New Releases by Margaret Clark

Lisa Trelaw has a big decision to make. She doesn’t know if she''s won Teen Model of the Year or not, so should she go to Sydney and continue her modeling career? Her decision is made easier when her boyfriend Mike is offered modeling work in Sydney. But what will happen when Mike meets all those gorgeous Bondi Beach babes? Lisa finds that life has lots of ups and downs. For a while it looks like she and Mike are all washed up when modeling and love don''t mix. Fame has its price and maybe it''s too high.

Three major stress factors... a marriage break-up, moving house, loss of income for the family, and a new school. Link James and his sister Claire get the lot! How does a boy from the wealthy side of town cope with the tough guys at Westlands? How does the bad boy tag his father gave him influence his life? The constant moving threads of Link''s life up their tempo as he becomes a victim of his own perceptions and actions.

From one of Australia''s most popular writers for young adults Last time you met Lisa in ''Fat Chance'', she thought she was a beached whale. Well she''s back and she''s hot, heading for teen supermodel of the year. So hot in fact that the agency''s given her a new name, Rebel, and a whole new look to go with it. Okay, she got the job all her friend dreamed about, and she got the fairy godmother. But she got the ugly sisters too, there''s a wolf lurking behind every camera and she''s still looking for that fairy tale ending. And Lisa''s going to find it - hot or what!

A fun novel from one of Australia’s best writers for children and young adults You want to ask a boy out on a date but what if he says no? Your best friend suddenly isn''t talking to you. Your clothes don''t fit. Your family just doesn''t understand you. You don''t understand yourself either. One minute you''re happy and the next you''re sobbing into your pillow. Does this sound like you, or someone you know? Then read on...

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.

Another great read from one of Australia''s greatest authors A 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.

A fun novel from one of Australia’s best writers for children and young adults The Story Coolini Beach is the coolest place to be if you want to meet drop-dead gorgeous guys. The surf''s where they like to hang out. But when the city chicks arrive like flies after honey during the holiday period the competition gets tough for Serena and her friends. And rough when the bikies come to town. Coolini Beach Cafe is where you find out what''s going on and who knows the latest gossip. Be there or be square.

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?

After the enormous success of Secret Girls'' Stuff comes this fabulous sequel from one of Australia''s most recognised and read writers for young people. Since the publication of Secret Girls'' Stuff, the number of letters, emails and faxes Margaret receives have quadrupled. All of Margaret''s books have encouraged or inspired readers to contact her, however, Secret Girls'' Stuff pushed this reader/writer relationship to new heights. Margaret is friend, counsellor, listener, mentor - to so many young readers.With a pile of correspondence reaching her ceiling, Margaret thought it was time to produce the follow-up to the original title that had reached so many. In More Secret Girls'' Stuff there are more pleas for help, more embarrassing stories, more confessions, more problems, and more shared thoughts, fears and dreams than ever before.

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.

Sara is not a happy tweenie. Sara is not happy! Her family have decided to move interstate, and as a consequence, she has a sore throat form yelling "I am NOT GOING'', ''WE are NOT MOVING''. Marking the days off until she has to move in her secret diary - the real one and not the foil that she leaves for her family to read - she confesses to a crush on the ''player'' Jack Marconi, her despair at finding out that her best friend Ellie has stolen him away and how, sometimes, eating at Burger Heaven is better for you than working out at the gym. Will she have to eventually move or will the journey for Sara commence way before ''Moving Day''?

Ruth feels that she can never be good enough for her religious family with high expectations. However, life has a way of providing the unexpected and suddenly, in a eureka moment, Ruth has the opportunity to assume a new identity. She becomes Sinamon and learns to experience life without feeling personal guilt. But meeting special people who hold very different values to her own means that she has to make a choice: to go back home or to stay with her new family. Which is the right decision for Ruth?

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.

