The Hey Jack! adventures are perfect for boys who are desperate to begin reading but are bored by daggy school readers! Jack's whole class is coming to his birthday party. It's going to be awesome! But what will he do when his best friend is too sick to come?

Billie has one pair of goggles, three pink bandaids and a brand-new suitcase on wheels. Do you know what the B in Billie B Brown stands for? Find out in this collection of ten favourite stories!

The Hey Jack! adventures are perfect for boys who are desperate to begin reading but are bored by daggy school readers! Jack's in the mood for mooching around, playing with his crazy cousins! But will his bad mood spoil the whole day?

One day Billie and Jack find a note hidden under a rock at school. It seems to be written in code! It's time the two friends put their code-breaking skills to the test.

The Hey Jack! adventures are perfect for boys who are desperate to begin reading but are bored by daggy school readers! Jack has found a lost puppy! It is so cute. But can he convince his mum and dad to let him keep it?

The Hey Jack! adventures are perfect for boys who are desperate to begin reading but are bored by daggy school readers. Jack loves camping! Sleeping in a tent, toasting marshmallows and especially going on adventures. But will one of his adventures take him a little further than he planned?

Billie and the Secret Mystery Club have a new case to solve. Someone has stolen all of the ripe strawberries from Mika's garden! The Secret Mystery Club is determined to work out who it was. Could it have been the gardener? Or was it the neighbours who just made a batch of strawberry jam? Whoever it was, they won't get far – not with the SMC on the case.

The Hey Jack! adventures are perfect for boys who are desperate to begin reading but are bored by daggy school readers. Jack's class has a new teacher whoseems really cool. But then Jack breaks a rule he didn't even know existed! Maybe the teacher's not so great after all...

Billie and her friends have started a Secret Mystery Club! There's just one problem - they don't have any mysteries to solve. But then Billie thinks of the spooky house at the end of her street. She has always wondered who lives there. Is it a witch or a ghost? It's up to the SMC to find out!

The Hey Jack! adventures are perfect for boys who are desperate to begin reading but are bored by daggy school readers! Jack wants to win the maths competition, but it's not his best subject. Luckily, he's been paired with a maths whiz! Can they work together to win?

Chenxi is a remarkable young-adult novel that confronts adolescent sexual experience, pregnancy and cross-cultural questions in an extraordinarily vivid and compelling story.At eighteen, Anna is in limbo. She has decisions to make but stalls for time. Deferring her university studies in Australia, she visits her father in Shanghai. In an exotic environment, her life seems both better and worse: she loves learning Chinese painting but can't cope with being a foreigner, or with the chaos and heat of the city.Then the last thing she could have imagined happens: she falls in love with Chenxi, a young, mysterious fellow painter whose secret life in art and counter-revolutionary activities fascinates Anna. Their affair is passionate and fraught.Sally Rippin writes with a natural flair and an insider's voice about the torment of a teenager on the verge of adulthood. She evokes the thrills and spills of being a foreigner in the topsy-turvy world of China.'I have read this...

The Hey Jack! adventures are perfect for boys who are desperate to begin reading but are bored by daggy school readers! Jack's best friend got the solo that he wanted, and he's a bit mad. But when things go wrong on concert night, can Jack save the day?

The Hey Jack! adventures are perfect for boys who are desperate to begin reading but are bored by daggy school readers! Jack's friend Billie is away, so Jackhangs out with Alex instead. They have heaps of fun together! But what will happen when Billie comes back?

From Australia's best-selling female author, Sally Rippin, comes Polly and Buster – a brand new junior fiction series about the magic of friendship.  Who ever heard of a witch and a monster being friends? Everyone knows that witches don't mix with monsters. Witches are educated, clever, sophisticated. But monsters? Monsters are just uncouth. Some are even dangerous.  But Polly the witch and Buster the feelings monster have been best friends forever. It's the sort of friendship that makes your heart squeeze with happiness. Somehow, they've managed to keep their friendship a secret. Until one day, when everything changes ... Sally Rippin is the author of over 50 books for young readers, including the best-selling Billie B Brown early reader series, and its recent spin-offs, A Billie B Mystery, Billie's Adventures and the Hey Jack! series. Her new series Polly and Buster is accompanied by her own enchanting illustrations.

It's 1956 and Lina has won a scholarship to a wonderful girls school. As hard as she tries, fitting into St Brigid's isn't easy - especially when she's the only Italian and the only student from a poor family. When she and her friend Mary have a wonderful idea, everything starts to fall into place - until the class bully gets involved, and Lina's worlds collide. Follow Lina on her adventure in the second of four exciting stories about an imaginative girl with a secret dream, finding her way in a new world.