It's dark, it's cold, and the fog has come down. Alison and her dad are in the truck. They're on the way to a place called Finn's Folly but they're lost. The road's getting worse and the truck's loaded with chemicals...Fifteen-year-old Max's mother has gone out to collect his father from the train, leaving Max and the other kids—Brenda, Tony and David—alone in their isolated holiday shack two hundred kilometres from Melbourne. It's after midnight and they should all be asleep, but one by one, they wake up. And hear it. What sounds like a car accident. Since their parents are the only people likely to be on the road, Max and Brenda go out into the night to investigate...A gripping story about an accident that changes everyone's lives by bestselling children's author Ivan Southall. First published in 1996, Finn's Folly was commended in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards.Ivan Southall AM (1921–2008) is best known for his award-winning,...

Set in a country town, Bread and Honey is a story about working out where you fit in. From much-loved children's author Ivan Southall. First published in 1970, it won the CBCA Book of the Year Award, Older Readers the following year.Ivan Southall AM (1921–2008) is best known for his award-winning, bestselling children's books such as Hill's End (1962), Ash Road (1965), To the Wild Sky (1967), Bread and Honey (1970), Josh (1971) and The Night Watch (1983). In 2003 he was awarded the Dromkeen Medal, given annually to an Australian resident for outstanding achievement in the creation of Australian children's and young adult literature.

Winner, Australian Children's Book of the Year, 1967No one had talked about fuel; what was the use of talking, anyway? But they all knew that engines which run on fuel have to run out of fuel sometime, and that the Egret just couldn't keep on going for ever. They seemed to have been sitting in this plane, imprisoned, for days, waiting to die. Gerald just flew on and on as though he wanted to fly away to another world, almost as though he didn't want to go down, almost as though he didn't know how to go down.When the Egret's pilot dies suddenly mid-flight six teenagers, the only passengers on board, face a terrifying situation. Gerald has had some flying lessons, but he has never flown alone, and he has never landed a plane. Lost and afraid, they fly on as the fuel gauge drops and night closes in. Will they find a clear landing place? Could they land in the sea? If they do somehow land safely how will they find their way back to...

The best selling Ash Road is an action-packed adventure story, so evocative of rural Australia you can taste the Eucalyptus.It's hot, dry and sweaty on Ash Road, where Graham, Harry and Wallace are getting their first taste of independence, camping, just the three of them. When they accidentally light a bushfire no one would have guessed how far it would go. All along Ash Road fathers go off to fight the fires and mothers help in the first aid centres. The children of Prescott are left alone, presumed safe, until it's the fire itself that reaches them. These children are forced to face a major crisis with only each other and the two old men left in their care.Ivan Southall was the first Australian author to receive the Carnergie Medal, and was awarded the Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year on three occasions. An icon of Australian children's literature, he wrote over sixty books in his lifetime and has been published...

First published in 1962, Hills End is regarded as a turning point in Australian children's literature, paving the way for much subsequent Australian adventure fiction.On a fateful day in Hills End, a timber-milling town in the mountains of Victoria, seven children and their teacher set off to explore caves in the nearby mountains said to contain ancient Aboriginal rock art. While they are deep inside the mountain caves a storm of tremendous violence all but sweeps the town away and threatens to leave them stranded on the mountain. Tackling flooded creeks and washed out paths and fallen trees, the children make their way back to Hills End injured and exhausted, only to face a new battle to survive in the denuded town. Ivan Southall was the first Australian author to receive the Carnergie Medal, and was awarded the Australian Children's Books Council Book of the Year on three occasions. He wrote over 60 books in his lifetime and has been published in 23...