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A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds (From the World of Stella Montgomery) – Prudence a. Goodchild
Harper Collins Australia ISBN:9780733338229 ISBN 10: 0733338224 Imprint: ABC Books – AU On Sale: 14/11/2017 Children,listen and take heed, As this little book you read. All your evil ways amend, Or you will meet a dreadful end. For lovers of Stella Montgomery and her two highly successful narratives to date, comes a delightful little book which…
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The Dollmaker of Krakow – R. M. Romero
Penguin Random House Sep 2017 | 336 Pages | Middle Grade (8-12) ISBN: 9781406375633 ISBN-10: 1406375632 RRP $24.99 There is war. There is pain. But there is magic and there is hope. I’ve read many books both fictional and non-fiction concerning World War II and particularly the horror of the Holocaust but never have I read one that…
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Bill Baillie: The Life and Adventures of a Pet Bilby – Ellis Rowan
Publisher: National Library of Australia Edition: 1st Edition ISBN: 9780642279200 Publication Date: 01 March 2018 RRP: $24.99 Aptly in time for Easter (Bilbies not Bunnies!!) this is a beautiful abridged adaptation of Ellis Rowan’s fictionalised account of the little orphan bilby she raised and kept as a pet. The original was published in 1908 as…
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Libby in the Middle – Gwyneth Rees
Bloomsbury Australia Published: 01-01-2018 ISBN: 9781408852774 Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books RRP $12.99 As my Kim would tell you being the middle of three girls is not a piece of cake for much of the time. Libby is finding this truer than ever. Her older sister Bella, who used to be great company, is now…
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The Thunderbolt Pony –Stacey Gregg
Harper Collins Australia ISBN:9780008257019 ISBN 10: 0008257019 Imprint: HarperCollins – GB September 2017 RRP $26.99 Stacey Gregg’s series of which this is the fifth has been a stellar hit with my ‘horsey girls’. And though I’m not particularly horsey myself (aside from paying for Miss Small’s passion) I have thoroughly enjoyed them as well as each…
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My Brigidista Year – Katherine Paterson
Penguin Random House Candlewick Press October 2017 RRp $16.99 ISBN 978-0-7636-9508-8 Winner of the Newbery Medal on two occasions, Katherine Paterson is a superb writer for children and now turns her hand to a historical narrative born out of personal interest. For many outside of America, including me, there is a scant knowledge of Castro’s…
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My Australia – Julie Murphy/Garry Fleming
National Library of Australia April 2018 9780642279163 RRP $24.99 Those of us of a certain vintage will have vivid memories of learning off by heart Dorothea MacKellar’s famous poem My Country at school. For many I guess it may have been a trial but for me it was a joy, not least of all because…
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Barney and the Secret of the French Spies – Jackie French
Harper Collins Australia ISBN: 9781460751305 ISBN 10: 1460751302 On Sale: 22/01/2018 List Price: 14.99 AUD Another gripping episode in the story of Barney and Elsie, providing readers with more insight into the early days of the European colony in Sydney and NSW and I’m so excited that next term I’m using Birrung the Secret Friend with my Year 4s…
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Sweet Adversity – Sheryl Gwyther
TBC Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd ISBN: 9781460755105 ISBN-10: 1460755103 RRP : $17.99 In her new historical novel Sheryl Gwyther takes readers on a dramatic, sometimes tense and often poignant adventure to a grim time in Australia’s past – the Great Depression. While the Wall St collapse impacted all around the world, Australia suffered terribly…
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I am Sasha – Anita Selzer
Penguin Random House April 2018 9790143785743 RRP $17.99 Some triumphant recounts of survival against all odds have come out of the horror of the Holocaust. I am always humbled in admiration for those who endured such deprivation, suffering, cruelty and pain with courage and dignity and who rose from the basest of treatment to resume…
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