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SECONDARY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE 2012 Pegi Williams Book Shop presents SECONDARY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE 2012. FREE POSTAGE/DELIVERY applies to all orders and 10% SCHOOL DISCOUNT off the RRP of all titles except specials which attract extra discount. Selections from this brochure are available “ON APPROVAL” and extended payment terms are available upon request. Please number Quantity column alongside corresponding Children’s Book Specialists ER ABN 76 048 485 891 RD W! numbers on back page Order Form (multiples are available) and O NO .au NE om LI ms.c return to Pegi Williams Book Shop. ON illia giw All Prices Inc GST .pe www RRP SCHOOL Australian Novels 1. After (Morris Gleitzman) $19.95 $17.96 In the fourth part of Felix's story, continuing his adventures in World War Two, he faces perhaps his greatest challenge - to find hope when he's lost almost everything, including his parents. As Europe goes through the final agonizing stages of the war, Felix struggles to reconcile hatred and healing. He's helped by a new friend, but if he should lose her as well ... 2. Black Spring (Alison Croggon) $22.95 $20.66 Lina is enchanting, vibrant but willful. And her eyes betray her for what she truly is a witch. With her childhood companion, Damek, she has grown up privileged and spoilt and the pair are devoted to each other to the point of obsession. But times are changing. Vendetta is coming. And tragedy is stalking the halls of the Red House. A stunning new novel by Alison Croggon, inspired by the Gothic classic Wuthering Heights. 3. Brotherband #3: Hunters, The (John Flanagan) $17.95 $16.16 It's time for a showdown. Pirates vs Skandians. Bring it on, Herons! With Zavac and his ship, the Raven, well ahead of the Heron, Hal has a huge task ahead of him in finding the pirate – and retrieving the precious arti- fact Zavac stole from the Skandians. The Heron brotherband must undertake a long and dangerous river jour- ney to hunt their prey. But even if they survive the journey, are they ready to confront Zavac in his lair? 4. Outcasts, The #1 $17.95 $14.35 5. Invaders, The #2 $17.95 $15.26 $27.99 $25.20 6. Colours of Madeline Book 1: Corner of White, A (Jaclyn Moriarty) She knew this. That philematology is the science of kissing. That Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known as Mark Twain. That, originally, gold comes from the stars. Madeleine Tully lives in Cambridge, England, the World a city of spires, Isaac Newton and Auntie's Tea Shop. Elliot Baranski lives in Bonfire, the Farms, the Kingdom of Cello where seasons roam, the Butterfly Child sleeps in a glass jar, and bells warn of attacks from dangerous Colours. They are worlds apart until a crack opens up between them; a corner of white the slim seam of a letter. Elliot begins to write to Madeleine, the Girl-in-the-World a most dangerous thing to do for suspected cracks must be reported and closed. But Elliot's father has disappeared and Madeleine's mother is sick. Can a stranger from another world help to unravel the mysteries in your own? Can Madeleine and Elliot find the missing pieces of themselves before it is too late? 7. Colour of Trouble, The (Gerry Bobsien) $18.99 $17.09 Maddy can’t stop making things: art, fashion and, most of all, TROUBLE. A new art project could give her the notoriety she desires, but that’s not all she’s dealing with. Her bestie, Darcy, is acting weird and starts dating a girl he’s never mentioned before. Her mum is living and working hundreds of kilometres away, and a new mystery boy keeps popping up at the most inconvenient times Will the fallout from her latest project push away all the people she loves? Age 13+ Did you know? You can print your own posters at http://www.pegiwilliams.com.au/freeauthorposters.asp SECONDARY SCHOOL All Prices Inc GST CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE 2012 RRP SCHOOL 8. Conspiracy 365: Malice (Gabrielle Lord) $14.99 $13.50 Callum, Boges and Winter lived through the 365 days it took to solve the Ormond Singularity then barely escaped from a lunatic bent on revenge. Now a deadly secret from Winter's mysterious past has come to haunt them. The countdown begins again. 