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Cuckoo’s Flight

Cuckoo’s Flight

When Clio’s town in Bronze Age Crete is threatened by seafaring raiders, she faces the greatest sacrifice of all. Can Clio, her herd of horses and a new young friend find a…
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Swallow’s Dance

Swallow’s Dance

Leira’s family flee to the island of Crete just before a huge volcanic eruption destroys their island and sends a tsunami to where they thought they had found safety. Another thrilling adventure…
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Nim’s Island

Nim’s Island

An irresistible adventure fantasy about Nim – a young girl alone on a tropical island except for her three amazing friends: an iguana, a sea-lion and a turtle. When a hurricane strikes,…
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Dragonfly Song

Dragonfly Song

Abandoned by the priestess of the island at birth, Aissa is an outcast, surviving by her wits – until she joins the acrobatic bull dancers who are sent away to compete on the island of the Bull King.
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Too Much Stuff!

Too Much Stuff!

Becky plans to put on a puppet show in her living room to entertain her cousin Wesley. It’s a version of Beauty and the Beast, with music! Hoping for a bigger audience…
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Rescue on Nim’s Island

Rescue on Nim’s Island

In her third gripping adventure, Nim unearths an amazing opalised fossil, but this discovery puts her island in terrible danger. Nim lives on an island with her father, Jack, a marine iguana…
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Discovered! A Beagle Called Bella

Discovered! A Beagle Called Bella

From the moment she’s born, the adorable beagle puppy named Bella has a lot of energy. She runs, she chases, she somersaults, she chews, and she sniffs . . . and sniffs…
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The Nim Stories

The Nim Stories

Nim’s Island and Nim at Sea together in one book. As you can guess, the cover is from the movie poster of Return to Nim’s Island. Return to Nim’s Island comes to…
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Wanted! A Guinea Pig Called Henry

Wanted! A Guinea Pig Called Henry

Sam wants a pet for her birthday, but her mom and dad have already said that their apartment is too small for a cat or a dog. A trip to Rainbow Street…
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Abandoned! A Lion Called Kiki

Abandoned! A Lion Called Kiki

Mona’s uncle Matthew works in a circus, and he always gives pretty great birthday presents. But when Mona turns eight, he gives her something better than juggling balls or stilts—a baby lion…
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Stolen! A Pony Called Pebbles

Stolen! A Pony Called Pebbles

Amy lives and breathes horses, but all her horses are in books or in her head. So when she goes on a picnic with her friend Hannah’s family, Hannah thinks Amy is…
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Rainbow Street Pets (AU)

Rainbow Street Pets (AU)

What would you do if you lost a pet? Where would you go if you found one? At the Rainbow Street Shelter a cockatoo will greet you and a little round dog…
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Raven’s Mountain

Raven’s Mountain

Raven is hiking in the Rockies with her family. But when she gets to the top of her first mountain, the world tilts. She finds herself falling, riding a wave of rocks.…
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Lost! A Dog called Bear

Lost! A Dog called Bear

Logan is moving from the farm to the city. He’ll miss all the things he’s leaving behind, but at least he has Bear. He loves Bear more than anything else in the…
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Missing! A Cat Called Buster

Missing! A Cat Called Buster

Buster isn’t fluffy or pretty like other cats—he’s a crazy orange cat with attitude. And Mr. Larsen is the exact right person for him. Every morning Buster and Mr. Larsen sit on…
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Mokie and Bik go to Sea

Mokie and Bik go to Sea

Mokie and Bik live on a boat called Bullfrog. Now that their father has come home from the illy-ally-o, the twins are ready to take Bullfrog out to sea. First, though, they…
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The Princess and her Panther

The Princess and her Panther

What do you get when you take one brave, big sister, one not-so-brave little sister, a spooky night-time backyard, and heaps of imagination? The most magnificent camp-out ever! The world of imagination…
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Mokie and Bik (US)

Mokie and Bik (US)

Meet a pair of twins that will monkey their way into your heart! Mokie is bigger but Bik is faster. They are twins, and they have a nanny Ruby that looks after…
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Mokie & Bik – House-on-the-Ground

Mokie & Bik – House-on-the-Ground

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Nim at Sea

Nim at Sea

A sequel to the popular Nim’s Island (now a major film). When Selkie the sea lion is kidnapped, Nim has to leave her island paradise, stow away on board a cruise ship,…
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Across the Dark Sea

Across the Dark Sea

They didn’t look like pirates: they looked like ordinary fishermen, but with eyes as quick and glittering as their waving knives… Trung’s adventure begins in the dead of night. He and his…
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Mokie and Bik (AU)

Mokie and Bik (AU)

The breath-taking adventures of Mokie and Bik – eccentric twins who live on a houseboat. A highly illustrated storybook for reading aloud, and for readers 6-8. Mokie & Bik live on a…
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Spook’s Shack

