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Author
Series
Children of the wind volume 4
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Maeve's safe world is torn apart when her mother dies in a car crash. Sent to live with her strict Chinese grandparents, she fights to hold onto the things she loves most-- her two best friends, her dancing, her baby brother Ned.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Geronimo Stilton visits Australia where he has an adventurous time dodging sharks and snakes, and getting lost in the Outback.
4) Now
Author
Series
Once series volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.
5) Velocity
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Cassica and Shiara have grown up in Coppermouth, a dust choked town in the Outback, but now they hope to use their skills as race driver and mechanic to take on the Widowmaker, an off-road rally through some of the most dangerous places on Earth, to win fame and fortune--provided they survive the race.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Language
English
Description
The last of her kind, a newly born butterfly meets and befriends many other creatures in the Australian forest, and when it is time for her to go the Voice of the Forest ensures her living among them always by turning her into a butterfly orchid.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Candice is a twelve-year-old optimist, with a literal mind, the very best of intentions, and an unwavering determination to fix all the problems of her family, friends, pets, and everyone in her life.
Author
Series
Spectacular spelling bee volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Terribly shy, India Wimple is brilliant at spelling and her loving family will do whatever it takes to help her compete in a televised national spelling bee in Sydney, Australia.--
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2021: Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Children's New Books: February 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: Chapter Books with Color Illustrations
Children's Special Topics: Chapter Books with Color Illustrations
Description
Kira teams up with Evie, a student at the animal sanctuary to track down the paradise parrot--a bird thought to be extinct--and prove that it still exists. While they're trying to observe the elusive bird, bushfires threaten to wipe out the sanctuary and the parrot's habitat. There's no choice but to evacuate all the animals, which is a huge task even without trying to track down a missing baby wallaby. As the bushfires rage out of control, Kira makes...
10) Number 8
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While hiding out from the mob in the suburbs with his mother, a singer, Jackson uses his fascination with math and numbers to make friends, but strange phone calls and even greater threats endanger not only Jackson and his mother, but his new girlfriend, as well.
11) Big rain coming
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Though everyone eagerly awaits the rain, it is slow in coming.
12) Lizzie nonsense
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Her mother calls it nonsense when Lizzie pretends that their house is pretty or that a bath is the sea, but it turns out that imagination runs in the family.
13) Angel's gate
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Kimmy encounters two wild children who have grown up in the hills of Australia and tries to protect them from the unknown person who murdered their father.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the months between high school and university, eighteen-year-old Natalie must deal with her parents breaking up, her best friends getting together, and her own budding romance.
16) Helicopter man
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Peter Sinclair cares for his father, who is mentally ill, and tries to make the most of their homeless life together.
Author
Series
Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 2
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Secret agent Jack Stalwart searches for a diver missing from the Great Barrier Reef and a treasure that has vanished from the wreck of the HMS Pandora while trying to defeat a deadly band of pirates.
18) Christmas wombat
Author
Series
Wombat books (Jackie French) volume 3
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Christmas from a wombat's point of view, including competition for the carrots children have left out for Santa's reindeer.
19) Bob
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
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