Red Dirt Diaries

Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers! Ages: 8-12 Blue Weston's life is spiralling out of control. Her parents are sending her to boarding school next year. Her mad twin brothers are building pig chariots in the back shed. Her best friend has been abducted by zombies and replaced with a boy-crazy tween. And then there's the drought that's showing no signs of ending soon ... It's New Year's Day, and Blue has resolved to keep a diary of the year's events. It will be another hard year of dust storms and drought on her family's farm - with the odd leech attack and bagpipe-loving pig thrown in for good measure! Ages 8-12

Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers! Ages: 8-12 I'm going to be a bridesmaid. Mat, Lynette and me. Long, pink shiny dresses and flowers in our hair. Leading Miss McKenzie down the aisle to disaster. I think I'm going to puke ... When Blue's favourite teacher announces she's engaged, Blue thinks she must have lost her mind. Why would Miss McKenzie want to get married? Especially to someone named James Linley Welsh-Pearson! Surely it couldn't be because she loves him - could it? Can Blue stop the wedding in time or will Miss McKenzie leave Hardbake Plains ... forever? Ages 8+

Blue Weston is on a mission! * She's starting Hardbake Plains' first ever newspaper with Mat and Ben * She's determined not to like her new teacher, the Colonel * And she's trying to convince Miss McKenzie to come back from Scotland But, despite Blue's best intentions, things don't go exactly to plan...And, to make matters worse, her mum is dusting off the old boarding school uniform! Can Blue get things back on track? And, boarding school? Her parents wouldn't dare... Ages: 8-12