard.

E-book

9+

TWEENIE GENIE SERIES (8+ - 208pp/title)

Meredith Badger - Hardie Grant Egmont, Australia.

Poppy is very surprised when she awakes on her 12th

birthday to the news that she

carries the very rare Genie Gene! She has to start genie high school where she learns

to grant wishes, ride magic carpets and wear very high ponytails!

3rd

title now available!- Everyone knows that genies can only grant wishes, not

make them, right? Well, not quite... When Poppy graduates from her final stage of

genie training, she’ll be allowed to make one special wish - for her job after Genie

High. She already knows exactly what she wants: to work in the stables with all the

magic carpets! The only problem is that before she can graduate, Poppy has to

mentor a Stage Two genie called Aggi. Aggi is the strangest genie Poppy’s ever met

- she’s rude, she hates being a genie, and she thinks riding magic carpets is stupid.

If Aggi doesn’t start behaving like a proper genie, Poppy might never get her wish!

Rights sold in the US/ English Canada and Germany

PLUM SERIES (8+ - 52pp/title)

Séverine Vidal & Kris Di Giacomo - Frimousse, France

Follow Plum and her friends as they experience everyday life joys and struggles. Plum

is 8 years old, has the name of a fruit, all her teeth, the memory of an elephant and she

is the first one to know life is not always plain sailing as her parents just divorced.

3rd

title now available! It’s the summer and Plum’s parents have decided to send her

to her first summer camp. Plum really doesn’t want to go, camps are boring!

Moreover, what’s going to happen to her pets while she is away and what will she do

there without her best friends? As stories of ghosts haunting the mansion they are

staying at arise, Plum and the other children come up with a stratagem to convince

their parents to come and save them from this evil place. But as they start to make

friends and prepare for the camp’s final circus show, they realise this is all much more

fun that they thought!

3rd title

now

available

3rd title

now

available

8+

TIM AND THE ANSWER TO NOTHING (8+ / 64pp)

Jan Neumann & Andrea Steffen

Mixtvision, Germany

In the search for answers to his countless questions, Tim not

only discovers a great-grandmother he knew nothing about, but

also makes three new friends: old sailor Pjotr, who wears

women's clothes; garbage woman Ina; and Mr Moll, a husky

policeman afraid of thunderstorms ... Will they be able to help

him in his quest?

BLACKBERRIES FOR MR MISTER (8+ / 64pp)

Marianne Freidig & Annika Leese

Mixtvision, Germany

A boy whose presence makes trees blossom. An invisible ghost

who feeds on blackberries. And an enemy who makes

everything disappear into nothing. Dramatist Marianne Freidig

tells in her individual style a modern fairytale about courage,

care and a very special talent in a grey world.

THE RUBY BOTTLE TRILOGY (8+ - 224pp)

Janet Reid

Interactive Publications Australia

When Amber discovers a dusty red bottle in her

elderly neighbour’s shed, she knows at once that

it’s meant to be hers. Then she meets the strange

djinn that lives in it and is catapulted into an

adventure she never imagined. Amber’s had a few

problems to deal with lately - bullies at school, a

cranky teacher and her best friend moving away.

Now at least she has a magical friend to talk to … if

she can keep him safe. Will she also discover the

mysterious task the djinn keeps hinting at and she’ll

have to perform?

CRAZY RELIEF TEACHERS SERIES

(8+/96pp per title)

Matt Potter

Celapene Press, Australia

Welcome to Outback Creek Primary School. Situated in

central Australia, the school’s so remote there are no

suitable teachers to fill the grade six vacancy. As a

temporary solution the principal is forced to hire anyone

with a teaching qualification, even if they are crazy!

First title: Military madman, Mr Sergeant, takes control

of Grade Six B. He dishes out push-ups like a prep

teacher does stickers. He orders students to salute rather

than say good morning. But after a tense start, the

students soon become Mr Sergeant’s comrades when he

learns of the Annual Dodgeball Challenge; a full school

dodgeball battle between the grade six students and a

group of super-serious dads.

Second title: Legal-eagle, Ms Law, takes control of the

class. With pin-striped slacks, a leather briefcase and

hair pulled so tight her face is in danger of being yanked

to the top of her head, she instantly turns the classroom

into a courtroom and sets about planning a trial to

determine Pete’s guilt on a charge of window-breakage.

8+

HAVE A GO HENRY (7+/88pp)

Kate Willson (Illustrated by Marjorie Gardner)

Celapene Press, Australia

Henry Matheson’s big sister Suzy is sickeningly good

at everything, particularly netball. Henry desperately

wants to find the sport he is good at, so his parents

will be as proud of him as they are of her. But after

trying his hands at rugby, basketball and swimming,

Henry declares himself to be officially hopeless at

everything. His Grandma Lulu suggests that he looks

outside the square – whatever that means! Will

Henry’s parents ever get to leap to their feet and cry,

“Hooray, Henry!” at the top of their lungs?

