Cirrus@Austlit

Can't sleep? It can be hard to nod off sometimes. But don't worry, we know just the thing to make you tired ... What, still awake? Why won't you sleep?!' (Publication summary)

'An adorably funny series about a slightly odd house that’s turned upside down when a stranger comes to stay. There is absolutely NOTHING weird about Cookie, Kyle, Fizzy and Lady Delilah. Except that they live in a mansion — and they’re dogs.

'There’s NOTHING weird about their home on Sullivan Street either – until the day a gorilla named Edmund comes to live with them. Then things do start to get a little weird …

'In this sweet, goofy new series for 6+, four loveable friends will learn to get along with the strangest creature they’ve ever met, and discover that sometimes you can get what you want without barking like crazy – whether it’s persuading the evil bunnies next door not to woodchip your favourite stick, or convincing the fancy club at Movie Night to let your weird new housemate sit with them.

'Packed full of mischief, mayhem and wordplay, every book features three fish-out-of-water episodes about this loveable canine crew – and their new friend, Edmund.' (Publication summary)

'The STINKIEST super hero EVER is about to meet his match. A lean, mean SPEWING machine is on the rampage... SPEWTANK is determined to take the shine off Sparkletown by covering everything in the chunkiest chunder EVER. Is this the end for the World's Tidiest Town? Not if Fartboy can help it! This clean-living farting fury is ready for his YUCKIEST battle yet. You'll be SPEWIN' if you miss it!' (Publication summary)

'Scott Stuart encourages boys to embrace who they truly are in this empowering and funny story, smashing age-old assumption about what it means to be a man.

'Encompassing boys and men from different backgrounds, and told in irresistible rhyme, How to be a Real Man is a must-have picture book for all young readers. ' (Publication summary)

'Everyone thinks Martin is the tidiest boy in town. They dont know that he is also Fartboy the STINKIEST super hero EVER... A disgustingly evil villain known as Madam Wax is terrorising Sparkletown with sticky sculptures made out of her own earwax. But Fartboy is determined to stop her with his super-powered butt-blasts. Its a deadly battle of FARTS vs EARWAX. Who will triumph?' (Publication summary)

'Martin Kennedy is the tidiest boy in the world's tidies town. Martin is so neat and clean that he has never ever farted—UNTIL NOW. A freak accident dooms Martin to a dreadful destiny of baked beans and bottom blowouts. With the help of his grand fart master, can Martin learn to harness the power of his new skill and use it to save the day?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

''Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Even though that mouse was curled up, fast asleep The pong from its butt made everyone weep. What a stinky Christmas! But who has done the biggest fart of all?'  (Publication summary)

'Taylor Markham is not a popular choice. She is erratic, has no people skills and never turns up to meetings. Not to mention the incident when she ran off in search of her mother and only got halfway there. But she's lived at Jellicoe School most of her life and as leader of the boarders that's her greatest asset. Especially now the cadets, led by the infamous Jonah Griggs, have arrived. The territory wars between the boarders, townies and cadets are about to recommence.

'But Taylor has other things on her mind; a prayer tree, the hermit who whispered in her ear, and a vaguely familiar drawing in the local police station. Taylor wants to understand the mystery of her own past. But Hannah, the woman who found her, has suddenly disappeared, leaving nothing but an unfinished manuscript about five kids whose lives entwined twenty years ago on the Jellicoe Road ...' (Publisher's blurb)

'Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist. Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose. Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing eggs at her probably wasn't the best way to show it. Jazz and Leo are slowly encircling each other.

'An intense and exhilarating 24 hours in the lives of four teenagers on the verge: of adulthood, of HSC, of finding out just who they are, and who they want to be.' (From the publisher's website.)

A novel written true to the histories, and true to the memories of Enric Torres i Barbo, whose life and philosophies this novel takes for its guide.

Twin boys Enric and Josep, at ten years of age, served as spies and couriers in the Resistance by the Republican Spanish against the invasion of Fascist forces in Spain, then from Italy and Germany during the Civil War.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Port Campbell Press).

'The 'Baker's Dozen' of the title are the thirteen children of Jape Cotgrove, who comes to Sydney with his family in the 1860s to make a new life. The story of their adventures centres around Charlotte Cotgrove - usually known as Charley - whose ambition is to become a schoolteacher, but the author gives us a lively impression of her brothers and sisters, including lovely, irresponsible Livvy; Jane, the conscientious one; the endearing, mischievous twins; hardworking George; Jimmy, who longs to go to sea; Cathy, who is 'different' and demands Charley's special attention, and 'Cornstalk', the baby.

'The family at first settle in the Rocks area of Sydney, but later move to Boanyoo, in the Southern Tableland. They enjoy the country better than the city, and in Boanyoo, Charley draws nearer to achieving her ambition. A lightly drawn romance, and the excitement of bushrangers' exploits highlight this story of the Cotgroves, who find happiness in a new land.' (Inside dust jacket).