The Helios Book
by Slade Carter
PB 224 | 198 x 129
ISBN: 9781922858412 | $17.99
Middle Grade | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | 23 May 2024
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Twelve-year-old twins Hugo and Kitty have an ultra-rare condition called heterochromia, which bestows them with different coloured eyes: one hazel, the other blue. On holiday in rural Australia, the twins befriend their solitary neighbour, Lucas, who has developed a powerful solar device he calls the Helios Book.
Lucas promises it will revolutionise global energy use. In a desperate attempt to escape those who would steal the Helios Book, the twins follow a fairy wren down a wombat burrow and into the mysterious world of Taara, a land plagued by Read the rest of this entry »
A Way Home
by Emily Brewin
PB | 198 x 129
ISBN: 9781922858382 | $19.99
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | 25 April 2024
Distributed by NewSouth Books
AGE GUIDE: 13+
Sixteen-year-old Grace lives under a bridge in Melbourne’s CBD. It’s cold and wet, but hidden. Safe, at least, until she can go home.
When winter drives her to the City Library one morning, Grace meets Louie, a weird kid with his own problems, and discovers a community piano. The piano reminds Grace of her mum, a celebrated pianist whose mental illness makes life a rollercoaster — and not always a fun one.
When Grace comes up with a plan to find the help she and Mum need, life begins to look up. But things don’t work out as Grace imagines and suddenly her world’s turned upside down again, and maybe for good this time.
A Way Home is a big-hearted novel that explores the complexities of growing up with a parent who is struggling, and about the places and people we call home. Read the rest of this entry »
The Weaver
PB 352 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858283 | $19.99
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | October 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
In a remote village, bordered by woods and an endless winter, Saatcha lives in the attic of her ailing father’s blacksmithery. As her father’s health fades and he is no longer able to work, Saatcha takes it upon herself to keep the forge running.
But when a pair of thieves appear in the dead of night, Saatcha’s duty to her father is torn from her. Forced to leave her home behind, the bounds of magic that once held Saatcha begin to slip away.
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City Knife
PB 344 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781925227970 | $19.99
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | September 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
The chimera of the city are on the hunt.
After years of being individually slaughtered, they have come together to make war on Pandora and her people.
In the conclusion to The Burning Days, the sins of the past will be revealed and all hope for the future will be Read the rest of this entry »
This
PB 368 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858146 | $19.99
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | August 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
I don’t get this.
I’m fifteen! And in Year 10!
I don’t have anything to worry about.
But when I wake up one night, terrified, it starts a journey of trying to find out what’s wrong. I can’t go to Mum and Dad. They wouldn’t understand. And they’d make fun of me at school. So I’m off to strange doctors, and scurrying around like everything’s okay, while everything’s coming apart.
I don’t get this.
But I’m gonna try Read the rest of this entry »
The Quest for the Galleon of Time
by Tanya Hunter
PB 208 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858191 | $17.99
Middle-grade | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | August 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
The year is 1738 and eleven-year-old Tobias Crane is forced to leave his home to work as a ship’s lad on a trading galleon. Once onboard, Tobias discovers that the ship is a time-travelling galleon! A galleon that can inexplicably appear in different dimensions in the past, present and future.
A captain’s obsession with revenge will force Tobias and the crew on a dangerous adventure through treacherous waters. With the help of new friends, Tobias must somehow return home to warn his father that Read the rest of this entry »
Timefire
PB 200 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858030 | $17.99
Middle-grade | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | July 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
In the scorching summer of 2033, Gilbert Black is accused of being a firebug, just like his mother was thirteen years previously. That night a fire starts on his family’s farm. A fire with a tunnel in the centre of it. And that’s when things start to get really weird.
Pulled repeatedly back and forth through time, Gil finds himself at big Australian bushfires from the last two centuries. He searches across the years, determined to unlock the secret to his family’s legacy. Gil can’t change the past, but can he learn from it in time to return home and save his family from the biggest inferno ever known? Read the rest of this entry »
When Dark Roots Hunt
by Zena Shapter
PB 400 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858061 | $19.99
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | 20 May 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Don’t go out onto the lake. Wyann trees search the shallows to spear passing prey with their roots. Giant water-ants hunt anything that moves on the water-skin. Sala’s village survives hidden behind a wall of poisonous ivy, because everyone agrees: don’t go out onto the lake.
