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Justin D'ath

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Justin D'Ath is the author of over 30 books for children and young adults, including the hugely popular Extreme Adventures series. Other books include Astrid Spark, Fixologist, The Skyflower, Robbie and the Dolphins, Infamous, and Why did the Chykkan cross the Galaxy?

Justin's first publication was a monthly cartoon strip in a magazine, which he used to draw in his tent while he travelled around Australia on a motorbike. His first book, a novel for adults called The Initiate, was published in 1989 and won three awards. His adult short stories have been published in 18 countries and have won 54 literary prizes.

For twenty years Justin wrote only for adults - in addition to his other jobs: driving forklifts, building cars, picking fruit, mustering cattle, mining for iron, working in a laboratory, being a club manager in an Aborigine settlement, working in a sugar mill and teaching Professional Writing at TAFE.

Of his 29 books for children, Justin says I laugh aloud at the unexpected things my characters say and do. I don't plan. I simply invent a character, usually between ten and fourteen years old, put her or him in an unusual (or scary!) situation, and start speaking in her, or his, voice. For me it's a natural process. Part of me doesn't seem to have grown up!'

And of his audience, Justin says: My main message is, Enjoy reading. I want children to become lost in my books; to experience the magic of the written word; to see that reading is not a chore, it's one of the most exciting, imaginative and enjoyable things they can do.'

