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Timmy is rude. He's lazy. He's always cranky. And he's also one of the most famous ponies in all the known world! Until one day when ... Poo happens. Surely one little poo of excitement can’t ruin Timmy’s life. Can it? Yes, it can.

Tim Winton's characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves.

Peter, a new boy at Park Ridge school, is thankful to be rescued from the school bullies by Anton the Swashbuckler. Even if Anton does speak in such a weird way and wears outlandish garments. After this Peter and Anton become firm friends and discover that they each have family problems. Together they turn those problems into challenges to be tackled in true Swashbuckler style.

From smelly sewers to pongy penguins, there's always a rotten reek on Stinky Street. Put some pickles up your nose and join Brian and his friend Nerf for a brand-new series of revoltingly runk, truly toxious and sickeningly smell-odorous adventures.

A collection of different adventures and lands by best-selling and award-winning author Paul Jennings. A Different Dog. The forest is dense and dark. And the trail full of unexpected perils. The dog can’t move. The boy can’t talk. And you won’t know why. Or where you are going. You will put this story down not wanting the journey to end.

Jammy and Red think Drong Drong Island is their special place. When they discover two girls on their island, the battle is on! And both sides are in for a big surprise....

If you think Isador Brown's adventures have been strange, finding Lulu's missing parents turns out to be the strangest adventure ever.

"'There he is', Gramps shrieked. 'The Spy. The scumbag spy.' I looked up and saw a monstrous white hairy face disappear into the drain. I had never seen such a frightening sight. White hair covered its entire head. I couldn't even see any eyes. In a flash Gramps splashed into the drain after it."

William Wilstinki, also known as Stinky, is new in town. Already he's a member of the Dare Devils. Breanna, head of The New Bardots, wants to kiss him. And now Big M, the school principal, tells him to "shape up or ship out".

"Roy's tiny breaths sounded like milkshake fighting its way up a very thin straw. His eyes were closed. 'Rory', I said. 'Don't die. Don't die.' His eyes fell open. They flicked wildly around. 'The goat', he shouted. I didn't bother looking behind me. I knew there was no goat. And I knew Rory wasn't dying. Not yet."

"I burst out of a clump of bushes and froze. Silhouetted against the moonlit sky were several massive shapes. What if Eileen had infected something else? What if the hospital had cockroaches? Or bedbugs? What if the frogs weren't all dead? I stifled a scream."

"Charge!" came Gramps' excited voice. I gasped. The frog general was as big as a full-grown cow. He started to roll his tongue back into his mouth. He was going to slurp me up and slide me down his throat.

"You're a useless lump, Boxer. You'd forget your own head if it wasn't screwed on." With that sort of grief, why should Boxer stay around? He hates the new school. He's scored another detention. So what? Who cares anyway? He's not coming back. Ever.

Why does the weasel go pop in the nursery rhyme "Pop goes the Weasel"? Jack wants to know really badly, so he asks his computer. And out pops the most amazing cyber weasel who refuses to tell!

Just when you thought it was safe to stick your hand in the fish bowl, Gasp returns in three more hilarious stories in one great volume--the second collection of epic fish adventures following Gasp! Zapt! Splat! Wickedly clever and witty, these adventures will entertain young and old alike.

Anna Fienberg's fabulous new high-seas pirate adventure, with scoundrels and blaggards, devilish treachery and pirates who long for a bit of comfort - great reading for 8- to 12-year-olds from the world of Horrendo's Curse. Will could walk a tightrope and juggle bananas as he went. 'One day you'll be the star of a circus,' his mother told him. 'But until then, you must be a secret.' For each year pirates came to the islands to steal young boys for their crew. And if that happened to you, well, you may as well kiss your life good-bye.

Baby Carter has arrived! His family have had no sleep and everyone is grumpy. Even the animals on the farm are unhappy. Now the awful Aunt Miranda has come to help them. How can they get rid of her?

Bullies, bras and bank robbers are all part of Patrick's crazy adventure when he is given a Polaroid camera for his birthday.

A horrible holiday? You bet! A car full of smelly nappies, a constipated dog... Can anything else go wrong?

Austin finds a gold nugget right in the middle of the footy field. But the Grand Final is just about to start....