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Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers!
Ages: 8-12
Blue Weston's life is spiralling out of control.
Her parents are sending her to boarding school next year.
Her mad twin brothers are building pig chariots in the back shed.
Her best friend has been abducted by zombies and replaced with a boy-crazy tween.
And then there's the drought that's showing no signs of ending...
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A junior novel about family, adventure and trust from award-winning author Cristy Burne. Isaac arrives on Rottnest Island hoping for an awesome holiday adventure, but his mum would rather he stayed inside, where it's safe. Then Isaac meets Emmy. She's allowed to do whatever she wants – and she wants to have fun! With Emmy daring him on, Isaac's life gets more and more exciting. First they jump off the jetty into the freezing ocean, then they ride...
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Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers!
Ages: 8-12
I'm going to be a bridesmaid.
Mat, Lynette and me.
Long, pink shiny dresses and flowers in our hair.
Leading Miss McKenzie down the aisle to disaster.
I think I'm going to puke ...
When Blue's favourite teacher announces she's engaged, Blue thinks she must have lost her mind. Why would Miss McKenzie want to get married?...
5) Blue's news
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Blue Weston is on a mission!
* She's starting Hardbake Plains' first ever newspaper with Mat and Ben
* She's determined not to like her new teacher, the Colonel
* And she's trying to convince Miss McKenzie to come back from Scotland
But, despite Blue's best intentions, things don't go exactly to plan...And, to make matters worse, her mum is dusting off the old boarding school uniform! Can Blue get things back on track? And, boarding school? Her parents...
6) Looking up
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Pete is hoping - desperately hoping - for a telescope. There's nothing he wants more for his birthday. But when a mysterious card arrives in the mail, what Pete wants is turned totally upside down.
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(Allison L.).Mapmaker chronicles volume 3
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Quinn, Ash, Zain and the crew of the Libertas are racing against the clock to get back to Verdania before the King's deadline. Will they make it in time? Will Quinn complete the first map of the whole world? Will Zain bring back enough treasure to satisfy the King? Will they win the race to the end of the world?
10) Brobot
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"Sally Tinker makes machines ... and Joe Tinker breaks them. As the world's foremost inventor under the age of twelve, Sally knows she can build a better brother than baby Joe. But is her invention -- Brobot -- really all that a brother should be?"--Back cover.
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"This nonfiction book for elementary-school-age children details the steps that brought a meteor from outer space, across the eastern US, to the roof of a car in Peekskill, New York, and thereafter to be verified, tested, and exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History. Hartland breaks down complex actions and processes in kid-friendly terms and includes pages of fascinating meteor details"--Provided by publisher.
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Every day, we see a problem we would like to fix. A piece of rubbish in a green, grassy park. Plastic water bottles buried in the sand at the beach. A garbage bin overflowing onto the street. A skinny, stray dog. A homeless person on a cold day.These problems seem impossible for one person to change. But we can fix them, if we each do our part - one step at a time. This practical guide is designed to empower kids to make changes in their lives to...
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Einstein's theory of relativity is one of the cornerstones of modern physics but it requires a total rethink of our notions of time and space. Strange things happen in a relative universe: length and time are not fixed and depend upon your frame of reference. If you move at high speed, time slows down, space contracts and weight increases. So a period of time for someone on Earth that lasts for hundreds of years may only be a couple of hours for someone...
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