Available Books by Justin D'ath

	Mission Fox 01: Snake Escape Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143305811 RRP: $12.95 THE TWINS LOOKED UP . . . 'SHISHKEBAB!' THEY GASPED. BELLA WAS ENORMOUS. Jordan, Harry and Myrtle are on a mission to rescue an escaped pet snake. Bella is a giant hungry python who's spied a cockatoo for breakfast. Can Mission Fox save the day without getting tied up in knots? IT LOOKS LIKE THEIR SLIPPERIEST MISSION YET . . . ...
	Mission Fox 02: Panda Chase Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143305828 RRP: $12.95 PINGWU WAS HUGE AND SCARY. HIS BIG YELLOW TEETH WERE AS THICK AS JORDAN'S FINGERS. When a truck tips over on the way to the zoo, Mission Fox are on the case to track down Pingwu, the missing Giant Panda. But when Myrtle tries to help, their panda chase ends at the bottom of a water-filled quarry! How will they get Pingwu out? IT LOOKS LIKE THEIR SOGGIEST MISSION YET . . . ...
	Mission Fox 03: Dolphin Rescue Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143305835 RRP: $12.95 Harry and Jordan might seem like your average pair of identical twins, but don't be fooled! Their billy cart is really a FoxMobile, their mobile is a FoxPhone and, along with their giant dog, Myrtle, they're the members of Mission Fox: Animal Rescue. Even when they're on a tropical island holiday, Mission Fox are still on the case, especially when a baby dolphin needs their help... Ga...
	Mission Fox 04: Horse Hijack Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143305842 RRP: $12.95 QUEENIE BROKE INTO A CANTER. JORDAN LAY FLAT ON HER BACK. HE HUNG ON FOR HIS LIFE . . . Ella's horse, Silver Banjo, the Olympic showjumping champion, has been stolen! Mission Fox are on the trail. But how will they get past an iron gate, an electronic lock, a huge stone wall and a pack of guard dogs? IT LOOKS LIKE THEIR SNEAKIEST MISSION YET . . ....
	Mission Fox 05: Puma Rumour Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143306542 RRP: $12.95 A NOISE CAME FROM INSIDE THE TRAP. IT DIDN'T SOUND PLEASED AT ALL. GRRRRRRRR. Something's been taking sheep from the farms near Nullambine National Park. Could it be the legendary Nullambine Puma? When Mission fox set a trap to find out, they catch a whole lot of trouble . . . IT LOOKS LIKE THEIR SNEAKIEST MISSION YET . . . ...
	Mission Fox 06: Zebra Rampage Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143306559 RRP: $12.95 JORDAN WATCHED THE BABY ZEBRA FOR A FEW SECONDS. ITS EYES WERE CLOSED. 'SOMETHING'S WRONG,' HE SAID. Harry and Jordan Fox are on a chairlift ride at Nullambine Zoo when they spy a baby zebra in danger. It looks like a Code Bright Red mission. Can they outrun a charging zebra and outsmart a river of hippos in time to save the baby's life? IT LOOKS LIKE THEIR STRIPEY-ESST MISSI...
	Phoebe Nash: Detective Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780980566437 RRP: $14.95 A girl just like you can do anything! Phoebe Nash: Detective is a second book about Phoebe, a gutsy 13-year-old Australian girl who was introduced in Phoebe Nash: Girl Warrior When Phoebes African friend Sospeter visits Australia for an exhibition of treasures from his African home, Phoebe is suspected of jewel theft. Can she clear her name, as well as that of Sospeters father, who is accused ...
	Phoebe Nash: Girl Warrior Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780980566420 RRP: $14.95 Join Phoebe Nash on a heart-warming journey of first love, friendship, international intrigue and mystery in Phoebe Nash: Girl Warrior - a new tween novel from leading Australian author, Justin D'Ath. The adventure-romance tale, Phoebe Nash: Girl Warrior follows the adventure of a thirteen-year-old Australian girl who, while on holiday in Africa, witnesses the kidnapping of a politician. Pho...
	Extreme Adventures 03: Shark Bait Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143302216 RRP: $14.95 'Suddenly I was back in the blurry green undersea world. And the shark was there, too. Coming straight at me. Fast!' Sam Fox is on holidays at the Great Barrier Reef when he and a young Japanese tourist are swept off a coral shelf by a freak wave. Before they know it, a strong current has pushed them out into open water. First Sam must fight to keep himself and his new friend from drown...
	Extreme Adventures 10: Devil Danger Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143303725 RRP: $14.95 Sam Fox is on a skiing trip to compete in the Devil's Run Skiing Championships in Tasmania when a baby falls out of a cable car overhead. The baby is Crown Prince Thomas, four-month-old son of European Princess Monica and the fall is a result of a bungled kidnap attempt. Sam catches the baby (saving it from certain death) and is chased by the kidnappers. Finally, after various escapes and expl...
	Extreme Adventures 1: Crocodile Attack Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143302230 RRP: $14.95 'I didn't want to die, and I especially didn't want to be killed by a crocodile. But there was no escape.' A robber has kidnapped Sam Fox and his cousin Nissa during a tropical cyclone. When the getaway car crashes into the raging Crocodile River, Sam and Nissa must face one ordeal after another to survive against incredible odds. Sam fights to keep his head above water and Nissa...
	Extreme Adventures 2: Bushfire Rescue Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143302209 RRP: $14.95 'Help me!' I gasped. 'My name is Sam Fox and I'm trapped in a truck... There's a bushfire all around me!' It's the holidays and Sam Fox has gone to the high country to stay with his grandparents. While trying to stop cattle rustlers from stealing a stud bull, an injured Sam is isolated in the mountains during a horrific bushfire. To survive, he must rely on his cou...
	Extreme Adventures 4: Scorpion Sting Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143302223 RRP: $14.95 'I was lost in the desert. Without transport. Without water. Without a hope.' Sam Fox is on a caving expedition in the desert when the roof collapses, trapping his brother Nathan beneath tonnes of rubble. Nathan is in a bad way, and Sam's his only hope. But when he reaches the cave exit, Sam discovers a sea of huge, angry scorpions! And that's just the first deadly obstacle he wi...
	Extreme Adventures 5: Spider Bite Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143303046 RRP: $14.95 'My little brother lay in the bottom of the basket with his head slimed sideways, I took a closer look. Jordan's face was blue... ' When Sam Fox's twin brothers, Harry and Jordan, are carried off in a runaway hot-air balloon, Sam tries to save them - only to end up trapped himself! What starts as a joy-ride turns into a life-and-death struggle when Jordan is bitten by a funnel-w...
	Extreme Adventures 6: Man Eater Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143303213 RRP: $14.95 The leopard crouching in the bushes looked like something out of a nightmare. One ear was gone and so was one eye, and there was no fur on half its head. The mean glint in its remaining eye told me that it was the man-eater that had killed half the village... The next exciting Sam Fox adventure is set in Africa! When the tour bus takes off without him, Sam uses his wits to escape an angry moth...
	Extreme Adventures 7: Killer Whale Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143303206 RRP: $14.95 'What's happening?' Harry gasped. A second killer whale burst out of the sea on the low side of the floe. It was the most incredible sight I'd ever seen. The whale had flung itself onto the ice. It came sliding up the slope on its belly. Straight towards Harry and me. We slid helplessly towards the enormous, tooth-lined cave of the killer whale's mouth . . . Sam Fox is on ho...
	Extreme Adventures 8: Anaconda Ambush Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143303701 RRP: $14.95 Sam Fox is on a field trip with his uncle in the Amazon, when he's swept over a waterfall and lands in an underground lake. There he discovers a fortune in gold. He's rich! But things aren't that simple. There's an enormous anaconda lurking in the cave, and that's just the first obstacle Sam will have to overcome if he's to get out of the Amazon alive . . ....
	Extreme Adventures 9: Grizzly Trap Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143303718 RRP: $14.95 The grizzly rose up on its hind legss and let our a fearsome roar, halfway between the bark of a dog and the bellow of a bull. We were dead meat... Sam Fox is on a trip to North America with his cub scout pack when their bus crashes down a canyon. Some of the group are seriously injured, so Sam and two cubs set off to find help. But Sam is thousands of miles from home in the middle of the Ameri...
	Extreme Adventures 11: Monkey Mountain Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143304418 RRP: $14.95 A class trip to Borneo starts off with a bang - a trip to see a real-life volcano! But when the volcano unexpectedly erupts, Sam Fox is left behind with his ailing teacher, Mr Griffin. They make it down the mountain to the cool blue sea - only to be hemmed in by blood-thirsty sharks! With his trademark ingenuity, Sam finds a local boat, which is soon full of monkeys and chickens hitching a ride. A...
	Extreme Adventures 12: Tiger Trouble Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143304425 RRP: $14.95 ...
	Pool Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781876462512 RRP: $19.95 Something strange has happened to the public swimming pool in New Lourdes, Victoria. The water is no longer level and is rumoured to have curative powers. When 16-year-old Wolfgang MulQueen takes a summer job at the pool, he meets Audrey, a blind girl who claims she's nocturnal. With the discovery of a butterfly unknown to science, and an unusual request from Audrey's father, Wolfgang fin...
	Aussie Nibbles: Snowman Magic Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141312095 RRP: $12.95 The snowman seems indestructible. Mr Russell shovels him from the driveway, but the next morning he is back again. And when their car skids off the road later that day, it is the snowman that saves them....

