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The Cousins – Karen M. McManus
Penguin Australia December 2020 ISBN: 9780241376942 Imprint: Penguin RRP: $17.99 Attention all of you who loved One of Us is Lying! This YA thriller will get you and your readers in from the first page. I literally ate it up over just a couple of nights. Three cousins all the same age who barely know each other, having…
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The Fire Star: A Maven & Reeve Mystery- A. L. Tait
Penguin Australia September 2020 ISBN: 9781760897079 Imprint: Penguin RRP: $16.99 Well-known globally for her adventure series The Mapmaker Chronicles and The Ateban Cipher, A. L. Tait brings another entertaining and engaging series to middle years readers with the introduction of Maven and Reeve. Maven, youngest daughter of an impoverished and dispossessed noble family, is companion and maid to…
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Moonflower Murders – Anthony Horowitz
Penguin Australia August 2020 ISBN: 9781529124354 Imprint: Century RRP: $32.99 The Master triumphs again! Mind-bendingly clever and tricky, Horowitz has once again presented his readers with two devilishly complicated mysteries – once again a book within a book! I can only imagine how difficult it is to construct one complex murder mystery let alone two at the same…
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The Key to Finding Jack – Ewa Jozefkowicz
Harper Collins Australia May 2020 ISBN: 9781800240421 ISBN 10: 1800240422 Imprint: Head Of Zeus – Zehpyr – GB $14.99 Perfect for your middle primary to lower secondary kiddos this new adventure/mystery is just a great read with lots of excitement but also loads of great messages about the importance of connections with family and friends, self-belief, empathy and…
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Monstrous Devices – Damien Love
Bloomsbury Australia May 2020 Imprint: Rock the Boat ISBN 9780451478597 RRP $14.99 Firstly if Sid’s Franken-toys in Toy Story freaked you out a bit, you’re really not going to like the titular monstrous devices in this deliciously exciting and somewhat creepy debut novel from Damien Love! Twelve year old Alex has a collection of old…
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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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Red Day – Sandy Fussell
Walker Books Australia March 2020 ISBN: 9781760651886 Imprint: Walker Books Australia Australian RRP: $17.99 New Zealand RRP: $19.99 It seems very apt to be reviewing Sandy Fussell’s latest book today as we commemorate ANZAC Day albeit in a very different way to the usual events. This is a very powerful story which blends contemporary life in small…
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His Name was Walter – Emily Rodda
Harper Collins Australia March 2020 ISBN: 9781460756195 ISBN 10: 1460756193 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 17.99 AUD Back in October 2018 I had the immense privilege of reviewing Emily Rodda’s new book His Name was Walter and immediately fell in love with it. I promoted it heavily with my kiddos and was very excited to be one of…
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