Books with author Julia Lawrinson

Telia makes her movements graceful as well as technically perfect. And when she finishes with a full straight-body somersault - something I have never been able to do - her delighted grin makes everybody else smile. Even the judges. Even me.Even though I am wishing, more than anything, that I could perform like that. And knowing, with a horrible sinking feeling, that I never will.Chelsea is the hardest worker in her gymnastics club and she's determined to make the Nationals team, and then the Olympics.But new girl Telia has more natural talent. Chelsea gets jealous, which feels awful, because she really likes Telia, who isn't stuck-up like some other girls at gym. And it's not only envy that's bothering Chelsea - she's got family issues to worry about and her school friends are acting weird.It's time for Chelsea to figure out what's really important - and just maybe take a leap into the unknown...

She thought of Billy, and how he would never say 'Bye, beautiful' to someone like her, that likely no one would ever say anything like that to her in her life, and how she could not do anything to change any of it.Sandy does not know if she would fit in anywhere, but she feels like a complete outsider in this hot wheatbelt town where her policeman father has just been transferred.And then she meets Billy, the part-Aboriginal mechanic's apprentice and town heart-throb.Sandy's feelings for him are overwhelming her, but she is about to find out that her greatest rival is her own sister, the alluring, confident Marianne.Set in Western Australia in the 1960s, this is a story of secrets and heartbreak, of families and changing times, by rising star Julia Lawrinson.

For Boys and Girls age 8-14: how to build your personal explorer's DiaryUseful and easy to follow advices, interesting illustrations, curious suggestions and all the spaceyou need to collect your impressions, your thoughts, your drawings, your discoveries afterwandering in the nature.A personal diary but also a precious booklet where you can collect the best things after yourexciting experiences as explorer to be shared with your best friends, to find ideas for a schoolbulletin article, or for every creative idea you would like to develop after your days in the nature.Looking at the sky, at the woods, at the meadows, at the rivers, at the stones, at animals and insects...Thousands of wonderful things that you can learn to know just walking around being cooland curious and developping your own ideas for your special stories and scientific observations.The best way to protect the life on our planet: observing, respecting, thinking, enjoying, sharing, and finding a lot of fun!The Exploring Nature Journal is a funny help to you with all these interesting contents:What to put in your backpackAdvices for a good behaviour on the mountainsA large diary pageThree pages for your drawingsAnimals' tracks: how to recognize the animal who has gone on the same path like youLeaves of most common trees you can collect by the way and then draw on your journalIllustrations of the most common insects that you can observe and then draw on this journal

Love is just about the only hold anyone can have over another person; if you have that, nothing else is necessary.'Is she - was she with Johnno?' asked Erica.'It doesn't work like that,' Trish said. 'It's more . . . fluid.'Erica is restless for a life outside her office job, the man she dates and her mother's small house in the slummy inner city.So when she meets a 'bad' bunch known as the Push, she is quickly drawn to them. They have no respect for money, or marriage, or careers, or any of the usual things. They offer the freedom Erica is longing for - but can she handle it?Set in 1950s Sydney, this is a dramatic tale about growing up and making choices from the author of Bye, Beautiful.

This is a contemporary and timely exploration of friendships between young girls and the pressures they’re faced with in the modern world. Maddie Lee is in 6th grade and she feels ordinary and dull. Her best and oldest friend Katy is head counselor and aiming at an academic scholarship. Maddie doesn’t have anything that is hers, anything that is special. Enter a mysterious new girl, Samara. Samara is pretty, calm, and before long is in the popular girls’ group. Maddie wants more than anything else to become friends with her. But when she does finally engineer a friendship of sorts, Maddie realizes that Samara has a secret. When Samara enlists Maddie to raise money to keep her family from being separated, Maddie finally feels important and needed. So when Samara asks her to go one step further and start stealing, Maddie makes a decision that will have consequences beyond her imagining.

Stepping Stones are ideal for children to share with adults. Each title is based on everyday activities, using open-ended questions, which encourage children to predict, speculate, and draw conclusions on their own. A combination of the visual prompts on the page, and their own experience of the world around them help them to engage with the subjects raised in each book.

Stepping Stones are ideal for children to share with adults. Each title is based on everyday activities, using open-ended questions, which encourage children to predict, speculate, and draw conclusions on their own. A combination of the visual prompts on the page, and their own experience of the world around them help them to engage with the subjects raised in each book.