Region: Australia

Materials from Australia

The Water Hole

By Book Importer | Published: February 7, 2012

As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.

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Where Does Thursday Go?

By Book Importer | Published: February 7, 2012

Bruno and Bert try to find out what happens to a special day after it is over.

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Little Devils

By Book Importer | Published: February 7, 2012

Robert J. Blake shines a light on a little-known animal.Burnie, Winnie and Big Stanley are three Tasmanian devil pups growing up in the wild. Along with their mother, they make one happy family. Since the pups are still so small, Mum does all the hunting. But one night, Mum doesnt come home and the pups [...]

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The Project

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

It begins with a book, the most boring book in the world, a book so boring no one could ever read it—the perfect place to hide a dangerous secret.
When best friends Luke and Tommy volunteer to help move books from their library’s basement to higher ground during a quick rising flood, they discover the only [...]

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Brotherband Chronicles: The Outcasts

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others – they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger’s Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Not these boys. Yet that doesn’t mean they don’t have skills. And courage – which they will need every [...]

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City of Lies

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilled liar. Along with her friend Toadspit, she’s supposed to be one of the Keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt. But although she desperately wants to be a Keeper, she will not leave her sick parents to do so. But when Toadspit’s sister Bonnie is stolen, [...]

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Flyaway

By Book Importer | Published: December 12, 2011

If they saved the swan together, could she then save her friend?In a heartbeat, in a wingbeat, it happens. Isla’s father falls. They’re racing across the fields, following the swans flying in to winter at the lake like they do every year, when something goes wrong. And before she can even catch her breath, they’re [...]

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Two Weeks with the Queen

By Book Importer | Published: December 7, 2011

Sent to live with relatives in England when his younger brother develops a rare form of cancer, Colin tries to see the Queen to help find a cure for his brother.

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Hades

By Book Importer | Published: December 5, 2011

Even the love of her boyfriend, Xavier Woods, and her archangel siblings, Gabriel and Ivy, can’t keep the angel Bethany Church from being tricked into a motorcycle ride that ends up in Hell. There, Jake Thorn bargains for Beth’s release back to Earth. But what he asks of her will destroy her, and quite possibly [...]

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Underdogs

By Book Importer | Published: November 21, 2011

Before THE BOOK THIEF, Markus Zusak wrote a trilogy of gritty, funny, and at times heart-breaking novels about the Wolfe brothers: THE UNDERDOG, FIGHTING RUBEN WOLFE, and GETTING THE GIRL. These novels are presented in one volume for the first time.
Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are champions at getting into fights, coming up with half-baked schemes, [...]

Other Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Oceania, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Themes: , , , » Leave a comment