Patricia Bernard – författare

Tam's ordinary school day explodes when a voice inside her head sings her name. The voice belongs to Tameron--a mirror-image twin living five hundred years in the future whose brilliant father is dying. Only Tam and her sceptical brother Steven can bridge the centuries, decode a forbidden time-capsule and out-run giant snow-white mosquitoes that freeze history itself.We Are Tam is a fast-paced, middle-grade adventure packed with telepathic twists, brother-sister banter and big questions about why the past matters. Perfect for readers who loved A Wrinkle in Time and When You Reach Me.

To save the girl he loves, Fish must walk into the Mighty Arena--a place where heroes die screaming.Branch lies bruised, Weed is chained as collateral, and thirty prisoners' lives hang on Fish's first bout. Worse, the finger-eating High Priestess called the Punisher has wagered her empire that the Rule Changer will fall, while the glass-eating Oriacan armies march ever closer to Megalopolis. With traitors in the stands and prophecy on his shoulders, Fish has one chance to turn an enemy coliseum into the spark of revolution.Win the arena and free thirty souls. Lose, and a prophecy drowns in blood.

Sixteen-year-old Fish--white-haired throwback and embarrassment to his village--is shoved across the border into the Arid Zone and told to vanish.Survival means finding the outlaw brothers who want nothing to do with him, dodging rebel ambushes and Southern raiders, and learning the brutal rules of Megalopolis: the five-walled silver city that trades weather-control for the Zoners' food. Armed with little more than a flute, a hunting knife, and an unshakeable belief that the world's cruel divisions can change, Fish stumbles into a conspiracy for stolen Knowledge Chips--devices the Megas use instead of learning. If he can't outwit city guards, rival scavenger clusters, and the sinister High Mega who covets his strange green eyes, he'll lose far more than his freedom.Pushed over the wall, but never willing to stay in a box, Fish will either rewrite the rules--or die an Outcast.

The glass walls are fracturing, and Oriacan war drums roll toward Megalopolis.Racing across the razor-edged Glass Teeth Peaks, Fish, Ari, Weed, and Branch carry one impossible demand: unite Megas and Zoners or perish together. Betrayed by rebel armies, trapped by shape-shifting priests, and shadowed by a god of molten glass, Fish must become more than a breaker of chains--he must forge the rules of a new world.Stand together, or watch prophecy turn to ash and the world to ruins.

Fourteen-year-old Rob Vian thought Venice's Carnevale meant gelato, gondolas and glittering masks--until a plague-doctor mask tried to drown him.Now the Australian teen is stalked through shadowy alleys by the self-styled "e;Spirit of Death"e;. With every narrow escape the masked figure grows bolder, snatching Rob's photograph, threatening his friends and kidnapping famed violinist Signora Gina.Rob's only allies are quick-witted Luca Gambergini and her exuberant Venetian crew. Together they race from flooded basements to crumbling palazzi, following clues that point to a hidden family legacy--and to a ruthless heir who will kill to keep it.If Rob can't unmask the villain before the final night of Carnevale, the ancient city--and his own life--will sink beneath dark waters forever.A pulse-pounding middle-grade thriller packed with Venetian history, runaway gondolas and edge-of-the-seat suspense.

A midnight bike ride to Broome's dinosaur coast should have been the coolest night of their lives.Instead, fossil-mad Abba Lou, visiting Sydney nerd Jimmy Chadwick, and corporate rebel Damien East witness a hammer-murder...and the theft of four priceless stegosaur footprints.Now the killer wants their photos--and their silence. Chased from the shark-dark tides of Western Australia to the concrete forests of Sydney, the trio must out-smart smugglers, corrupt dealers and a curse-man's warning before the evidence--and they--vanish forever.Fast, funny and ferociously tense, Dinosaur Murder fuses teen camaraderie, real palaeo-facts and outback noir into an eco-thriller you won't put down.

When the heart is destroyed, the mind is capable of unspeakable things in the name of love...Stevie loves his little sister Lily and will always protect her. As children, he was the one who looked after her. If anyone threatened her, she could always depend on him. Protecting her from Roy was the most difficult of all. He had too much power over both of them...Stevie wonders why his sister isn't turning to him for help now. Where is she? Who's stopping her from contacting him?Determined to find her, Stevie won't be distracted from his single-minded purpose. He and Lily have to be together for always. As for the other bodies? When Stevie is crossed, people don't live long...

Twelve-year-old Strobe Bevan-Evans only wanted new blades and a trick to impress her snobby classmates. She never expected to chase a one-metre cheesecake--and a pair of art thieves--at ninety kilometres an hour.When Aunt Olwyn's spectacular engagement banquet ends in disaster, the social pages blame Olwyn for the vanished dessert … and four priceless paintings. To clear her aunt's name, Strobe teams up with pizza-delivery blader Winston Wong, camera-mad Alex Wong, and accounting prodigy Tran Nuen.From half-pipes and city traffic to a frantic airport showdown, the kids flip, grind and custard-chucker their way through a mystery packed with laughs, friendship and guts.Can one fearless skater and three loyal friends turn the city upside-down before the real thieves escape--cheesecake crumbs and all?