Books published by publisher Penguin Group Australia

STORIES WITH THE LOT! Save ten lives with a paperclip, discover how a big banana can ruin your sister's holiday, make a new friend with a garbage bin, develop a taste for sheep's spleen and chips, bounce on a vampire's bed, rescue your dad from a dog and a spider, use a toilet roll to get justice, upset the neighbours with a pickaxe, eat a pizza that makes you fearless, and imagine a world where teachers earn more money than a rock star.

David Strorm’s father doesn’t approve of Angus Morton’s unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realize that his own son, his niece Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants. But as David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders. Soon they face a choice: wait for eventual discovery or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands …The Chrysalids is a post-nuclear story of genetic mutation in a devastated world, which tells of the lengths the intolerant will go to to keep themselves pure.

Daisy was an ordinary dog, living an ordinary life with Stanley, until the day that Bella gives Daisy a liquorice all-sort. Daisy is delighted with her treat and does everything she can do to persuade Bella to give her another. She begs, she barks, she sings and dances and refuses to go home, so Stanley has to carry her. The next day, Bella gives Stanley a little bag with four liquorice all-sorts so Daisy happily follows him home and is so delighted by the liquorice all-sorts she performs again and again and becomes known far and wide as the extraordinary dancing dog.