'From up here, in my tree house, I can see over our back fence, into the yard of the house where Head was murdered. 'The day I used up the first of my nine lives, I had the worst idea I have ever had in my whole life. This brainwave threatened to shorten it by eighty years and eight lives. But obviously I didn't know all that when I jumped on my skateboard, and sailed around the block to Head's front door ' When Nick Riley decides to talk to his neighbour about the way he mistreats his dog, Nick himself becomes a murder suspect and a thief. Even worse, what he knows about Head's associates,...

Carrie, a desert child, born and raised in the heart of the Australian continent by her grandparents, meets by chance, Anna, a sea child from Flinders Island, first at Kings Canyon, in Central Australia, then at Kett's cattle station in tropical Northern Territory. Carrie is a fiercely independent girl and a passionate naturalist. After living and searching by herself in the desert surrounding Kings Creek Station, her long exploration ends with the astonishing discovery of a thought-to-be extinct marsupial. Anna, also passionate about the sea and its creatures, is far more at home in a...

Paddy McCann He's back again. Is he trying to save the world or just his skin? A terrible crisis is about to engulf the world and Paddy is at the centre of it. Brutal gangs, led by the worse dictator in history, have their sights set on stealing the most important secret the world has ever developed... and the two people inventing it; Anders Ulverson and Paddy McCann. Is he still the worst student in Castlemaine Second School according to Mr Jacks, or is he Mr Protector of the greatest genius who ever lived? And... is Paddy McCann the hero anyway... or is it really six thousand furious bull...

Want to know why your socks go missing? Can't find your schoolbooks? Wonder why everything ends up under your bed? Blame Paddy McCann, your times-forty great-grandson who's researching his ancestors - - You Paddy McCann is in trouble. Not only does he have the most cantankerous teacher in Castlemaine College picking on him, but also his research project (a lost dog from 2008AD) has just run away and lost himself in 3005AD. Paddy needs to prove that he is 'ethical and responsible' before he is allowed to visit the 21st century, but things keep getting in the way. Things like jellyfish,...