Books with author margaret goff clark

Mum is out on the surfboard and narrowly misses being attacked by a shark - or maybe it was just a false alarm. When Alice the labrador falls off the rocks and nearly becomes shark bait though, Meg and Mike, the Aussie Angels, aren't so sure! Meg is terrified, but some visiting scientists give her the chance to face her fears.SHARK IN THE DARK is the eighteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.

Larceny Leyton is a wild child - tough, smart, willful and proud. Like so many others, she wears her attitude like armour.'Trust' isn't a word in Larceny's dictionary. It means opening up and taking the risk that you'll be hurt. Truth and dare.Nobody gets close enough to earn her trust. Larceny makes sure of that. Yet deep down, she's afraid of the voices that bring with them a wild consuming rage, a killing rage that drove her to the streets in the first place. She's afraid of being betrayed by the only person she's been able to trust - herself.

Friends, school, clothes… all your questions answered.A book about the importance of Friendship‘My best friend suddenly won’t talk to me and I don’t know why.Yesterday, a group of my so-called friends sniggered when I walked past. What’s wrong with me?We all need friends. Without them, life would be pretty lonely and boring. Friends come in all shapes and sizes, ages and stages. You gradually learn about friendships by having some yourself.Friends are so important. I am still best friends with Ally, my best friend since grade six. She knows everthing there is to know about me, and I know everything about her. You can’t replace a friend like that with anyone else.

Another great read from one of Australia's greatest authorsA kidnapping? Rival gangs? Ransoms? What's happening in Coolini Beach? All the teenagers in Coolini Beach use the expression 'cool bananas'; life is pretty relaxed and free and easy but what does it mean when police crime tape is found around the public phone box and rumours of death threats start circulating through the beach town? Has there been a murder?The sequel to Coolini Beach 1: The Search.

Take an everyday girl - short, with freckles, mud-puddle eyes and the kind of mind Sherlock Holmes would kill for - and you have the heroine of a lighthearted whodunnit for Independent Readers.Someone put an anonymous love note in Laura Love's school bag. A secret admirer. How exciting. But who?Luckily Laura's mother is a private investigator and interested in helping Laura solve the puzzle. But the mystery deepens when all of Laura's classmates get a love note in the same writing, but she doesn't. What is going on?

Take an everyday girl - short, with freckles, mud-puddle eyes and the kind of mind Sherlock Holmes would kill for - and you have the heroine of another light-hearted whodunit for Independent Readers.Laura's adventurous grandmother sends her a birthday charm to add to her silver bracelet, just as she does each year. This time it's a golden cat and it's gorgeous! But at her birthday sleepover someone steals it. Does the thief belong to the Populars or the Fringes …the two competing girl groups at the party?Luckily, Laura's mother is a private investigatorand takes time out from tracking down the One-Eyed One-Armed bandit to help her with ideas.