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Blue Flower: CBCA shortlisted picture book 2022 by Sonya Hartnett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A beautifully told picture book about self-esteem, resilience and the discovery that being different can be something wonderful. From award-winning author Sonya Hartnett, with stunning illustrations by Gabriel Evans.A gentle exploration of a child's realisation that it is her individual differences and ...Show more
Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
In masterful prose, the author of SURRENDER tells a quiet but powerful tale about the shifting bonds and psychological perils of adolescence. (Ages 14 and up) Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she ...Show more
Come Down, Cat! (HB) by Sonya Hartnett
$24.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: 0-5
The day is ending, night is falling, and Nicholas's cat still won't come down. High on the roof he licks his paws while Nicholas worries about monsters and ghosts. Nicholas fetches a ladder so high that he can see into nests when he reaches the top. But the cat - that cheeky, naughty cat! - just won't c ...Show more
Life in Ten Houses: Penguin Specials by Sonya Hartnett
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials
The internationally celebrated writer Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the 'Last House' - that special corner of the world in which to settle and find contentment. Viewing her life and work through the lens of real estate, she vividly r ...Show more
Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
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
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
$12.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
"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
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
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 Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
$24.95 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Two gypsy boys are fleeing through a war-ravaged countryside during the night carrying a secret bundle. The boys stumble across a town that has been reduced to smoking rubble, and a zoo that is still intact. When the boys take shelter in the zoo, they discover a menagerie of talking animals. Both the bo ...Show more
The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
One bright spring morning in the woods of France, a soldier, blinded by the war, is found by a little girl named Coco, and her older sister Marcelle. In return for their kindness, the soldier tells the sisters marvellous tales, each story connected to the keepsake he carries in his pocket: a perfect, ti ...Show more
The Wild One by Sonya Hartnett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Charlie met the wild one when he was young. Together they caught tadpoles, and watched spiders weaving webs. But as the sun rose and fell, and the moon circled the world, Charlie forgot the wild one's magic - until it was almost too late to remember ...From acclaimed picture-book partnership Sonya Hartn ...Show more
Thursday's Child by Sonya Hartnett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A stunningly original voice in young adult fictionHarper Flute believes that her younger brother Tin, with his uncanny ability to dig, was born to burrow. While their family struggles to survive in a desolate landscape during the Great Depression, the silent and elusive little Tin - "born on a Thursday ...Show more