Our Australian Girl: Poppy Comes Home (Book 4)

Gabrielle Wang

It's 1864 . . . and Poppy, disguised as a lost princess from India, has joined a travelling medicine show.  They're about to enter the town of Beechworth, where her brother Gus told her he was heading months before.  Poppy is so happy to think that she might find Gus at last!  But when she follows the c...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (HB)

Roald Dahl

"Mr Willy Wonka is the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world. And do you know who Charlie is? Charlie Bucket is the hero. The other children in this book are nasty little beasts, called-Augustus Gloop - a great big greedy nincompoop; Veruca Salt - a spoiled brat; Violet Beauregarde - a repulsi...

The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne

Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent...