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Alice-Miranda and the Christmas Mystery – Jacqueline Harvey
Penguin Random House October 2023 ISBN: 9781761048944 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99 It has been a while since we’ve had the pleasure of a new Alice-Miranda story, understandably as Jacqueline has been busy with other projects (successfully so I might add!!), and we all know that the A-M fans, young and old (yes, Tiarna G, I am looking at…
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Eleanor Jones is NOT a Murderer – Amy Doak
Penguin Australia September 2023 ISBN: 9781761342417 Imprint: Penguin Format: Paperback RRP: $19.99 This is a fantastic new voice in Oz YA, and one that will have your fans of Fleur Ferris, Karen McManus and Holly Jackson very excited. I was feeling a little poorly yesterday, which made for a very good reason to spend a lot of time…
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Aggie Flea is NOT a Liar- Tania Ingram
Scholastic Australia September 2023 ISBN: 9781760972547 RRP: $16.99 Move over, Barbie – there’s a new girl rocking the pink all over town, and hers is fluoro! Meet Aggie Flea, whom you will immediately fall for, because she’s inquisitive, imaginative and completely inept in most situations. Really, she’s a bit like Anne of Green Gables in…
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The First Summer of Callie McGee – A. L. Tait
Scholastic August 2023 ISBN: 9781760260163ISBN-10: 1760260169 A L Tait makes an impressive departure from her usual historical/fantasywriting, with this thoroughly engaging contemporary middle-grade novel. Calliope-Jean Maree McGee is about to start high school. It’s not the selective high school that her mother wanted her to attend, and that’s just fine by this tween who is keen to…
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How to be a Friend – Anna Branford
Walker Books July 2023 ISBN13:9781760657246 Australia RRP:$15.99 New Zealand RRP:$17.99 If you are looking to add to your collection for your newly independent readers, this will be a super choice. Some of your Smalls will already be exploring the Violet Mackerel series or have read How to be the New Person, both of which have…
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Friendship Survival Guide[Book #0 Usborne Life Skills] – Caroline Young
Harper Collins Australia August 2023 ISBN: 9781803704616 ISBN 10: 1803704616 Imprint: Usborne GB RRP: $14.99 It is absolutely true that all kids, younger or older, will have some friendship issue/s at some point. And certainly we try to help them navigate this as best we can in our respective educational or other settings. Which makes books such as…
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A Friend for George – Gabriel Evans
Penguin Australia May 2023 ISBN: 9781761046506 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $24.99 Anyone who has taught or worked with children will probably agree that we can never have enough books about friendship, and in particular, how to be a good friend. Once I probably would have said this is most true of the younger grades but realistically, more and…
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Crookhaven: the School for Thieves – J. J. Arcanjo
Hachette FEB 28, 2023 | 9781444965735 | RRP $16.99 Hodder Children’s Books This is another one that got delayed despite being read very swiftly when it first arrived. Two reasons for that being I was taking it to and fro to read to a Year 5 class with whom I was spending quite a bit of time, and then…
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Spellhound: a Dragons of Hallow #1 – Lian Tanner
Allen & Unwin April 2023 ISBN:9781761180057 Publisher:A&U Children’s Imprint:A & U Children RRP: $17.99 I’m so remorseful that I didn’t get to this one sooner (one of the books that was shunted into a box during the great house move) because it is just wonderful! I love this intro from the publisher…A fascinating tale filled…
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