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The 1, 000-Year-Old Boy – Ross Welford
Harper Collins Australia January 2018 ISBN 10: 0008256942 Imprint: HarperCollins – GB ISBN: 9780008256944 Pages: 400 List Price: 14.99 AUD Alfie Monk is not your average eleven year old boy. He is ‘proficient in Old Norse, Old English, Middle English and Modern English, plus French, Latin and Greek (ancient and modern, though they are not so dissimilar), and [has]…
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Planet Middle School – Nikki Grimes
Bloomsbury ISBN: 9781619630123 ISBN-10: 1619630125 Format: Paperback Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Books Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Publish Date: 2-Jan-2018 Country of Publication: United States RRP AU $14.99 Joylin Johnson has an uncomplicated life at 12 years old as she has had all her life. Baggy jeans and t-shirts, plain ponytail and a passion for basketball which she regularly plays with the neighbourhood boys…
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Count with Little Fish – Lucy Cousins
Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781406374193 Imprint: Walker April 1, 2018 Australian RRP: $11.99 New Zealand RRP: $13.99 This has to be one of the cutest board books I’ve seen in a long time! We all know Lucy Cousins vibrant and expressive illustrative style and this underwater journey with some very funky fish is just a delight. Babies and toddlers…
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Missing – Sue Whiting
Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781760650032 Imprint: Walker Books Australia March 1, 2018 Australian RRP: $17.99 New Zealand RRP: $19.99 Right from the get-go this novel is full on with its action, mystery and poignancy. Thirteen year old Mackenzie is at a difficult time in her life leaving primary school and off to a private girls’ high school away from…
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Oma’s Buttons – Tania Ingram/Jennifer Harrison
Penguin Australia 9780143786573 April 2, 2018 Viking Imprint RRP$24.99 We grandmothers know there is a special bond between us and our grandchildren – some of us even more so than others. Tania and Jennifer have produced a beautiful book which encapsulates just one aspect of this relationship. So many of us would have…
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The Book of Answers: an Ateban Cipher novel (Book #2) – A. L. Tait
Hachette Mar 27, 2018 | 9780734417695 | Rrp $14.99 The intrepid outlaw girls and boys are back in the next exciting instalment of the Ateban Cipher – Gwyn, Merry, Scarlett along with Gabe and now Eddie (aka Prince Edward) are on a quest to deliver the Book of Secrets to the rightful recipient. When Gabe first took charge of…
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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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