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  • Little Brother
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    Little Brother

    The shots were so close they seemed to explode inside Vithy's head. He threw himself to the ground and clapped his hands over his ears . . . It's Cambodia. The killing machine that is the Khmer Rouge is in power. Vithy has lost everyone and everything...
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  • The Silver Donkey
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    The Silver Donkey

    One bright spring morning in the woods of France, a soldier, blinded by the war, is found by a little girl named Coco, and her older sister Marcelle. In return for their kindness, the soldier tells the sisters marvellous tales, each story connected to...
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  • Camel Rider
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    Camel Rider

    Adam and his family live in a compound with other foreigners who work in the Middle East. He's got everything he wants, everything he needs, and there's a lot he takes for granted. Then war breaks out, and, in the confusion to escape, Adam runs away. It...
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  • Deadly! Bindup
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    Deadly! Bindup

    ALL SIX BOOKS IN ONE! Join Amy and Sprocket as they uncover deadly secret after deadly secret on the most tumultuous journey of their lives. An adventure full of delight, terror, tears and laughter, DEADLY!will leave you gasping. IT'S DARING! IT'S...
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  • Swerve
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    Swerve

    Hugh is 16. He loves cello, he's a closet car fanatic, and he has no luck with girls. When his grandfather, Poppy, asks him to go on one last road trip to Uluru in his 1970 Holden HG Monaro GTS 350 V8, Hugh decides, for once in his life, to do the...
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  • Saving Francesca
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    Saving Francesca

    A memorable and much-loved Australian classic told with humour, compassion and joy, from the internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi. Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all...
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  • A Christmas Carol
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    A Christmas Carol

    With A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens created a modern fairy tale and shaped our ideas of Christmas. The tale of the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of the season by a series of ghostly visitors and given a second chance,...
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    BFG (Colour Edition)
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    BFG (Colour Edition)

    Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.' On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and...
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  • George's Marvellous Medicine (Colour Edn)
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    George's Marvellous Medicine (Colour Edn)

    George Kranky's Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman. One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine. So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to do. A magic medicine* it will...
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  • Stone Cold
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    Stone Cold

    A tense thriller about a serial killer targeting homeless youngsters; STONE COLD won the Carnegie Medal and is now part of the Originals, showcasing Penguin's very best modern classics for young adults. A tense, exciting thriller combined with a...
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  • The Wave
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    The Wave

    Based on a nightmarish true episode in a Californian high school, this powerful novel about the danger of fanaticism is part of the Originals - Penguin's very best modern classics for young adults. Laurie isn't sure what to make of 'The Wave'. It had...
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  • The Outsiders
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    The Outsiders

    The original teenage rebel story. Greasers, Rockers, different place, different name - but wherever they are, they're outsiders; the rough, tough, long-haired boys from the other side of town, with little hope of flash cars, fine madras shirts and the...
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    Very Hungry Caterpillar's Easter Colours
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    Very Hungry Caterpillar's Easter Colours

    Discover all the colours of Easter with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this bright and beautiful board book  Yellow chicks... a white lamb... what are all the colours of Easter?  Let The Very Hungry Caterpillar and friends take you on a rainbow tour of...
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  • Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes
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    Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes

    IF YOU LIKE POISONINGS, BETRAYALS, MUTILATIONS, MURDERS AND FLESH-EATING FARMYARD ANIMALS, KEEP READING . . . In this gripping follow-up to Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods, demigod Percy Jackson tells the stories of twelve of the original Greek heroes...
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  • Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods
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    Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods

    "If you like horror shows, bloodbaths, lying, stealing, backstabbing and cannibalism, then read on..." Who could tell the true stories of the gods and goddesses of Olympus better than modern-day demigod Percy Jackson? In this action-packed tour of Greek...
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  • Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
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    Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

    'The love child of John Green and Rainbow Rowell' Teen Vogue Straight people should have to come out too. And the more awkward it is, the better.  Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is - and what he's looking for.  But when one of...
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    Watership Down
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    Watership Down

    An epic story that has been beloved for generations, Watership Down has become one of the most famous animal stories ever written. Fiver, a young rabbit, is very worried. He senses something terrible is about to happen to the warren. His brother Hazel...
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  • Goodnight Mister Tom
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    Goodnight Mister Tom

    The 40th anniversary of one of the best-loved stories set during the Second World War. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian is the unforgettable story of young Willie Beech, evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of the Second...
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  • Salt to the Sea
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    Salt to the Sea

    An inspirational Second World War novel, based on a true story, from the acclaimed author of Between Shades of Grey, for fans of The Book Thief and Helen Dunmore's The Siege. WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2017 It's early 1945 and a group of people...
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  • Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian (Book 5)
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    Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian (Book 5)

    The fifth book in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Now with a new cover look, read the stories that launched Percy Jackson into the stratosphere, before the Disney+ series comes out! HALF BOY - HALF GOD - ALL HERO. FOR ME, THE END...
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  • Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4)
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    Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4)

    The fourth book in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Now with a new cover look, read the stories that launched Percy Jackson into the stratosphere, before the Disney+ series comes out! HALF BOY - HALF GOD - ALL HERO. SURE, AS A...
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    Tales of the Greek Heroes
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    Tales of the Greek Heroes

    Favourite Puffin Classics in beautiful hardback The mysterious and exciting legends of the gods and heroes in Ancient Greece, from the adventures of Perseus, the labours of Heracles, the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, to Odysseus and the Trojan wars.
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  • Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian
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    Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian

