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An Aussie holiday favourite! 'Twas the night before Christmas; there wasn't a sound. Not a possum was stirring; no-one was around. We'd left on the table some tucker and beer, hoping that Santa Claus soon would be here. Christmas in the middle of an Australian summer means Santa has to find new ways to deliver his presents. The obvious solutions are to don a sunhat, shorts and a pair of thongs, not to mention ditching the sleigh and reindeer in favour of some roos and a ute.

Chase Cooper here, and this is my sixth diary as a sixth grade ninja. As always, there's trouble brewing in the halls of Buchanan School. A bandit is on the loose who's stealing from innocent students, and as each day passes, the bandit's reach grows even further. As if the situation wasn't bonkers enough, help has come in the unlikeliest of places - Wyatt. But I have sick feeling in my stomach about the whole mystery, like something far worse is going on than anybody realizes.

Funny Boy, a superhero who disarms villains with his powerful sense of humor, is summoned to save Earth from a planet-gobbling alien from outer space.

My name is Chase Cooper, and this is my fourth diary as a sixth grade ninja. A few weeks have breezed by since my last entry, but things don't stay quiet at my school for long. The science fair is coming up, and everyone's been working crazy hard to get their projects finished on time. But at the beginning of the week, projects started disappearing, only to be found later completely destroyed. Did I mention the anonymous invitation I got that sent me on a messed up treasure hunt in search of the missing projects?

Valentine's Day is Abby's least favorite holiday. Mushy stuff like valentines, red hearts, and a school dance turn her into a Valentine's Scrooge. When Ross Brown, a perfectly nice guy in Abby's English class, invites her to the dance, Abby tries to set him up with her twin sister, Anna.

You would not think, to look at me, that I was a dangerous alien... I find it hard to believe myself, even after everything that has happened. It began when our new neighbours moved in. I should have realised then that something strange was going on... but it was not until later that I knew the whole appalling truth.

With the help of Willbury Nibble QC, some friendly boxtrolls and cabbage-heads, Marjorie the frustrated inventor, and the rats and pirates from the Ratbridge Nautical Laundry, can Arthur thwart the Snatcher's evil plans to take over the world?

When Delphinium presses the button marked DANGER, bells ring and sirens wail. What a way to celebrate her 10th birthday! But others on the space station are worried by the white blob on their computer screens. Could it signal an invasion? Meanwhile, Jason is enjoying a little fun aboard a skip-ship. But he and Delphinium accidentally start the machine and find themselves hurtling through space, out of control....

As he plummets down a subterranean void, it looks like the end for fourteen-year-old Will Burrows. But it's just the beginning of a terrifying new adventure in which he must face giant carnivorous spiders and the deadly Brights. And, much worse, twin Styx girls with a score to settle... The third exciting adventure in the fantastic Tunnels series from acclaimed authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams.

Hilda is a small, speckled hen. She is brave and very single-minded. When she hears that her aunt has just hatched five baby chicks, she is very excited, and can’t wait to go and see them. There is a problem; however her aunt lives five miles away. How will Hilda ever travel all the way to her farm? But she has her heart set on getting there, and goes out to hitch a lift on a rubbish lorry, a fire engine, a scooter and even a steam roller!

Enter the delightful world of Bill and Ben the flowerpot men, and all their friends in this wonderful new version of a children's classic. Narrated by John Thomson, the stories are filled with humour and fun as they follow the antics of Bill and Ben and introduce us to all their friends in the garden.

Tantrums and Tiaras: Molly thinks cat-sitting will be a doddle. All she has to do is feed Mimi twice a day and play with her. But Molly is in for a big surprise - not only is the cat in question a very fussy eater, but she can talk! Paws, Claws and Frilly Drawers: It’s Bring Your Pet to School Day on Thursday, and Molly doesn’t have a pet. What is she going to do? Of course, she could always ask to borrow Mimi - but taking a talking cat to school is sure to spell only one thing - T.R.O.U.B.L.E.

Kristy's up for the best spring vacation ever - a week of baseball with famous major leaguers at Bill Bain's Dream Camp. Together with her stepdad, Kristy enjoys the all-star week of a lifetime.

Creakie Hall is falling down but there is no money in the bank so Aunt Gardenia Bogey-Mandeville needs to come up with a money making scheme pretty quickly or she and her niece and nephew will be out on the streets. It seems unlikely that opening the Hall as a hotel will be very successful, especially when the first guests through the door are two stuffy, fussy hotel inspectors, but with the 'help' of a pair of ancient ghosts who float down from the attic, all is not lost.

When James hid in the Nothing Shop he didn't expect to find anyone there. And he didn't expect to find himself buying a box of nothing, a bit of the original nothing which was there before the universe began. But from that adventure flowed James's whole adventure on the Dump, his meeting with the odd but friendly creature that called itself the Burra, with the terrible rat-general and with the alarming gull people, until the final race across the desert to the beginning (or the end) of everything.

It's Future Job Day at Sam's school, and Sam knows exactly what he wants to be when he grows up-a zookeeper, just like Zookeeper Jake in his favorite picture book. His mother and big sister, Anastasia, help Sam create a memorable costume-so memorable that Sam insists on wearing it long after Future Job Day has passed and the rest of his classmates are back in their regular clothes.

Hilary McKay revisits Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies after the events of A Little Princess and Sara Crewe's happy-ever-after. Sara is much missed - and most acutely by her best friend Ermengarde, who laments that 'nothing is the same as it was before'. But life must go on at Miss Minchin's as new friendships are made, rivalries continued, lessons learned and, most importantly, fairytale endings are had.

Molly’s kitten, Truffle, is a real stay-at-home cat. But recently she’s started disappearing, and Molly’s worried that she isn’t happy living in such a noisy household. Then one day, Truffle doesn’t come back at all. Can the Kitten Club help to find her and bring her home?

Fourteen years ago, four babies were implanted with the Medusa gene - a gene for psychic abilities. Now teenagers, Nico, Ketty, Ed, and Dylan have been brought together by government agents to create a secret crime-fighting force: The Medusa Project. But Ketty’s brother Lex has stumbled into a dangerous game involving his boss and a hidden bomb.

The little pup of Coming Home and the stronger, bigger, more mischievous Gopi of Finding Love grows up in the third book and has new adventures, new interests, a new dog-person in his life—the charming Nova—and brings a new family into the world. He's also wiser—'I learnt a great lesson, which I want to teach my children. Loyalty to our humans brings happiness and peace into our lives.' This third book brings to a close the endearing and heartwarming Gopi Diaries series—a series that has generated innumerable fans across ages.