Books published by publisher Ford Street Publishing Pty Ltd

School-leaver Skye plays guitar in her all-female Chronic Cramps band. Making her name in the competitive punk/indie scene is easier than FTM (female to male) transitioning: from Skye to Finn, from girl to man. Uncovering genetic mysteries about family heritage tear the family apart. Trans gender identity is more than injections and surgery, it’s about acceptance. Going public, Finn sings FTM lyrics on TV. With a little help from bemused mates and family who don’t want to lose a daughter, but who love their teenager, Finn is transitioning.f2m has appeal to teen readers (both boys and girls) through its: * Compassionate, candid and funny 'coming of age' via punk music and family history genetic clues* Accessible facts in story format on a little-understood medical situation. FTM means female to male. MTF means male to female * International first; female to male gender transition discussed in YA fiction* NOT autobiographical, but co-writer Ryan has experienced the medical sequence of gender reassignment from female to male, which is less common than MTF* Insight into genetic inheritances.* Song lyrics inserts and other teen friendly formatting such as e-mails, chat group advice etc* Hazel has known 34-year-old Ryan since he was an 11-year-old girl. This is Ryan’s first book and Hazel’s 200th.

Ben and Noah play on opposing teams in a footy-obsessed town. They each dream of playing on the G – and this is their make or break season. Tensions rise as sledging goes too far. Will Noah lose his cool, and his chance, in the face of prejudice? Will Ben reject racism and forge his own path? Noah and Ben have the potential to play in the AFL. It’s up to each of them whether they make it.

'There’s something different about my body. It's like the missing piece of a jigsaw you can’t take your eyes off. If I were to take off my shirt you wouldn’t see my face, freckles or ratty hair. All you’d see is the hole in the middle of my chest.’Jack is a typical seventeen year-old going to high school in Queensland. He surfs, fixes up cars, plays footy with his mates and is having trouble with girls. Only one problem – Jack has a hole in the middle of his chest – pectus excavatum (PE).A story about footy, cars, and a young man who discovers that revealing his greatest secret is the only way to hold on to the people he loves.

Join in a Wild West adventure with the Hideout Kids!After they have to leave New York best friends Tuff and Sadie dash across America in search of a mysterious town named Muleshoe. They battle train robbers, dodge stampeding buffalo, and fight off an attack led by the vicious bandit Fast Bull. Just when they think their dangerous journey is over, they are ambushed by “Big Nose” George Parrot, the meanest outlaw in the Wild West. Can they escape The Parrot Gang and find Muleshoe, the home of the Hideout Kids?

A girl is found in the wreckage of a car crash. Severely injured and psychologically damaged, the girl cannot or will not tell the authorities who she is or where she comes from. Her carers call her ‘Len’, after the name embroidered on the jumper she was wearing when she was found. Secretive, intelligent, and abrasive, Len is moved to a children’s shelter. Slowly, Len’s repressed memories fight their way to the surface of her troubled mind. And an evil figure from her shadowy past comes looking for her.

You ask, ‘Can the dead speak?’ I answer, ‘Is this blood that runs in my veins, or ink? I ask that you read me. I ask that you hear me. See me. Touch me. Others have, and tasted my blood …’ So writes Jack Ireland, 14 year old English-born survivor of the horrors of capture by head hunters. In Voicing the Dead, internationally-awarded author Gary Crew revisits the astonishing story of nineteenth-century teenager Jack Ireland who survived – and lived to fight back through his ‘never say die’ determination and creativity.

Tark and Zyra finally make it out into the real world ... but things are not quite what they expected. When Zyra is captured by the Designers, Tark finds himself among a group of teenage rebels. It seems like everyone has an agenda, and Tark and Zyra are to be the pawns in other people’s power games. They soon discover the sinister uses to which the game is being put and the shocking way it is all operated — with dozens of kidnapped children wired directly into the mainframe, their brains keeping the whole thing going. Will Tark and Zyra be able to free these children? Will they be able to save the characters within the game from the people who created them? Will they even be able to remain in the real world? Or will the Designers’ plans for world domination win out?

A WICKEDLY FUNNY, WONDERFULLY MAGICAL NEW SERIES FROM WILD WEST AUTHOR MIKE GLEASON. Wild West adventure awaits inside this Hideout Kids book! A Hannah Humblebee Mystery: The Case of Belle Starr & Blue Duck. On Halloween night, Detective Hannah Humblebee has to solve her first mystery when the good witch Judge June sends her and Sadie on a dangerous assignment in Oklahoma. They are to bring the famous outlaw, Blue Duck, back to Camp Beak, the prison near Muleshoe. But is it really Blue Duck in Stillwater Town Jail? Sheriff Bass Reeves thinks so but warns them that Belle Starr, Blue Duck’s girlfriend, will try to help him escape. The sheriff doesn’t think Hannah and Sadie are up to the job and the girls are determined to prove him wrong. Then they realise the wicked Belle Starr is not the only one who wants to stop them taking the prisoner back to Muleshoe. Will they make it safely back or will Halloween have more surprises in store?Hideout Kids Series Description: The highly entertaining children's chapter book series Hideout Kids features two ordinary ten-year old kids, the brave Sheriff Tuff Brunson and his clever best friend, Deputy Sadie Marcus. Joining their adventures is an amazing cast of fun-loving characters including Wild Thing, a pink fairy armadillo, and Mr Zip, a beaver. Each book tells incredible stories of cowboys, American Indians, outlaws, wagon trains, lost gold mines, cattle drives, and mountain men. How can two ten-year old kids tame the Wild West? Only in the beautifully written and illustrated Hideout Kids series can you find the answer!

For Tark and Zyra, life was literally just a game, controlled by the all-powerful Designers. But then they broke the rules and life got a whole lot more complicated … and deadly.Pursued by a powerful computer virus they must locate the Ultimate Gamer with the help of some unexpected allies, and face their greatest challenge — finding a way out of the game …The action-packed sequel to Gamers’ Quest.

According to the Australian Book Review: “Australia is not the science fiction capital of the world; in fact we are probably not even on the map. This unfortunate fact would change if we could produce more writers like Paul Collins.”Collins has just added another impressive work to his record. An action-packed science fiction thriller, The Hiveborn completes his highly acclaimed series The Earthborn Wars. Welkin Quinn and his small community of Earthborn and Skyborn survivors face the vastly superior technology of the Hiveborn—an ancient race of parasitic aliens. The Hiveborn possess the humans they encounter, turning them into automata, thoughtless zombies who follow the singular will of the Hiveborn Queen: this ruler is the source of the implacable Hivemind, the consciousness that desires universal domination. To survive, the human resistance is forced to leave the bowels of the New Zealand mine they call home. Their special-ops forces take the fight to the Hiveborn base centered in post-apocalyptic Melbourne, and finally to space itself.In The Earthborn Wars, Collins has provided readers with a gritty, lived-in world—a believable future with believable characters. Though set centuries in the future, The Hiveborn’s themes and questions of warfare and freedom, morality and responsibility are intimately familiar. This third installment of The Earthborn Wars provides a thought-provoking conclusion full of seamless action sequences and stunning plot twists.