Lian Tanner Books in Order

Goldie Roth escapes a city where children are kept chained to protect them from danger and enters a mysterious museum. Its shifting rooms conceal secrets that require a thief's instincts, while the authorities pursue plans threatening everyone she loves.

Nicky resists every change after her parents separate and her mother sells their home. The arrival of a new schoolgirl and her mysterious stepmother brings stranger troubles, threatening both Nicky’s carefully defended world and her beloved pet rat.

When Toadspit's sister is kidnapped, Goldie Roth follows the abductors to the neighboring city of Spoke. Caught amid the Festival of Lies, she must navigate deceptive language and dangerous secrets while using her thieving skills to rescue her friends.

The Fugleman and his forces seize control of Jewel, leaving Goldie and her friends facing a vastly stronger enemy. Determined to save the city without bloodshed, she must venture down a mysterious road inside the museum from which no one returns.

Petrel survives as an outcast aboard an ancient icebreaker divided into rival tribes, with two rats as her companions. When she discovers a boy on the ice, an unexpected friendship threatens the isolated routines and forgotten secrets of the ship.

Sharkey's heroic reputation among the children of a giant submarine rests on a lie, but danger now demands genuine courage. Elsewhere, Petrel and her companions struggle to restore lost knowledge, bringing the groups toward challenges neither can face alone.

Traveling performer Gwin must rescue her father when the Devouts capture him for preserving forbidden traditions. Meanwhile, the icebreaker's crew and the Sunkers confront the Citadel, uncertain whether they can prevail without the guidance of their Sleeping Captain.

Duckling helps her scheming grandfather recruit farm boy Pummel for what he promises is one final plan. Drawn into a stronghold where time has stopped, the children must confront a plot against its young heir and discover unexpected magic.

Duckling and Pummel try to escort the Young Margrave to safety, but unfamiliar enemies capture them and send them to deadly salt mines. With their magic missing and the Harshman pursuing them, they must decide whom they can trust.

Ella's family struggles to keep their outback farm alive through a long drought, leaving little room for her dream of the ocean. Her grandmother takes the dream seriously and encourages a journey to the coast, offering a change of perspective.

Clara dreams of becoming a famous detective, but being a scruffy chicken makes it difficult to win anyone's attention. Teaming up with a policeman's daughter, Olive, she applies her unusual skills to the crimes troubling their small town.

A sudden power outage interrupts a family’s warm winter evening and transforms their darkened neighborhood into unfamiliar territory. Venturing beyond their kitchen becomes an adventure in discovering the comfort and connections offered by the surrounding community.