New Releases by Hilary McKay

Carlos is tired of how his family treats him so he decides to run away with the help of his best friend Pablo.

Charlie''s fed up of his family always picking on him - it''s just not fair. So he''s decided to run away ... all the way to Henry''s house. That will show them! Now they''ll be sorry! But there''s a problem: life as a runaway means being horribly, IMPOSSIBLY quiet....

While trying to reconnect with her friend Tom, who has returned to the United States without leaving a forwarding address, eight-year-old Rose inadvertently discovers the identity of her adopted sister Saffy''s father.

In this hilarious companion to "Saffy''s Angel," Indigo Casson returns to school after missing a semester due to mono, but he dreads dealing with the school bullies again. Soon Indigo meets Tom, an American who becomes his ally.

Although she is afraid, Sophie is determined to confront the dragon that she thinks she hears downstairs at night.

Sent by their vacationing parents to visit Mad Aunt Mabel, Perry and Ant have an adventure, while their younger siblings Sun Dance and Beany stay at home making burglar traps and searching for a magic sword.

Beetle has been planning to climb the big tree for as long as he can remember. But now it''s on the other side of the fence-and suddenly it''s someone else''s tree. That posh kid on the other side of the fence is not going to get to the top of the big tree first...

Just where did Beetle get his hamster from? He''s always been desperate for one, and now it''s his to play with - but what did he have to do to get it? No one must ever find out

After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron''s relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a special momento of her past.

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At preschool Bella learns all about Christmas -- that Santa Claus will come in his sleigh pulled over the snow by his reindeer. And he will bring a huge brown sack full of presents. Bella tells her beloved cat, Black Jack, about it when she gets home. But when Santa actually comes to her preschool, Bella is bitterly disappointed. He doesn''t seem to be the real thing at all -- no sleigh, no snow, no reindeer, and, worst of all, no present for Black Jack in his huge brown sack. Was that Christmas? Bella sobs to her mother on the way home from the school party.So Bella''s family has to show her all the things that still have to be done before it is really Christmas, like baking mince pies, buying presents for her mother and father, icing the cake, and getting the Christmas tree.This is a delightful story for small children about all the wonderful things that make Christmas so special, told and illustrated by an award-winning author-and-artist team.

Prequel to The Amber Cat.

Danny, Anna and Nathan live in the flats of Paradise House, but they are far from angelic and get up to all sorts of mischief. Nathan moves into the cupboard under the stairs to escape his sister''s wailing, but he doesn''t expect to find a clue to buried treasure. What will he unearth in the garden?

Nothing ever happened in the Conroy family, and when something finally does, the four sisters, Ruth, Naomi, Rachel, and Phoebe, are sent where they can''t disrupt their parents'' plans--to their grandmother''s for the summer. Big Grandma gives orders like a drill sargeant. But by summer''s end, the girls and Big Grandma have come to a new understanding.

Danny, Anna and Nathan live in the flats of Paradise House, but they are far from angelic and get up to all sorts of mischief. Danny and Anna try to set up a zoo in the attic and nearly blow off the roof. Hilary McKay won the 1994 Smarties Award for The Exiles at Home.

The four Conroy sisters'' efforts to raise money in order to sponsor a ten-year-old boy in Africa get them into one difficult situation after another.