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You Turkeys!
Illustrated by Nahum Ziersch

 

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Michael Gerard Bauer

The opening in the forest before them was an eerie jumble of shapes and shadows … Roland and Oswald strained their eyes … finding imaginary monsters in the bulky bushes and arching tree limbs
.

Then they saw a real one
.

Somewhere in the future a scientist is conducting the experiment of his life – stretching time to bring a living dinosaur to the present. But the technology fails, and the giant prehistoric beast is stranded in the Middle Ages. There, a boy desperate to be a knight and his unwilling brother must face their fear and do battle.

… an original and adrenalin-pumping adventure yarn that grips the reader from the first page and doesn't let go
.

Barry Jonsberg

Michael Gerard Bauer

There had always been the Running Man – always that phantom form somewhere in the distance, always shuffling relentlessly closer …

Tom Leyton, a reclusive Vietnam veteran, has been the subject of rumour and gossip for thirty years. When Joseph Davidson, his young neighbour and a talented artist, is asked to draw a portrait of him, an uneasy relationship begins to unfold, one that will force each of them to confront his darkest secrets.

This is a story of how we perceive others, the judgments we make about them, how we cope with tragedy, and the nature of miracles.

Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year (Older Readers): Winner

New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards: Short-listed

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Short-listed

SA Festival Awards for Literature: Short-listed

Katholischer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis: Winner

Premio Centro di Letteratura per Ragazzi: Short-listed

Michael Gerard Bauer

There's no easy way to put this, so I'll say it straight out. It's time I faced up to the truth. I'm fourteen years old and I have Ishmael Leseur's Syndrome. There is no cure
.

And there is no cure for not fitting in. But that won't stop Ishmael and his intrepid band of misfits from taking on bullies, bugs, babes, the Beatles, debating, and the great white whale in the toughest, the weirdest, the most embarrassingly awful … and the best year of their lives.

Engaging characters and their brave, inventive and foolhardy ways of counteracting a school bully make for a novel that is laugh-aloud funny
.

Katharine England,
Advertiser

Somehow my brain refuses to produce the appropriate superlative for this book. ‘Absolutely hilarious' is altogether too feeble …

CBCA (SA Branch) Newsletter

Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year (Older Readers): Short-listed

New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards: Short-listed

Children's Peace Literature award: Winner

SA Festival Awards for Literature: Winner

Selected for ‘The White Ravens 2007' exhibition at the Bologna Book Fair

Michael Gerard Bauer

Ishmael joins Scobie, Prindabel, Bill and the Razzman for another year at St Daniels's, and with his father's old band reforming and Miss Tarango on a mission to teach love poetry, there's music and romance in the air. But can Ishmael stand up to school bully Barry Bagsley, overcome Ishmael Leseur's Syndrome and win the heart of Kelly Faulkner? Luckily, his best mate Razza – the self-appointed social worker for love – has a ‘wicked plan'.

What could possibly go wrong?

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First published by Omnibus Books in 2013.
This electronic edition published by Scholastic Australia Pty Limited in 2013.
E-PUB/MOBI eISBN 978 1 921990 65 6

Original text © Michael Gerard Bauer, 2010.
Cover © Omnibus Books, 2010.
Cover photographs © iStockphoto.com/Hirkophoto; Dmitry Demidovich.
Jacket design by Christopher Stengel.

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