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  • One Hundred Days

    A Novel

    by Alice Pung ...
    “A powerhouse story, a powerhouse voice, that wrestles with intragenerational fractures and complicated entanglements. At the center of the book is an obsessive kind of love, a love that gives but also takes, but a love that only forms from bonds forged in fire.”—Weike Wang, award-winning author of Joan Is Okay and ChemistryFrom one of Australia’s most celebrated authors comes a powerful mother ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unpolished Gem

    My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me

    by Alice Pung ...
    “Poignant, provocative, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, Pung’s rollicking tale of two worlds is not to be missed.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir—already an award-winning bestseller when ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Close to Home

    Selected Writings

    by Alice Pung ...
    A brilliant collection from one of Australia's leading writersClose to Home brings together Alice Pung’s most loved writing, on topics such as migration, family, art, belonging and identity. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice at her best – an irresistible pleasure for fans and new readers alike.In 2006, Alice Pung published Unpolished Gem, her award-winning memoir of growing ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Her Father’s Daughter

    by Alice Pung ...
    At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood- leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads- the love and worry of her parents, who want more than anything to keep her from harm. Her father fears for her safety to an extraordinary degree - but why?As she digs further ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Millie Mak the Maker (Millie Mak, #1)

    by Alice Pung ...
    Illustrated by Sher Rill Ng ...
    Series Book 1 - MILLIE MAK THE MAKER
    An inspiring series for young and old makers by the award-winning author-illustrator team Alice Pung and Sher Rill Ng.Nine-year-old Millie Mak has discovered she has a superpower!Using everyday objects, Millie turns them into something new, beautiful and useful. Who would ever think that a sunhat could be made from an old bedsheet, a skirt from a tea-towel, or some hair scrunchies from a scarf ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Our Australian Girl: Meet Marly (Book 1)

    by Alice Pung ...
    Illustrated by Lucia Masciullo ...
    Series Book 1 - Our Australian Girl: Marly
    It's 1983 . . . and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshine Primary School. But being a refugee from Vietnam doesn't make things easy, and when Marly's cousins come to stay and end up at the same school, her friends make fun of them. How can Marly stay loyal to her cousins and keep her school friends as well?Meet Marly and join in her adventure in the first of four exciting stories about a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Our Australian Girl: Marly walks on the Moon (Book 4)

    Illustrated by Lucia Masciullo ...
    by Alice Pung ...
    Series Book 4 - Our Australian Girl: Marly
    It's 1983... and baby mania has struck Marly's house with the arrival of her baby brother. But Marly never realised that a new baby would take up so much of everyone's time! No one's helping her with her costume for the school concert. Marly's secret plan is to perform the Moonwalk, the dance she's been practising all year. But will she be ready?Follow Marly on her adventure in the final book of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Our Australian Girl: Marly's Business (Book 2)

    by Alice Pung ...
    Illustrated by Lucia Masciullo ...
    Series Book 2 - Our Australian Girl: Marly
    It's 1983 . . . and Marly needs a job. She wants to buy Donkey Kong cards to swap with the other kids at school, but her parents think the cards are a waste of money. Then Marly's friend Yousra gives her an idea, and she decides to start her own business. But working on your own isn't easy, and when she catches a bus that goes in the wrong direction, it's just the start of Marly's problems!Follow ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Laurinda

    Based on the novel by Alice Pung

    by Diana Nguyen, Alice Pung ...
    Adapting Alice Pung's award-winning book, writer and comedian Diana Nguyen and director Petra Kalive bring Laurinda's schoolyard setting to the stage for a fresh and feisty new work. Like Heathers or Mean Girls with a uniquely Australian flavour, this delightful take on the beloved novel is an incisive, funny study of a woman caught between cultures and class.When 15-year-old Lucy Lam wins the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Be Careful, Xiao Xin!

    by Alice Pung ...
    Illustrated by Sher Rill Ng ...
    Xiao Xin believes he is a fire warrior, but his family thinks the world is too dangerous for him. Can he inspire his family to trust him?Xiao Xin believes he is a fearless Red Fire Warrior, but his family is always telling him to be careful--he's too little to be a warrior! They believe the world is a dangerous place. But they don't understand what Xiao Xin can be! Can Xiao Xin show his family ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Our Australian Girl: Marly and the Goat (Book 3)

    by Alice Pung ...
    Illustrated by Lucia Masciullo ...
    Series Book 3 - Our Australian Girl: Marly
    It's 1983 . . . and there's excitement in Marly's house. Her grandparents have arrived from Vietnam, and soon her mum will have a new baby. While Grandma tries to make Marly into a 'young lady', Grandpa digs up the back yard. Then he brings home Agnes, a goat! But the neighbours want Agnes taken away, and then things get dangerous. Will Marly be able to protect her grandpa and her pet?Follow Marly ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Millie Mak the Mender (Millie Mak, #2)

    by Alice Pung ...
    Illustrated by Sher Rill Ng ...
    Series Book 2 - MILLIE MAK THE MAKER
    The second exciting book about Millie and her superpower of making everyday objects into something beautiful and useful.Millie Mak is now ten, and often feels shy and awkward. But by using her special gift to make handy and beautiful things, Millie befriends residents at the aged care home where her mum works. When the whole school becomes involved in making hats for the residents, a tricky ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD