Sophie Masson

Every morning early, when no-one's about, Satin slips out of the forest and walks along the sleepy sunrise streets, looking for blue... He's collected all kinds of blues, from all kinds of places. He's making something beautiful, with all those blues. But something's missing, and he doesn't know what it is. And then, one day, he comes to a street...

A compelling historical fiction adventure, set during the Australian gold rush when daring, dangerous, and bold bushrangers were both feared and legendary. Award-winning author Sophie Masson asks what makes a hero, or a villain? Lily and her parents, who are travelling performers, are delayed in Canowindra, just as famous bushranger Ben Hall and his gang—who have pulled off the biggest...

A moving novel about one child's life in the middle of the drug war in Mexico. For high-school student Emilio Garcia Lopez, it's an ordinary school day. But that evening, the knock on the door announcing the arrival of his police-officer cousin Juanita, flanked by a tall man in the uniform of the Federal Police, will turn his ordinary day...

Every morning early, when no-one's about, Satin slips out of the forest and walks along the sleepy sunrise streets, looking for blue... He's collected all kinds of blues, from all kinds of places. He's making something beautiful, with all those blues. But something's missing, and he doesn't know what it is. And then, one day, he comes to a street...

On the day the giant wakes from a long sleep, he's filled with joy at the thought of seeing his friends in the town again. But he's slept so long that nobody remembers him, everyone hides from him, and his joy turns to a sadness that might engulf the whole townUntil he hears the voices, calling to him...A beautiful, touching...

Age range 12+Imagine a world where all seems normal and yet nothing is a world very much like our own, yet jarringly unlike. A world where two clandestine organisations, the Ghost Squad and the Base, are engaged in a secret battle for control of information so dangerous it could literally change life as humans have always known it...A bold, exciting...

France is classic fairy tale territory. Not just because it's where many of the most well-known and beloved fairy tales were first written down in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or because it's where the term conte de fes was invented. France, with its fascinating regional cultures, glorious castles, gorgeous countryside and tumultuous history, lives and breathes fairy tale in...

The legend of King Arthur began in Britain. But it is in twelfth-century France that the stories really took off, with gifted writers creating a panoply of vivid new characters and elements such as Lancelot, Perceval, the Grail, and the doomed love between Lancelot and Guinevere, within a richly imagined, action-packed world of adventure, magic, romance, and mystery. Women as...

In 1939, 12-year-old Sasha, inspired by the words of her father, the celebrated journalist Louis Jullian, feels she must find a way to stand up to Nazi terror, in the shadow of a world at war. Hitler’s blitzkrieg results in the surrender of France, and Sasha and her family flee Paris – learning first-hand the brutality of war – and...

Richie the rooster loved waking up the farm each morning. He loved it so much that he began to crow earlier and earlier. Again and again! Stop, everyone cried. But Richie wouldn’t stop. Until one day… A hilarious story about how sometimes you can have too much of a good thing, by the acclaimed author and illustrator team who also...

It’s festival time in Armidale, and everyone’s getting floats and costumes ready for the big street parade. For the new family in town, it’s even more exciting: this is their first time to join in the colour and magic and fun! Described in lively rhyming verse and depicted in beautiful illustrations, the festive carnival parade whirls along the crowded, flag-fluttering...

In 1942, 12-year-old Nick lives in Rose Bay, Sydney, with his mum, dad and sister, and dreams of becoming a writer like his dad. But with the world at war, Nick is constantly on alert for anything that seems out of the ordinary. Then, late one night, he sees it! A plane! But no-one believes him. Then, the unimaginable happens....