    Movie available from June 12th only on Disney+ The explosive, emotional, incredible final book in the Artemis Fowl series. IS THIS THE END FOR ARTEMIS FOWL? Opal Koboi is back, and up to no good. A bit of world-domination here, a little light...
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  • Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code
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    Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code

    Movie available from June 12th only on Disney+ Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code is the third book in the unbelievably brilliant Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. CAN ARTEMIS FOWL LEAVE HIS CRIMINAL PAST BEHIND? Not quite. At least, not yet. He's got one...
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  • Artemis Fowl and The Arctic Incident
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    Artemis Fowl and The Arctic Incident

    Movie available from June 12th only on Disney+ Join the world of Artemis Fowl, the number one bestseller by Eoin Colfer. THE FAIRIES ARE IN TROUBLE Goblin gangs (exactly as bad as it sounds) are planning an uprising, and it looks like they've had human...
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  • Artemis Fowl
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    Artemis Fowl

    Join the world of Artemis Fowl, the number one bestseller by Eoin Colfer. AT JUST TWELVE YEARS OLD, ARTEMIS FOWL IS A CRIMINAL GENIUS. No scheme is too dastardly, no plot too devious. And he's just discovered that fairies are real. Poor fairies. But...
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    Wind in the Willows
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    Wind in the Willows

    The much-loved classic tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as adventures on the river and in the Wild Wood, there are high jinks on the...
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  • Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex
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    Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex

    Movie available from June 12th only on Disney+ Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex is the seventh awesome book in the bestselling Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH ARTEMIS FOWL When he gathers the fairy elite to show...
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  • Heidi
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    Heidi

    Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot. Little Heidi loves living with her gruff grandfather in his secluded hut high is...
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  • The Call of the Wild
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    The Call of the Wild

    Rediscover the Puffin Classics - bringing the best-loved classics to a new generation. Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Join Puffin in celebrating 120 years since Call of the Wild first published with this...
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  • Boy Overboard
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    Boy Overboard

    Winner - KOALA Children's Choice Awards 2010 - Fiction for Years 7-9 Winner - YABBA Children's Choice Awards 2010 - Fiction for Years 7-9 Winner - COOL Children's Choice Awards 2010 - Fiction for Years 7-9 Longlisted - Family Award for Children's Books...
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  • Lockie Leonard Human Torpedo
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    Lockie Leonard Human Torpedo

    Bestselling author, Tim Winton, delivers the iconic trio of books that are still the foremost definitive texts on contemporary Australian life for teenage boys. Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, is in love. The human torpedo is barely settled into his new...
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  • Deadly, Unna?
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    Deadly, Unna?

    This gutsy novel, set in a small coastal town in South Australia is a rites-of-passage story about two boys confronting the depth of racism that exists all around them. 'Deadly, unna?' He was always saying that. All the Nungas did, but Dumby more than...
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  • Call of the Wild
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    Call of the Wild

    Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge...
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  • Alexander's Outing
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    Alexander's Outing

    'Stay close, take care,' quacked Alexander's mother. But Alexander was a wayward duckling - he straggled behind ... and disappeared down a deep dark hole ... Biographical note Pamela Allen is a phenomenon in the world of children's literature. Since...
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  • Gathering
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    Gathering

    Novel for young adults about a sinister town and a group of teenagers who together have the power to rid the town of evil if they can unravel the messages from the past.  By the author of 'Obernewtyn', shortlisted for the 1988 Children's Book Council of...
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  • Seven Little Australians
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    Seven Little Australians

    'Without doubt Judy was the worst of the seven, probably because she was the cleverest.' Her father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible – but seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at...
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  • Taronga
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    Taronga

    This title for children aged 13 and over is a bleak but compelling look at the future beyond a nuclear holocaust. Ben comes upon Taronga Zoo, which seems unaffected by the general chaos. But is it?
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  • Hating Alison Ashley
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    Hating Alison Ashley

    A classic story of friendship and jealousy from a beloved Australian author. Inbetween dealing with her embarrasing family and focusing on her on-screen destiny the arrival of perfect Alison Ashley at Barringa East turns Erica Yurken's fairytale world...
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Sail down the Mississippi with rascally Huck Finn! 'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them' Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school...
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    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    An extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war Discover an extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war. 'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like...
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    The Silver Sword
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    The Silver Sword

    Discover this amazing adventure story set in the Second World War 'If you meet...
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    Swallowdale
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    Swallowdale

    he second book in Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series. For every child who understands the thrill of fishing, campfires and the freedom to explore 'Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!' Have you ever sailed in a boat or built a camp? Have you caught trout and...
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    Bidhi Galing
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    Bidhi Galing

    Powerful and moving, Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) celebrates the Wiradyuri heroes of the Great Flood of Gundagai in 1852, told through the eyes of a young girl who is rescued from the raging floodwaters by her father. Wagadhaany grew up near the Marrambidya...
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  • These Little Feet
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    These Little Feet

    In the classic tradition of Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes and Kissed by the Moon, These Little Feet will take you and your little one on a joyous journey of love, hope and dreams for the future. The perfect gift for newborns and new parents. ...
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    Runt
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    Runt

    WINNER: 2023 CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers 'You don't have to carry the weight of the world in your tool belt.' Annie Shearer lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an adopted stray dog called Runt. The two share a very...
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