Louise Park

Hannah and Jake Vann-Wong live in the wackiest house on Caper Street, and life at number 9 is a blast — until the day a sold sign goes up on the house across the road. When the Cruellys move in, stuff begins to happen — funny stuff, weird stuff, and stuff that isn’t funny at all. It’s time to learn...

The evacuation from Gallipoli of Australian and New Zealand troops was a logistically incredible undertaking. The exhausted young men were to slip away by ship in the dead of night. But… Someone needed to remain behind to cover for their fellow soldiers. This was a mission that almost certainly meant death. Would it be you? Would you volunteer to be...

Life on Caper Street has been quiet since the Cruelly Pranksters disappeared after their defeat at the hands of prank-busting agents Hannah and Jake Vann-Wong. When an ice cream van at Hannah’s birthday party serves weird flavours, and things go wrong at the swimming carnival, it’s clear—the Cruelly kids are back. And they’ve seriously levelled up. The Vann-Wong agents have...

Grace's Escape by Louise Park invites readers into the enchanting world of Grace, who, along with her mother, has relocated from Broome to a real-life castle rich in literary history. Grace has discovered the ability to slip back in time to previous periods in the castle's history. On her latest adventure, Grace is tasked with helping to find two sisters...

Generation Alpha is the swiper, pincher, tapper cohort, the first to grow up with devices in their hands. They are breaking new ground as a result of technological advances, while you, their parents, are having to navigate these uncharted waters. Literacy is the single most important thing we can teach kids. If they can read, all other learning will follow....

When twelve-year-old Grace trades her tropical home in Western Australia for a faraway castle, Victorian costumes, and a village trapped in time, she thinks it’s the fresh start she desperately needs. But unsolved problems have a way of following … A map of the castle’s secret passages sends Grace on a time-travelling mystery that will challenge her very existence and...