Sara hates bad-luck Tuesdays! She writes a secret diary to lift the jinx. Sara Swan''s family has settled the problem of moving house (they are NOT moving!). But now her father is going through a mid-life crisis and leaves home on a Tuesday. And speaking of Tuesdays, Sara discovers that Tuesdays are bad-luck days for her in more ways than one. So when she hears a turn-your-life-around guru on TV say that you can change things if you write about misfortunes and analyse them, she decides to write a diary on Tuesdays, mainly about Tuesdays! Although she does include snippets of other important stuff that happens during the week! Great Aunt Grace (GAG) moves into town, causing problems as usual. Sara''s friends have their ups and downs, romances grow and wane, and all the bad luck still happens on Tuesdays. Finally, towards the end of the year, things begin to change for the better on Tuesdays, but... what happens on Wednesdays?

Night Works is the story of fifteen year old Sophie, and her friends Mel and Kate. Told through Sophie''s diary entries, the story highlights the girls'' problems, families, boyfriends and everyday school lives. The power of friendship helps them face the world knowing they''re not alone. In the tradition of Back on Track: Diary of a Street Kid and Margaret Clark''s other novels for older readers, Night Works is essential reading for fourteen years plus readers everywhere.

No fat chicks? When Mansy Miratoosi sees that bumper sticker on her brother Mark''s car, she''s ready to pluck his cocksure tail feathers once and for all.Mandy is a big girl and Mark''s mates need to know that lean is not always dream material. Featherweights and bantamweights beware. Mandy is out to prove that big chicks can be winners! If you like Famous For Five Minutes and Fat Chance, you''re going to love this one!

A fun novel from one of Australia’s best writers for children and young adults. When Lisa Trelaw breaks up with her long-term boyfriend Mike, she realises that she made a big mistake giving up modelling to come home. Meanwhile, Mandy Miratoosi enters a supermodel contest for larger-sized girls and gets to the finals. Lisa and Mandy hook up on a plane to Sydney and find they have lots in common, including meeting two gorgeous guys that they just might want to hook up with permanently!

PRIDE. GREED. ENVY. WRATH. LUST. GLUTTONY. SLOTH. The Seven Deadly Sins delineate the path to a person’s downfall, the surest way to achieve eternal damnation. But there is a way out, a way to reclaim salvation: blame it on the demons—taunting you, daring you to embrace these sins—and you shall be free. The painful truth is that these impulses live inside all ofus, inside all sentient beings. But alas, one person’s sin may be anotherbeing’s virtue. The pride of the Romulan Empire is laid bare in "The First Peer," by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore. A Ferengi is measured by his acquisition of profit. "Reservoir Ferengi," by David A. McIntee, depicts the greed that drives that need. The Cardassians live in a resource-poor system, surrounded by neighbors whohave much more. The envy at the heart of Cardassian drive is "The Slow Knife,"by James Swallow. The Klingons have tried since the time of Kahless to harness their wrath withan honor code, but they haven’t done so, as evidenced in "The Unhappy Ones,"by Keith R.A. DeCandido. Humans’ darkest impulses run free in the Mirror Universe. "Freedom Angst," by Britta Burdett Dennison, illustrates the lust that drives many there. The Borg’s desire to add to their perfection is gluttonous and deadly in "Revenant," by Marc D. Giller. To be a Pakled is to live to up to the ideal of sloth in "Work Is Hard," by Greg Cox.

Fractured history. Broken lives. Splintered souls. Since the alternate universe was first glimpsed in the classic episode "Mirror, Mirror," something about Star Trek''s dark side has beckoned us, called to us, tempted us -- like forbidden fruit on the Tree of Knowledge. To taste it is to lose oneself in a world of startling familiarity and terrifying contradictions, where everything and everyone we knew is somehow disturbingly different, and where shocking secrets await their revelation. What began in 2007 with Glass Empires and Obsidian Alliances -- the first truly in-depth foray into the turbulent history of this other continuum -- now continues in twelve new short tales that revisit and expand upon that so-called "Mirror Universe," spanning all five of the core incarnations of Star Trek, as well as their literary offshoots, across more than two hundred years of divergent history, as chronicled by... Christopher L. Bennett - Margaret Wander Bonanno - Peter David - Keith R.A. DeCandido - Michael Jan Friedman - Jim Johnson - Rudy Josephs - David Mack - Dave Stern - James Swallow - Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore - Susan Wright

