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Being Bee by Catherine Bateson
Category: Children's Fiction
Since her mother died it had been just her, her dad, and her guinea pigs, Lulu and Fifi. A perfect non-nuclear family, but nothing stays the same forever. Ages 9-12.
Hanging Out: Mates Series by Catherine Bateson and Adam Carruthers (illustrator)
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Mates
When cousin Weston comes to stay, Ben is worried. He's told a lot of big fat lies about his life in Melbourne, and Weston is about to find him out.
His Name in Fire by Catherine Bateson
Category: Young Adult
A celebration of community in a country town. A beautiful novel about love, relationships and trust, with each of the characters confronting a major crisis in their lives and trying to make sense out of it.
Lisette's Paris Notebook by Catherine Bateson
Category: Young Adult
What do you wear to Paris? Ami and I discussed it for hours but I still couldn't think of anything suitable. Ami said a trench coat with nothing underneath but your best underwear. That was only if some boy was meeting you at the airport, I said...Eighteen-year-old Lisette has just arrived in Paris (Fra ...Show more
Magenta McPhee by Catherine Bateson
Category: Young Adult
For Magenta McPhee, life is good. It would be almost perfect if she could sort out her dad, who quite possibly needs saving - from himself. Desperate times call for desperate measures, even if those measures involve identity fraud on a dating site, and replying, as your father, to emails he doesn't even ...Show more
Millie & the Night Heron by Catherine Bateson
Category: Children's Fiction
"The daughter of an artist and a scientist, and your own interesting self, Millie. What more could you need?” But Millie isn’t sure that Tom, her mum’s boyfriend, is right about that. A new town, a school project due, an enemy called Tayla, a boy with the initials RH and Tom himself.... It’s all too muc ...Show more
Mimi and the Blue Slave by BATESON Catherine
Category: Children's Fiction
When grief strikes, you need an ally. For Mimi, that ally is Ableth, the wildly disobedient blue slave. He comes, he goes, he says and does whatever he likes, but he's always there when Mimi needs him most, offering his own brand of crooked wisdom. Ableth says, "You need to learn to look under the surfa ...Show more
Painted Love Letters by Catherine Bateson
Category: Young Adult
An honest and moving account of one family's struggle when dealing with cancer. It details Chrissie Grainger's life after her father's diagnosis; she has to start a new school, which she hates, and she feels alienated from the other children. Ages 14+.
Rain May & Captain Daniel by Catherine Bateson
Category: Children's Books | Series: UQP Storybridge Ser.
Rain May and her mum escape their old inner-city life for a dream house in the country. But there are more than a few surprises in store - like discovering a platypus or the fun of fridge poetry and phenomenally bright eleven-year-old, Captain Daniel, who lives next door. Together these unlikely friends ...Show more
Star by Catherine Bateson
Category: Children's Fiction
Star lives with her mum and her mum's old university friend, Charlie, who has broken up with his wife. Star doesn't always like Charlie - and she certainly doesn't like his two kids, Talia and Gabe. So when Star's mum, Nell, begins to fall in love with Charlie and he moves in properly, Star isn't sure h ...Show more
The Wish Pony by Catherine Bateson
Category: Children's Fiction
When the balloon was born I was going to tell it exactly what I thought about it, how sick it made my mother and how it had ruined my life. Ruby's mum is having a baby, but why does she need one of those when's already got a Ruby? Ages 8+. (SA: Year 6 - Year 9).