Catch the Zolt - The Debt: Instalment One (Phillip Gwynne)

Catch the Zolt - The Debt: Instalment One

Phillip Gwynne

Blurb: Pay the debt or lose a found of flesh.

It's a beautiful day in paradise. The sun is shining. The birds are chirping. And Dom Silvangni, indifferent student and elite middle distance runner, is turning fifteen.

But instead of cake and candles, Dom receives an unlikely gift. An ancient family debt to an organisation so secretive and powerful, they are non-negoitable: Dom must master six Herculean tasks or they'll take a pound of flesh.

Before long Dom has his first instalment - Catch the Zolt - the seventeen-year-old Facebook Bandit with a penchant for stealing light aircraft. But getting close to the Zolt means being nice to the smug, self-obsessed Tristan...and involving Imogen, the only girl close to Dom's heart.

The more Dom discovers, the less he seems to know. Only one thing is clear. The Debt want their payment...now!

ISBN: 9781742378442 (Paperback)

Year: 2013

Publisher: Allen and Unwin

Pages: 275 (Fiction)

Links

1. Publisher's page

2. Buy from Readings

3. Official site of the series

4. Buy from QBD

5. Youtube trailer

The Secret Keeper (Kate Morton)

The Secret Keeper

Kate Morton

Blurb: 1961: On a sweltering summer's day while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything.

2011: Now a much-loved actress, Laurel finds herself overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories, and the mystery of what she saw that day, she returns to her family home and begins to piece together a secret history. A tale of three strangers from vastly different worlds - Dorothy, Vivien and Jimmy - who are brought together by chance in wartime London and whose lives become fiercely and fatefully entwined.

Shifting between the 1930s, the 1960s and the present, The Secret Keeper is a spellbinding story of mysteries and secrets, threatre and thievery, murder and enduring love.

ISBN: 9781742374376 (Hardback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Pages: 582 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Article on the book

3. Author's official site

4. The publisher's page

5. Buy from Amazon

Who Sank the Boat? (Pamela Allen)

Who Sank the Boat?

Pamela Allen

Blurb: Who sank the boat?

Find out in this great book!

ISBN: 9780734309877 (Paperback)

Year: 1982

Publisher: Puffin

Pages: 32 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Publisher's page

3. Book being read on Youtube

4. Resource to use in a classroom (big PDF file)

5. Buy from the author's official site

Belinda (Pamela Allen)

Belinda

Pamela Allen

Blurb: What is Old Tom to do?

If he cannot catch Belinda then he cannot milk Belinda. And if he cannot milk Belinda there will be no milk for the dog, no milk for the cat, no milk for Old Tom and no butter for his bread.

What is Old Tom to do?

Find out in Pamela Allen's hilarious book which brings to young and old the gift of laughter shared.

Belinda was an Honour Book in the 1993 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Awards.

ISBN: 9780734309884 (Paperback)

Year: 1992

Publisher: Puffin

Pages: 32 (Fiction)

Links

1. Publisher's page

2. Buy the book from Wise Words

3. Author's official site

4. Review of the book

5. Publisher's Weekly page for the book

Path of Beasts - The Keepers #3 (Lian Tanner)

Path of Beasts - The Keepers #3

Lian Tanner

Blurb: I'm fifth keeper of the museum of Dunt and I'm back where I belong.

When Goldie, Toadspit and Bonnie steal into Jewel in the middle of the night, they find their city under the heel of the Fugleman, and the streets controlled by the Blessed Guardians and an army of ruthless mercenaries. The museum itself is seething with danger. Goldie, Toadspit and Bonnie must use all their clever tricks and hard-won bravery to undermine the Fugleman's brutal regime before he rounds up the children of Jewel.

But in order to save the children and defeat the Fugleman once and for all, Goldie must walk the Beast Road, an ancient pathway deep inside the museum, a pathway so secret and perilous that no one has ever returned from it. According to the old stories, she can take only two companions, and they must be mortal enemies...

ISBN: 9781742371979 (Hardback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Pages: 358 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Author's official site

3. Publisher's page

4. Kids reads page for the book

5. Official page for the series

Remembering Josh: Bali, A Father's Story (Brian Deegan)

Remembering Josh: Bali, A Father's Story

Brian Deegan

Blurb: 'I've not slept for 70 hours or more, walking, watching, waiting, praying for the end of this nightmare from which, at some stage, I must awake. But the reality is beginning to set in and I know only too well that at least in this life I shall never speak openly with my son. Never again shall I laugh with him, drink with him, discuss his future or watch him take to the field.'

So begins a father's descent into hell.

On 12 October 2002, Brian Deegan's son Joshua was killed in the terrorist explosion that ripped apart the Sari Club in Bali's Kuta Beach. Through grief and anger, this father has gone on a journey no parent should have to take. He has confronted the ghosts of his son's death, challenged the government's version of the truth and fought for the answers nobody wanted to give.

Raw and powerful, Remembering Josh cuts to the heart of love and honesty. Nobody reading this book will be left unaffected by it.

ISBN: 1741142776 (Paperback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Pages: 240 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Buy from the ABC

3. Wikipedia page for the author

4. Wikipedia page on the Bali bombings

5. Australian government article on the event

Man on Fire - A Stunt of a Life (Grant Page with Steve Wright)

Man on Fire - A Stunt of a Life

Grant Page with Steve Wright

Blurb: If you've watched an Australian film, TV show or ad during the past fifty years, chances are you've seen stuntman Grant Page - falling from the sky, jumping off cliffs, crashing motorbikes, rolling cars, hang-gliding over skyscrapers, or setting himself on fire. He's fearless, forensic and there's nothing he won't try - which makes him the go-to man for anyone wanting a spectacular explosion, a kick-arse fight or an edge-of-your-seat adrenaline rush.

Whether it's falling backwards from a great height on fire, sliding a motorbike under a rolling truck, standing in for Mel Gibson - or Shelley Winters! - or mixing in with the maddest and baddest stars and stunties the film industry can offer, Grant's seen and done it all, and had a wild old time along the way. Strap yourself in for the funniest, most outrageous ride of your life as Man on Fire catapults you into the heart of the action.

ISBN: 9781741758184 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Pages: 316 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Publisher's page

3. Wikipedia page for the author

4. Google books page

5. Look at the book