Mr Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
ISBN 0316058432 EAN 9780316058438 Little Brown Paperback (10 to 13) WB Price: $11.95
It was hard enough for Mr. Popper to support himself, Mrs. Popper, Bill and Janie Popper. The addition of twelve penguins to the family made it impossible to make both ends meet. Then Mr. Popper had a splendid idea — the talented penguins would be a sensation on the stage. And so they were... "Here is a book to read aloud in groups of all ages. There is not an extra or misplaced word in the whole story."--"The Horn Book." Newbery Honor Book.18.8 cms L x 12.8 cms W (0.14 kgs) 139 pages

The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer
EAN 9780786855049 ISBN 0786855045  Miramax Paperback (7 to 11) WB Price: $8.45
Will has four brothers and it's chaos in his house! If he's not being teased by his big brother Marty, he has to deal with the terrible, three-headed bundle of cuteness that is his three younger brothers. Even worse, his mother has the brilliant idea of packing Will and Marty off to the library during the holidays. She just doesn't understand! Not only is the library no fun, it's also the habitat of the legendary librarian Spud Murphy. If you put a foot wrong, it's rumoured she will use her dreaded gas- powered spud gun and you don't want that - just ask Ugly Frank how he got his nickname! 19.25 cms L x 13.46 cms W (0.09 kgs) 95 pages

Indigo Blue by Cathy Cassidy
ISBN 0141317841 Penguin Paperback (9 to 12) 192 pgs
WB Price: $11.95
Indie's mum loves the colour blue. Blue is the colour of her favourite things - bluebirds, bluebells, the sky. So much so that she named her children Indigo and Misty - shades of blue, special colours, magical colours. Indie loves her mum. But blue isn't always a happy colour - and there's a lot of sad stuff in her mum's life. And now suddenly she wants them to run away from their lovely house and leave Max - mum's fella - behind. Indie doesn't know why. Or where they're going. Or how to tell her friends. In a dingy old flat with a grumpy neighbour, no heating and only biscuits to eat, Indie begins to realise that her mum's got a secret - a reason she really needed to get away. Indie mustn't let her go near Max again - or something terrible will happen.A powerful, moving and tender book about love, family, domestic violence - and what it feels like to get the blues.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ^3/4 by Sue Townsend
ISBN 0060533994 EAN: 9780060533991 Harper Paperback (13 to 16) WB Price: $15.95
Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?); the BBC refuses to publish his poetry; and his dog swallowed the tree off the Christmas cake. "Why" indeed.Excerpt: "Pandora and I are in love! It is official! She told Claire Nelson, who told Nigel, who told me. I told Nigel to tell Claire to tell Pandora that I return her love. I am over the moon with joy. I can overlook the fact that Pandora smokes five Benson and Hedges a day and has her own lighter. When you are in love such things cease to matter." 20.12 cms L x 10.67 cms W (0.16 kgs) 272 pages

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
ISBN 0141315970 Penguin Paperback (13 to 16) 288 pgs WB Price: $11.95
My mother's gone right off me since Rosie was born. She was never a particularly attentive mother - I always had to clean my own shoes. But just lately I have been feeling emotionally deprived. If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will all be my mother's fault.Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary.

The Adrian Mole Diaries: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 & the Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
ISBN 0380730448 EAN: 9780380730445 Harper Paperback (13 to 16)
WB Price: $21.95
Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary - an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has convulsed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teenage Adrian's obsession with intellectuality after understanding "nearly every word" of a Malcolm Muggeridge broadcast to his anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate, from his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan and deadly accurate, satire. ABBA, Princess Di's wedding, street punks, Monty Python, the Falklands campaign - all the cultural pageantry of a keenly observed era marches past the unique perspective of Sue Townsend's creation: A. Mole, the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate.20.32 cms L x 13.46 cms W (0.25 kgs) 304 pages

Pigman by Paul Zindel
ISBN 0060757353 EAN 9780060757359 Penguin Paperback (13 to 18) 
WB Price: $11.50
Zindel's groundbreaking, bestselling tour de force is the unforgettable tale of two disillusioned high school students who have their faith in humanity restored by lonely, eccentric Mr. Pignati, whom they dub the Pigman. When sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the lonely old man; it wasn't long before they were more comfortable in his house than their own. But now Mr. Pignati is dead. And for John and Lorraine, the only way to find peace is to write down their friend's story -- the story of the Pigman. Includes a Q&A with Zindel's real-life Pigman.17 cms L x 10.77 cms W (0.10 kgs) 192 pages