"The daughter of an artist and a scientist, and your own interesting self, Millie. What more could you need?? But Millie isn?t sure that Tom, her mum?s boyfriend, is right about that. A new town, a school project due, an enemy called Tayla, a boy with the initials RH and Tom himself?. It?s all too much even for an interesting girl like Millie. But as her father says, change is needed, and sometimes it?s the biggest changes that make us who we are. Millie and the Night Heron is a gentle, lyrical and moving tale from award-winning author Catherine Bateson which reminds us all to stop and remember the important things in life.

Millie And the Night Heron

Children's Books

Bateson, Catherine

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Univ of Queensland Pr

Stranded in Boringsville

Following her parents separation, twelve-year-old Rain moves with her mother to the country, where she befriends the unpopular boy who lives next door and also seeks a way to cope with her feelings toward her father and his new girlfriend.

Literature & Fiction

Holiday House

While trying to cope with a new town, new school, and new friends, Millie's emotional state is further compromised when she discovers the remnants of her mother's date the night before and begins to worry that this new distraction may be just the thing that sends her over the edge of reason.

Boyfriend Rules of Good Behavior

Being Bee

When her dad invites a woman to live with them after her mom dies, Bee gets curious about this new and unwanted addition to her family and soon discovers something about her that she has yet to reveal to the father she loves.

Bee faces friction at home and at school when her widowed father begins seriously dating Jazzi, who seems to take over the house and their lives, but as shared secrets and common interests finally begin to draw them together, Jazzi accidentally makes a te rrible mistake.

Life is treating Magenta McPhee pretty well. She's writing the next great fantasy trilogy, and she's going to be in her mom's upcoming wedding. But what to do about her dad, who lost his job months ago and just mopes around the local library? Magenta decides to go to an online dating service, playing the role of her father, until her good intentions backfire. As Magenta comes clean to her father and the woman she inadvertently strung along, she realizes that her dad may not be totally hopeless. While job hunting in the library, he's caught the attention of a certain librarian. Here is a touchingly realistic tale about relationships, good intentions, and growing up.

Magenta McPhee

Humor

The Wish Pony

ReadHowYouWant

Perfectly capturing the everyday life of children, this Vintage Classic explores themes of new siblings, pregnancy, family life, and friendship, and includes instructions on how to make a wish, an introduction to Magda, and a note from the authorRuby's mom is having a baby, but why does she need one of those when she's already got a Ruby? To make matters worse, her best friend Sarah has just found another, better friend. It seems like everyone is abandoning her. But when Ruby meets the mysterious Magda, who gives her a very special gift that might, just might, even be a bit magical, everything begins to change. This delightful story will fill young readers with wonder, hope, and amazing possibilities.

Woolshed Press

The Wish Pony (Vintage Classics)

Random House Australia

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Millie And the Night Heron

Stranded in Boringsville

Boyfriend Rules of Good Behavior

Being Bee

Stranded in Boringsville

Being Bee

Magenta McPhee

The Wish Pony

The Wish Pony

The Wish Pony (Vintage Classics)