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The Austen Girls – Lucy Worsley
Bloomsbury May 2020-03-14 ISBN 9781526605450 RRP: $15.99 Au $17.99 NZ If you enjoy BBC docos you are no doubt already familiar with Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, who is such an excellent presenter but also a witty and skilled writer. This is the fourth historical novel by this author (and I Read more
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Anthony Horowitz display
So I’m putting together a display on Anthony Horowitz to mark the 20th anniversary of Alex Rider, the new AR book Nightshade and the upcoming TV series. When I shared these on Twitter it was quite the thrill to get responses from Anthony himself – thank you! Feeling just a bit chuffed I have to Read more
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The Strangeworlds Travel Agency – L. D. Lapinski
Hachette APR 28, 2020 | 9781510105942 | RRP $16.99 Twelve year old Flick Hudson is really not sure about her family’s move to a village, leaving their rather cramped flat for a much bigger home. Of course their old home wouldn’t have been so squashy if her dribbling, annoying baby brother Freddy hadn’t arrived some time before. With her Read more
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You are Positively Awesome – Stacie Swift
Harper Collins Australia May 2020 ISBN: 9781911641995 ISBN 10: 1911641999 Imprint: Pavilion – GB List Price: 24.99 AUD This is most definitely a very timely and en pointe book for those who have been finding themselves anxious, lonely and unsure in these troubled times. Gloriously colourful and eminently practical filled with reminders, advice, affirmations and enjoyable exercises in positive Read more
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This is a Ball and Other Books that Drive Kids Crazy – Beck & Matt Stanton
Harper Collins Australia May 2020 ISBN: 9780733341076 ISBN 10: 0733341071 Imprint: ABC Books – AU List Price: 35.00 AUD In recent years when I have filled in between gigs doing some relief teaching at least a couple of the ‘books that drive kids crazy’ were in my bag to use particularly as a ‘warm up’ and without fail they Read more
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Alice-Miranda in the Outback – Jacqueline Harvey
Penguin Australia June 2020 ISBN: 9781760891039 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99 Once again Jacqueline Harvey has produced an adventure for Alice-Miranda which will both excite and fascinate her legion devoted fans. I love that each new book in this series continues to grab these readers some of whom might be considered to have ‘out-grown’ the diminutive main character! Read more
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