Riders in the Chariot

Patrick White

This title comes with an introduction by David Malouf. Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil...

How I Live Now: Popular Penguins

Meg Rosoff

This award winning novel will soon be released as a movie starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy.   Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own...

Stories for Nine Year Olds

Linsay Knight

Super-fun stories specially chosen for 9-year-olds! A brand-new Alice-Miranda mystery, a pop-up freak show, bravery and brothers, a budgerigar out for revenge, tall tales and hidden treasure, a prized possession gone missing, aliens at lunch, a magic paintbrush, racing frogs and a very troublesome cock...