Spook’s Shack

Finn discovers Jack Henry, a ghost, and his ghost-dog Nipper, in an old bush shack. They team up to outwit Boris Banks, who has plans for a gold mine that would destroy…
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Poppy’s Path

Poppy’s Path

Poppy doesn’t fit into the pretty painted village where she lives. ‘There’s a whole world waiting to be explored, and if I can cross the river, and climb the mountain, I’ll find…
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The House at Evelyn’s Pond

The House at Evelyn’s Pond

Centred around a woman’s voyage to arrange her mother’s funeral, this novel weaves the life stories of three generations of women and their loves. Ruth is not an easy mother to live…
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Paradise Gold

Paradise Gold

Roland and his eccentric family are now living in the dream house they won, but paying all the bills is still a problem, so Roland devises a plan to solve his family’s…
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Sally’s Painting Room

Sally’s Painting Room

Sally was a painter. All day long pictures danced in her head, waiting to be poured onto paper. So Sally creates a place of her own just for painting.
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Paradise Palace

Paradise Palace

Roland’s family is always entering competitions, they won a miracle gadget once, except they couldn’t put it together. Winning the last competition was so embarrassing that Roland would just rather never go…
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Alroy’s Very Nearly Clean Bedroom

Alroy’s Very Nearly Clean Bedroom

Alroy, a very imaginative boy, needs to clean his room. But when he tries, he finds himself in the middle of adventure after adventure.
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Peeling the Onion

Peeling the Onion

Description: Jenny rushes in; stops and turns pale at the sight of my scaffolded neck. This isn’t what she expected to see – and for a moment Jenny, sunny, effervescent, ever-optimistic Jenny,…
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Grandfather Martin

Grandfather Martin

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Jessica Joan

Jessica Joan

Jessica Joan lived all alone. Her life was tidy, her garden was neat, her house was the quietest house on the street. But Jessica Joan goes shopping and things are never the…
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The Bully Biscuit Gang

The Bully Biscuit Gang

Everyone is scared of the mean, tough Bully Biscuit Gang, until one day ….
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Yasou Nikki

Yasou Nikki

Nikoletta loved the island. With its sparkling blue seas, the rugged beauty of the village and her loving family and friends, everything she ever needed was on the island – it was…
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Dirtbikes

Dirtbikes

EMMA: Freedom. That’s what bikes said to me. A rush of adrenaline, excitement,but most of all freedom.Escape. I wanted to ride. ROSS: I wasn’t really living until I was on my RM.…
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Ark in the Park

Ark in the Park

Sophie lived in a tall, tall building overlooking a large green park. In the middle of the park was the biggest, strangest most wonderful pet shop in the world. It was built…
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The Great Yackandandah Billy Cart Race

The Great Yackandandah Billy Cart Race

Jackson and Jade are happy to let their little sister Ruby do all the work for them – but when they take the billy cart she built and go off to the…
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Mindblowing!

Mindblowing!

Andrew thinks it might be fun to have a tiny orange-colored alien, complete with its own spaceship, for a pet– especially one that can teach him “mind-over-matter” tricks. But Zidrian isn’t cruising…
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Aa-choo!

Aa-choo!

The story of a little girl who goes to work with her mother when she has a cold and can’t go to day care. Excerpt: Megan did not want to get up.…
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Leaving it to You

Leaving it to You

The door opened. S-l-o-w-l-y, but at least it didn’t creak. Just wide enough so that she could see out but I couldn’t see in, and I knew there was no way she…
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Bad Martha

Bad Martha

When Bad Martha was born, she was so angry and cried so loud and for so long, that she became so ugly that all the mothers took their babies home from the…
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The Tin Can Puppy

The Tin Can Puppy

Dylan wanted a puppy more than anything in the world. Any kind of puppy. He didn’t care if it had long legs or short, if it was black or white or brown…
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Amanda’s Dinosaur

Amanda’s Dinosaur

Although Amanda lives on a farm with cows, pigs, chickens, and dogs, all she really wants is a dinosaur. One day she finds a giant egg . . . tap, tap, tap,…
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Arabella

Arabella

Matthew looked at the Arabella. She had tall slim masts and sails set to catch the wind, a polished wooden deck that shone like glass and a painted lady carved on her…
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Micki and Daniel series

Micki and Daniel series

Pegasus and Ooloomooloo In this first book in the Micki and Daniel series, we are introduced to Micki, the fearless dancing explorer, and Daniel, her sanguine, violin playing friend. We learn how…
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The Laziest Boy in the World

The Laziest Boy in the World

When Xiaolong–perhaps the laziest boy in all of China–devises a way to capture the thief who breaks into his family’s home, all the people in his village change their minds about the…
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Micki Moon and Daniel Day

Micki Moon and Daniel Day

As the Micki and Daniel picture book series 1993: Pegasus and Ooloomooloo In this first book in the Micki and Daniel series, we are introduced to Micki, the fearless dancing explorer, and…
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