Thomas is eleven and lives with his mum and dad and big sister Alisha. He was a pretty normal kid until two weeks ago when he discovered he had developed a startling new ability. Every time anyone tells a lie Thomas develops a violent itch in his nipples.
Keith's heart was pounding. Calm down, he thought. You're not robbing a bank. You're not kidnapping anybody. You're just painting a fish and chip shop orange. Keith is trying to cheer up his parents. But a pair of misery guts need more than a pot of Tropi
I scribbled angrily in my notebook, ripped the page out and held it in front of his face. 'You killed my mother,' it said, 'and I've got the sausages to prove it.'It starts off as a normal week for Rowena. A car full of stewed apples. A police cell. A des
Limpy’s family reckons humans don’t hate cane toads, but Limpy knows otherwise. He’s spotted the signs: the cross looks, the unkind comments, the way they squash cane toads with their cars. Limpy is desperate to save his species from ending up as pa
The Hatford boys' New Year's resolution is "the girls can stay . . . but only if they play by our rules." Their mother insists that they "treat those girls as though they were your sisters." Okay, but somehow the boys' interpretation owes more to sibling
"Dear Your Majesty the Queen,I need to speak to you urgently about my brother Luke. He's got cancer and the doctors in Australia are being really slack. If I could borrow your top doctor for a few days I know he/she would fix things in no time. Of course
It's not easy being part of Ginger's family when you¹re allergic to cats - three of them love cats and five of them are cats.Ginger tries to be good, but it's not easy when your new best friend is a fierce looking stray dog. It gets even harder when th
11 year-old Mitch lives in a very remote Australian town. Desperate to win friends and earn his family the gratitude of the hostile locals, he decides to become a world champion diver. Trouble is, there's no water big enough to dive into for 600 miles...
Pearl and Gran dragged the boxes of junk out of the attic. Sticking out of Pearl's box were some fat pink tubes. She picked on up and realized what it was."Gran," she said. "Are these floties yours?""They're water wings," Gran said. She stared at the wate
Ask yourself: Am I willing to consider that there are things I can do to improve my life/business, but don't have the confidence to take action? What would those things be? Next