Patricia Wrightson

When best friend Sarah Bell calls Penny May a gloop, a sugar-gum tree becomes the site of a stand-off that involves their parents and the fire department but can only be resolved by the girls themselves.

A story set in Australia about a boy and girl who befriend another boy whose identity is a mystery

Despite the precautions of the old aborigine woman she calls Granny, fourteen-year-old Jo falls under the spell of a secret thing in the Australian hills, a girl endlessly alive and crying for the death that will not take her.

Tribal elders urge a young Australian Aborigine to investigate the strange events occurring in the interior of their vast continent.

Wirrun was a man of the People, the aborigines of Australia. He was young and educated in the ways of the whites. But when the mountain cried for help, he heard. For the Ninya, the ancient ice-spirits, were seeking the bring a new ice age to the land down under Together with the Mimi, a rock-spirit from far away, he sets out to find the Eldest Nargun, a creature of living rock that had defeated the Ninya in the long-gone past. And with the Power given him by a hero-spirit, he could see and command all the ancient earth-spirits. But the way was long and hard, and the Eldest Nargun was not what he expected.

Three Australian children discover ancient magical creatures living under the streets of the city.

A mentally retarded boy thinks he has bought a race track for three dollars, and until a solution to the problem can be found, only the patience and understanding of his friends keep him from being hurt by the truth.

It was a routine flight bound for Africa but the passengers were destined never to arrive. Hijacked at gunpoint, the pilot is forced to land in the desert where, in the blistering heat and with remote chance of rescue, the passengers face imminent death and react in different ways. For Chris and Liz, on their honeymoon, the intense passion they share proves to be an even deeper and stronger commitment than they had realised - until now. And for the stewardess Eve, and handsome American Bruce Mallory, will the lighthearted mid-air flirtation end - as it always does - on landing? Originally published as "Under the Sky" by Patricia Robins.

Two children in search of their pet budgerigar meet the unusual people of the streets and of the night.