ALEX COTTLE SERIES (8+/58pp)

Christine Moroney (Illustrated by Niki Oram)

Little Steps Books, Australia

Alex Cottle is an axolot, ten centimetres long,

black all over, with a long flat tail and a big wide

mouth. He attracts a lot of attention in Mr Tully’s

pet shop but for all the wrong reasons. Some

children are just curious about him, some find him

dumb or boring, others laugh at him. Alex can feel

very lonely at times, despite Mr Tully’s kindness.

One day, Mr Dewberry enters the shop and buys

him for his son’s birthday. Unfortunately Alex

soon realises the little boy, Marcus, does not pay

any attention to him. Worse, he starts neglecting

him. Alex is in serious danger…

LITTLE ROCKET SERIES (7+ / approx. 60pp per title)

Kathryn England (illustrations by Emma Stuart)

New Frontier Publishing, Australia

A new fast paced junior fiction series for 7+ readers.

Each gripping tale will keep children hooked!

“Katie and the leprechaum”: Katie is surprised to discover a feisty

leprechaun lurking in her local park. Together they go off on an

adventure to hunt down the ideal footwear for a leprechaun shoe

maker.

“Hubert and the magic glasses”: Hubert enjoys playing in his

soccer team, the Able Ants but struggles to maintain his skills. This

does not help the team’s success. Maybe magic glasses are the

answer? At the very least they might stop Hubert mistaking the dog

food for breakfast cereal.

“Eddie Pipper”: Eddie Pipper loves his penguin. He is not a real

penguin though. Eddie is not allowed one of those. He has to make

do with his special paper-mâché penguin. But what do the other kids

thinks of it when he brings him to school for show and tell?

“Gertie the witch”: Gertie is very pleased with herself. She has

turned the postman into a pig. But his wife and children are not so

pleased and determined to break Gertie’s spell.

7-8+

HEY JACK! SERIES (5+ / approx. 45pp per title)

Sally Rippin (Hardie Grant Egmont, Australia)

8 titles to be published in 2012 and more to come in the future!

Rights sold in the US/ English Canada

An early reader series that knows there is more to boys than liking dragons and spies! Hey Jack! is full of down to

earth, real life stories that they will really enjoy. This brand new series for boys aged 5+ who are just starting to

read on their own, was created to complement its sister series, Billie B Brown, the runaway success which has

already sold over 270,000 copies across Australia and New Zealand alone since its launch in April 2010.

Jack’s ginormous imagination injects each book with fun and humour!

Hey Jack! will be supported by an interactive website featuring simple games that focus of language and reading

comprehension, quizzes and book and author information.The series has already received fantastic review

coverage, and was given the highest rating (4 stars) from Bookseller + Publisher Australia!

Sally Rippin is a children’s author having earned acclaim writing over 14 books!

And this doesn’t even include the twenty titles she has written in the Billie B Brown series!

5+

GO GIRL SERIES (7+ / 96pp/title)

Various authors - Hardie Grant Egmont, Australia

9th

, 10th

and 11th

titles now available. 3 more to be published in 2012!

8 others already published

www.gogirlhq.com

A series of books providing simple, real-life stories about characters experiencing

and exploring new situations - the first sleep-over, being the 'new kid' at school,

trusting a friend with a big secret and more. Written with an emotional depth, and

using simple language, this series swill strike a chord with girls who are sick of

fairies and unicorns!

Back to school (9th

title) -Chloe’s nervous about going back to school. She has to

get used to a new teacher and harder work. But she didn’t expect to be the only

one to find the new maths so difficult. Is everyone else really smarter than her?

Sink or swim (10th

title) - Bec loves swimming - and she loves being the fastest

in the class! But when she joins junior squad, she discovers that there’s more to

swimming than just winning.

Birthday girl (11th

title) - Usually Annabelle loves her birthday party, but this

year everything keeps going wrong! Will she be able to make it the best birthday

ever, or will it be a total disaster?

Rights sold in the US/Canada (English and French languages), UK, Finland,

Turkey, Argentina, Brazil, India, Korea & Chinese simplified

BILLIE B. BROWN GIRLS SERIES (5+ / 48pp/title)

Sally Rippin - Hardie Grant Egmont, Australia

14th

, 15th

and 16th

titles now available

3 more to be published in 2012!

13 others (and a bind-up) already published

www.billybbrown.com

Billy B Brown is brave, brilliant, bold and every first reader’s best friend.

Since launch in 2010, this little bestseller has sold over 100,000 copies in

Australia! Children will recognize their own lives reflected in Billie's 'real

world' adventures of having a sleep-over, playing soccer, learning ballet and

much more.

The cutest pet ever (14th

title) - Billie has found the most adorable guinea pig

in the pet shop. She is going to love it forever! If only she can convince her

mum and dad...

The pocket money blues (15th

title) - Billie is saving up for a special toy, and

Jack is helping her do jobs. But what will happen when he wants to spend the

money on something else?

The copycat kid (16th

title) - The new girl at school won’t stop copying

Billie! It is so annoying. What can she do?

Rights sold in French Canada, US/English Canada, Turkey, Brazil

5-7+

Maximus Black 2nd title The Awakeners 3rd title Abaton 2nd title City (sequel of Town)

Charlie Burr 3rd title Simon Savage 2nd title Totally Twins 4th title Mosquito Advertising 3rd title

COMING SOON….

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& our Backlist titles, click HERE