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A stunningly illustrated story about a city child's relationship with nature and the natural world, the trust that children place in their parents and the responsibility adults have in looking after them and the environment they will inherit. Ages 4-8.

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Tomi Ungerer's classic tale about a bat who learns to embrace his differences through friendship.

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Rainbow Rowell's Landline meets Shakespeare in Love in this funny, sweet contemporary/Elizabethan novel by debut author Molly Booth.

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"Fifteen-year-old Emma is acting as stage manager for her school's production of Hamlet when she finds herself transported to the original staging of Hamlet in Shakespearean England"--

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This ice fishing mystery features a grumpy penguin, a troupe of curious onlookers, and a surprise ending!

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SPACE BOOGERS is a seriously gross Hotshots story from Kim Wilkins.

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Squidge Dibley is the strangest kid at a school full of strange kids, in this hilarious series written and illustrated by Mick Elliott. In this Australian Reading Hour exclusive story, Squidge's latest invention blows a hole in the time-space continuum, creating CHAOS, DANGER and SQUIDGINESS.

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Tells the story of the Quentaran children stolen by Nordian traders to sell to the dispicable Trollantan rat people. Follows the children's capture, journey through the rift caves in tumbrels drawn by the brutish Nordians and their final arrival in the court of the Trollantan rat king, the hideous Rodentia. Ages 9-14.

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There's a strike! And George Dobson knows that when his father is arrested, the whole family will end up paying. The battle line is drawn, and it's the bosses against workers, workers against scabs. One minute a scab is someone who takes your job when you're on strike: a faceless, brainless traitor with no backbone. The next it's all different.

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Seal and Angelo are waiting for what the locals call Goliath mammoth surf that occurs every few years and a monster shark that arrives with it. Will Seal have the courage to ride Goliath and will Angelo catch the shark

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Sykie Martin has too much imagination for her own good. Everyone says so, her principal, the kids at school, even her parents. Maybe they've got a point because Sykie's imagination is starting to become dangerously real. Ages 8-12.

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An evocatively written and compelling story of a young boy coming to terms with issues demanding honesty, honour and loyalty, set in the harsh, depressed gold fields of Adelaide.

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The Candle Man is a tale soaked in mist and marshland. How can they know whom to trust, when the glass tower contains unimaginable terrors, and the only time they have left is a wink of the sun's eye

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Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Greg's dad, Frank Heffley, actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up and he enlists Greg in organised sports and other 'manly' endeavours. Thus far, Greg manages to side-step his father's efforts, then comes the threat of military school - and Greg realises he has to shape up or ship out!

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A hilarious underground adventure starring the world's most adventurous family of pigs.

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With sensitivity and wonder, the evocative images in this life-affirming picture book by an award-winning author and artist open a window to our inexplicable emotions and tell a story about the power of hope, renewal and inspiration. Full color.

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In The Runaway Shirt, a mother and child transform the chore of laundry into a afternoon of laughter and imagination.

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Fred Beaney wants a round watch with black hands and a proper tick, but all he can find are rectangular watches and square watches, blue hands, red hands and gold hands, watches that bark and hiccup and sing the national anthem!

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The inhabitants of a coral reef are threatened when a shady real estate deal started by the greedy Groper floods their area with poisonous waste.

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Features Tommy and his classmates who recount an episode in which they received wise advice from a finger puppet of Yoda, perpetually worn on the finger of their classmate, Dwight, a loser who can't get anything right. Is this puppet really Yoda Or is Dwight a bit more together than he seems

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Go behind the scenes with Jeff Kinney and the making of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies! Now revised and expanded, and complete with photographs, script pages, story sketches, and costume designs from all three movies, plus original art by Jeff Kinney, The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary is the perfect companion to the bestselling series.