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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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How to Grow a Family Tree – Eliza Henry Jones
Harper Collins Australia March 2020 ISBN: 9781460754955 ISBN 10: 1460754956 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 22.99 AUD Seventeen year old Stella knows exactly how to help people – after all, she’s read self-help books all her life. Her friends and family often are the beneficiaries of the wealth of her accumulated wisdom. Best friends Clem, Zin and Lara…
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Evie and Pog: Party Perfect! [#3] – Tania McCartney
Harper Collins Australia April 2020 ISBN: 9781460757956 ISBN 10: 1460757955 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 12.99 AUD The absolutely cute-as-buttons Evie and Pog are back in their third set of adventures ready to delight all those newly independent readers who are already in love with them. Once again your little readers will love the familiar pattern which starts…
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Here in the Real World – Sara Pennypacker
Harper Collins Australia February 2020 ISBN: 9780008371692 ISBN 10: 0008371695 Imprint: HarperCollins – GB List Price: 14.99 AUD At present we (as a collective global community) are having a great deal of reflection and discussion of what it means to be a hero and for many young readers their perception and definition of this might be relatively narrow. This…
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What Stars Are Made Of – Sarah Allen
Penguin Random House April 2020 ISBN: 9780241427965 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $14.99 This is just a wonderful heart-warming book on many levels and has introduced me to not only a new author but new information. Libby Malone is 12 years old and passionate about science so much so that she wants to be a scientist when she grows up.…
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The Tell – Martin Chatterton
Penguin Australia April 2020 ISBN: 9781760895945 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99 OMG whoahhhh! If you struggle at times to get some of those middle school reluctant readers engaged with a great book (who doesn’t?) this is definitely a ‘must have’! Pure adrenalin pumping action from start to finish, this a narrative that is tense, at times grim but with…
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The Good Hawk: (Shadow Skye – Book 1) – Joseph Elliott
Walker Books Australia February 2020 ISBN: 9781406385854 Imprint: Walker Australian RRP: $16.99 New Zealand RRP: $18.99 Enter a fabulous new adventure-fantasy series that will not just enthral readers with its ‘difference’ being set in a fictional parallel landscape but with its wonderful celebration of another type of difference. Agatha and Jamie are of the Clann-a-Tuath, one of the…
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The Besties Make a Splash – Felice Arena/Tom Jellett
Penguin Random House April 2020 ISBN: 9781760890964 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $9.99 The Besties are back for their next little adventure and your little newly independent readers are going to be well pleased about that! Again Felice has taken a familiar event in the lives of many small humans and turned it into a fun and engaging romp with…
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Freefall: Kensy & Max #5 –– Jacqueline Harvey
Published: 3 March 2020 ISBN: 9780143796985 Imprint: Puffin RRP: $16.99 Hold onto your seats for another major adrenalin rush in this new top-notch adventure of twins Kensy and Max, young agents-in-training! In this latest episode there is a continuing thread from the previous book in which a thoroughly evil villain was unmasked. The outwardly charming Dash Chalmers has…
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