Books with author Christine Bongers

If you like Fiona Wood, Cath Crowley or Jaclyn Moriarty, you'll love Christine Bongers' gripping new coming of age story, Intruder. I don’t walk past the house next door. I wish the woman who lives in it was dead. Which makes it hard . . . because she was the one who came running when I screamed. Kat Jones is woken by an intruder looming over her bed. She’s saved by Edwina – the neighbour Kat believes betrayed her dying mother. Her dad issues an ultimatum. Either spend nights next door, or accept another intruder in her life – Hercules, the world’s ugliest guard dog. It’s a no-brainer, even for dog-phobic Kat. When she meets adorkable Al at the dog park, finally Kat has someone to talk to, someone who cares.But the prowler isn't finished with Kat. To stop him, she needs Edwina's help . . . and what Kat learns could mend fences – or break her fragile family apart forever.WINNER, Davitt Award for Best Crime Debut Book 2015 SHORTLISTED, Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year - Older Readers 2015

Evocative and earthy . . . from a powerful new Australian voice. Twelve-year-old Cecilia Maria was named after saints and martyrs to give her something to live up to. Over my dead body, she vows. In the blinding heat of 1970s Queensland, she battles six brothers on her side of the fence, and the despised Kapernicky girls, lurking on the other side of the barbed wire. Secrets are buried deep, only to surface decades later when Cecilia drags her own reluctant teenagers back home to dance on a grave and track down some ghosts. Warm but tough-minded, Dust glitters with a rare and subtle wit, illuminating the shadows that hang over from childhood and finding beauty in unexpected places.

I don’t walk past the house next door. I wish the woman who lives in it was dead. Which makes it hard . . . because she was the one who came running when I screamed. Kat Jones is woken by an intruder looming over her bed. She’s saved by Edwina—the neighbor Kat believes betrayed her dying mother. Her dad issues an ultimatum. Either spend nights next door, or accept another intruder in her life—Hercules, the world’s ugliest guard dog. It’s a no-brainer, even for dog-phobic Kat. When she meets adorkable Al at the dog park, finally Kat has someone to talk to, someone who cares. But the prowler isn't finished with Kat. To stop him, she needs Edwina's help . . . and what Kat learns could mend fences—or break her fragile family apart forever.

Henry is drowning in the dangerous waters of Year Seven—can he and his motley crew of creeps and weirdos prove themselves to his catty classmates once and for all? Twelve-year-old Henry Hoey Hobson arrives at his sixth school, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, to discover that he is the only boy in Year Seven. Friendless, fatherless, and non-Catholic, Henry is not only a Perpetual Sucker, but a bloodsucker, according to his classmates. When he's caught moving a coffin into the creepy house next door, it drives a stake through the heart of his hopes of fitting in. His only chance to fight back is the school swimming carnival—sink-or-swim time in the treacherous waters of Year Seven.

Warm but tough-minded, this surprising story glitters with a rare and subtle wit, illuminating the shadows that extend from childhood and finding beauty in unexpected places Twelve-year-old Cecilia Maria was named after the saints and martyrs to give her something to live up to. "Over my dead body," she vows. In the blinding heat of 1970s Queensland, she battles six brothers on her side of the fence, and the despised Kapernicky girls lurking on the other side of the barbed wire. Secrets are buried deep, only to resurface decades later when Cecilia drags her own reluctant teenagers back home to dance on a grave and track down some ghosts.

Taking a trip to an Emergency Room can be scary for anyone, but little kids have extra fears and concerns when it comes to medical procedures like x-rays, medicine and shots. This book shows some of the fears a child might experience while being a patient in an Emergency Room. "Show Me Some Urgency, I'm an Emergency" uses "kid friendly" language in a fun rhyme that a child might hear as the nurse or doctor explains what is happening during his or her trip to the ER.

Love horses? In this book you will smell the horses, the leather tack, the stables; you will feel the velvet noses, the flying heels; you will become involved in the trials and triumphs of young girls trying to get a break into this facinating world, and bite your nails over the stuggles of the professionals running equine busineses. If you love horses, buy this book,and step right into this exciting world.

Henry Hoey Hobson arrives at his sixth school, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, to discover he’s the only boy in Year Seven. Friendless, fatherless, and non-Catholic, Henry is not only a Perpetual Sucker, but a bloodsucker, according to his catty classmates. When he’s caught moving a coffin into the creepy house next door, it drives a stake through the heart of his hopes of fitting in. His only chance to fight back is the school swimming carnival—sink-or-swim time in the treacherous waters of Year Seven. Shortlisted in the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards, Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, and a winner in The Big Read competition