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Of a Boy: Popular Penguins by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Internationally published author: the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark. Award winning author. The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres an ...Show more
Sleeping Dogs by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Young Adult
Winner of the 1996 Miles Franklin Inaugural Kathleen Mitchell Award. Winner of the 1996 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Sheaffer Pen Prize. Honour Book in the 1996 Childrens Book Council Awards. 'We must be ruthless,' Edward snarls, 'because we lead ruthless lives: you, of anyone, should understand t ...Show more
Sleeping Dogs by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Young Adult
'We must be ruthless,' Edward snarls, 'because we lead ruthless lives. This is our existence. This house, this land, that father, that mother - there's no pity, there's no mercy, there's probably no escape.' The Willow family's world is a place of strange safety and dark unease. But such a place cannot ...Show more
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Young Adult
The animal swerved into the bracken, its smooth long tail slipping away. Satchel listened a minute for any sign of it but it was gone ...He wondered what its name had been, who had owned it, what hard history had left it alone here, at the foot of the hanging volcano. In a dying country town lives a you ...Show more
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Fiction
From the author of the acclaimed, award-winning About a Boy ($ 27.95) comes a dark and delicate new novel of suspense. As 20-year-old Gabriel
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
"Sophisticated young readers will be awed by the delicate, measured, heartbreaking portrait that emerges." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving town and distant ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2012 by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Fiction
In The Best Australian Stories 2012, Sonya Hartnett compiles the year's most compelling short fiction from Australian authors. Well-known voices are juxtaposed with those of emerging writers, creating an eclectic and exciting blend of styles and themes. These stories are a marvellous introduction to Aus ...Show more
The Boy and the Toy by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Picture Books
One day a man invented the best toy in the world. He gave the toy to his son. The boy thought the toy was marvellous. But as time passed, the boy started to wonder. Was it really the best toy in the world? An unforgettable tale that explores the meaning of friendship.
The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Young Adult
Maddy yearns for her life to be mystifying, to be as magical as a fairytale. And then, one day on the beach, she meets the strangest young man she has ever seen. His name is Feather. So begins Maddy's enchanted and tragic life as she yearns to own something that can never be owned.
The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
Category: Young Adult
Master storyteller Sonya Hartnett crafts a magical and moving fable about war and redemption . . . and what it means to be free. When the Germans attack their Romany encampment during World War II, Andrej and his younger brother, Tomas, flee through a ravaged countryside under cover of darkness, guardi ...Show more