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	Astrid Spark, Fixologist Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865087184 The girl with the incredible magnetic fingers . . . An electro-dynamic adventure about Astrid Spark, the girl who can fix anything with her incredible magnetic fingers! Astrid Spark has an incredible gift - her fingers can fix anything that's broken. Dr Hu thinks she can even fix the hole in the ozone layer, so he invents a bagggoon (with three Gs for extra lift) to carry her into the strat...
	Aussie Bites: Goldfever Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141309392 When Austin is playing with his dog, he discovers a gold nugget right in the middle of the new footy oval at Goldmine Park. A few hours later he must play there in the Grand Final. How can he keep the nugget safe from detection?...
	Bushfire Rescue Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781935279334 After trying to save a prize bull from being stolen by rustlers, Sam Fox finds himself trapped in the moutains as a bushfire rages and he has to rely on Chainsaw, a rodeo bull, to find his way out....
	Crocodile Attack Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781935279327 When the robber who has kidnapped Sam Fox and his two-year-old cousin Nissa crashes his car into the Crocodile River, Sam struggles to protect himself and Nissa from the danger all around them....
	Echidna Mania Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865085494 Something mysterious is happening to Felix Spark's house. The upstairs has become the downstairs, the downstairs has become the basement, and Dad's Harley Davidson has been swallowed up by the back lawn. Now there's a huge hole under the house. At least that gives Felix's band, Echidna, somewhere to practise. But underground is the worst place to be. There's something unde...
	Extreme Adventures 3: Shark Bait Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143303817 An action-packed rollercoaster rider, Shark Bait is the third book in a thrilling new series. Sam Fox is on holiday at the Barrier Reef when he and a Japanese boy called Michi are swept out to sea by a freak wave. Before they know it, they re adrift in an ocean teeming with sharks and other deadly sea creatures. Just when they think they ve made it safely to shore, Sam encounters a group of dange...
	Hunters And Warriors Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865083988 'The voices moved away and he was left alone once more. His secret was safe. He was safe. But part of him didn't want to be safe. Some time later he emerged onto the beach at roughly the same place where he had entered the forest. Leaving his clothes on the sand, Bass crept down to the water, washed his bloodied hands and then immersed himself completely in the chill green waves.'...
	Infamous Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741141283 Tasmanian Tigers - thylacines - are supposed to be extinct. When Tim hears that one has been seen nearby, he gets an idea to draw tourists to his quiet little town. His secret plan involves painting stripes on his old dog, Elvis, and creeping around at night, tricking motorists. But when he discovers that thylacines are not extinct, after all, Tim has to think of an even better plan. 'As we i...
	Koala Fever Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865083995 A madcap romp through astronomy, zoology and environmental awareness for children aged 8-12 illustrated by Terry Denton. A passing comet extinguishes the Sun and leaves the Earth in darkness. The entire planet will freeze over unless a solution can be found. Who can save the world? Not Forest Greene - he has his own problems! He's stuck in a tree-house with 82 koalas, 5 bandicoots, 3 kang...
	Shaedow Master Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865087382 A stunning new mythical adventure, set in a troubled world where one young girl may hold the key to healing old wounds and restoring life to the drought-ridden land. 'Ora waded frantically towards the shore. She didn't need to look over her shoulder to know what was there. The surface of the lake bulged into a long, smooth mound that hurled itself after her, faster than a galloping horse....
	Sniwt Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781864489323 An Outta-Outta-Spaceous Adventure. Get your nodz* around this! Two zzziplas, one pair of twins, a blinding pink flash and then - ffzzzzzpwt! - goodbye Sally and Olly, hello Ally and Solly. Twins become sniwT. And only the Chykkans can fix-up the mix-up. *Chykkanspeak for head....
	The Upside-Down Girl Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865081342 Brittany Hu is so determined to be famous, she's prepared to ride the Gravity Buster for twelve hours straight! But by the time she and her brother Lukas have reversed gravity, invented rollerbuckets and taught emus to fly, becoming famous is the least of their problems. ...

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