9. Convent, The (Maureen McCarthy) $22.99 $20.70 Peach is nineteen and pretty happy with the way things are. She has her university work, two wildly different best friends, her sister, Stella, to look after and a broken heart to mend. But when she takes a summer job at a cafe in the old convent, her idea of who she is takes a sharp turn into the past. Where once there were nuns, young girls and women who had fallen on hard times, Peach discovers secrets from three generations of her family. As their stories are revealed, Peach is jolted out of her comfort zone. But does she really want to know who she is? Warm and real, intense and provocative, Maureen McCarthy's The Convent shows in vivid detail how fate and the choices we make ripple and reverberate through time. A novel to fall in love with. Age 16+ 10. Creepy and Maud (Dianne Touchell) $19.99 $18.00 Hilarious and heartbreaking, Creepy & Maud charts the relationship between two social misfits, played out in the space between their windows. Creepy is a boy who watches from the shadows keenly observing and caustically commentating on human folly. Maud is less certain. A confused girl with a condition that embarrasses her parents and assures her isolation. Together Creepy and Maud discover something outside their own vulnerability — each other's. But life is arbitrary; and loving someone doesn't mean you can save them. is a blackly funny and moving first novel that says; 'You're ok to be as screwed up as you think you are and you're not alone in that.' 11. Everything Left Unsaid (Jessica Davidson) $16.99 $15.30 Tai and Juliet have been best friends forever - since they met at kindy and decided to get married in first grade. They understand each other in the way that only best friends can. They love music, beach walks, energy drinks and, they are slowly discovering, each other. As they dream of adventures beyond the HSC - a future free of homework, curfews and parents, a life together - their plans are suddenly and dramatically derailed. For Tai is sick. And not everything you wish for can come true. Age 15+ 12 - 15. Girl V The World (Various) $12.95 $11.66ea Girl v the World is a funny, inspiring and heart-warming new series about thirteen-year-old girls taking on the world. Because you’ve got to be strong to take it on. Age 12+ 12. I Heart You, Archie De Souza 14. Things I Don't Know 13. It's Not Me, It's You 15. Waiting For It 16. Greylands (Isobelle Carmody) $18.95 $17.06 One wakeful night in the aftermath of his mother's death, Jack enters a land devoid of colour or scent. Here he meets the tragic laughing beast and Alice, a strange girl with a secret. Will Jack escape before the terrifying wolves find him? Or is he destined to be trapped in the Greylands forever? Only the cats know... Age 13+ 17. Heaven #3 (Alexandra Adornetto) $24.99 $22.50 Heaven must be missing an angel ...The angel Bethany and her mortal love, Xavier, have already pushed the boundaries of Heaven with their relationship. In this conclusion to the Halo trilogy, the two take their love to the next, forbidden, step: they marry. At a time when they believe nothing will come between them again, they are faced with their most daunting challenge yet - The Sevens, a military order of angels designed to maintain bal- ance in the universe. These soldiers won't stop until their job is done - capture the wayward angel and send her home. Beth discovers there is only one way back to Earth, but the cost is higher than she ever imagined. If she can survive, she can prove to Heaven and Earth that there is nothing stronger than the power of love. Age 14+ 18. Halo #1 $24.99 $22.50 19. Hades #2 $24.99 $22.50 20. Hammering Iron (LS Lawrence) $16.99 $15.30 In ancient Greece, sometime between the stories of Homer and the histories of Herodotus, something happened that changed the world. Two brothers, Niko and Paramon, one destined to serve a lord and the other to serve a merchant, are forced apart. One must stay; the other must follow his lord wherever he goes. Paramon is thrown back on his own resources, but will do everything he can to make his own way. And his destiny is to discover a secret that will change everything, a secret that men will not hesitate to kill for. Age 12+ SECONDARY SCHOOL All Prices Inc GST CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE 2012 RRP SCHOOL 21. I Made Lattes for a Love God (Wendy Harmer) $19.99 $18.00 Elly Pickering has a juicy secret. A secret her PR mum won't let her tell anyone because if the kids at Oldcastle High knew that mega-star Jake Blake (yes, THE Jake Blake, teen sensation and all round heart-throb) was coming to Oldcastle to film his latest movie, they might just explode with excitement. Elly is determined to get on set and to get more than a glimpse of her Hollywood crush.