Interest age from c 8 years Books

The Out of Sync Family(formerly titled, The Goodenoughs Get In Sync) is a delightfully illustrated chapter book geared for ages 8 to 12 and tells the tale of five family members and their naughty dog (each with a different sensory processing challenge),...

What do you do when the voice in your head tells you you’re wrong? You say something silly and the other kids laugh at you? You want to speak up but don’t have enough courage. Ellie and Alyssa have been best friends since pre-school. One chatty, one shy,...

Anna had a powerful bond with her great grandmother. And when she passed away she left Anna something very special. It would take her back to old Naples, to plagues, the Fontanelle cemetery and to the cult of the dead. Halstead Press presents Paul...

Coming home from a friend’s house one Sunday afternoon, Thomas came across a street full of rubbish. Piles of it in front of peoples’ homes. It was a council clean up. Thomas peered into the heaps of stuff … and then something caught his eye on one of...

Mia Morgan lives on a farm. She is shy and anxious about making new friends when school starts back. On day one, she is teased when her favourite goat follows her to the school bus. But then Ms Arthur enters her life and Mia, and her classmates, learn...

He was built for small things. But he dreams of adventure. All Half wants is a life free from Electricians. He’s sick of being shoved into remote controls, clocks, and talking toys. But it’s hard to escape when you’re a rechargeable lithium-ion AA...

Patrick White wanted to be a writer when no one thought he should! This remarkable man, remembered for his poetic descriptions of the Australian landscape and people in his many novels and plays, is the only Australian Nobel Prize for Literature winner...

Yarri and Jackey Jackey sat in the hollowed-out trunk of a huge, old gum tree on the top of Mount Parnassus. They looked down to Gundagai through the heavy rain. The river had swollen and the town was in trouble. But what could they do? Halstead Press...

Featuring real-life advice, strategies and tips, Learning to Plan and Be Organized is a practical guide that teaches kids with AD/HD how to enhance their executive function skills of planning and organisation. This reader-friendly and easy-to-use book...

Featuring real-life advice, strategies and tips, Learning to Plan and Be Organized is a practical guide that teaches kids with AD/HD how to enhance their executive function skills of planning and organisation. This reader-friendly and easy-to-use book...