What''s a sensitive guy with an artistic bent doing at gladiator school? Fainting mostly. Snag must find a way to keep conscious so he can win over the other gladiators. Will he be able to devise a plan to end the bloodshed once and for all? Grades 2-4

Partiendo de la premisa de que escribir para niños requiere no menos talento que escribir para cualquier otra persona, este libro describe, para empezar, los factores que distinguen la publicación y la comercialización de los libros infantiles y juveniles. Luego pasa a explicar las formas de escribir para diferentes grupos de edad y según los diferentes géneros, con ejemplos de reconocidos autores de literatura infantil que sirven de guía, estímulo y aliento. Esta edición corregida incluye un epílogo sobre los cambios ocurridos últimamente en el campo de la edición para niños. «Lo mejor del libro es la forma en que equilibra los puntos de vista de los editores, los escritores, los padres, los educadores y, por supuesto, los niños. Muy recomendable.»

Following on from her impressive debut novel, Ruth, Margaret Clark picks up the family story once again, this time focusing on Ruth''s daughter, Katie. Katie apparently has much to look forward to when she meets the handsome Captain Peter Cain and becomes the international travelling companion to Madame Junot. However, a chain of catastrophic events and illicit temptations lie in store and the author takes the reader on a roller coaster ride across Europe, America and Cuba. Secret upon secret is waiting to be dramatically unfurled as this eventful novel hurtles towards its climax.

Omnibus edition of author''s Shorts series of stories for children. Comprises Footy Shorts, Board Shorts, Dirty Shorts, Holey Shorts, Boxer Shorts and Stinky Shorts. Characters include Lennie, Pup Morgan, his dad Mad Dog Morgan, the Razorblades, Jack, Boxer, and William Wilstinki. All stories have been previously published in 2000/2001. By the author of the ''Chickabees'' and the Mango Street series.

Collection of eight stories from the Mango Street series for young readers. Stories include ''Butterfingers'', ''Weird Warren'', ''Britt the Boss'', ''Wally the Whiz Kid'', ''Wacky Mac'', ''Copycat'', Millie the Moaner'' and ''Bold as Brass''. Includes characters such as Stacey the wrecker, Horace Morris and his wacky new girlfriend, and Millie Minor. Includes illustrations. Author''s previous titles include ''Pugwall'' and the Chickabees series.

Paperback edition of a children''s picture book first published 2002. When Alice, Andy and Angie coerce Dad into getting a dog, their trip to the Lost Dogs Home provides them with a very unusual pet! He is boisterous, clumsy, big and smelly with Chihuahua ears, a Boxer nose and a Poodle''s coat. So what will they name him? Prolific children''s author has also written the Egg picture book series and the Aussie Angels adventure series.

Children''s novel. A wave of shark attacks and sightings have left the residents of Animal Haven feeling nervous. The new scientist, Adam, has a group of friends tracking the movements of the sharks and there is much debate over whether or not the sharks should be killed. All of the Angels are afraid to go in the water, but Adam''s mates have a diving cage, which allows them to face their fears. Previous books in the author''s series include ''Seal with a Kiss'' and ''Whale of a Time''.

Volume 19 in Aussie Angels series for young readers. When a llama suddenly turns up lost at Animal Haven, Mark decides that he''ll call her Lara and take her to school for pet''s day and win a prize. He employs various methods to teach Lara to spit at all the kids in class who cause him trouble. Geelong author is a prolific and popular children''s writer. She has also written the Mango Street, Aussie Angels, and Egg series.

Alice the labrador has eight pups; and the angels have to find them good homes. 8 yrs+