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Resist: a story of D-Day – Alaz Gratz
Scholastic Australia April 2025 Imprint: Scholastic Inc ISBN: 9781761649172 RRP: $12.99 If anyone is confused and feels like they have seen this, or heard of it, some years ago, here’s what author Alan Gratz explains: The physical paperback version of Resist was something I wrote as an exclusive giveaway for Scholastic’s Book Clubs in 2019. Scholastic gave…
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The Counterfeit Bust: Riz Chester – R.A. Stephens. Illustrated by Em Hammond.
Rhiza Press/Wombat Books May 2023 SKU: 9781761111181 $12.99 Here’s a quick one to promote a series that only recently came my way. As always Wombat books have hit a nail squarely on the head with Riz Chester. She’s an ordinary kid, doesn’t do anything that’s remarkable, pretty average at school but she is observant. In…
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The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die – Peter Lantos
Scholastic Australia Imprint: SCHOLASTIC LTD UK Author:Lantos, Peter ISBN: 9781761299643 RRP: $23.95 One doesn’t often read a graphic novel that is autobiographical. I think Raymond Briggs’ is the only one I can recall off the top of my head, but this one by Holocaust survivor and British scientist Peter Lantos BEM FMedSci is an example…
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Doom of the Darkwing: How to Train Your Dragon School #1- Cressida Cowell
Hachette Australia May, 2025 | 9781444981926 | RRP $16.99 Imprint: Hodder Children’s Books If you read my review of the 20th anniversary edition of How to Train Your Dragon you will know how this series holds a special place in my heart, and will forever. So it’s super exciting that we get to enjoy a new series featuring our…
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Down the Plot Hole – Annaleise Byrd
Walker Books April 2025 ISBN13:9781760659059 Australia RRP:$16.99 New Zealand RRP:$18.99 Annaleise Byrd’s second fractured fairytale is as highly amusing as the first. Basil and Terry resume their reading schedule, continuing on with Grimms’ Fairytales, though Basil is very uncertain about the whole idea of going back into fairytale with all its uncertainties – and dangers!…
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Ming and Maria Explore the Universe: The Girls Who Changed the World #5 – Jackie French
Harper Collins Australia ISBN: 9781460764886 ISBN 10: 1460764889 Imprint: HarperCollins AU RRP: $16.99 Once again, I was delighted to be asked to write the notes for this last title in what has been an inspiring series for our young people. It was particularly special as Jackie and I had had some conversations about this particular ‘mighty girl’ of…
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Mim and the Mother Muddle: The Travelling Bookshop # 6 – Katrina Nannestad
Harper Collins Australia March 2025 ISBN: 9780733343124 ISBN 10: 0733343120 Imprint: ABC Books AU RRP: $16.99 Young fans of this delightful series will be excited for this new one, in which we finally get to meet Mim’s mother. The travelling bookshop has arrived in Salzburg, which was not their intended destination, but as usual Flossy, the Clydesdale, knows…
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The Marvellous Submarine -Zane Clayton Comber (The Marvellous Submarine, #1) Clayton Zane Comber. Connor McCammon
Harper Collins Australia April 2025 ISBN: 9781460766804 ISBN 10: 1460766806 Imprint: HarperCollins AU List Price: 17.99 AUD This hails the start of a new series, co-written and illustrated by this pair from Kiama [one of my favourite places in the country] which will completely hook your young readers, particularly those who have been languishing for more Treehouse-like books. It…
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Sink or Swim: Frog Squad #3 – Kate and Jol Temple. Shiloh Gordon.
Harper Collins April 2025 ISBN: 9781460716427 ISBN 10: 1460716426 Imprint: HarperCollins RRP: $8.99 Everybody’s favourite famous frogs are back – leaping into action with all the finesse of the fit and feisty ‘phibians that they are. This small, but dedicated, army of frogs – drawn from all over the world [and by Shiloh Gordon] are hopping with excitement…
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The Only Branch on the Family Tree – Sherryl Clark
UQP April 2025 ISBN: 9780702268915 RRP: $14.99 With perfect timing, coinciding with this thread of my Mother’s Day reviews, Sherryl Clark’s beautiful new MG book arrived yesterday. At the same time, it has once again re-affirmed that I actually DO enjoy verse novels – certainly, those that have come my way in the past twelve…
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