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Eliza Vanda’s Button Box – Emily Rodda
Harper Collins Australia May 2021 ISBN: 9781460759608 ISBN 10: 1460759605 Imprint: HarperCollins AU List Price: 22.99 AUD Buttons three, attend to me! Take me where I want to be! Emily Rodda returns with her own special brand of sparkling magic inthis delightful new fantasy adventure. Milly Dynes has been a bit down in the dumps of late. She still…
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A Weekend with Oscar – Robyn Bavati
Walker Books July 2021 ISBN: 9781760653040Imprint: Walker Books Australia Australian RRP: $16.99New Zealand RRP: $19.99 I had already ordered this for our library collection based on the publisher’s promo so receiving it as a review copy was especially welcome and I am not disappointed. This is a beautiful funny and poignant coming-of-age story that will enchant your lower secondary…
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100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze – Clayton Zane Comber
Harper Collins Australia June 2021 ISBN: 9781460759455 ISBN 10: 1460759451 Imprint: HarperCollins AU List Price: 19.99 AUD Age: From 14 years Believe me when I tell you that you will fall in love with Xander, and be sad to leave him at the end of this beautiful feel-good coming-of-age novel. Xander loves to make lists and #1 on his list…
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Truly Tan Shocked! – Jen Storer. Illustrated by Clare Robertson
Harper Collins Australia January 2021 ISBN: 9780733334146 ISBN 10: 0733334148 Imprint: ABC Books AU List Price: 17.99 AUD It has been ages since I’ve had the delight of reading a new Truly Tan book and the joy has not diminished one whit! In this new adventure Tan and Gloria are most worried about their teacher, Miss Dragone, who has…
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Tiger Daughter – Rebecca Lim
Allen & Unwin February 2021 ISBN: 9781760877644 Imprint: A & U Children Rebecca Lim has created a powerful and highly engaging #OwnVoices novel that captures the circumstances for some children, growing up Asian in Australia. Wen Zhou is the only child of Chinese immigrants who came to Australia for a better life, only to find…
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Cuckoo’s Flight – Wendy Orr
Allen & Unwin March 2021 ISBN: 9781760524913 RRP: $16.99 Wendy Orr continues her stunning and intriguing sequence of books set in ancient Crete, now focused on Leira’s granddaughter, Clio. In this companion book to Swallow’s Dance and Dragonfly Song, daily life is in turmoil as the ever-increasing threat of invaders pervades the village and its…
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Penguin Bloom Young Readers’ Edition – Chris Kunz, Harry Cripps, Shaun Grant
Harper Collins Australia January 2021 ISBN: 9780733341670 ISBN 10: 0733341675 Imprint: ABC Books – AU List Price: 14.99 AUD Unless you were in some kind of mystical retreat with no access to outside communication, you could not have missed one of the summer’s biggest cinema releases, Penguin Bloom, based on the real-life story of Sam Bloom. Sam’s story, and…
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Heroes of the Secret Underground – Susanne Gervay
Harper Collins Australia April 2021 ISBN: 9781460758335 ISBN 10: 1460758331 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 16.99 AUD What an absolute privilege to review Susanne’s new historical fiction inspired by, and a tribute to her own family’s history in Budapest during the last years of World War II. 12 year old Louie lives with her two younger brothers, Bert…
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Turtle Boy on KBR
You can read my second review for KBR now…….. Turtle Boy – M Evan Wolkenstein – don’t miss it because this is a truly wonderful book for middle schoolers!
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In the Key of Code – Aimee Lucido
Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781406389333Imprint: WalkerAustralian RRP: $16.99New Zealand RRP: $18.99 It speaks volumes that this was read in just one night in the past week and that I was immediately talking it up the next day to my ChocLit group. A verse novel that combines music and coding is not something I’d ever encountered before but this is…
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