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League of Llamas [#3 and #4] – Aleesah Darlison
Penguin Random House Australia July 2020 Aleesah Darlison continues her hilarious new series with these two new episodes in the adventures of Phillipe, Lloyd and Elloise, those daring LOL agents who are afraid of nothing – well almost nothing. Kids love the antics of rather hapless Philippe and Lloyd who are generally getting themselves into…
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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!…
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Nightshade – Anthony Horowitz
Walker Books Australia April 2020 ISBN: 9781406395877 Imprint: Walker Australian RRP: $16.99 New Zealand RRP: $18.99 Coming hard on the heels of the 20th anniversary of Alex Rider’s first adventure – Stormbreaker – is even more high-octane heart-pumping tension as Alex plunges deep into a mysterious organisation known as Nightshade. Once again Alex is an unwilling recruit into…
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The Lost Tide Warriors – Catherine Doyle
Bloomsbury September 2019 ISBN: 9781408896907 Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books Series: The Storm Keeper Trilogy The first in this trilogy The Storm Keeper’s Island was a fantastic read and this sequel equally stacks up in the page-turning excitement department. Fionn Boyle is now six months into his acknowledged role as the new Storm Keeper of…
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League of Llamas – Aleesah Darlison
Visit Aleesah’s webpage here Penguin March 2020 RRP: $9.99 Well… Aleesah’s new series is bound to be a hit with junior/middle primary readers with galloping (I’m not sure llamas actually gallop but still…) plots, high octane humour and loads of adventure. I knew that James Bond is currently having a contemporised make over but…
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The Secret Commonwealth – Philip Pullman
The Book of Dust Volume Two Published: 3 October 2019 ISBN: 9780241373347 Imprint: Penguin and David Fickling Books Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 784 RRP: $32.99 Surely one of the most highly anticipated sequels ever – or was that just me? (I don’t think so!) I wasn’t sure what to expect but it wasn’t this – and I mean that in a…
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The Wizards of Once: Knock Three Times: #3 – Cressida Cowell
Hachette SEP 24, 2019 | 9781444941470 | RRP $19.99 Not strange at all – looking up and seeing three children clutching a magical flying door high above a forest. Well ok, perhaps a magical door flying is a tiny bit odd but not in a Cressida Cowell fantasy/adventure! Xar, Wish and little Bodkin are escaping their Warrior and Wizard…
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Kensy and Max #4: Out of Sight – Jacqueline Harvey
Penguin September 2019 ISBN: 9780143791928 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99 Just as life for the intrepid and resilient twins seems to be settling with both their parents and their grandparents restored to the family, the London house habitable again and being back at school with their friends, things start hotting up. Their upcoming first Pharos review is doubtless a…
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