Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history's greatest mysteries and their familiy's deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? After a whirlwind race that's taken them across five continents, Amy and Dan face the most difficult challenge yet -a task no Cahill dared to imagine.When faced with a choice that could change the future of the world, can two kids succeed where 500 years worth famous ancestors failed?Title: 39 Clues: Into the GauntletAuthor: Margaret Peterson-HaddixPublisher: Scholastic, $17.99 RRPPublication Date: 2010Format:! PaperbackISBN: 9780545152969For ages: 9+Type: NovelThis book is available online
Harriet Bright is going to have the best holiday ever. As soon as:one: She gets rid of the 6840 seconds that stand between her and Christmastwo: Her summer holiday friend Gracie Marshall is out of her life.three: She saves Pluto from being dwarfed.four: She and Melly Fanshawe star in the story of the very best holiday ever!Until then, she's in a real hullabaloo.Meet the clever and zany Harriet Bright â€" a poet (don't you know it) who will get into your head and whisk you away on adventures.Title: Harriet Bright: Holiday HullabalooAuthor: Claire CraigIllustrator: Melanie FeddersenPublisher: Puffin, $14.95 RRPPublication Date: October 2010Format: PaperbackISBN: 9780143! 305071For ages: 8 - 12Type: NovelThis ! book is available online
It's a pulse-pounding, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi adventure thriller that's not for the claustrophobic! Described as a cross between Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games! When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he's not alone. He's surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade, a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible stone maze.Like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they came to be there-or what's happened to the world outside. All they know is that every morning when the walls slide back, they will risk everything-even the Grievers, half-machine, half-animal horror that patrol its corridors-to try and find out. Title: The Maze RunnerAuthor: James DashnerPublisher: Chicken House, $17.99 RRPPublication Date: 2! 010Format: PaperbackISBN: 9781906427504For ages: 9+Type: NovelThis book is available online
'There is no real risk as long as you're careful,' Rodney said to Ruth. 'You'll have three chances to create your perfect life. If for some reason you don't like where you've ended up, you can return. But if you choose to stay longer than one day, you'll stay in your new life for ever.'Ruth Craze thinks life can't get any worse. She fights with her brothers, her parents driver her mad and no one ever listens to her. So when Rodney the Rat suggests a way out, Ruth is ready to risk everything.Three wishes. Three chances to create her perfect life.A million ways to get it wrong.Title: Careful What you Wish ForAuthor: Maureen McCarthyPublisher: Allen and Unwin, $15.99 RRPP! ublication Date: November 2010Format: PaperbackI! SBN: 9781741758573For ages: 9 - 12Type: NovelThis book is available online
Gripping fantasy adventure with larger-than-life characters and a world mapped in fascinating detail. Illustrated throughout by the author. Rossam nd has exchanged Winstermill and the dangerous life of a lamplighter for Brandenbrass and an even more dangerous life as factotum to the aristocratic monsterslayer, Europe. Fear and self-doubt must wait, however, as he plunges headlong into the fulgar's day-to-day life of political manoeuvring, high-society parties and well-paid monsterhunting.But whispers and rumours about her new factotum place Europe herself in danger, and now Rossam nd and the Branden Rose will face the ultimate battle against their enemies, the black-hearted schemers who would destroy them both.Title: Monster Blood Tattoo: FactotumAuthor! : D.M. CornishPublisher: Scholastic, $29.99 RRPPublication Date: 2010Format: PaperbackISBN: 9781862916920For ages: 9+Type: NovelThis book is available online
When Eloise's get-rich-quick dad moves them back to his home town to turn the derelict family mansion into a convention centre, Eloise feels an immediate bond with the old house. She begins spending all her time there, ignoring her strange grandmother and avoiding the friendly boy next door. Then Eloise meets a 'ghost girl' who may or may not be from the house's past, and events take a strange - and ultimately dangerous - turn. Beautifully written, poignant and gripping, this is a charming and atmospheric story of personal growth, overcoming grief and the true nature of friendship and family.Title: Cicada Summer! Author: Kate ConstablePublisher: Allen and Unwin, $! 15.99 RR PPublication Date: 2009Format: PaperbackISBN: 9781741758283For ages: 8 - 12Type: NovelThis book is available online
Whats in a name? I, Emma Freke is a charming search-for-identity story about Emmathe only normal member of her quirky family. Her flighty, mom seems to barely have time for a daughter. Emma's well-meaning grandpa is clueless. And her only friends are the local librarian and a precocious 10-year-old adopted by the two old ladies next door.Title: I, Emma FrekeAuthor: Elizabeth AtkinsonPublisher: Carolrhoda Books, $33.95 RRPPublication Date: August 2010Format: Hard cover with dust jacketISBN: 9780761356042 For ages: 9 - 12Type: NovelThis book is available online
Big Nate has got his heart set on leading his sports team to victory! But it won′t be easy. He′s stuck with Gina, his all time enemy and really rubbish player. Worse yet they have to work together on the class special project which means Gina′s allowed to call Nate - at home!Gina is at the top of Nate′s list of ThingsI Can't Stand - but will she stand in the way of his greatness?Will Nate win or lose? Pass or fail? Or fall asleep in science and end up in detention again?Title: Big Nate Strikes AgainAuthor: Lincoln PeircePublisher: HarperCollins, $14.99 RRPPublication Date: 1 November 2010Format: PaperbackISBN: 9780007355174For ages: 9+Type: Junior FictionThis book is available online
Mad scientist Godfrey Gunk had a dream - a dream of cre! ating a whole safari park of monsters on an old rubbish dump. It didn't work. Little did Godfrey know that actually after he left the rubbish dump, his dream came true... Meet the inhabitants of Trashland, a whole world of different types of slimy monsters who all live peacefully alongside each other - at least they used to...When the superhero Slime Squad's all-seeing, all-knowing PIE begins to have his computer compenents stolen they set out to tackle the crinimals. Little do they know they're about to face a whole load of cyber-poos! It's time to fight crime with slime!Title: Slime Squad: The Cyper-PoosAuthor: Steve ColePublisher: HarperCollins, $7.95 RRPPublication Date: 1 September 2010Format: PaperbackISBN: 9781862308787For ages: 7 - 10Type: Junior FictionThis book is available online
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