Fiction9to12

9-12 FICTION

TOTALLY TWINS Series (9+ - 160pp/title)
Aleesah Darlison & Serena Geddes - New Frontier, Australia
3 titles available (and more to come!)
www.totallytwins.com.au

First title “Musical Mayhem”: Perse and Portia live with their wacky mum, Skye, who
is a yoga teacher and laughter therapist. Perse is horrified when she has to audition
for the school musical and takes comfort in writing down her most SECRET thoughts
in her diary. The Heartfield Heights musical extravaganza soon launches into full
swing much to her dismay but to her sister’s jubilation.
Rights sold in France (rights for French Canada still available).

SIMON SAVAGE Trilogy (10+)
Stephen Measdey - Little Hare Australia

First title (205pp): Simon’s father has drowned under mysterious circumstances and
Simon wants to know why. So when two secretive men turn up with classified
information and an offer of a place in an elite school, Simon jumps at the chance -
not least because these men seem to know more about his father than they‟re letting
on. This however, is no ordinary school, it is one of the world’s most uber secret
organisations: The Time Bureau and Simon has been hand chosen for training. He
discovers a world he never knew existed and the story of a father he didn‟t know as
well as he thought he had. But unlocking these secrets is only the beginning…
Rights sold in Germany

EDSEL GRIZZLER Trilogy (11+)
James Roy - University of Queensland Press Australia

First title “Voyage to Verdana” (276pp): When Edsel takes an unexpected voyage
to a parallel dimension called Verdada, the country of lost things, his life is
transformed overnight. Suddenly, his overprotective parents are nowhere to be
seen and rules are a thing of the past. Or so he thinks. Everything seems perfect but
soon Edsel needs to decide between the world he knows or remaining forever
young in a place of forever fun. But time is running out. Everything seems clear in
Edsel’s mind until he realises that this world might not be as ideal as it looks on the
surface...What if he and all his other companions were in fact the lost ones?

SOMNIAVERO (10+)
(Five titles in a slipcase - 64pp/title)
Anja Stürzer & Julia Dürr - Mixtvision Verlag, Germany

2122. Jochanan and his parents live in a futuristic and dystopian society.The only
way to escape temporarily this dreary environment for the privileged is to time travel
and go back to the past, when it was still possible to see live animals, feel the wind,
experience nature and freedom. During one of those travels, ten year old Jochanan
is separated from his family and finds himself stranded in Eastern Germany in 2031.
With new friends and brothers Merlin and Michael and illegal immigrant Akascha at
his side, he has to reach Berlin and the Brandenurger Tor, where a time gate will
open at midnight in four days, and should lead him back into the future. Trying to
avoid being uncovered and followed by ambitious scientist Dr. Paulus, who is
obsessed by the idea of catching a time traveller, will he make it home?

THE PHOENIX FILES SERIES (11+ - 320pp/title)
Chris Morphew - Hardie Grant Egmont, Australia
5 titles available (6 titles planned in the series)
www.thephoenixfiles.info

Someone in Phoenix is plotting to wipe-out the human race.
And the clock is ticking...
Three teenagers have 100 days to save the ones they love.
Rights sold in the UK, US, Brazil and Turkey

MOSQUITO ADVERTISING series
Kate Hunter - University of Queensland Press, Australia.

First title "The patfizz Pitch" - Katie Crisp has talent, it’s just that the
report card hidden in her room doesn’t show it. School’s out for another
year and Katie is set to spend the summer lazing under the sausage tree
in the backyard of the only home she’s ever known. So, when she
discovers that Parfitt’s Family Soft Drink Company is about to be taken
over by a corporate giant, leaving her mum out of a job and them both
out of a home, it’s time to finally show everyone what she’s made of.With
her nose for trouble and her eye for advertising, and a little help from
some neighbourhood friends, Katie declares Mosquito Advertising open
for business. Pocket money and creative thinking can stretch a long way
when everything that means anything to you is about to be destroyed.

GALACTIC ADVENTURES (11+ - 216pp)
Tristan Bancks
University of Queensland Press, Australia

Dash Campbell has only ever had one dream. To go to space. Now
he and four others have been given the chance to become the first
kids ever to leave our planet. From building rockets behind his
family’s laundromat to attending a hardcore Space School in the
US, Dash is a long way from home. And he still has an intense
month of training ahead before he can even think about that
glorious moment of blasting out of Earth’s atmosphere and living his
dream. But does Dash have what it takes to survive Space School?
Gruelling physicals, fierce competition, media attention, medicals,
the Vomit Comet, a skydive from four thousand metres and an
instructor who despises him. Can he push through his deepest fears
and make history? Does he have the right stuff to go to space?

PIRATE X (11+ - 270pp)
Sherryl Clark
University of Queensland Press, Australia

Will is transported back from current day London to 1717 through a
portal and lands in the pirate haven of Nassau. He’s forced to work
on board Blackbeard’s pirate ship, learns how to fight with a cutlass,
fire a cannon, and forms a bond with the hapless Captain Bonnet.
However, Will is looking for a way to return to his world and to put
together the pieces of the puzzle that took him back in time in the
first place. But all the while, Blackbeard is suspicious of his
strangeness and dismissive of his master, Stede learning-how-to-be-
a-pirate Bonnet, and disaster looms. With his every move watched,
Will is desperate to get home but will he make it alive?

THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF PETE MCGEE
(9+ - 124pp)
Second title “Day of the Zombie Knights”
to be published in May 2012.
Adam Wallace, Jojo Publishing Australia

A boy with one arm who dreams of becoming a
great knight. His mother, dying from a mysterious
illness, the only one who believes in him. An
evil king hungry for power at any cost. Two
servants of the king, in love but torn apart. Evil
invisible monsters who kill for fun. A magic
flower that will change all of their lives. There’s
good versus evil. There’s magic. There’s love,
there’s adventure and there’s lots, lots more!

ORACLE IN THE MIST (10+/150pp)
Linda Maree Malcolm
(Jojo Publishing, Australia)

When Bobby’s grandmother, was thirteen,
she and seven friends disappeared for a
period of six days. Bobby is determined to
solve the mystery of the missing children,
with the help of her new, wary friend David.
Join them on an adventure where an evil
workhouse oracle and her orc slaves threaten
to overrun the idyllic island paradise which
has now become their new home.

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