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Arto has a problem. For one, he's a robot. He’s awoken with no memory of who he is, with nothing but a mysterious letter, in a world bereft of those fleshy, talky things that made him. So why is he alone, and where have all the people gone? He stumbles upon a lost, cheeky kitten and selects it as his best friend for the adventure of a lifetime, trying to make sense of all this existence stuff. Just as Arto begins to fear he's the only sentient thing left on the whole planet, a cantankerous robot falls from the sky. She says she's his sister.

Now a Netflix original series starring Simon Baker, Travis Fimmel, and Phoebe Tonkin! “Hypnotizes you with wonder, and then hammers you with heartbreak. . . . Eli’s remarkably poetic voice and his astonishingly open heart take the day. They enable him to carve out the best of what’s...

With the Map of Half Maps finally in the hands of Atticus and his crew, the rest should be easy, right? Wrong! Rattling skeletons, ghosts, monsters from the deep, killer sands and a boiling hot tub are just some of the obstacles between them and certain TREASURRRRRE!...

The forest is dense and dark. And the trail full of unexpected perils. The dog can't move. The boy can't talk. And you won't know why. Or where you are going. You will put this story down not wanting the journey to end.

Christopher is 12,000 miles from home. The pub has a dirt floor and the owner is as rough as guts. The forest hides snakes, feral pigs and a dark secret. Mysterious, bold and strange. Expect the unexpected. And watch your step. Enter this place and you will be different forever.

When he finds himself in a cruel orphanage, Anton does just that and hides on an ocean liner. Fear and desperation are his only companions. Two other passengers have secrets of their own. When nothing is what it seems, can they help each other? Or will they sink into a sea of troubles?

Timmy is trying to get into POSER LAND, an exclusive place only for the most FAMOUS ponies in the world! It's a club so hard to get into, it's in OUTER SPACE! But in space, no one can hear you scream ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!

Pinney the Winner, 3, 2, 1, Here I Come, Movie Mayhem, Roll Up, Roll Up, Clean Up, A Bedtime Story, A Brand New Band, Flight of the Kite, When I Grow Up.

Timmy has really hit ROCK BOTTOM! He's been sent to THE PITS – the darkest, scariest place under Earth! He needs to find a way out. But only one pony has EVER managed...a GREAT ESCAPE. Now Timmy's planning a greatER escape! Surely it's not that hard to get outta there?!

Ort knows the sky is watching. And he knows all about watching, because he spends half the night listening at doors and peering through cracks. Especially since his dad’s accident. Everything at home is falling apart. His father’s withering away, his sister is consumed by rage and fear, his grandmother is losing it entirely and his mother is brave but no longer coping. And then, out of nowhere, a stranger appears at their door. Has he come to rescue Ort and his family, or is he just another problem?

How the Aussie economy got hooked on the world's dirtiest cash. Longlisted for a 2022 Walkley Award and earning the author the 2022 Financial Crime Fighter Award. In today's ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren't foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear...

Tashi has more daredevil adventures to tell. Hear all about him in this collection of stories about magic, courage and the triumph of brains over brawn. This collection includes Tashi and the Baba Yaga, Gone!, Tashi and the Demons and The Magic Bell.

The eighth story in the Tashi series of daring adventures and tall tales about magic, courage and a pair of magic shoes. The crowd gasped in amazement. 'Look at those shoes! Look at him fly!' Jack's Uncle Joe loves to tell stories, and so does Tashi—like the one about the magic shoes and Uncle Tiki Pu's sneaky plan. In the second story in this book, 'The Fortune Teller', find out what Tashi did when the fortune teller Luk Ahed said that his 10th birthday would be his last. There's no stopping Tashi.

Daring adventures and tall tales about magic, courage and the triumph of brains over brawn, by the award-winning authors Anna and Barbara Fienberg. The very lovable Tashi returns to tell Jack more of his adventures in faraway lands: Featured in this collection: Tashi and the Ghosts, Tashi and the Bandits, Tashi and the Mountain of White Tigers and Tashi and the Stolen Children.

Abel Jackson lives with his mother, Dora, at Longboat Bay, an isolated stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish. Theirs is a simple life. It’s tough. And at times it’s lonely. But Abel has friends in the sea, particularly the magnificent old groper he meets one day while diving for abalone. Abel learns that the sea and its treasures are precious. And as Longboat Bay is threatened by greedy developers and overfishing, Abel and his mum wonder how they can keep their homeplace safe.

Peter, a new boy at Park Ridge school, is thankful to be rescued from the school bullies by Anton the Swashbuckler. Even if Anton does speak in such a weird way and wears outlandish garments. After this Peter and Anton become firm friends and discover that they each have family problems. Together they turn those problems into challenges to be tackled in true Swashbuckler style.

Following a year of record numbers of shark attacks, Sharks Never Sleep takes us around the world to meet shark-attack survivors, shark lovers and shark hunters, who tell us of the primal fear of being eaten alive by a wild animal, the unimaginable grief of losing a loved one and extraordinary stories of encounters with sharks.

International authors and parents Jim and Lisa Valavanis share their inspirational story of what they went through and how they coped and survived when a family crisis struck down their son Sam. Sam was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at just 12 weeks of age and his parents thought his life was over before it had even begun. They didn't know what it meant to him for now, let alone in the future. How would he, and they as a family, get through this ordeal, and what kind of life would he have?

Anna Fienberg's fabulous new high-seas pirate adventure, with scoundrels and blaggards, devilish treachery and pirates who long for a bit of comfort - great reading for 8- to 12-year-olds from the world of Horrendo's Curse. Will could walk a tightrope and juggle bananas as he went. 'One day you'll be the star of a circus,' his mother told him. 'But until then, you must be a secret.' For each year pirates came to the islands to steal young boys for their crew. And if that happened to you, well, you may as well kiss your life good-bye.

Sue is in trouble. She is being bullied - subtly, relentlessly, by another girl intent on making her an outsider. When Sue changes schools, she keeps in touch with her cousin Mitch by email. But Mitch is also having problems. Bullying is happening at his school too - nasty vicious bullying which could prove to be life-threatening. Together, and yet miles apart, Mitch and Sue must work through their respective problems.