But then a strange comet crosses the night sky, throwing Sala and her pet pointer into a race through wyann-infested swampland that has her risking it all, unearthing long-hidden Read the rest of this entry »
Something About Alaska
by J. A. Cooper
PB 224 | 198 x 128 | $19.99
ISBN: 9780987380975 | September 2022
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing
Distributed by NewSouth Books
‘It’s a wicked cold, the Alaska winter, and can kill a man in a second…’
Nearing 15, Zac Greene travels to Alaska to re-connect with the father he’s only ever known from a distance. But Zac’s dad is a lone wolf – a wounded soul who’d rather drown his regrets in a bottle of bourbon than confront the mistakes of his past. As Zac struggles to earn his father’s approval, things spiral out of control forcing Zac to take his chances with the Alaskan winter. Whatever hope remains for father and son quickly fades, as Zac is forced to hitchhike to escape the hostile weather and soon finds himself sharing a remote cabin with a total stranger… and his gun. Read the rest of this entry »
The Rat-Catcher’s Apprentice
PB 192 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227949 | $17.99
Middle-grade fiction | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | March 2022
Distributed by NewSouth Books
It’s 1665. Rats have infested homes and alleys in Marie Perrin’s provincial French town. Twelve-year-old Marie is set to become a maid, although she hungers for adventure. However, one mistake alters her fate and as punishment she is forced to Read the rest of this entry »
Xenoflight
PB 240 pages | 198 x 128 | $17.99
IBSN: 9780987226518 | May 2022
Middle-Grade Fiction
Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Apart from her flying pet ferret Fernando and her auntie Carla, 13-year-old Nessa Santiago is alone. Her mother died in a circus accident and she has never known her father. But when the day finally comes for Nessa to meet him, everything goes wrong. Her auntie unexpectedly leaves in a helicopter and a menacing Cryptid Hunter, who captures unusual creatures like Fernando, shows up instead. In order to keep Fernando safe, Nessa must Read the rest of this entry »
The Lanternist
by Stephen Orr, illustrated by Timothy Ide
PB 400 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227840 | $19.99
YA Fiction | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | July 2021
Distributed by NewSouth Books
1901. The slide clunks into the lantern, and Phantoms come alive on the wall. The father-and-son Magic Lantern team of Bert and Tom Eliot are masters of The Art of the Story. The only problem is that they are missing a wife and mother. Then one morning eleven-year-old Tom wakes to find his father missing, too. Read the rest of this entry »
The Ghost Squad
PB 448 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227772 | $19.99
YA Fiction | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | February 2021
Distributed by NewSouth Books
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… Read the rest of this entry »
Mountain Arrow
PB 368 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227741
$19.99 | Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | November 2020
Distributed by NewSouth Books
The second book in The Burning Days series
The River People and the Mountain People have survived for another season. But at what cost? Pandora has returned to her village. She is haunted both by her failure to bring her friend home and the vision she has seen of the last days, The Burning, when creatures swarmed the city. How did these monsters come into being in the first place? And are the last remnants of humanity really safe from them? Read the rest of this entry »
Cryptosight
PB 224 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227536
$17.99 | Middle grade fiction | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | October 2019
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Rafferty Kaminski is a 13-year-old who believes in facts. Not like his Cryptozoologist father, who searches for creatures not proven to exist.
When their father disappears in the Flinders Ranges, strange things start happening Read the rest of this entry »
River Stone
PB 368 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781925227499
$19.99 | YA Fiction | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | May 2019
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Pandora, of the River People, wants more than her village can provide. When disaster comes to her people, Pan has the opportunity to become their saviour and escape her inevitable pairing with life-long friend Matthew. She wants to make her own choices. Deep in her soul, she believes there is something more out there, beyond the boundaries, especially since she encountered the hunter of the Mountain People.
A story of confused love, difficult friendships and clumsy attempts at heroism, Pan’s fight for her village will bring her into contact with a whole new world, where the truth about the past will have terrifying reverberations for her people’s future survival. Read the rest of this entry »
Heaven Sent
by S.J. Morgan
PB 336 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227451
$19.99 | YA Fiction | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | October 2018
Distributed by NewSouth Books
A story of love, loyalty and acceptance, where not everyone is the perfect fit.
Evie’s life is in tatters. She has a father she barely knows, a step-dad she’d rather she didn’t, and a best friend going off the rails. Then there’s the brace she has to wear for her crooked spine… Read the rest of this entry »
A Cardboard Palace
PB 144 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227253
$17.99 | Fiction Ages 8-14 | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | June 2017
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Jorge lives in a shanty town on the outskirts of Paris. Bill, a controller, has an army of child thieves at his command—and Jorge is one of them.
But soon Jorge faces an even bigger threat. His home is to be bulldozed. Where will Jorge sleep? What will happen to his Read the rest of this entry »
Into Tordon
PB 256 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781925227147
$17.99 | Fiction Ages 8-14 | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | November 2016
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Only champions dare to enter!
Thirteen-year-old Beth has been waiting for weeks to play in the championship of her favourite online game, Tordon. Now tribes of beastmen roar through her speakers. Game on! She plays to win, until her gaming nemesis Zane challenges her Read the rest of this entry »
First Person Shooter
PB 256 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781925227079
$24.99 | Fiction | Also available as an ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | March 2016
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Jayden lives with his father on the edge of a small country town. He stutters and is addicted to video games.
His best friend Shannon knows how to handle a rifle. When her mum is released from prison, the town waits to see whether her sociopathic Read the rest of this entry »
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