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  • Warcross
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    Warcross

    For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game - it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. When Emika hacks into...
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    Diary of a Wombat
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    Diary of a Wombat

    A delightful and entertaining peek into the life of one very busy wombat! MondayMorning: Slept.Afternoon: Slept.Evening: Ate.Scratched.Night: Ate. A typical day. Don't be fooled. this wombat leads a very busy and demanding life. She wrestles unknown...
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    Edward the Emu
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    Edward the Emu

    Edward the emu was sick of the zoo,There was nowhere to go, there was nothing to do,And compared to the seals that lived right next door,Well being an emu was frankly a bore.Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else...
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    Onion Tears
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    Onion Tears

    A little Vietnamese girl tries to come to terms with her grief over the loss of her family and her new life with an Australian family. The swallows are here again. They have come south looking for summer. Did they fly over my country? Did they see my...
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  • Peter Pan
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    Peter Pan

    One starry night, Peter Pan and Tinker Bell lead the three Darling children over the rooftops of London and away to Neverland - the island where lost boys play, mermaids splash and fairies make mischief. But a villainous-looking gang of pirates lurk in...
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  • Always
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    Always

    The much-anticipated final journey in the story of Felix, hero of Morris Gleitzman's multi-award-winning Once, Then, Now, After, Soon and Maybe. It’s fifteen years since readers were first introduced to Felix in Once and across six celebrated books, our...
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  • Mr Bambuckle's Remarkables on the Lookout
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    Mr Bambuckle's Remarkables on the Lookout

    Australia's favourite teacher is back - but has Mr Bambuckle met his greatest challenge yet?  Vex is gone! We have to find him. But how? He could be anywhere. We'll have to track him down. That's impossible. Not if we work together! Mr Bambuckle and...
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  • Detention
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    Detention

    Sima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the tall fence designed to keep them in. The wires are cut one by one. When they make their escape, a guard raises the alarm. Shouting, smoke bombs, people...
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  • It's Not Scribble to Me
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    It's Not Scribble to Me

    Have you ever had so many wonderful, wild and beautiful ideas that paper isn't enough to hold them all? Bear has. Upstairs and downstairs, outside and in, the whole house is covered in Bear's colourful art - even Bear's little sister. Can Bear convince...
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    My Culture and Me
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    My Culture and Me

    A stirring story about pride, respect and maintaining culture. Feel the rhythm of the music, from your heart down to your feet. Enjoy the movements of melodies, as clapsticks keep a strong beat. This is my culture. This is me.  Beautifully written...
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  • 47 Degrees
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    47 Degrees

    A fast-paced and poignant novel of survival by Justin D'Ath that draws on his own experience of escaping the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. Zeelie wonders if they're in danger.  When temperatures soar to 47 degrees one hot summer day, 12-year-old...
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    Lottie and Walter
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    Lottie and Walter

    Lottie doesn't want to be afraid, but no matter what she does, she just can't go in the water. Until she finds a surprising friend, who turns out to be more helpful than Lottie could ever have imagined.
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  • No One Likes a Fart
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    No One Likes a Fart

    Fart is excited! He’s desperate to make friends and have fun. But no one likes a fart. Not even a fart with a heart. Too smelly. Too embarrassing. Too gross. Zoë has written lots of grown-up books, none of which mention a single fart. She is the mother...
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  • Why I Love Summer
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    Why I Love Summer

    There are four seasons in a year, and they’re all awesome, but only one of them gets to be summer! Sunny days, weekends at the pool, games in the backyard, daylight until late and long, lovely holidays . . . that's summer, the best season ever. The...
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  • Friday Barnes 12
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    Friday Barnes 12

    Friday Barnes is Europe's most wanted in this latest installment of the bestselling detective series. Friday's Mum, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, has been accused of espionage. The police think she's been selling secrets about the CERN Hadron Super...
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  • Blueback
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    Blueback

    Blueback is an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors. 'Winton ... convince s us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but...
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  • No Brainer
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    No Brainer

    In No Brainer, book 18 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, it's up to Greg to save his crumbling school before it's shuttered for good. Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for...
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  • Fault in Our Stars
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    Fault in Our Stars

    Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid...
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  • Today We Have No Plans
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    Today We Have No Plans

    Award-winning author Jane Godwin and illustrator Anna Walker have created this delightful picture book about families' busy lives. This ebook edition features Jane Godwin reading the story aloud, and includes highlighting of words so the child is able to...
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  • Something Wonderful
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    Something Wonderful

    An inspirational story about discovery, invention and the importance of dreams. Sam likes to pull things apart and put them back together, and think about how things work. But he is sometimes so busy doing this, he forgets his chores on the family farm...
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  • The Terrible Plop
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    The Terrible Plop

    From the author of The Carousel comes a delightful new picture book about a little rabbit who learns that some things in life aren't as scary as they seem. Andrew Joyner's bright, energetic illustrations and Ursula's lively rhyming text combine to make...
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  • The Midnight Zoo
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    The Midnight Zoo

    Under cover of darkness, two brothers cross a war-ravaged countryside carrying a secret bundle. One night they stumble across a deserted town reduced to smouldering ruins. But at the end of a blackened street they find a small green miracle- a zoo filled...
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  • Uno's Garden
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    Uno's Garden

    When Uno arrives in the forest one beautiful day, there are many fascinating and extraordinary animals there to greet him. And one entirely unexceptional Snortlepig. Uno loves the forest so much, he decides to live there. But, in time, a little village...
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  • Lockie Leonard
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    Lockie Leonard

    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's survived his first year of high school, settling into a new town and his first mad...
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  • Children of the King
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    Children of the King

    hree children have been sent to live in the countryside, safe from the war in London. When they find two boys hiding in a castle, the past and future come together to make an extraordinary adventure. Three children have been sent to live in the...
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  • Runner
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    Runner

    It's 1919, Richmond football club is on top of the ladder, cream buns are threepence each and four boys are gunning for the best job in town. Charlie is lucky enough to win the prime job - running messages for Squizzy Taylor, the most dangerous gangster...
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  • Once
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    Once

    Winner - Australian Book Industry Awards 2011 Winner - YABBA Children's Choice Awards 2007 Winner - KOALA Children's Choice Awards 2007 Honour Award - CBC Book of the Year 2006 Honour Award - Sydney Taylor (Jewish) Award 2011 Once I escaped from an...
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  • Specky Magee and a Legend in the Making
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    Specky Magee and a Legend in the Making

    Specky can't wait to get to the country and have the chance to play grassroots football for the first time . . . against adults. But more is at stake than the outcome of just one game.   The Booyong High Bugle Footy News! Only last month, former...
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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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  • 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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